Ben Nelson

Founder & CEO, Minerva Project


United States of America

Ben Nelson is the Founder of Minerva, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Minerva Project, the company Nelson Founded and runs, helps other universities create educational programs inspired by Minerva University, broadly recognized as the most innovative and impactful university in the world. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, including more than 5 as its CEO, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service with over 42 million transactions across 22 countries.