Jerry began working for Quik-Stik Label Manufacturing in Everett, MA as an assistant to the General Manager, Milt Costa. Under Milt’s tutelage, he was schooled in all aspects of print production and label manufacturing.

After leaving Quik-Stik, Jerry took a job in the purchasing department of the recently created Mutual Advisory Corporation (MAC) which was a visionary group formed by a group of Massachusetts savings banks looking to consolidate many of their common functions in a single service bureau. The MAC group created one of the first ATM networks in the state. Jerry eventually became the manager of purchasing and marketing for this holding company which served banks with assets in excess of $2 billion.

The MAC group eventually decided to concentrate on data processing and bank operations support functions so Jerry took a sales job with one of his vendors, Northeastern Envelope Manufacturing. He worked under company owner Jerry Mitchell and learned the envelope industry from one of its most experienced and knowledgeable professionals. Jerry worked with his future partner Dave Theriault at Northeastern for 10 years. He built a sales portfolio of over $2.5 million from scratch and eventually became sales manager when Northeastern was purchased by then Mailwell Envelope which eventually closed the plant down despite it being quite profitable.

Jerry saw the handwriting on the wall and worked for one of Northeastern’s competitors for a couple of years before starting Elite Envelope along with partner Dave Theriault in December of 2003. Elite has grown from the founding three staff of Jerry, Dave and Tracie Theriault to employ 17.

Jerry has three children and two grandchildren and lives with his wife Bettina and youngest daughter Nina in Arlington, MA. He attended Berklee College of Music and the Harvard Extension School. He is an accomplished musician, published songwriter and enjoys all types of sports and fitness activities as well as reading, writing, movies, travel and spending time with his family.