Primary Job Title Founder, CEO and Board Director Primary Organization 
Vacatia
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Keith Cox is the founder of Brainstorm Ventures.
Keith is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded businesses in the resort real estate, consumer technology, venture capital and chain restaurant industries.
Keith founded Vacation Listing Service after his experience leading a resort real estate brokerage and fractional ownership company, Resort
Equities, which he founded in 2004.
Prior to entering the resort industry, Keith co-founded and served as managing director of Brainstorm Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, which invested in e-commerce and emerging technology companies such as OpenTable.com and Zappos.com.
Keith also helped to found, fund and launch consumer internet and mobile technology companies such as Me.com, Santa.com and Lightt, Inc., serving in each case as the Chairman of the board of directors.
Prior to Brainstorm Ventures, Keith co-founded and served as CEO of World Wrapps, a west coast chain of gourmet, quick-service restaurants and Hot Concepts Award winner.
More recently, Keith conceived of, launched and served as CEO of another growing, venture-backed restaurant chain, Pacific Catch, which is a moderately priced, Pacific-inspired fish house.
His previous business experience includes that of strategic management consultant in the consumer practice at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and financial consultant at Deloitte & Touche.
Keith obtained two BAs in Business Economics and Sociology at UC Santa Barbara and his MBA at Stanford University.
