Jack Osborne

JACK OSBORNE is an author, businessman, husband, and grandparent. He was born to “dirt poor” sugar beet sharecrop farmers in Northern Colorado, and was raised in poverty in government housing projects in south Seattle during the 1950s.

After service in the Marine Corps, he put himself through college—the first of his ancestry to do so—graduating in Mathematics and Physics from San Jose State University in San Jose, California. He then lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and fashioned a thirty-year career in “Silicon Valley’s” high-tech industries.

He is a successful engineer, businessman and entrepreneur, having been an executive in four successful high-tech start-ups. One company he founded, and served as CEO and Chairman of the Board, became a multinational company that was publically traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Mr. Osborne is an avid outdoorsman, sports enthusiast, and sailor, having coastal cruised and sailed extensively on the open ocean. He now lives in Northern Colorado, the land of his birth and of his family history.

He was an adamant agnostic much of his life, but he came to faith by surrendering his will during a period of personal crisis described in this book.

He is a keen observer of life and people.

This is Mr. Osborne’s second book. His first book "Makers of Mischief: A Boomer’s Adventures in Childhood" is a humorous review of his boyhood adventures, heroes and dreams while growing up in government housing projects.