Chris Keyes

Mr. Keyes has more than 25 years of experience in starting and operating businesses ranging from recycling enterprises to digital media and ecommerce companies. Mr. Keyes has built his career on taking nascent ideas and turning them into high performing businesses. Mr. Keyes currently runs the Mobile App Division and is Head of the Innovation Lab for Publishers Clearing House after PCH acquired Mr. Keyes’ most recent start-up Online Convergence. With full P&L responsibility for the mobile division, Mr. Keyes manages a high performing, cross-functional team that drives over 35% of the company’s annual revenue. Online Convergence was Mr. Keyes’ fifth venture as either a member of the founding team or one of the earliest employees. Mr. Keyes graduated from Boston College and started a recycling company that he sold to a fortune-100 waste management company five years later. From there, he received his MBA from Duke University and, after graduation, became one of the first employees at Garden.com, responsible for their entire wholesale division. He went on to become Senior Vice President of Business Development for a Japanese technology company building out a new presence in America before moving back to Boston to launch Jackpot Rewards, which raised over $15 million to disrupt the Lottery space. Mr. Keyes is an active angel investor and serves as a limited partner in a venture firm in the Boston area. He is also very active as a board member on for-profit and non-profit boards, currently serving as Chairman on two boards.

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