As Chairman and CEO of Event Innovation, Gilfus applies a unique expertise by overseeing all facets of the company and providing both strategic and tactical direction for every department. 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. He has a unique ability to apply complex technology to real world problems and provide greater convenience, a key factor in Blackboard’s growth and institutional adoption. Gilfus has provided leadership strategies to some of the worlds most prestigious academic insitutions and world publishers through his design of the “Educational Technology Framework”.
Gilfus received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University where he was an academic scholar and founder of the Cornell Entrepreneur Organization. He is a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and an Advisory Board Member of Entrepreneurship@Cornell. He is also a General Partner at Ludus Ventures LLC which holds investments in UpsideOver, Wedding Wire and several other Internet start-up companies.
Gilfus sits on the boards of several companies in a variety of market spaces including UpsideOver Inc.
