Andrei Cherny

Co-Founder and CEO, Aspiration

Andrei Cherny is co-founder and CEO of Aspiration, the financial firm with a conscience. One of Investment News’ “40 Under 40” investment professionals, Andrei worked as a White House aide and speechwriter for then-Vice President Al Gore in the 1990s. Since then, he has been an advisor to Fortune 100 companies; a senior fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and at the Center for American Progress; the co-founder and president of Democracy journal; and a financial fraud prosecutor.