Keith Molzer

Keith has been an entrepreneur more than 25 years and started a variety of companies in the Kansas City region. For the last nine years, Keith served as Founder and CEO of Balance Innovations, a leading developer of cash office software solutions for the retail industry. Keith founded the company in 2004 and has led it through its growth from a staff of five and several hundred installs to a multi-product company with more than 75 team members and 8,500 contracted installations in North America. Prior to starting Balance Innovations, Keith founded a consulting practice, Entrepreneurial Consulting Corporation that advised start-ups, economic development agencies, non-profits and the federal government. Keith is active with many local startups as an angel investor and currently has eight active investments.

Keith was awarded the Central Midwest winner for the Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur Of The Year award in 2010 for Technology and has received the Kansas City Champions of Business award three times for Balance Innovations LLC. Keith currently sits on the board of Balance Innovations and KCNext and serves as the Network and Communications chair for the Kansas City chapter of Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Keith was active in Kansas Pipeline and served as a mentor in 2010 and 2011. Keith attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, earned his BA from Baker University and MBA from Rockhurst University.