Keynote Speaker
2012 Doctoral Career Exploration Workshop
"The Academy is Not the Only Option"
Keynote Speaker
Alon Hillel-Tuch
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer
RocketHub.com
Alon Hillel-Tuch is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of RocketHub, one of the world’s largest crowdfunding platforms. Alon was born in the land of cheese and clogs, The Netherlands, and speaks English, Dutch, German, and a smidge of Mandarin Chinese. In May 2012, Alon co-authored a whitepaper, entitled Regulation of Crowdfunding: Building On the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, which has received acclaim from both the SEC and FINRA and resulted in testifying before theOversight and Government Reform Committee in US Congress.
Alon has lectured on crowdfunding and entrepreneurship at various universities, institutions and conferences. Alon’s primary focus during talks is educating people on the rituals of the crowdfunding movement and the patterns of success that surround crowdfunding.
Alon holds a B.A. from Hamilton College, where he majored in Economics and minored in Chinese Culture & Language. Alon received his M.Sc. from Columbia University and specialized in dynamical systems theory, game theory, social entrepreneurship, and conflict. Alon was appointed a fellow at the Earth Institute and is currently part of the Advanced Consortium of Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity think-tank on genocide prevention.
RocketHub is known as The World's Crowdfunding Machine. The company has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, NPR, Forbes, Wired, The Economist, Inc., CNN, The Washington Post, ABC News, USA Today, etc. while helping thousands of funding campaigns raise millions of dollars globally.