Doug Galen

Doug Galen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rippleworks, a non-profit foundation that provides the practical support entrepreneurs need to scale faster and improve more lives. Rippleworks’ programs and funding directly support 200+ of the fastest-growing, most impactful social ventures around the world, empowering entrepreneurial teams that are improving the lives of 216+ million people across 59 countries. Prior to Rippleworks, Doug has been building innovative and disruptive companies for 25 years, scaling early stage startups to revenue beyond $50, $150, and $500 million. He has served as Chief Revenue Officer at Shopkick, SVP of Business and Corporate Development at Shutterfly, VP / GM of New Ventures at eBay, and VP of Sales and Business Development for E-LOAN. In addition to Rippleworks, Doug is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and on the Board of Directors of Heifer International. Now that Doug’s daughter is off at college in St Louis he loves finding excuses to “be in the neighborhood to drop in”, playing dominoes with his wife (and usually losing), and finding new adventures riding his bike anywhere he can.

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