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Aaron Hurst

Founder US Chamber of Connection, Taproot Foundation, Board.Dev & Imperative

Seattle, Washington

Education

Work Experience

  • CEO and Founder

    2024

    The US Chamber of Connection, a nonprofit launched in 2025, aims to address the greatest challenge of our day - the alarming decline in social connection and trust. Starting in Seattle we are building a model to reverse this trend across the country within a generation.

2023

  • Co-Founder & Executive Chair

    2023

    Board.Dev is a movement to increase effective tech representation on nonprofit boards so that all organizations can responsibly and fully leverage the power of technology to transform lives, communities, and society.

  • Executive Committee Member

    2023

    Joint venture with AlmaBrands to create the purpose transformation company for Latin America. We provide leading employers with the training, research, design, and consulting services to transform lives, teams, and organizations. Offices in Mexico and Chile.

2013 - 2023

  • Founder & Senior Advisor

    2022 - 2023

    Venture-backed B Corp that connects people to their purpose and each other on a massive scale. Acquired in 2024 by Chronus.

  • CEO & Founder

    2013 - 2022

2001 - 2014

  • Founder & Senior Advisor

    2013 - 2014

  • President & Founder

    2001 - 2013

    In 2001 Aaron Hurst founded the Taproot Foundation, engaging tens of thousands of professionals' in pro bono service. Over the course of a dozen years he developed a $15 billion market for pro bono services and expanded the market around the world.

1999 - 2002

  • Director, Product Management

    1999 - 2002

1997 - 1999

  • Product Manager

    1997 - 1999