Arthur M. Keller

Dr. Arthur M. Keller serves as advisor and board member to startups, as a technical expert witness on patent infringement litigation, and as a lecturer and researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He was previously a researcher and lecturer at Stanford University and a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also a lecturer at Brooklyn College (CUNY).

He was Chief Technical Advisor and Board member of Persistence Software, advising them on advanced technical strategy. He was also a Co-Founder, COO and CFO of Mergent Systems, Inc. which was acquired by Commerce One in January 2000 for $200 million. He has served in similar capacities in over a dozen other Silicon Valley startups.

He received his B.S. summa cum laude with honors in both Mathematics and Computer and Information Science from Brooklyn College (CUNY), his M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. He was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a recipient of the George Forsythe Award for Excellence in Student Teaching.