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Alex Jones of Hallow to Receive the Founder’s Award

Alex is the CEO & Co-Founder of the Hallow app, a Catholic prayer and meditation app to help people find peace in God. The app launched just over six years ago as Alex came back to his faith. It was deeply personal for him as he built it primarily for himself, but it is now, by the grace of God, the largest prayer app of any faith in the world, with over 25 million downloads and over 950 million prayers prayed. It is the only faith-based, religious, meditation, wellness, fitness, or reference app in the history of the app store to ever crack the top 10 in the app store rankings, landing at the #1 spot last year during Lent ahead of TikTok, Amazon, Netflix, Instagram, and Spotify. It has been in the top 3 each of the last 3 years. The app has 250,000 five star reviews across 150 countries, 15,000 different prayer and meditation sessions across 8 different languages and hundreds of different content creators like Mark Wahlberg, Fr. Mike Schmitz, Sr. Miriam, Chris Pratt, Bishop Barron, Mario Lopez, Jonathan Roumie, Gwen Stefani, and more, even featuring prayers by the new Holy Father Pope Leo XIV. 

Alex grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame School of Engineering in 2015 and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2020. He worked professionally in consulting in Chicago before Hallow at McKinsey & Co as an Engagement Manager, and now lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, and two sons. He’s been named a member of Forbes 30 under 30 with his two co-founders, Erich Kerekes and Alessandro DiSanto, and a member of the inaugural University of Notre Dame Domer Dozen, as well as given the Legatus Bowie Kuhn Evangelization Award. Alex has appeared on NPR, Fox News, the BBC, the Tucker Carlson Network, the Wall Street Journal, The Free Press, and more.

Interviews: Tucker Carlson, The Free Press, Pints with Aquinas, The CEO Series, TechCrunch, Fox, Aleteia, Fortune, Insider, NCR, FTOther: Hallow Story (Video), Series C, Series B, Series A, Hallow Story, Public Benefit Corp, Pricing, Partnership Philosophy, My Journey

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