Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship Expert; CEO & Innovator-in-Chief at Innovation Institute of America; Founder of Person-to-Person Crowdfunding
Alexander Blass Biography
Alexander Blass is recognized for his role in the development of crowdfunding, having founded the person-to-person crowdfunding industry and inventing the first website of its kind. Blass holds an MBA from Oxford University and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied at the Wharton School of Business. He has served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Wharton and has experience as a venture capitalist, strategy consultant, and software developer. As a principal at a venture capital fund in the technology sector, one of his portfolio companies was acquired by a Fortune 100 corporation.
Blass has received multiple awards, including the Daily Record's Top Innovator of the Year Award, which recognized his impact on charitable giving. His work has been featured in media outlets such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Associated Press, MSNBC, FOX, Businessweek, The Independent, Economic Times, and Times of India. The media has referred to his innovation as the eBay of Giving. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Blass a patent for his crowdfunding technology.
Blass serves as CEO and Innovator-in-Chief of Innovation Institute of America. He is an expert in innovation and creativity, frequently delivering keynote presentations and masterclass workshops at conferences worldwide. His clients include companies such as Mastercard, IBM, Saudi Aramco, KPMG, Statoil, Toyota, CIMA, and Solvay. Blass is known for providing content-rich presentations with proprietary frameworks and case studies, focusing on practical strategies for business innovation and entrepreneurship.
He has delivered keynote presentations on five continents, engaging audiences across industries, job functions, and cultures. For a major event honoring 1,000 CEOs in the United Arab Emirates, Blass incorporated Arabic into his keynote to connect with the audience. Blass’s career reflects a commitment to innovation, technology entrepreneurship, and global business leadership.
Alexander Blass Speaking Topics
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INNOVATION EXPLOSION: How to Imagine and Create Billion-Dollar Products and Services
Alexander Blass believes that everyone has an innovator within. It is essential to be constantly innovating to stay ahead of the competition, by challenging the status quo and coming up with creative new products and services to market and sell. Learn how you and your organization can reinvent yourselves as innovative leaders and thinkers to get on the path of innovation today, think about “what’s next,” and come up with the next big thing. In this popular, content-rich, and high energy presentation that Alexander Blass has delivered on 5 continents, you will:
- Learn exactly how to innovate
• Alexander Blass will teach you his proprietary CREATETM framework containing 6 specific and practical business innovation and creativity strategies and methodologies that you can apply to your business immediately to develop big new ideas for innovative products, services, and processes
- Discover the Axioms of InnovationTM
• principles and characteristics that Alexander Blass feels are essential for any successful innovator or innovative company
- Learn 4 international case studies from various industries that have generated billions of dollars in sales, dominated their markets, and beaten their competition using these specific strategies
- Be inspired and motivated by Alexander Blass’s story that led him to invent person-to-person crowdfunding and win the Top Innovator of the Year Award, and discover how you can apply his approach to awaken your own innovator within
- Learn exactly how to innovate
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Alexander Blass is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Business, Business Consulting, Business Growth, Business Leadership, Change Management, College, Corporate Strategy, Creativity, Culture, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Futurism, Innovation, Inspirational, Leadership, Marketing, Motivational, Sales, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Strategic Leadership, Technology, Venture Capital -
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Alexander Blass is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as INNOVATION EXPLOSION: How to Imagine and Create Billion-Dollar Products and Services. The estimated speaking fee range to book Alexander Blass for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Alexander Blass generally travels from Washington, DC, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are R "Ray" Wang, Josh Linkner, Richard Florida, Gary Vaynerchuk and Peter Guber. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Alexander Blass for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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