Dr. Ash Rofail

Ash Rofail (Ph.D) is a nationally recognized business and technology leader with 6 published books, several artificial intelligence patents, adjust professor at the Johns Hopkins University and a frequent speaker at conferences and international panels. In 2015, Ash received the distinguished award of Most Influential Executive in Washington DC by SmartCEO Magazine across all industries and companies with Headquarters in Washington DC Metro are (Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland). Ash started his technology career in the software industry over 30 years ago with influential positions such as Chief Architect at Microsoft ERP systems, Technology Advisor for White House (George W Bush Administration) and Chief Technology Officer of one of the largest Federal Consulting practices in DC with over 1000 employees reporting to his organization. In 2001 Ash launched his first company which he grew to a multi-million-dollar technology platform and within 3 years has taken the company public, a few year later Ash started his 2nd company which is now the largest Healthcare Enrollment Platform in the United States valued at over $300M. Since then Ash led several M&A transactions in Media, Healthcare, FinTech and Enterprise Software. In 2016 Ash launched his first investment fund under vive.vcfocused on the Washington DC market which has invested $23M to date in over 30 companies at various staged since its inception. Throughout his career Ash built all his companies and ventures organically without raising capital or borrowing money; focused only on the fundamentals and the discipline of building sustainable ventures. It’s this mindset that drives Ash to not only financially invest in start-ups, seed stage and growth stage companies but to also focus on the other disciplines required for business to succeed and reach an exit. Vive.VC is one of the leading Accelerator in the Washington DC area (the 5th largest startup community in the US) with targets working with 100-125 companies a year within DC but also nationally and internationally. It’s Si’s goal to be the leading venture capital ecosystem in the United States within 5 years.