Jonathan Ortmans
Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)
President
Jonathan Ortmans serves as president of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), a year-round platform of global programs and initiatives created by the communities that celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week each November. Aimed at creating one global entrepreneurial ecosystem, GEN helps people in 150 countries unleash their ideas and turn them into promising new ventures—creating jobs, unearthing innovations for society and strengthening economic stability around the world. Ortmans serves as a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In addition to the national boards for GEN around the world, he also serves on the boards of several non-profits including the Center for Entrepreneurship in Moscow.