Ben Nelson (businessman)

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Ben Nelson
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Nelson in 2017
Education University of Pennsylvania (BS)
Occupation(s)Founder, Chairman, President and CEO, Minerva Project; Chancellor, Minerva University
Board member ofIntelligence Squared, San Francisco Opera

Ben Nelson is an American businessperson who is the founder of Minerva Project and Minerva University.

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Education

Nelson graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics with Honors as a Joseph Wharton Scholar. [1] [2]

Career

Nelson joined Snapfish in 1999. By 2002, Nelson was the CFO of Snapfish. He became CEO and president in March 2005, shortly before the acquisition of the company by Hewlett-Packard. [3] He continued to run the company following the acquisition as a subsidiary. [4] [5]

In 2011, Nelson founded the for-profit Minerva Project and received a $25 million seed investment from Benchmark Capital in 2012. In 2012, Minerva Project founded Minerva University which he is chancellor of. [6] [5] [7] [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ Wood, Graeme (13 August 2014). "The Future of College?". The Atlantic. No. September. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Speakers". New York Times Schools for Tomorrow. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Snapfish Management Team" (PDF). Snapfish. April 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Lidor, Danit (December 2, 2005). "Nelson's Snapfish Adds Publix To New Partners List". Forbes . Archived from the original on February 14, 2007.[ dead link ]
  5. 1 2 Kaminski, Matthew (9 August 2013). "Ben Nelson: The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Debate: In An Online World, Are Brick And Mortar Colleges Obsolete?". National Public Radio. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Weissman, Jordan (5 April 2012). "Can This 'Online Ivy' University Change the Face of Higher Education?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Primack, Dan (3 April 2012). "Reinventing the Ivy League". Fortune.
  9. ↑ Kamenetz, Anya (4 April 2012). "Minerva Project Scores $25 Million In Seed Money To Build A New Elite University Online". Fast Company. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
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