Greg Segal

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Gregory Lyons Segal (born June 13, 1984) is an American entrepreneur.

Greg Segal, 2014

Career[]

Segal began his career at Rethink Education,[1] an education technology venture capital firm. In 2013 he co-founded the non-profit ORGANIZE along with Jenna Arnold to address the US organ donation shortage after his father waited five years for a heart transplant.

For his work at Organize, Segal was named to the Inc Magazine 35 Under 35 List[2] and Oprah's 100 SuperSoul Influencers,[3][4] and was awarded a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award[5] and a 2016 Classy Award.[6] He was a keynote presenter at the 2015 Stanford MedX Conference, where Organize was honored with the Inaugural Stanford MedX Health Care Design Award.[7] Organize won the $1 Million 1st Prize in the 2014 Verizon Powerful Answers Award as the top healthcare start-up of the year[8] and was awarded the Innovator in Residence position at the Office of the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Inc Magazine called Segal one of the top 20 Disruptive Innovators of 2016.[9]

Segal has been covered by The New York Times,[10] which called Organize one of 2016's "Biggest Ideas in Social Change",[11] as well as the Washington Post,[12] Slate[13] and FastCompany,[14] and his work at Organize was highlighted on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.[15] Segal graduated from Duke University and was a member of President Barack Obama’s National Finance Committee.[16] He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Bayes Impact[17] and the Board of Advocates at Human Rights First.[18]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Inc. 35 Under 35 2014: Organize on Ending the Organ Shortage in the U.S." 24 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Oprah's Super Soul Sunday - Episodes & Podcast | OWN".
  4. ^ "Meet the SuperSoul100: The World's Biggest Trailblazers in One Room". O Magazine. 1 Aug 2016. Retrieved 5 Jul 2018.
  5. ^ "Tribeca 2016 & Disruptor Foundation Announce Honorees for 7th Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards".
  6. ^ "Introducing the 10 Classy Awards Winners". 24 June 2016.
  7. ^ Medicine X 2015: Health Care Design Award Winner, Greg Segal. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-08.
  8. ^ "Introducing the Verizon Powerful Answers Award Winners for 2014". 8 December 2014.
  9. ^ "20 Most Disruptive Innovators of 2016". 24 April 2016.
  10. ^ Bornstein, David (10 May 2016). "Opinion | Using Tweets and Posts to Speed up Organ Donation". The New York Times.
  11. ^ Rosenberg, Tina (6 December 2016). "Opinion | A Year of Big Ideas in Social Change". The New York Times.
  12. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/06/13/white-house-private-sector-act-to-reduce-organ-transplant-waiting-list/
  13. ^ "If You Want to Make Sure Your Family Knows You're an Organ Donor, Put It on Facebook". 29 June 2016.
  14. ^ "Can This New Startup End the Organ Donor Shortage Forever?". 30 January 2014.
  15. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO). YouTube.
  16. ^ "Greg Segal".
  17. ^ "Bayes Impact - Empowering people at scale".
  18. ^ "Greg Segal".
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