Jeff ma biography

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  • Jeff Ma

    American blackjack player

    Jeffrey Ma

    Born1973
    Alma materPhillips Exeter Academy
    Occupation(s)CEO and Founder of tenXer
    Notable workThe House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big In Business

    Jeff Ma or Jeffrey Ma (born 1973) is a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s.[1] He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended MIT where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1994. He was the basis for the main character of the book Bringing Down the House (where he was renamed Kevin Lewis) and the film 21 (where he was renamed Ben Campbell). Ma also co-founded PROTRADE (a sports stock market website that has since been shut down)[2] and does consulting work for professional sports teams including the Portland Trail Blazers and San Francisco 49ers.[3] He cofounded Citizen Sports, a sport-information website and iPhone application based in San Francisco, which was acq