Jeffrey M. Pollock
President & Managing Director

Jeff Pollock has served as MerchantBanc’s president since its founding in 2000. Prior to this, Mr. Pollock was president and CEO of MerchantBanc’s predecessor company, the NH Business Development Corporation; a non-bank SBA lending firm that he started in 1992. In his capacity at MerchantBanc, Mr. Pollock is managing director of MerchantBanc Venture Partners, LP and MB Growth Partners II, LP, private investment funds managed by MerchantBanc. Under his leadership, MerchantBanc and NHBDC have produced over $140 million of private capital investment throughout New England in the form of commercial loans and private investments in over 100 companies.

Mr. Pollock has served on the boards of numerous portfolio companies, presently including Outerlink Corp., InaVein, LLC, Narragansett Technologies, Inc., and NextMark, Inc.

His civic involvement includes service as a trustee of The Derryfield School in Manchester, NH from 2003 to 2010 and prior service on the boards of the National Association of Seed & Venture Funds, the New Hampshire State Board of Education, and the New Hampshire High Technology Council. Additionally, Mr. Pollock has also participated in numerous community and charitable initiatives, including service on the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Capital Formation; the Steering Committee of e-Cares, a philanthropic initiative of the NH Charitable Foundation involving New Hampshire’s entrepreneurial community; the Fleet In-City Advisory Board; and the Walker Fund Advisory Board, a fund dedicated to supporting the needs of public schools through special project grants.

Mr. Pollock holds a Masters in Business Administration from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Purdue University. The U.S. Small Business Administration named him National Financial Services Advocate of the Year for 1999. In 2004 he was named the Entrepreneurial Venture Creation ‘Person of the Year’ by the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics.