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Alexandre Lazarow

Author/Venture Capitalist/Professor
HBR Press/CI/Middlebury
Country or state 
United States (California)
Available to 
Global
City 
San Francisco
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Languages 
English,
French
Volunteer
Yes

Personal Details

Bio

Alex Lazarow has worked at the intersection of investing, innovation, and economic development across the public, private, and social sectors for more than a decade. He is a venture capitalist with Cathay Innovation, a global investment firm, with over $3.0 billion in assets, and offices across the world. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies MBA program, where he teaches entrepreneurship. Previously, Alex worked with Omidyar Network, a global early stage investing platform that has invested over a billion dollars in hundreds of startups. Alex has experience in strategy consulting with McKinsey & Co., financial regulation with the Bank of Canada, and M&A investment banking with the Royal Bank of Canada. He is a Kauffman Fellow, CFA Charterholder, and CFR Term Member. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.Comm from the University of Manitoba.

Current position (2)

Author/Venture Capitalist/Professor

HBR Press/CI/Middlebury

Author: The Frontier Innovator’s Playbook

Harvard Business Review

Degrees (3)
Business
Harvard Business School
2008 to 2010
Venture Capital
Kauffman Fellow
2014 to 2016
Term Member
Council on Foreign Relations
2018 to 2019

Presentations

Past talks (4)
Judge: Endeavor International Selection Panel
88th International Selection Panel (ISP)
Tokyo
June 30, 2019
Moderator: Investing in smart movement: The convergence of mobility and smart cities
Collision 2019
Toronto
June 21, 2019
Panel: Investing Internationally
25th Annual VCPE Conference
Harvard Business School
January 25, 2019
Moderator: Financial Inclusion meets social responsibility
ITC-2018
MGM Grand Las Vegas
October 1, 2018
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Books & Articles (14)

Distributed teams are helping startups scale faster
The Top Three Things Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report Means for Fintech
Fintech Used To Be A Local Game. Today It Can Be Global
Four things I learned about entrepreneurship from an 84-year old in hospice care
Where East meets West: Consumer Fintech at a crossroads
The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies
FMS Faculty Spotlight: Alexandre Lazarow
Movin’on, and what it will take to power the revolution in mobility and transportation
Guest Opinions: The AI-Driven Bank in Emerging Markets
Now That FinTech Has Unbundled Our Financial Lives, Can It Re-Bundle Them?
What Do Emerging Market Consumers Expect from InsureTech?
Mobile-Led insurance: Evolving approaches in an advancing field
The light at the end of the tunnel: Trends driving access to power in emerging markets
Lessons from International Central Counterparties: Benchmarking and Analysis

Expertise (9)

Technology
Business
Global Innovation Economic Development Venture Capital FinTech Corporate Development Banking and Finance
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