Keith Powers

NewCo

2022 - Current

Coming soon.

Real Estate Specialist

2011

Keith has been an active residential and commercial real estate investor and developer for over 25 years. Deep expertise in luxury homes,single-family homes, condominiums, raw land, vacation rentals, large-scale sub-development projects, modular housing, custom home building, easements, off-grid, water catchment systems, Condominium Property Regimes (CPRs), accessory dwelling units (ADUs), 1031 exchanges and opportunity zones.

Founder

2013 - 2023

At Engaged Partners, we work closely with inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and CEOs to help them take their ideas, their passions, their companies, and their investment portfolios to the next level. Projects include the www.PaloAltoPrize.com - a $1 million life science competition to foster innovations that will ultimately help people live significantly healthier and longer as a result of better health, The National Academy Of Medicine's the Healthy Longevity Grand Challenge – a $100 million initiative to catalyze transformative innovation and inform policies and priorities to advance healthy aging and longevity globally, and various family office initiatives including launching several national brands of CBD products and executive producer of "CBD Nation", a feature-length documentary now available on Apple iTunes, Amazon, and Youtube (http://cbdnationfilm.com/).

Co-Creator

2020 - 2021

[Acquired by Samara in 2023] Vertically integrated real estate development company focused on large-scale planned development communities in Arizona, Nevada, and California with a 150,000 sq ft modular home factory in Mexicali, Mexico.

Advisor

2011 - 2014

:::Swell was acquired by Apple and the team was integrated into Apple News :) ::: Swell automatically learns what you like based on your listening behavior. The more you listen, the more it learns. For example, if you listen to TED Talks frequently Swell will deliver more TED Talks and additional similar content. If you skip TED Talks a lot, Swell will deliver less of that content. Series A investors in Swell are DFJ, Google Ventures, InterWest Partners, Draper Nexus Ventures, and Correlation Ventures. Seed investors include Charles River Ventures, a16z seed and Inspiration Ventures.

CEO

2012 - 2013

Our mission is to provide world-class learning to EVERY neighborhood. At our core, we believe that everyone has a right to learn, and that with the right filters, technology and training that a) ANY SPACE can be converted into a place of learning, and b) ANYONE can be a teacher, mentor, facilitator. Zaya provides world-class supplemental education to children ages 6 to 13 years old with our afterschool learning "Labs". Each Zaya Learning Lab is powered by our personalized blended learning approach with the specific goal of bridging the achievement gap for primary education. We have designed our blended learning model to work anywhere in the world, with any income group, but our primarily focus is on the bottom of the pyramid.

Advisor

2011 - 2013

President

2001 - 2013

Powerful Concepts, LLC, is a boutique consulting and investment practice that helps early stage startups with strategic development, capacity building, marketing and securing investment capital.

Co-Founder

2011 - 2012

The mission of the Aloha Initiative is to provide citizens of Japan who have been displaced by the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis with a warm and welcome home and we need your help. “Aloha” means affection, love, peace, compassion and mercy, the feelings and emotions we want to convey to the people of Japan. Our goal is to assemble a community of people who are willing to open their hearts and the homes to some of the displaced in case they need our support. www.alohainitiative.org

Head of Strategic Development

2012 - 2012

Khan Academy's mission to provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. I led a $100M capital campaign to support this mission and raised over $40M in cash and commitments in 4 months to kick off the campaign. Amazing group of lead donors including John and Ann Doerr, Bill Gates, Skoll Foundation, Reed Hastings, The O’Sullivan Foundation, Valhalla Charitable Foundation, Windsong Trust, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Wendy and Eric Schmidt, The Morgridge Family Foundation, etc.