Doug Galen

Biography

Doug Galen is the co-founder and CEO of Rippleworks, a nonprofit foundation that delivers the practical support social ventures need to scale faster and improve lives. Through Rippleworks’ customized high-impact projects, expert-led learning programs, and access to capital, social ventures gain the knowledge, training, and funding necessary for them to tackle operational challenges and meet the needs of the communities they serve. Since launching in 2015, Rippleworks has managed 200+ projects with 150 social ventures across 59 countries, partnered with experts to train 300+ ventures, and dispenses scaling capital loans and grants worldwide.

Doug has been an At-Large Director for Heifer International since 2014. He also teaches Startup Garage at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. When Doug isn’t working or teaching then you can usually find him cycling up some hill somewhere in the world or losing to his wife in dominos.