
Alexander C Kemper is Chairman of the Board and CEO of C2FO, the largest working capital market in the world. Kemper is also the Chairman of the Board of The Collectors Fund, a private equity fund focused on alternative asset classes. Prior to founding The Collectors Fund and C2FO, 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 40 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 C2FO, UMB Financial (NASDAQ: UMBF), UMB Bank, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV), and Dwolla. He previously served on the board of AXA Art, a subsidiary of AXA Insurance (NYSE: AXA) and the regulatory boards of BATS and CBOE (BATS: CBOE). 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 is a Trustee of the Kemper Family Foundations and a Trustee of the Kemper Museum of Art. Kemper co-founded YEPKC, an organization devoted to developing young entrepreneurs. In 2017, the Henry W. Bloch School of Management named Sandy and Christine Kemper its Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year. Sandy and Christine live on a small ranch in Kansas City, Missouri, where they raise and care for their horses, sheep, chickens, bees and any and all wild animals (not including their 4 children).
Kansas City, Missouri, United States