Edward P. Kinsey is a co-founder and formerly the Executive Vice President of Ariba, Inc., an enterprise internet software company that provides online commerce solutions for the Enterprise Spend Management market. He is a serial entrepreneur and start-up capital investor in Silicon Valley through his venture capital fund, Determination Ventures LLC, and as a partner in The Kinsey Hills Group. He is also the Chairperson of the Kinsey Family Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on providing assistance to children and children’s causes and young men and women whose lives have been affected by unfortunate circumstances. He has served on the boards of numerous corporate, educational and non-profit organizations including Comergent Technologies, Inc., Firm58, Inc., DiCarta, Inc., Embark, Inc., BUILD, Inc., The University of Toledo, and the San Carlos, California Little League.

Previously, Mr. Kinsey has served Silicon Valley companies as the Vice President and CFO of CenterView Software, Inc., as the VP of Operations of Zenger-Miller, Inc., and as a Director of Rasna, Inc. He also served in various finance roles at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco. He began his business career with consulting firms PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP and KPMG where he served in the manufacturing, financial services, non-profit and high technology sectors for seven years.

Mr. Kinsey earned a BBA from The University of Toledo College of Business Administration in 1979 and holds Certified Public Accounting certificates in Ohio and California. In 2002 Mr. Kinsey was inducted into The University of Toledo, College of Business Administration Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Hungarian American Hall of Fame that same year. He is the 2004 recipient of The University of Toledo, College of Business Administration prestigious “Pacemaker of the Year” award, which is awarded to one person annually to recognize their outstanding achievement in business and service.