Aaron Shapiro
Aaron is the Founder & CEO of Carver Edison, an award winning New York City-based financial technology company revolutionizing employee stock plans. Aaron is the inventor of Carver Edison’s patented technology, Cashless Participation® which helps publicly traded companies financially empower their workforce to create generational wealth through stock ownership. Employees of Public Companies in 20 countries currently use Cashless Participation. In just a few years since launch, Carver Edison has amassed nearly $1 billion of authorized stock on its platform. Aaron has been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider and was named Rising FinTech Star by Banking Tech Awards USA.
Prior to founding Carver Edison, Aaron was the first investment professional at Edgehill Endowment Partners, a institutional investment firm focused exclusively on investing the endowments of non-profit organizations. Edgehill’s assets grew from $150 million to over $4 billion during Aaron’s tenure.
He is a graduate of Babson College where he received a Bachelors of Science in Business Management with a dual concentration in finance and economics. He is a native New Yorker and product of the New York City public school system, former baseball player, self-taught full stack programmer and avid traveler. Aaron holds the FINRA Series 24, 7 and 63 licenses.