The Gift of Mentorship

Brad Keywell is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, artist, author, philanthropist and professor. He is the founder of Uptake, an industrial insight software company, named 'Startup of the Year' by Forbes in 2015. He is a co-founder of several companies, including Groupon, MediaOcean, Echo Global Logistics, and Tempus Labs. Brad is an early investor in, and advisor to, many high-growth technology companies, including Sprout Social, Udemy, Fiverr, Crowdrise, Reverb, TastyTrade, Benzinga, Team Liquid, GoPuff, Coffee Meets Bagel, Hireology, Ovia Health, SoCore Energy, Snapsheet, Square, Roots, and Zeel. In 2019, Brad founded the WNDR Museum in Chicago, an immersive art + technology experience now expanding to 5 US locations. WNDR has twice been named one of the country's best immersive museums by USA Today. In 2010 he founded Chicago Ideas, a weeklong ideas conference with 500+ world-class thinkers and disruptors on stage attracting over 30,000 attendees, and now a wide-ranging innovation platform.  In 2019, he was globally honored as the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year and was previously awarded the overall EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the United States. He was also named to the Technology Innovator Council for the World Economic Forum and was inducted into the Chicago Innovation Hall of Fame. He is Chairman of the Future Founders Foundation, and on the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Arts Chicago. He is an adjunct professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and is a lecturer at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.