Alex Wilson

Executive Advisor

Co-Founder of The Giving Block

Alex is the Co-Founder of The Giving Block, a Shift4 company. The Giving Block is the leading Crypto Philanthropy platform that makes accepting and fundraising cryptocurrencies easy for nonprofits and empowers donors to give crypto to their favorite causes. Alex oversees The Giving Block’s growth in several areas, including technological innovation, crypto and financial partnerships and institutional giving.

Alex’s background is in management consulting, where he worked with Fortune 500 companies to develop strategies for emerging technologies like AI, IoT, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. As he went down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole, he and his Co-Founder, Pat Duffy, discovered a need for nonprofits to tap into the growing crypto donor demographic.

Alex graduated from Wake Forest University School of Business, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Enterprise Management and a concentration in International Business. Due to his unique expertise in Crypto Philanthropy, Alex has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes, USA Today, and Bloomberg to name a few. He was also recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 for Social Impact in 2021.

As a young and successful entrepreneur who epitomizes Wake Forest’s motto Pro Humanitate and the business school’s ideal of “do well and do good,” Alex advises the CSC on matters related to innovative technologies and is an advisor to students connected with the Center.