Alex Forrester is Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Rising Tide Capital, a non-profit organization that provides high-quality business education and consulting to low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs in Northern NJ

Alex Forrester graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2004 with an accelerated Bachelor of Arts in Postmodern Theology and Philosophy. Driven by an interest in social justice, entrepreneurship, and micro-finance, Alex co-founded Rising Tide Capital in May 2004 with his fellow Harvard classmate Alfa Demmellash.

Growing up outside of Princeton, NJ Alex was interested at an early age in the relationship between theory and action. His guiding value is a belief that the purpose of life is to learn how to love, and that love is not a feeling but a way of engagement with the world and with other people. As Chief Operations Officer of Rising Tide Capital, Alex puts these ideas into practice by designing programs which create change in the world by investing in a person's capacity to create opportunity for themselves and to build their community through entrepreneurship.

As Chief Operations Officer, Alex is primarily driven by an interest in the characteristics of high-performing social enterprises. He is interested in developing the infrastructure of Rising Tide Capital so that it operates in an efficient, effective way that is not only sustainable, but scalable and replicable. Alex is interested in the concept of "Social Return on Investment" (SROI) and in the use of social entrepreneurship to address systemic social problems such as global poverty, ex-offender recidivism, and modern-day slavery.

Alex believes that his generation has a large role to play in the development of social entrepreneurship as a way to harness the dynamic energy of capitalism and to use it as a creative force for positive change in the world. He is interested in connecting with others who share that vision.