Kelly Perdew

After winning season two of the NBC hit show The Apprentice, Kelly Perdew served as an Executive Vice President in the Trump Organization in New York, where he managed several real estate projects and the Trump Ice bottled water brand, working directly for Donald Trump for a year.

He is now the CEO of Fastpoint Games, an LA-based developer of live, data-driven games that enable clients to engage, reward, and monetize their users. Leveraging an award-winning, proprietary cloud-based platform, Fastpoint delivers clients customized games and integrated gaming solutions.

Perdew was previously the President of ProElite.com, an online social network that provides tools for combat sports enthusiasts. While at the helm of ProElite.com, Perdew helped the management team raise over $40 million, including more than $9 million from CBS; inked a three-year exclusive deal with Showtime for airing its mixed martial arts (MMA) fights; and televised the first network primetime MMA fight on CBS.

Perdew has held numerous leadership positions in such companies as CoreObjects Software, MotorPride.com, K12 Productions, and eteamz.com. He was the president of eteamz.com, the largest amateur sport portal on the web, and helped build the company which is now serving more than three million amateur sports teams as part of Active Networks. He was a Manager at Deloitte Consulting in the Braxton Strategy Practice and served in the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer and Airborne Ranger.

Perdew is a nationally recognized speaker on leadership, technology, career development, and entrepreneurship. He earned a BS from the US military academy West Point, a JD from the UCLA School of Law, and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. Perdew is author of Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and Put to Work for Donald Trump, which provides guidance on how anyone can develop their leadership capabilities. He donates a percentage of the royalties to the USO and was host of GI Factory on the Military Channel. He is a national celebrity spokesperson for Big Brothers/Sisters and the National Guard Youth Challenge Program. Perdew received a Presidential Appointment to the President's Council on Civic Participation and Service in 2006 and was re-appointed in 2008.