Doug Galen

Biography

Doug Galen has been building innovative and disruptive companies for 25 years. 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 partners high-growth social ventures around the world with leading Silicon Valley startup expertise, specifically through short-term, high-impact projects. Since launching in 2015, Rippleworks has managed 100+ projects with social ventures across 59 countries, empowering entrepreneurial teams that are improving the lives of more than 216 million people.

In addition to Rippleworks, Doug is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Doug is also on the Board of Directors of Heifer International and Kenzie Academy.

Prior to Rippleworks, Doug helped build 3 startups from scratch growing revenues to $50, $150 and $500 million.

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.