Jim McKelvey
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October 19, 1965 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Occupation | Director of Square, Inc., Mira, Inc., LockerDome, Calpian, Inc., Entrepreneur |
Jim McKelvey (born October 19, 1965) is an entrepreneur, businessperson and philanthropist who is involved in more than a dozen companies, most notably as the co-founder of Square. Jim was appointed as an Independent Director of the St. Louis Federal Reserve in January 2017.
James Morgan (Jim) McKelvey, Jr., is the eldest son of Edith McKelvey and James Morgan McKelvey, Sr., former dean of engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). McKelvey Jr. was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and is a Distinguished Alumni of Ladue Horton Watkins High School. He wrote and published a Handbook on UCSD and Apple Pascal. After graduation, McKelvey worked at IBM's Los Angeles Scientific Center and was simultaneously a glassblowing instructor and founder of Disconcepts, a CD cabinet manufacturing company.
In 1991, Mira developed one of the first PC document imaging systems, "Look". The software had limited success and after a contentious start, Mitchell left the company in 1992. Unable to compete with Adobe Acrobat, McKelvey successfully moved the company into tradeshow publishing until the advent of the Internet decimated the existing business model in the mid-1990s. In 1995, with the assistance of one of Mira's summer interns, Jack Dorsey, McKelvey pivoted the company into conference publishing where it remains today. McKelvey left daily management at Mira in 2000, but remains the company’s owner and Chairman.
McKelvey began blowing glass as a student at WUSTL and later studied briefly with master Lino Talgiapietra. In 2000, after giving a glassblowing demonstration at WUSTL, McKelvey met Doug Auer who shared McKelvey’s passion of the art. Together they founded Third Degree Glass Factory in St. Louis, an artist studio, education center, fine art gallery and event space.
In 2006, McKelvey wrote and published an instructional textbook for glassblowing, The Art of Fire. That same year, Third Degree hosted the world's largest conference for art glass, GAS 2006. In preparation for this conference, McKelvey designed and produced a line of all-glass faucets. Though not originally intended for sale, the demand for the faucets eventually led McKelvey to form another company, Glass Faucet.
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