08/22/2026
Jeffrey Jump is what happens when Midwest grit, Navy steel, and Florida deal-making collide and refuse to behave like normal ingredients.
Born in Indiana, where practicality is religion and winters try to kill your ambition, he learned early that survival favors the persistent. Then came the USS Glover (FF-1098)—a floating classroom in discipline, pressure, and the kind of responsibility that doesn’t care about excuses. Most people leave the military with stories. Jeff left with wiring in his brain that says: finish the mission, then improve the mission.
He didn’t “transition” into business—he steamrolled into it, running a printing company for 15 years, mastering the grind most people romanticize, but can’t endure. Ink, deadlines, payroll, customers—real business, not theory. The kind that teaches you exactly how thin margins can get and how fast things break if you’re not paying attention.
Then Florida happened.
Not retirement. Not relaxation. Reinvention.
Enter: Business Brokerage.
For the past 7+ years, Jeff hasn’t just been selling businesses—he’s been dissecting them, valuing them, negotiating them, and occasionally dragging deals across the finish line like they owe him money.
Certified as a CBI and CM&AP, but more importantly, battle-tested in the chaotic, emotional, ego-driven world of lower middle market transactions. He speaks fluent SDE, smells inflated add-backs from a mile away, and knows that “strategic buyer” can mean anything from visionary to completely delusional.
He operates under Jump International Business Brokers—a name that sounds like a suggestion, but functions more like a command.
His brand pillars—Tenacity, Integrity, and Service—aren’t marketing fluff; they’re operational requirements. Tenacity means he doesn’t let deals die quietly. Integrity means he won’t dress up a bad business just to push it through. Service means he actually answers the phone—an increasingly rare competitive advantage.
Now he’s not just brokering deals—he’s building systems. Training agents. Designing frameworks. Creating a deal hub with national ambition. The man doesn’t just close transactions; he reverse-engineers the process so others can replicate it without screwing it up.
Jeff is optimizing for scale.
Equal parts operator, negotiator, and strategist—with just enough unpredictability to keep things interesting—he’s the guy you want in your corner when the deal gets messy… and the guy you don’t want across the table when it does.
Because while others are still “thinking about the opportunity,”
Jeff Jump already priced it, structured it, and closed it.