Skip Folds

Skip is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is chairman of Grifone Enterprises, a private holding company that owns and invests in business to consumer ecommerce companies.

Prior to retiring in 2001, he was an executive at Ariba, Inc., a leading enterprise spend management solutions provider, where he held various management positions in marketing and business development.

Prior to Ariba, Skip worked at SGI, Inc., the world's leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage, where he analyzed, recommended and implemented technology solutions to business problems. Prior to SGI, he worked at The Ohio State University in various software development and technology management positions.

Skip holds an MBA and bachelors degrees in business from The Ohio State University.