Ben Nelson (businessman)

Ben Nelson heads Snapfish.com, the leading online photo service. Snapfish enables its members to share, print, and store their most important photo memories.

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 CFO 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.

Prior to Snapfish, Nelson was president and CEO of Community Ventures. He also helped start the Mergers & Acquisition practice at Dean & Co, a first tier strategy consulting firm, where he focused on transactions in the competitive telecommunications services industry. Ben has also worked on launching Disney Regional Entertainment for the Walt Disney Company in Asia, SmithKline 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 B.S. in Economics with Honors.

Sources

* [http://www.snapfish.com Snapfish.com]
* [http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2005/12/02/nelson-snapfish-hp-cx_dl_1202autofacescan07.html Forbes: Nelson's Snapfish Adds Publix To New Partners List]
* [http://www.collegejournal.com/careerpaths/findcareerpath/20060323-garton.html CollegeJournal.com Interview]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E1DA1F3CF931A15750C0A9639C8B63&fta=y Hewlett Buys Online Photo Company]
* [http://www.walgreens.com/about/press/othernews/071105.jsp Snapfish Powers Walgreens Photo Website]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4719659 NPR - Digital Photo Price War]
* [http://www.forrester.com/Speaker_Bio/0,9010,1472,00.html?speakerID=1074&speakerType=Featured Featured Speaker, Social Computing And The Consumer-Generated Experience, Humanizing the Digital Experience]