Ben Nelson (businessman)

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

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

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]}