Ross Mason

Ross Mason has a 25-year career as an entrepreneur, angel, and venture capital investor focused on health innovation. He is the founder of Samaritan's Road International (sroadi.com), an international healthcare consulting firm and serves as an advisor to four healthcare focused venture capital funds.

Ross also created the High Impact Network of Responsible Innovators (HINRI.org) in 2004, a venture philanthropy that focuses on solving the most difficult healthcare challenges. On August 2, 2007, Ross broke his neck in a bicycle accident and was paralyzed from his collarbones down. Prior to his accident, Ross was actively involved in triathlons, wreck, cave, and ice diving, surfing, rock and ice climbing.

Ross lived and worked in Silicon Valley from 1999 to 2004 where he started and sold a healthcare software company. He worked for Volkswagen’s €280 million Healthcare Venture Accelerator Fund and €500 million innovation campus in Wolfsburg, Germany for 12 years. Ross was an Associate in Private Banking at Morgan Stanley (New York, London, Zurich, Moscow, and Atlanta), and created a real estate investment and development company in Moscow, Russia that he owned and operated for 12 years. For more than 20 years, he has worked as a consultant with a number of companies in the areas of medical device, healthcare services, AI, and healthcare IT. Prior to Purim, Ross worked with three early-stage west coast venture funds (EastLake Ventures, Incube Labs, and Praxis) and co-founded a venture studio on the east coast (The Aurora Forge). 

Ross is the former Chairman of the Georgia Department of Community Health Board (the 3rd largest health plan in the United States with a $11.2 billion annual budget and 660,000 covered lives). He has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech where he was student body president and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from The Wharton School. He also studied Russian at Middlebury College and British History and Literature at Queens College, Oxford. To read an article on Ross Mason that was featured in Forbes Magazine click here.