Jesse Proudman

In 2003, technology entrepreneur Jesse Proudman parlayed his passion for the “plumbing” of the Internet into the creation of Blue Box Group, a Seattle-based private cloud hosting company. As Founder and CTO, Proudman has guided the company’s rapid growth through two rounds of funding, a $4.3 million Series A round of funding and a $14 million Series B. Proudman is GeekWire’s 2014 Young Entrepreneur of the Year and a member of the 2013 class of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. A regional semifinalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, Jesse is a well-regarded speaker and continues to be prolific coder.