Sandy Kemper

 
 
 

CO-FOUNDER & CO-CHAIRMAN 

Sandy is the founder of C2FO and serves as Chairman of the Board and CEO. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of The Collectors Fund, a private equity fund focused on alternative asset classes. Prior to founding The Collectors Fund and C2FO, Sandy founded Perfect Commerce (fka eScout.com) and served as the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2000-06. Prior to founding Perfect Commerce, he served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of UMB Bank and CEO of UMB Financial, a NASDAQ traded financial services company more than $20 billion in assets. Sandy began his career with UMB after graduating from Northwestern University in 1987. He majored in American History. Sandy is an active angel and venture investor and serves on the corporate boards of UMB Financial (NASDAQ: UMBF), UMB Bank, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV), AXA Art USA (NYSE: AXA) and BATS Exchange, one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Sandy and his family are active in academic, civic and philanthropic endeavors. He serves on the board of the Agriculture Future of America (AFA), a non-profit scholarship and leadership development organization that he co-founded. Sandy and his family live on a farm in Kansas City, Mo., where they raise and care for their horses, sheep and any and all wild animals (not including their four children).

 

Christine Kemper

 
 

CO-FOUNDER & CO-CHAIRMAN

Christine founded Kemper & Company, LLC, following her early endeavors in government, politics, entertainment and strategic communications.  Her marketing and research consultancy has advised local, national and global brands since 2002. She is co-founder of The Collectors Fund and The Kansas City Collection, two enterprises that invest in art and build markets for artists, as well as YEP, an internship and scholarship organization focused on nurturing entrepreneurship among high school students. She has served in leadership roles for dozens of regional nonprofit organizations, including the Women’s Foundation, Women’s Employment Network, WIN for KC, the WWI Museum and Memorial, DeLaSalle Education Center, the Symphony Foundation and University Academy Charter School. Her current passion is in her role as Founder and Board Chair of Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy, an all-girls, college-bound public charter school in Kansas City, Missouri, that opened in August, 2019.  Affiliated with the national Young Women's Leadership Network, this school’s mission is to prepare young women to use their voices, succeed academically and go on to lead productive, meaningful lives.  In her spare time, Kemper enjoys farm life with her husband and their many critters, including their four children.

 

Jeremy Colwell

 
 

Aditya Devurkar

Co-Founder

Jeremy joined C2FO in August of 2014 leading the Buyer and Marketing Analytics team.  In 2016, he became the Account Director for C2FO’s Western Region buyers, where he works to maximize market performance as the point of contact for clients such as Amazon, Costco, HP and Intel. Jeremy has 15+ years of diverse experience in finance operations, marketing strategy and analytics.  Prior to C2FO, Jeremy was part of the Sprint Velocity vehicle telematics group, a startup within Sprint, where he managed the consumer pricing and data analytics team working directly with Fiat-Chrysler.  He held several finance, pricing and business analytics roles at Sprint.  Prior to Sprint, Jeremy began his career working at Wells Fargo in the commercial operations group. Jeremy received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in Finance and Marketing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He lives in Olathe with his wife and two children.   

Co-Founder

Aditya is currently working as VP of Product at C2FO primarily responsible for all aspects of pricing, market mechanics and buyer integrations. Prior to joining C2FO, Aditya worked at Groupon, leading their consumer email experience and merchant marketing technology initiatives. He started his career at Amazon as a software engineer in their merchandising platform division. Aditya holds a  B. Eng from Birla Institute of Technology, India and  M.S in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. As a co-founder of YEPKC, Aditya's primary is focus is to nurture and grow the network by providing active mentorship to YEPKC scholars and seeking partnerships with schools and high growth organizations in and around KC area.

 

Kyle Hattock

 

Co-Founder

Kyle joined C2FO in 2013 and currently serves as Director of Market Operations, with a focus on market efficiency and scalability.  Prior to C2FO, Kyle spent seven years with Boston-based State Street Bank, where he led various client operations teams responsible for the pricing of international mutual funds.  He has a B.S. in Finance from University of Central Missouri and an MBA from Avila University.  Kyle lives in Peculiar, MO with his wife and three children.

 

Jordan Van Winkle

Co-Founder

Jordan currently leads the front end engineering at C2FO. His team is responsible for the customer facing web application, mobile app, and an internal application for C2FO employees. He has a passion for reliable applications that scale and are intuitive to use.  Prior to C2FO, Jordan worked on various platforms from social media and marketing analytics at eDataSource to GIS mapping applications for the Navy at Harris Corporation. Originally from small town Nebraska, Jordan graduated from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and currently resides in the heart of Kansas City with his wife and dog.

 

Mary Wooldridge

 

Board Member

Mary is the Community Engagement Director of the fastest growing experience design, build, and tech firm: Dimensional Innovations. Over the past five years, she has worked to better the Kansas City community and to establish and enforce the vision of the DI Foundation, an employee-funded and managed fund.

With deep nonprofit industry knowledge, Mary has championed nonprofits across the nation to think outside the box in order to increase funds and create greater awareness of their organization and mission. As a community leader, she has been recognized as a proven relationship builder and has helped establish and develop both local and national foundations, including The Parkinson Foundation, JDRF, VMLY&R Foundation, and Head For The Cure.

Outside of Dimensional Innovations, Mary enjoys time with her family and friends, loves to travel, and always, always, enjoys a good laugh.

 

Erin Jenkins

Executive Director

Erin Jenkins is the Managing Director of YEP KC. Formerly, she was a Senior Program Officer in Entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where she manages a portfolio of grants and work designed to build the capacities of organizations supporting entrepreneurs in the Heartland. Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, Jenkins was CEO of Nimblebot, an animation startup in Cambridge, Mass., where she managed the development and execution of company operations. Earlier, Jenkins managed elective abroad programs at Babson College, coordinated programs at the University of the Middle East Project in Boston, and coached basketball in Nagasaki, Japan. Jenkins earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with an emphasis in business from William Jewell College and a Master of Arts in intercultural relations from Lesley University in Cambridge.