Alec Ross
Board Partner at Collective Global Management
Alec Ross
Board Partner at Collective Global Management
Baltimore, Maryland
Overview
Work Experience
Distinguished Professor
2020 - Current
Concentration on business school graduate education in innovation and the intersection of geopolitics with geoeconomics.
Board Partner
2024
Collective Global is a new asset management firm launched with more than $1 billion in AUM, to reimagine the way premier institutions access venture. Collective Global creates strategic partnerships with venture managers and founders, serving as a bridge between the innovation economy and sophisticated institutional investors. The firm combines a first-of-its-kind dedicated venture GP stakes platform (“Elevate”), an early-stage venture strategy (Amplo), and an opportunistic venture mandate (Tactica).
Board Partner
2018
Amplo is a global venture capital firm helping build companies that matter. Our portfolio companies include: -Robinhood: democratizing access to financial services -Andela: training Africa’s most talented software engineers -Parsley Health: reinventing functional medicine -Two Chairs: High quality, personalized mental health care -Mark43: public safety software -Travelperk: business travel software -Fundbox: small business financing -Helm.ai: perception for autonomous vehicles www.amplovc.com
Author
2013
New York Times bestselling author of The Industries of the Future and The Raging 2020s. Ross' books have been published in 24 languages and been a best-seller on 5 continents. In The Industries of the Future, Alec Ross shows us what changes are coming in the next ten years, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics, cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the coming impact of digital technology on money and markets. In each of these realms, Ross addresses the toughest questions: How will we have to adapt to the changing nature of work? Is the prospect of cyberwar sparking the next arms race? How can the world’s rising nations hope to match Silicon Valley in creating their own innovation hotspots? And what can today’s parents do to prepare their children for tomorrow? Ross blends storytelling and economic analysis to give a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live. Incorporating the insights of leaders ranging from tech moguls to defense experts, The Industries of the Future takes the intimidating, complex topics that many of us know to be important and boils them down into clear, plain-spoken language.
Visiting Professor
2019 - 2020
Visiting Professor in The Policy Institute at King's, within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s College London
Distinguished Senior Fellow
2015 - 2017
Concentration on the intersection of emerging technologies, geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Senior Fellow
2014 - 2015
Lecture concentration on innovation in foreign policy and the geopolitics of cyber.
Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State
2009 - 2013
• Developed and led innovation agenda to advance America’s diplomatic goals. • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top advisor on innovation and technology. • Developed and managed innovative programs to address major foreign policy challenges. • Collaborated with the Department’s leadership to maximize the effective use of connection technologies (e.g., web, mobile, SMS, social networking) in program delivery. • Agenda items included: 1. Development and leadership of Secretary Clinton’s Internet Freedom Agenda. 2. Conceived a system of public diplomacy through social media that reached 15 million people/day. 3. Trained diplomats including all ambassadors and 1st time foreign service officers. 4. Development and leadership of Secretary Clinton’s Civil Society 2.0 agenda, training 1,200 civil society organizations from 80+ countries. 5. Co-Chair, Innovation Taskforce, Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review. 6. Led effort to increase diversity and level of problem-solving abilities in the foreign service through review and reform of recruitment and promotion policies. 7. Senior interlocutor with foreign governments and technology and telecommunications companies on issues related to Internet Freedom, Intellectual Property, Social Media and Cyber Security.
Project Manager & Team Member, Technology, Innovation & Government Reform Policy Group
2008 - 2009
Project manager for team helping prepare the incoming Presidential Administration to implement the President-elect’s Innovation Agenda.
Convener, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee
2007 - 2008
• Led activities of 509 member group under the direction of the committee chairman. Policy responsibilities included technology, media, telecommunications and intellectual property. • Managed 10 policy subcommittees producing research and policy analysis in areas including Public Safety, Civil Liberties, Television/Media, E-Government and Commerce/Privacy. • Managed the development of Barack Obama’s “Technology & Innovation Agenda”.
Education
Bachelor's degree
1990 - 1994
Investments
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