Ben Nelson (businessman)

Ben Nelson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Minerva Project, the for-profit educational organization that, with Keck Graduate Institute, created Minerva University (formerly Minerva Schools at KGI) with the mission of reforming education through an interdisciplinary curriculum and fully active learning pedagogy, delivered on a proprietary learning environment called ForumTM.[1]

Ben Nelson
Nelson in 2017
Alma materWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
OccupationFounder, Chairman and CEO, Minerva Project and Minerva University
Board member ofIntelligence Squared, San Francisco Opera

Prior to founding Minerva, he was the president of the online photo hosting and printing service Snapfish at the time of its acquisition by HP.[2] Nelson joined Snapfish in 1999. Since 2002, Nelson was both Snapfish's CFO and one of the company's business strategists. He became president of Snapfish in March 2005, just before the acquisition of the company by Hewlett-Packard.[3] Afterwards, he continued to run the company as an HP subsidiary.[4]

Nelson graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics.[5][6]

References
  1. "Debate: In An Online World, Are Brick And Mortar Colleges Obsolete?". National Public Radio. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  2. Kaminski, Matthew (9 August 2013). "Ben Nelson: The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  3. "Snapfish Management Team" (PDF). Snapfish. April 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 January 2013.
  4. Lidor, Danit (12.02.05). "Nelson's Snapfish Adds Publix To New Partners List". Forbes. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. Wood, Graeme (13 August 2014). "The Future of College?". The Atlantic. No. September. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  6. "Speakers". New York Times Schools for Tomorrow. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
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