TI:GER Network

Ross Mason is the Innovator in Residence with the TI:GER program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In 2004, Ross founded HINRI.org (the High Impact Network of Responsible Innovators), which focuses on venture philanthropy and social enterprise. He is also a co-founder and president of Aurora: The Business Forge, an early-stage investor and accelerator in healthtech and govtech and a managing director in the Caplin Family Offices.

In 2007, Ross broke his neck in a bicycle collision, leaving him with quadriplegia. Before his paralysis, Ross was active in triathlons, diving (cave, ice, and wreck diving), climbing (rock and ice), and surfing.

Ross lived and worked in Silicon Valley from 1999 to 2004, where he co-founded and sold a healthcare software startup. He also worked with Volkswagen’s €280 million Healthcare Venture Fund and €500 million innovation campus in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Before he moved to Silicon Valley, Ross was an associate in Private Banking at Morgan Stanley in New York, London, Zurich, Moscow, and Atlanta. In 1992, he founded a real estate investment and development company in Moscow, Russia, that he owned and operated for 12 years.

Ross is the former chair of the board of the State of Georgia Department of Community Health, which oversees a health plan providing coverage to more than 660,000 people and manages an annual budget exceeding $11 billion. He was a senior fellow at both the Center for Health Transformation and the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.

Ross was a member of the Healthcare Advisory Board of Emory University and chair of the Board of Visitors of Augusta University. He also served on the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Other boards of directors on which Ross has served include the Association of Black Cardiologists, the Maynard Jackson Foundation for the Elimination of Healthcare Disparities, and the Praxis Spinal Cord Institute (in Vancouver, Canada).

Ross was a missionary with Cru in Poland and with Operation Mobilization in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was also a volunteer in an AIDS hospital in Zimba, Zambia. He is an Honorary Knight of Grace in the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (The Knights Hospitallers), the oldest Christian order of knights in the world.
Ross holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he was President of the Student Government Association, and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School.

Sig Mosley is the Managing Partner of Mosley Ventures, a venture fund investing in early stage technology startups in the Southeast. Widely regarded as “The Godfather of Angel Investing”, a title Sig Mosley earned as president of Imlay Investments, Inc. Since 1990, Sig has been the most prolific Southeast investor in 120 startups with 82 liquidity events. Sig currently is the record holder of the largest Southeast Venture deal with the $5.7 Billion acquisition of Tradex by Ariba.

From 1968 to 1969 Mr. Mosley was employed by Peat Marwick & Mitchell as a staff accountant. He joined Management Science America, Inc. in 1969 as a staff accountant and served as secretary-treasurer from 1972 to 1990 and was a vice president from 1982 to 1991.

Mr. Mosley serves on the board of directors of 16 private companies.

In addition, Mr. Mosley is a director of The Imlay Foundation, Inc., Techbridge, and Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Southeast. Mr. Mosley is also a director of GATV, the CEO Council, TiE-Atlanta and TAG. He also serves on the advisory board of the ATDC, the investment committee of Gray Ghost DOEN Social Ventures Coöper and on the GRA Venture Fund Board. Mr. Mosley is managing member of Flashpoint Investors, LLC.

• Sig was inducted into Georgia Technology Hall of Fame in 2007
• Sig received the Lifetime Achievement award from TiE is 2011
• Sig is the 2012 Speaker of the Year award recipient from Emory Pelham Education Foundation
• Member of the Invest Georgia Roundtable, a joint venture capital initiative by the House, Senate and private industry leaders

Mr. Mosley received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University in 1968. Hobbies include golfing, coin collecting and reading.