Alexander “Sandy” Kemper is the Chairman of the Board of The Collectors Fund, a private equity fund focused on alternative asset classes. Kemper is also the Chairman of the Board of Pollen, a leader in the next generation of trade settlement companies.
Prior to founding The Collectors Fund and Pollen, Kemper founded Perfect Commerce (fka eScout.com) and served as the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2000-2006. Under Kemper’s leadership Perfect Commerce created the Open Supplier Network™ (OSN™) and became the largest and fastest growing provider of on-demand supplier relationship management (SRM) technology in the United States.
Prior to founding Perfect Commerce, Kemper served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of UMB Bank and CEO of UMB Financial, a NASDAQ traded financial services company with assets of more than eight billion dollars. Kemper began his career with UMB upon graduating in 1987 from Northwestern University where he majored in American History.
Kemper is an active angel and venture investor and currently serves on the corporate boards of UMB Financial (NASDAQ: UMBF), UMB Bank, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV), Efficient Finance and SCD Probiotics.
Kemper and his family are active in academic, civic and philanthropic endeavors and Kemper serves on the board of the Agriculture Future of America (AFA), a non-profit scholarship and leadership development organization which he co-founded.
Kemper and his family live on a farm in Kansas City, Missouri, where they raise and care for their horses, sheep and any and all wild animals (not including their 4 children).
Tim Barton founded Freightquote.com® in August of1998. Tim's accomplishments have been recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine listing him in the top five of their Hot 100 ranking; Ernst and Young with Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Computerworld Honors Program for his leadership. Also, Forbes Magazine has listed Freightquote.com among their Best of the Web rankings.
Formerly, Tim was the President and Co-founder of UWI Association Programs, a telecommunications company that concentrated on long distance affinity programs for commercial trade associations. Under his leadership, the company reached $22 million in annualized revenues and became part of Network Long Distance, a publicly traded, switch-based carrier with $110 million in annualized revenues. As President of the resulting company, he merged the organization with IXC Communications (now Broadwing Communications) in June of 1998.
Tim holds an MS in Finance from LSU and a BS in Business from the University of Kansas.
Jason Beer was one Freightquote.com’s earliest members, joining in November of 1999. He contributes over 13 years of sales and management experience to Freightquote.com, and is responsible for managing the company's large and diverse sales organization.
Jason is accomplished in general areas of operation including sales, customer service, contract negotiation, account retention, strategic alliances, and business mergers. Prior to joining Freightquote.com, he held similar positions at several telecommunications companies.
Jason is a graduate of Pittsburgh State University in Kansas.