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John Seely-Gant, an American systems engineer, is one of the early pioneers of electronic commerce. He was born on October 5, 1954 in West Springfield, Massachusetts and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He lives in Pittsburgh his wife and three children.

Early life
He became an Eagle Scout in 1971 in the Blue Water Council. Seely-Gant studied mathematical economics at the University of Detroit (BS, 1975), econometrics at Purdue University (MS 1976) and systems engineering at the University of Southern California (MS 1988).

Professional life
He worked as a software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation, consultant and manager for SIGMATICS, consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, and director/ executive for Concurrent Technologies Corporation. He is presently President of Enterprise Ventures Corporation and Associative Solutions Corporation. Seely-Gant was chief systems architect for the U.S. Navy 's Automation of Procurement and Accounting Data Entry (APADE) system, the Department of Defense 's first electronic commerce system, fielded in 1981. He was also the first Executive Program Director of DoD's Electronic Commerce Resource Center (ECRC) Program in 1994. Seely-Gant was instrumental in bringing e- commerce to the tactical warfighting domain for DoD. In 1998- 1999 he helped design and prosecute comprehensive Acquisition War Games for the U.S. Navy Acquisition Center Of Excellence based on e-commerce standards and practices.

Seely-Gant is also a practitioner of Business process reengineering (BPR), and has provided expert BPR services to the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and many commercial organizations.

Seely-Gant was a Founder of the Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI) in 1998. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus; Ancient Order of Hibernians; and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

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 * Enterprise Ventures Corporation
 * Associative Solutions Corporation