Alexander Blass | Father of Crowdfunding™

Wharton and Oxford-educated, Alexander Blass is known as the father of crowdfunding™. He is the grand prize winner of the Daily Record’s Top Innovator of the Year Award, crediting him with “revolutionizing charitable giving” for inventing and launching the world's first person-to-person crowdfunding website, spawning what is now a $20 billion a year industry, helping and inspiring over 40 million people worldwide.

An acclaimed American innovator who has traveled to 65 countries, Blass has appeared in numerous media outlets globally including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Associated Press, MSNBC, FOX, Businessweek, The Independent, Economic Times, and Times of India.

Alexander Blass is the CEO of the Innovation Institute of America® (www.iia.us) and is a highly sought after innovation keynote speaker and masterclass presenter at conferences worldwide. His clients have included many of the world's largest companies such as Mastercard, IBM, KPMG, and Saudi Aramco.