“In Jeff Burton, I can promise that you will get an unrelenting worker and visionary. I know this because Jeff and I have had a 15-year relationship. Jeff and I were friends first, brought together by our mutual UVA Baseball connections and our similarly aged children. Jeff has been an advisor to me in my personal financial life and in matters of raising children. We have shared stories and ideas as he launched H3 Baseball in 2011 and grew that into a life changing community serving charity; as he took on the Head Baseball Coach role at The Covenant School in 2014 and turned them into a state championship contender that taught high school players lessons that go way beyond the field; as he conceived of and built the Charlottesville Tom Sox into one of the absolute best summer baseball organizations in the country; and as he turned a rather small, but vitally important baseball field project at the formerly segregated Burley High School into a $2 million plus project that has captured the attention of everyone in this Central Virginia community and even across the Commonwealth, and is addressing issues of racial equity, leadership development, community collaboration, climate and more. While I could tell you many stories about Jeff’s individual successes in and around the game of baseball, in the finance industry, and in his own family, I want you to know that I can think of nobody that pursues excellence for the benefit of others like Jeff Burton does. He’s a great coach, and he will do anything to make sure a young man (or woman) has all the tools and knowledge to succeed at the highest level, but he is thoughtful in sharing on matters of education, leadership, spirituality, politics, and community building. As I’ve often discussed with others, he has an innate ability to share a vision or path to successful outcomes and to inspire others to come aboard or alongside him towards that common goal.”

“I have known Jeff for twenty years. Our kids were friends and played baseball together, on a team that Jeff coached. I helped Jeff coach, though he never really needed my help. Mostly I watched and marveled at his skills as a coach but, more importantly, I marveled at the way he wove life lessons into every practice and every game. He is one of the best coaches and mentors I have ever seen, and my son, now a junior at Yale, would say the same. Jeff and I are also friends. There are not many people like him: incredibly energetic and incurably optimistic; playful and thoughtful; kind, caring, and a great sense of humor; compassionate and competitive; engaging but not domineering. He can talk with—and will talk with—anyone, and within minutes forge a connection. He has exactly the right values, in my view, especially when it comes to sports—which he sees as a means to a larger end. He likes to win, don’t get me wrong, but his larger goal has always been to help young people develop into the very best adults they can be.”

“I just met Jeff in 2021, and I am so impressed with his ability to connect with people, to assess a scenario, to catalyze a situation, and to solve problems. I watched Jeff literally take over a situation in the not for profit sector, and in less than a month, he had come up with an absolutely meteoric solution to a problem that was mystifying me. And I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. If you ask the wrong question, you’ll almost always
get the wrong answer. Jeff asks the right questions and is a tireless listener. Jeff is a solution provider, has a skill set that will give him success in whatever he endeavors, and he’s an awesome man to boot. I thank God that he dropped Jeff in my path! And I think I will be engaging with Jeff Burton for many years to come.”