Jeff Burton
CEO & Baseball (Charlottesville VA)
Jeff Burton lives in Charlottesville, VA. He came to Charlottesville in 1988 as a student athlete on the University of Virginia’s baseball team (outfielder). Vocationally, he is a 25 year Investment Advisor helping higher net worth individuals and baseball coaches all over the country with their investment and planning needs and for 30 postgraduate years, he has been helping young men and women in the game and life.
In 2010, Jeff founded H3 Baseball, a 501c3 whose mission is to impact the lives of youth in Central Virginia by providing quality instruction, meaningful relationships, and unique opportunities through the game of baseball. H3 has grown to be a nationwide nonprofit focusing on making the game more accessible for all. He was a very successful high school head coach at The Covenant School and In 2014 founded the Charlottesville Tom Sox, a 501c3 summer collegiate team in the historic Valley Baseball League. Over the past 8 years, Jeff has recruited over 500 college baseball players to Charlottesville from a wide range of schools. He’s also helped foster the career development of over 200 student-athletes by identifying summer internships within the Tom Sox organization or the Charlottesville community. In 2017, the Tom Sox were named Perfect Game’s #1 team in the country at the end of the season. In 2020, Jeff launched the Burley Restoration Project, a multimillion restoration of the athletic facilities at the formerly segregated black Burley High School. This project is currently ongoing and brought together a unique collaboration of partners from across Virginia in what is a transformational urban renewal project for Charlottesville.
In 2021, after placing more than 150 of his former players and referrals from all over the country into college baseball programs, Jeff formally launched Jeff Burton Consulting & the H3 Consultant Group. He has become the nation’s preeminent consultant to high school families wanting to pursue college athletics.