Steve Gilfus is the Chairman and CEO of Event Innovation. Gilfus, together with Event Innovation's President Ron Dinwiddie, developed the idea and software design for Event Innovation, founding the company in 2007 to provide sports, entertainment and arts venues with better information about attendees and attendees with a better overall experience at events.
Gilfus is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, and noted software designer and inventor. Prior to founding Event Innovation Steve was co-founder of D.C based Blackboard Inc. (nasdaq:BBBB). Blackboard's flagship products are used by millions of instructors and students across more than 3,600 institutions in 70 countries. He has been noted as being instrumental to the development of the eLearning market space and making Blackboard a leading provider of e-Learning software and services.
Steve Gilfus received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University where he was an academic scholar and founder of the Cornell Entrepreneur Organization.
As an entrepreneur, we'd looked at a market place and we saw that we had a significant opportunity in sports and entertainment. From there, even prior to leaving Blackboard, I attended five or six different conferences in that space because quite frankly, it was new. Doing technology and building ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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