Anne Keough Keehn, former Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Market Development & Client Relations for Blackboard, has a widely accomplished and distinguished sales and marketing background in the Internet, telecommunications and higher education industries. Through her leadership, she built a Worldwide Sales force, Business Development and CRM divisions for Blackboard’s eLearning products and Services in the higher education, K-12 and business to business teaching and learning markets.

With more than 20 years of experience in the high tech industry, about half of which have been in higher education, Keehn has a proven record in managing direct and indirect sales forces and in cultivating marketing and strategic business plans and alliances. Throughout her career, Keehn has been recognized for her ability to spot trends and emerging markets.

Before joining Blackboard, Keehn successfully built and ran PeopleSoft’s team of sales, support and marketing professionals for the Education & Government Industry Business Unit (IBU), which was Peoplesoft’s first and most profitable IBU in the company. Prior to PeopleSoft, Keehn held key sales and management positions in the higher education, commercial and government markets with Datatel Inc., one of the leading providers of administrative software applications (ERP) to the higher education market, and at Fujitsu, a telecommunications company. She was one of the early pioneers in sales and marketing pre-divestiture of the telecommunications industry in such companies as Allnet Communications, and Cable and Wireless. Also, she was Director of Development and Public Information at Prescott College. Keehn has been asked to speak about education and the internet at many conferences both domestically and around the world in such places as Beijing, Tokyo, Barcelona, Vienna, London and Vancouver.

Currently, Ms. Keehn is President of an executive consulting company she has founded called Quantum Thinking and sits on several boards such as The Advisory Board for Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.