Keynote Speaker Bio: Jack Kiefer

Mr. Kiefer possesses a unique combination of business and technical expertise. Mr. Kiefer, a veteran of the Internet and e-commerce, is no stranger to start-up businesses.

BabyAge.com, Inc, (www.BabyAge.com) born in 1999, has grown to become a force in the infant and juvenile market as well as being recognized as an innovator and leader in the e-commerce community (currently ranked 280 in the 2007 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, a definitive ranking of America's 500 largest e-retailers).

Prior to co-founding BabyAge.com, he was responsible for building the first Fixed Income Trading Intranet for Bank of America Securities as the Vice President of Corporate Securities Trading.

Preceding his tenure with the Bank, Mr. Kiefer was the CTO for iBaby.com, the first e-commerce initiative for iVillage. Mr. Kiefer designed and managed the development of the entire e-commerce system for iBaby. The most notable segments of the system included advanced merchandising, tools, as well as complete inventory management. Under his tenure, the iBaby revenues increased (over a 6-month period) from $15k/month to $500K/month.

Before becoming involved with the iBaby business Mr. Kiefer managed the development of a sophisticated chat system, which included collaborative filtering, a recommendations system, and iVillages' (http://www.ivillage.com) first member registration system.

As Director of Production and Design, Mr. Kiefer, was the 5th employee hired to develop the Comcast@Home (http://www.home.com http://www.comcastonline.com , http://www.inyourtown.com) business. He was responsible for designing and building a local content publishing system, as well as working to hire and develop local regions of the business as it rolled out. He made significant early contributions to the design and development of the @Home local content publishing system.

Mr. Kiefer, prior to the development of the NCSA Mosaic Program, was developing an electronic publishing department for a small medical publisher (http://www.fadavis.com). His in-roads included the development of the first software titles ever; significant contributions to an SGML based Editorial Database, and the production of the first web site for the distribution of F.A. Davis titles.

Higher Education and Educational Institutions have always been a passion for Mr. Kiefer. He served as Assistant Dean of Students for Drexel University and was actively involved with developing a co-curricular transcript to fully document student’s involvement in all non-educational aspects of the University.

Mr. Kiefer consulted several start-up and small businesses on their Internet Development and Business and Marketing Planning. Mr. Kiefer received his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and his MBA (entrepreneurial management/small business consulting) from Drexel University.