As Vice President of Portfolio and Investments, Jude O'Reilley is responsible for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship and funding within the Skoll community.
When he joined the Foundation in 2014, Jude had more than 18 years of experience in technology, management and entrepreneurship in the private sector. From working with Fortune 500 companies to being the first employee of a health-focused startup, he has launched more than 100 consumer and enterprise products.
Jude's professional background includes more than four years at Amazon.com, where he was responsible for product management of the photos experience on the Amazon Kindle Fire, Amazon Cloud Drive and Checkout by Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon.com, he spent the majority of his high-tech career in startups of 5 to 150 people, including Trusera, a place on the web for people to share their personal medical experiences. At Trusera, he helped the CEO raise more than $3.2 million in angel investments and built the team that designed the original product from scratch. He began his product career at Aventail, an early pioneer in the SSL VPN space that was later sold to Dell Inc. Hard won lessons learned along the way included some high profile failures, like the Amazon Fire phone, and the indescribable feeling of bringing together an extraordinary group of people together to solve a very hard problem.
Jude earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors in History from Swarthmore College. He lives with his wife and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Economic OpportunityEducationEnvironmental SustainabilityHealthPeace and Human RightsSustainable Markets
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa
