Benjamin F. du Pont
President and Co-Founder, yet2.com

Ben du Pont serves as President and is a founding member of yet2.com. Ben brings 14 years' experience at DuPont in a variety of product development, manufacturing, and sales positions to his role at yet2.com, where he focuses particularly on Sales and Operations, recruiting initial key corporate customers, service partners, and users.

Most recently Ben worked as Global Business Development Manager for Lycra®. In that role he licensed numerous DuPont technologies to outside firms, including performance apparel and medical technologies. He launched DuPont's first business on-line in 1994 and for a year managed the Company's only on-line presence, which later became the model for the corporate site.

Ben co-founded two other business, www.Digitaleye.com in 1995, a web site creation business, and www.emeron.com, a software development firm, in 1997. Combined annual revenues of the two ventures exceed $2 million with 28 employees. He was the principal surrogate speaker in his father's 1988 Presidential campaign, where he spent a year, on leave from DuPont, traveling across the US campaigning.

Ben received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University in 1986 and is on the board of the Pilot School in Wilmington Delaware, Longwood Gardens (www.longwoodgardens.org) and the Jefferson Awards in Washington DC (www.aips.org).

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