Jaison Morgan
Founder, The Common Pool
Jaison G. Morgan is the Founder of The Common Pool. He was formerly the head of prize development at the X PRIZE Foundation, where he built a pipeline of over $300 million in philanthropic competitions. He has lectured and published widely on innovation through incentivized competitions, including a regular lecture series at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and presentations at the World Economic Forum.
He has recently returned from the United Arab Emirates, where he was responsible for designing and launching the Sheikh Zayed Future Energy Prize in Abu Dhabi. In 2008, he secured over $4.5 million of new prize development funding to design competitions across five discreet verticals from education reform to global development. He has built partnerships to explore incentive driven models with such interests as the Gates Foundation, Livestrong Google, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, WellPoint, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, as well as US federal agencies and high net worth individuals.
Prior to his experience developing prizes, he worked for the Mayors Office of the City of Chicago. He has been responsible for starting and scaling multiple nonprofit and commercial ventures. He is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Chicago, and he remains a student of behavioral economics.