Aaron Bare

Who is Aaron Bare?

Aaron D. Bare is an entrepreneur, Business School Professor and keynote speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation. Bare has also sold 6 companies from the National Association of Sales Professionals with over 60,000 members to a cultural assessment tool used by Fortune 500 companies to a global job board with over 10 million monthly unique visitors. He is currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Professor of Innovation at Thunderbird School of Global Management and Founder of Buzz Mouth, an international digital and business strategy firm based in Phoenix with clients such as Coca-Cola, Google, Dell, Comedy Central, Dannon, Harley-Davidson and the Arizona Science Center. In the past, Aaron has worked with storied brands like Facebook, Nike, Disney, LinkedIn and Microsoft. Aaron has raised over $90 million with companies he has been part of becoming experienced in the process to work with Angel Investors, Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Bare is an entrepreneur and investor in over 40 privately held companies. He was selected as an Arizona "35 under 35" Entrepreneurs and "40 under 40" Leaders To Watch by the Business Journal. Previously he has been awarded a National Video Award, Addy's, WebAwards, Telly's, as well as being selected as the Kennedy 2007 Most Innovative Company of the Year, 2008 Comerica Business of the Year, and 2008 Arizona Small Business Innovator of the Year. Growing up Bare was the Indiana Ciphering Champ and earned the NJEA National Journalism Award for Graphic Design.