Aris Michalopoulos is the founder and CEO of Empeopled, a community-based conversation platform that delivers its users a feed of better content and conversations related to their interests. Prior to empeopled, he worked at Citadel Investment group, where he was a director of crude derivatives trading. This is Aris’ third social media company, he founded a college social network, WhoUp.com in 2004 and a mobile social networking exchange application, Snex, in 2008. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Chicago, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2005. Aris is passionate about transforming social media into a medium of action and believes that by bringing political structure to social tools, we can help the world solve the world’s biggest problems. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Chicago.

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