Joe KeeleyCo Founder

United States - Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Joe Keeley is a dynamic, yet thoughtful entrepreneur and conscious leader. As such, Keeley is currently CEO and Co-founder of JustiFi Technologies, a venture backed fintech business providing payments and fintech architecture and strategy for vertical SaaS platforms and marketplaces.

Keeley also founded and grew College Nannies, Sitters & Tutors (CNST), the nation’s largest in-home childcare and tutoring company. CNST disrupted the fragmented in-home childcare market through Keeley’s people leadership, technological innovation and indomitable spirit. Keeley led CNST to over 200 franchises in the USA and United Kingdom (a milestone less than 5% of franchisors achieve) and over 13,000 employees. In 2016, College Nannies, Sitters & Tutors was acquired by Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE: BFAM), the largest corporate sponsored childcare operator globally.

A sampling of Keeley’s awards and accomplishments include being named the prestigious Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of The Year”, the “Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Top 25 under 25 to Watch” by Business Week Magazine, “20 under 30 Who Will Change the World” by Citizen Culture magazine, one of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s “Young Entrepreneurs” and “40 under 40”, Glass Door’s Top 100 Companies to Work For, Minnesota Business 100 Best Companies to Work For, and Entrepreneur Magazine top 100 Franchise concepts many years running.

Keeley volunteers his time with organizations focused on the advancement of education, the arts and entrepreneurship. Keeley is the current Vice Chair of The Children’s Theater Company Board of Governors in Minneapolis, MN, and is a past member of the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business Board of Governors, past President of the Minnesota chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and has been appointed by a Minnesota Governor as a Youth Education Representative for the Minnesota Commission on National and Community Service.