
CEO
Area of Expertise: Founder, Leadership
Career Level: Executive
Ask Me About: Entrepreneurship
Eleanor Haglund is the Founder and CEO of Aspire360, the network for startup CEOs.To date, she’s built a network of serial entrepreneur coaches that have raised more than half a billion dollars, coached CEOs through their pivots, building a sales team, and through their own multi-million dollar fundraising rounds.
Her entrepreneurial journey started when she was selected to be an inaugural member of the Innovation Scholars program at Carnegie Mellon. Before her senior year, she had started her first company, e. e. books. She worked with NYTimes Bestselling Authors and won the McGinnis Competition, the CMU Venture Challenge, and Hack-a- Startup. Through her next startup, Halo Mountain, she was invited to participate in two accelerator programs (Health Wildcatters and eLab NYC) and raised funds for the preclinical development of an Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutic.