Ross Mason

Ross Mason is the founder of the High Impact Network of Responsible Innovation (HINRI), an accelerator for non-profits based in Atlanta, Georgia.[1][2] He was formerly the Chairman of the Georgia Department of Community Health Board.

Ross Mason
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
OccupationFounder, High Impact Network of Responsible Innovation (HINRI) and Samaritan's Road International (SRI)

Career

In 2004, Ross Mason founded HINRI, a venture-philanthropy for early stage non-profits committed to being national/international leaders in health care innovation. HINRI has partnered with organizations such as Warrior 2 Citizen to open new facilities for service people returning from active duty.[3]

Mason also runs a consulting firm called the Samaritan’s Road International (SRI), which provides strategic and financial advisory services to venture funds and early stage startups in healthcare technology. His experiences prior to HINRI include strategic and financial advisory work at Volkswagen’s Healthcare Venture Accelerator Fund in Germany, and as an Associate in Private Banking at Morgan Stanley. [4]

Mason has served as Chairman at several institutions and organizations, including the Georgia Department Community Health Board, the Metro Atlanta United Way’s Health Access Board, and Board of Visitors of Georgia Regents University; and on the Advisory Board of Jacob’s Ladder. [5]

Mason also served as the Chair of the Commercialization Advisory Committee and as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, a Canadian not-for-profit organization for spinal cord injury research and care, from 2014-2020.[6]

Education

Ross Mason holds a Bachelors in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also studied literature and history at Oxford University, and Russian at Middlebury College.

gollark: *bleh*
gollark: To write a webapp which will communicate over HTTP with CC.
gollark: They are presumably going to use an HTTP server library.
gollark: Yes we aren't not.
gollark: CC already has the `http` library.

References
  1. "Who We Are". HINRI. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  2. "Ross Mason, Founder". HINRI. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  3. "Ross Mason Fosters Health Care Innovation". HuffPost Canada. 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  4. "Ross Mason". www.gtsaa.com. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  5. "Board & Advisors". Jacob's Ladder. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  6. "Board of Directors". Praxis Spinal Cord Institute. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
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