Brad Keywell is a Principal in Echo Global Logistics LLC, an enterprise transportation management firm headquartered in Chicago with nine offices across the United States, which provides transportation procurement, management, and optimization services across all modes. He is also a Principal in MediaBank LLC, a market-making and technology firm in the media buying space, and in ThePoint LLC, a social networking company using the web to help people solve problems they otherwise could not solve alone.

Mr. Keywell is the Managing Partner of Bristol Ventures LLC, an investment and advisory firm. Among Bristol’s holdings are IRIS WorldGroup, a Chicago-based information services and analytics firm with delivery centers in India; Cambrian Partners LLC, an advisory firm which assists U.S. firms in their diversity/minority procurement initiatives and offshore outsourcing strategies; and Archer Corporate Services LLC, a marketing fulfillment services firm.

Mr. Keywell was previously with Equity Group Investments, LLC, Sam Zell's investment vehicle. He is the former President of HA-LO Industries a NYSE-traded company that was the world’s leading provider of promotional products, having joined HA-LO after the company acquired Starbelly. He founded Starbelly in May, 1999 and was its Chief Executive Officer, overseeing its growth to over 200 employees in seven months and its sale to HA-LO announced in January 2000.

Mr. Keywell is a frequent speaker at technology and marketing industry events, as well as a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and the Medill School of Journalism. He is a judge for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business New Venture Challenge. Mr. Keywell is an appointee to The Wall Street Project of the Council of Logistics Management. He has served as an Executive Partner to the William Blair New World Ventures venture capital fund in Chicago, and has served on the Advisory Committee of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Directors’ College. He founded the Digital Leadership Exchange, in partnership with Spencer Stuart, which is now a global CEO-level networking organization. He is the author of Biz Dev 3.0: Changing Business as We Know It, published by ALM Publishing.

Mr. Keywell was named one of the nation’s Top Ten Collegiate Entrepreneurs in 1991 by the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs, and received the 2000 Conrad Hilton Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from Loyola Marymount University. He was named one of the “Internet 100” by Crain’s Chicago Business, a listing of influential individuals in internet-related business. He was keynote speaker at the 2004 National Conference of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization.

Mr. Keywell is on the Board of Trustees of Columbia College, the nation’s largest secondary education institution dedicated to the fine arts, and a member of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. He is on the Board of Directors of Warrior Productions, a documentary filmmaker whose principal produced Hoop Dreams. He is a Trustee of the University of Michigan Hillel Foundation, and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization.

Mr. Keywell received his JD, cum laude, from the University of Michigan School of Law (1993) and his BBA with honors from the University of Michigan Business School (1991). He is a member of the State Bar of Illinois and Michigan Bar Association.