strategic networking, meaningful connection, loneliness, and the link between networking and wellness, Megan understands the power of strong, intentional relationships. Through her experience at prominent global professional services firms, she brings deep insight into how strong relationships drive business development.
About Megan Roudebush Megan Burke Roudebush is the CEO and founder of keepwith, a company redefining how the world builds relationships more securely, intelligently, and meaningfully. A globally recognized expert on
Development Corporation. She met Patty Post, founder of Checkable® . She met Terri Zimmerman of Packet Digital and Botlink, whose story of turning one federal contract into hundreds of millions in revenue stuck with her. She listened hard. She kept asking the same question she asks everywhere she goes. “Who do you want to meet?” Machacek said what stood out immediately was that Roudebush wasn’t sending a random feeler. “The fact that she was planning to make a trip here to learn more showed her seriousness,” he said. “She specifically mentioned her sole motivation was genuine networking— not raising funds.” The next morning, Roudebush met Post again at Black Coffee and Waffle. Their original conversation had been interrupted by the flood
Passionate about connecting people for the right reasons, she is driven by a commitment to reducing global isolation and loneliness and advancing safer and more secure relationships worldwide, a motivation that ultimately led her to found keepwith. She has written articles and spoken globally as an expert on networking topics. Before starting keepwith, Megan was a financial services industry leader focused on regulatory compliance, experience which significantly influenced how she built keepwith, prioritizing security, safety, and data
of introductions happening around them in real time, and Megan needed takeaways from her impactful conversation with Patty. “Patty and I didn’t even finish the first conversation because all these people kept coming into Youngblood Coffee and introducing people to me,” she said. “I was having people write their emails in my notebook because there were too many to capture and I didn’t want to miss any bit of what was happening around me.” At Black Coffee and Waffle, she bumped into Anthony Molzahn, CEO of Devii Technologies, and UND’s Executive Director of Economic Development, VP Research and Economic Development, Cortnee Jensen. During this happenstance meeting, Roudebush mentioned that she loves hosting dinners of wonderful people when she travels, as a way to bring great people into the same room
privacy above all else. She received her BA from Bryn Mawr College and her JD/MBA from Albany Law School and Union Graduate College, and has led keepwith through two successful capital raises, including an oversubscribed bridge round ahead of its forthcoming Series A. A member of the Economic Club of Chicago and an AOPi alumna, she grew up in New York City, worked as an AP-trained professional journalist from age 8–18, and now lives in the Chicago suburbs with her ten-year-old daughter, Keira. Her background includes teaching poetry in juvenile detention centers, coaching a special-needs youth hockey team, and singing in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus with Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, and she remains passionate about secure technology, entrepreneurship, wellness, and connecting people for the right reasons—plus Peloton, cooking, and exploring restaurants with Keira.
with one common goal: authentic connection. Molzahn instantly texted 23 people. By the next night, Roudebush was hosting her first superconnector dinner at Rosewild. She was visiting Fargo for the first time, and already she was doing what she does best, which is creating rooms where the network effect can spark. Machacek said the speed didn’t surprise him as much as her reciprocity did. In his role, he’s used to being responsive and introducing people, but he called it “less common” to see a founder match that same pace back, especially this quickly. As the introductions stacked up, Roudebush kept hearing about the Bush Foundation. At first, she assumed she’d apply for a Bush Fellowship, a $150,000 award she thought could fund a pilot project in Fargo.
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