Keith Blackwell
Board Director at CloneMeNot
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Blackwell is an entrepreneurial executive and board director with over three decades of cross-functional leadership and 11 years of recent experience scaling data- and AI-driven businesses. He has founded and led multiple startups from seed to acquisition—including Bristol Technology (acquired by HP) and The Big Willow—and later ran large-scale global operations as SVP at Ziff Davis overseeing 1,500 employees and major M&A integrations. More recently he co-founded a decentralized identity trust startup, CloneMeNot, and sits on the board of Dyver.AI, applying AI to messy ecommerce product data to boost conversions. Trained in engineering and finance with an MBA and a background as a bond trader and PhD-level work in finance/economics and machine learning, he blends analytical rigor with product and operational instincts. Known for spotting market opportunities and converting them into profitable outcomes, he thrives building mission-driven teams with urgency and integrity. An understated thread through his career is a repeated ability to turn complex technical and legal battles into strategic advantage and exits.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of BusinessBE Chemical Engineering, BE Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (19)
calculator10
audio-processing9
video-processing9
android9
pitch9
computer-vision9
stream-processing8
neumorphism8
streaming8
deep-learning8
perception8
inference8
machine-learning8
pipeline-framework8
mediapipe8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
econokeith/econohmm
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
econokeith/otis
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:233 commits, 2 PRs, 174 pushes in 1 year
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