Doug Galen

About Doug Galen

Social ventures are scaling bold solutions for people and the planet, often in complex, under-resourced environments. Doug Galen works alongside many of these leaders as they grow their impact and help more than 200 million people across 80+ countries and sectors including healthcare, education, climate, and economic opportunity.Doug is the CEO and co-founder of Rippleworks, a nonprofit that provides practical support to help social ventures scale. Rippleworks has partnered on hundreds of custom advisory projects, supported thousands of leaders through workshops, and hosted hundreds of Expert Office Hours, helping teams solve real-world challenges in real time. Doug believes funding is only part of the equation. What matters just as much is the human connection: building the skills, confidence, and capacity of the people doing the work. Doug also teaches at Startup Garage course at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he shares lessons from working alongside entrepreneurs around the world. Prior to Rippleworks, Doug served as Chief Revenue Officer at Shopkick, a mobile app startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and Greylock that successfully sold to a Fortune 50 company, SVP of business and corporate development at Shutterfly where he helped grow revenue from $50 million to $500 million and a successful IPO, VP and GM of new ventures for eBay where he helped create eight new business units with revenues of $500 million and was employee #3 and Vice President of Sales and Business Development for E-LOAN which had a successful IPO.

Experience

1. Co-founder and CEO

   Rippleworks

   Jan 2015 — Present · Redwood City, CA, US

   RippleWorks Foundation helps the world’s fastest growing social ventures solve their most critical scaling challenge. RippleWorks connects leading expertise from Silicon Valley and the larger US tech sector with rapidly scaling ventures for short-term, high-impact projects that unlock the ventures’ capacity for growth. Our volunteer program provides a high-skilled opportunity for tech executives and successful entrepreneurs to apply their domains of expertise and drive meaningful impact around the world. Volunteer experts partner with social ventures to jointly tackle an immediate challenge, with a focus on knowledge transfer and capacity building.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  BS in 1984 and MBA in 1988, Finance and Real Estate

  1984 — 1988

Skills

• Product Marketing
• Social Media Marketing
• Web Analytics
• Strategic Partnerships
• Market Research
• Marketing Analytics
• Mobile Devices
• Product Management
• Crm
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Product Development
• Direct Marketing
• Brand Development
• Segmentation
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Mobile Applications
• Social Media
• Management
• Salesforce.com
• Marketing
• Affiliate Marketing
• Online Advertising
• New Business Development
• Advertising
• Analytics
• Consumer Marketing
• Business Strategy
• Sem
• Multi-Channel Marketing
• Mobile Marketing
• SEO
• Online Marketing
• Corporate Development
• Monetization
• Entrepreneurship
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Interactive Marketing
• Venture Capital