Meet Jeff Nelson: CEO S3I, Executive Vice President

Risk mitigator, international guru, Champion of the Baltic States

Jeff Nelson serves as point for several of S³ Customers while leading the 250-plus S³ team members and Consultants in several of S³’s key markets. He also happens to be the CEO for S3I, S³’s international operations headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania. It’s something he’s well suited to do.

Jeff leads S³’s efforts by helping global companies to establish and grow near-shore centers. He has helped build S³’s reputation in the region as a trusted, well-regarded partner of the government in business development and in creating jobs and career opportunities for Lithuanian citizens.

In fact, Jeff and S³ have played a firsthand role in dramatically developing the economy in Lithuania, creating thousands of Western-esque jobs for nationals so they could remain in or return to their home country. In 2015, he was appointed as one of 23 honorary consuls, representing the U.S. in Lithuania.

Jeff embraces the S³ culture where rules and regulations don’t crowd out entrepreneurialism, mistakes are opportunities to learn, and customers and consultants always come first. He believes in listening to customers, identifying their perceived risks, and designing a solution to mitigate those risks. That often means S³ managing them for their customers.

Closer to the heart, and home, Jeff volunteers with and supports a handful of charitable organizations in Detroit, in his hometown of Richmond, and in Lithuania. He is an active board member of CodeVA, a non-profit organization that promotes computer science and computer programming across Virginia. He is a volunteer and supporter of the Richmond mayor’s Youth Academy, the chairman of the workforce development committee of Richmond Business Council, as well as a member of the Detroit Regional Chamber and member the American-Lithuanian Business Council and past board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania.