John Keast

Current

COO at Vegas.com
Chairman at VentureAxis Inc.

Past

COO at SEEC
EVP, Operations at Asera
Founder & CEO at Tasavo

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John Keast’s Summary

John drives day-to-day operations for all of VEGAS.com's departments.

He leads efforts to enhance the travel product mix, improve the usability of our websites, strengthen the longstanding relationships with Vegas travel partners, update extensive Vegas content, develop and deploy user-friendly ticketing and guest experience solutions and other technology solutions and expand the physical footprint in Vegas.

Prior to Vegas.com John founded VentureAxis Inc. to provide IT companies with a cost effective approach to sales, services and support, and CIO and SaaS services. John acted as EVP, Operations & CIO at E2Open, a VentureAxis client, where he managed the SaaS business unit.

Prior to VentureAxis John held the position of COO of SEEC, a publicly traded software company that acquired Asera where he was EVP, Operations and CIO at Asera. Asera was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

After leaving PG&E Corporation John undertook several interim CIO and/or CTO roles for leading early stage VC backed companies in 2000 and became an Entrepreneur In Residence at Avisent - an incubator funded by McKinsey & Company and General Atlantic Partners. He founded Tasavo - a company focused on developing solutions for clearing, settlement and risk management for eBusiness.

John held the position of VP and CIO at PG&E Corporation and largest investor owned energy company in the US where he drove the strategy and implementation for both the regulated Utility business and the newly acquired unregulated businesses.

John has also held CIO and other senior management positions at Claris Corporation, DHL, Lydiastar Telecommunications, and Logica.

John was selected by Information Week as 1 of the 10 finalists for the “CIO of the Year”, and by ComputerWorld as a “Premier 100 CIO” in 1999.

John is a respected leader who has demonstrated the ability to build and motivate teams and promote a business culture that delivers exceptional results.