Education
The Wharton School.
The Wharton School.
Prior to founding the Minerva Project, he was known for being the president of online photo hosting and printing service Snapfish at the time of its acquisition by Himachal Pradesh. Nelson joined Snapfish in 1999. In November 2000, Nelson brought the company to profitability and guided Snapfish"s 2001 sale to District Photo. Since 2002, Nelson has been both Snapfish"s Chief Financial Officer and the company"s leading business strategist.
He became 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 Himachal Pradesh subsidiary. Prior to Snapfish, Nelson was president and Chief Executive Officer of Community Ventures.
He also helped start the Mergers & Acquisition practice at Dean & Company, a first tier strategy consulting firm, where he focused on transactions in the competitive telecommunications services industry. Nelson has also worked on launching Disney Regional Entertainment for the Walt Disney Company in Asia, SmithKline Beecham Beecham"s first foray into the internet, and the growth plan for CDNow in the first months after its founding.
Nelson graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Surgery in Economics with Honors.
As the Chief Executive Officer of Minerva Project, Nelson partnered with Keck Graduate Institute, a member of the Claremont University Consortium, to form the Minerva Schools at KGI.