Jamaal Glenn

An executive, investor, and board director working across finance, AI, private markets, and public leadership.

CFO of SoLo Funds, founder and CEO of JG Holdings, and an expert on the economics of AI.

German Marshall Fund of the United States

About Jamaal

Jamaal Glenn is an executive, investor, professor, writer, and board director - and an expert on the economics of AI: what it costs, what it does to work, and how companies and boards should respond.

He is CFO of SoLo Funds, one of the world's fastest-growing financial technology companies, and founder and CEO of JG Holdings, an investment and strategic finance advisory firm. He previously started and sold a digital media startup before raising and investing more than $150 million of venture capital. His work has taken him from Wall Street trading floors and university lecture halls to boardrooms and the offices of heads of state around the globe.

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How I see it

AI makes intelligence cheaper. Who captures the value?

We are in the middle of unprecedented technological change that is reshaping education and work as we know them - from what people need to learn to how organizations measure productivity.

I see that tension from several seats at once. As an executive, I manage AI agents and the budgets behind them. As a board director, I ask whether adoption claims survive contact with costs, risk, and accountability. As an educator, I think about what people need to learn when the tools and demands of work are changing at the same time. As a trisector leader, I care who gains access to technical power and who is left carrying the disruption. As a writer, I keep returning to the same question: when technology makes more possible, who captures the value?