Ellen Levy

Ellen is Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect, working with organizations and entrepreneurs on opportunities for “networked innovation”, while also managing a portfolio of 50+ startups as an angel investor/advisor (a sample including: Outreach, BetterUp; CodeHS). Additionally, she is a member of the Board of Directors at commercial real estate finance company Walker & Dunlop (WD), social network for military and veterans company Rallypoint, and until recently, education technology company Instructure (INST). She is a Senior Advisor to the President at Arizona State University, named the “most innovative” university by US News & World report for the sixth year in a row and counting. 

Ellen spent nearly a decade working with LinkedIn, including as Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy and member of the Executive Team following her original role as Advisory Board member when the company was first founded. Over her career, Ellen has held formal roles in venture capital (Softbank; NeoCarta; Draper Fisher Jurvetson), startups (WhoWhere, bought by Lycos; Softbook Press, bought by Gemstar TVGuide; LinkedIn, bought by Microsoft), technology think tanks (Interval Research), large corporations (Apple Computer; PriceWaterhouse Coopers), and universities (Harvard; Stanford; ASU).

Described as the "Most Connected Woman in Silicon Valley," Ellen now spends much of her time focused on topics generally associated with dynamic, rapidly-growing startups, and on issues related to the “Future of Work” (automation, AI, job displacement, skills training, and education) and all kinds of business approaches to helping society respond to the post-pandemic world.

She has a BA from the University of Michigan, and MA/PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University.