ndrei Cherny is the co-founder and CEO of Aspiration, the he first fully democratized financial platform that allows everyone equal access to seamless, inexpensive and socially-conscious banking and investment products.

Andrei has spent nearly twenty years working to make the financial system more open and fair in both the private and public sector. Andrei has served as an advisor to some of America's top companies including Intel, Qualcomm and Bank of America, the co-founder and president of a media start-up, a financial fraud prosecutor, a historian, a White House aide, a Navy reserve officer, and a nationally-recognized economic policy expert.

He launched and grew Democracy Journal to one of the most widely read idea journals in America. There, he helped start the successful fight for the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A former Clinton White House aide, he was the youngest White House speechwriter in American history. His 2000 book, The Next Deal, showed how business and government would be transformed by people's demands for more and better choices. He is also the author of the The Candy Bombers.