Jeffrey Addison Grant

Jeff Grant is only one of two Centurion Inventors in the Charlotte metro area. He is the Director of Innovation at InVue. With over 25 years of experience as an innovation and design practitioner, he transforms user insight, iterative prototyping, and technology transfer into market demand. As Director of Innovation at InVue, he is responsible for innovation, technology development, and intellectual property creation for all current and future product categories, spanning InVue's Asset Protection, Access Control, and Point of Sale businesses. From designing satellite hardware for NASA to inventing toy & game concepts at IDEO to transforming the customer experience at Bank of America, his interdisciplinary nature has always found him at the intersection of inspiring and synthesizing the efforts of inventors, designers, marketers, engineers, researchers, builders, and storytellers.

Jeff has a degree in Engineering: Product Design from Stanford University, where he received the Chilton Memorial Prize for Excellence in Product Design for his senior thesis project. He was also a 4x varsity letter-winner and captain of the wrestling team and Division 1 NCAA Qualifier. When he is not inventing, you can find him competing in local submission grappling cage fights and international Jiu-Jitsu tournaments, or on any given evening from September 1st through October 31st; you will find him constructing a three-story tall Halloween Haunted House in his backyard.