Biography
As the opening speaker for President Barack Obama at SXSW 2016, Casey Gerald is one of the leading voices of his generation. He has witnessed every facet of the American Dream from his harrowing Texas childhood, to the heights of America’s elite institutions. As co-founder of MBAs Across America (MBAx), a movement of MBAs and entrepreneurs working together to reinvent business schools and revitalise America, Gerald has travelled the nation to discover how mission-driven entrepreneurs, far from Wall Street or Silicon Valley, are tackling the biggest challenges facing communities.
Gerald was a Yale undergrad who went on to Harvard Business School and delivered the HBS commencement speech that became a viral phenomenon. Fast Company featured him on the cover of its “Find Your Mission” issue and named him one of the Most Creative People in Business. Gerald is currently writing his first book, “There Will Be No Miracles Here”, to be published by Riverhead Books.