Co-Founder and Principal, Crowdfund Capital Advisors, LLC (CCA)

Jason W. Best

Jason W. Best is a technology entrepreneur who co-authored the crowdfund-investing framework used in the JOBS Act to legalize securities-based crowdfunding in the U.S.A.  He and his business partner led the 460-day grass roots campaign to change 80 year old securities laws in the United States.  He has twice been invited to provide US Congressional testimony on early-stage finance, consulted with current and former SEC Chairpersons and Commissioners and attended the White House, Rose Garden ceremony for President Obama to sign The JOBS Act into law, on April 5, 2012.   Since then, professional investors, corporations, financial institutions, government ministries and multi-lateral organizations including the World Bank, engage his firm, CCA, to create successful investing, policy and educational strategies in early-stage finance.  CCA has worked on innovative finance advisory initiatives in 35 countries.

Jason is also an Venture Partner with Vectr Ventures, a Hong Kong-based private investment company where he invests in FinTech in the US and Asia.  He currently serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. He co-authored the World Bank’s groundbreaking research “Crowdfunding’s Potential in the Developing World” and is also co-author of “Crowdfund Investing for Dummies”, published by Wiley.   The US State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program selected CCA as a Key Partner and has sent CCA on State Department Missions to 16 countries to provide consulting and education on entrepreneurship and crowdfunding.  Jason is also co-author of the Strategic Roadmap for Crowdfunding in Chile for the Ministry of Economy and the Inter-American Development Bank.  CCA has also co-founded and supported the development of crowdfunding associations in the US, Mexico, Chile, Hong Kong and Europe.

A selected list of speaking engagements include: The White House, South by Southwest (2013, 2014), TEDx, The Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Dubai, The UK Commonwealth Finance Ministers event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ArabNet in Dubai, MIT Pan-Arab Business Forum in Qatar, The Securities Commission of Malaysia , The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand, The Thai Stock Exchange, The World Bank Global Technology Innovation Forum in South Africa, The Aspen Institute/Fortune Tech Brainstorm, The US State Department, UC Berkeley Global Academic Symposium on Crowdfunding, US Consul General’s Residence in Hong Kong, Brookings Institute, The US National Science Foundation, the Asia Crowdfunding Conference in Singapore, The Ministry of Economy in Chile, the Ministry of Finance in Mexico, The Globe Forum in Sweden, The RISE conference in Hong Kong and The Colombian Development Bank in Colombia.

In June 2013, Entrepreneur Magazine featured CCA in their Innovator’s Series and Jason has appeared on CNBC, CNN, BBC, PBS, Bloomberg TV and CCTV America. Other media includes: Fast Company, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Politico, Wall Street Journal, McKinsey Voices, Islamic Finance Weekly and has contributed to TechCrunch and VentureBeat.

Jason has been a member of the executive leadership teams of three Web-based software companies in San Francisco, CA where he has lived and worked for 15 years.  The most recent firm, Kinnser Software, where he led strategy, business development and marketing, was twice named, by Inc Magazine, as one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the United States.  He earned his master’s degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the top international MBA program in the world.  His undergraduate degree, in Business Management, was earned at William Jewell College.