Ben Nelson is the Founder and Chancellor of

Minerva University Minerva University (formerly Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute) is a private university headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was established in 2012 using $25million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital. The university ...

as well as the Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of

Minerva Project Minerva Project is an educational organization that designs and delivers educational programs through educational and corporate partners globally. Its mission is reforming education through an interdisciplinary curriculum and fully active learnin ...

. Minerva Project is the for-profit educational organization that created the non-profit

with the mission of reforming global education through an interdisciplinary curriculum and fully active learning pedagogy, delivered on a proprietary learning environment called Forum^TM. Prior to founding Minerva, he was the CEO and President of the global online photo hosting and printing company

Snapfish Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service owned by Shutterfly based in San Francisco, California. History Snapfish was launched in 1999 by business partners Rajil Kapoor, Bala Parthasarathy, Suneet Wadhwa, and Shripati A ...

at the time of its acquisition by HP. Nelson joined Snapfish in 1999. By 2002, Nelson was the CFO of Snapfish and had established himself as one of the company's lead business strategists. He became CEO and President of Snapfish in March 2005, just before the acquisition of the company by Hewlett-Packard. Afterwards, he continued to run the company as an HP subsidiary. Nelson graduated from the

Wharton School The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in P ...

at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

with a B.S. in Economics with Honors as a Joseph Wharton Scholar.

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External links

NPR - Digital Photo Price War : Ben Nelson talks about Pricing Strategy

"Reinventing the University - A Conversation with Ben Nelson"
''Ideas Roadshow'', 2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nelson, Ben American computer businesspeople Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni Living people 1975 births