Greg Nance

Greg Nance is a recognized entrepreneur, scholar, foreign affairs strategist, youth mentor, endurance athlete, boxer, and mountaineer. Nance is the president, CEO, chairman, and co-founder of ChaseFuture, the first education technology company that is rewiring opportunity by connecting university applicants to information, resources, scholarships, and mentors at their target schools. ChaseFuture’s application best practices micro-blog and video series reach over 100,000 students each day. The company now has 30 employees and is advised by the former CEO of McDonald’s; the former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force; Chairman of ReneSola (NYSE: SOL); a national program director for seven U.S. Presidents; and the director of the Family Action Network. ChaseFuture aims to be the leading admissions information sharing platform and premium services marketplace by the year 2017.

Nance is also the co-founder and chairman of Moneythink, a financial education NGO that empowers urban teens to make better decisions with their money. Moneythink has trained over 500 college volunteers and equipped more than 3,000 high schoolers in 10 states. The Obama Administration recognized Moneythink as a “Champion of Change” and invited the organization to participate in the Summit on Financial Capability. Moneythink has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, MSN, CBS, MTV, Forbes, Crain’s Chicago Business, Huffington Post, and numerous others.

Nance authored the first white paper to use a geopolitical defensive realist framework to explain the East Asian naval arms race and how the U.S. must enlist democratic maritime allies to ensure peace. He has been selected for 10 sponsored international fellowships and been a keynote speaker in seven countries (China, South Korea, Russia, India, United Arab Emirates, U.K., and U.S.). His writing has been featured in the Seattle Times and he advises senior policymakers and Pentagon officials. 

Nance holds a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago, where he studied international relations and served as the Student Government President. In 2010, Nance was named the Truman Scholar from Washington State. He is also a graduate of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge where he was a 2011 Gates-Cambridge Scholar. Nance was one of four “under 30” recipients for the National Jefferson Award, recognizing his public service. He was also named the 2011 Delta Upsilon Fraternity Undergraduate of the Year.