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Jewel Burks

Jewel Burks

Jewel Burks Solomon is a tech entrepreneur, based in Atlanta. She is the founder of Partpic, a startup designed to streamline the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision.[2]

Education

In 2010, Jewel received Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Howard University.[1]

Career

Jewel started her career as an Intern at Affinion Marketing Group.

In a year, she was a Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs. In summer 2009, she was an Intern at Google. From 2010-2012 Jewel worked as a Enterprise Sales Associate at Google. She left the company in 2012 to join McMaster-Carr as a Supervisor. In 2014, Jewel rejoined Google on a position of Entrepreneur in Residence and worked there up to 2016.[1]

In 2013, Jewel became the founder of Partpic, a computer vision startup that facilitates search for replacement parts using a camera enabled mobile device.

Currently, she is a Team Lead at Amazon.[1]

In addition, Jewel is a member of the 2019 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.She is a board member at Goodie Nation and the Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project.[2]

In 2016, Jewel was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Manufacturing.[5]

Personal Life

Burks resides in Atlanta with her husband, Zekarias.[2]

References

[1]
Citation Linkwww.linkedin.comJewel on LinkedIn
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Citation Linkwww.jewelburks.comInfo about Jewel on her personal website
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Citation Linktwitter.comJewel on Twitter
Aug 5, 2019, 7:40 PM
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Citation Linkwww.instagram.comJewel on Instagram
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Citation Linkwww.forbes.comJewel featured in Forbes
Aug 5, 2019, 7:44 PM