Background
Allis was born in 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Andrew Allis and Pauline Middleton Allis.
Allis was born in 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Andrew Allis and Pauline Middleton Allis.
He attended school in Bradenton, Florida where he graduated from Manatee High School. Allis studied economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now completing the Master of Business Administration program at Harvard Business School.
In 2008, Allis wrote a book on entrepreneurship called Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008). While in high school in Florida, Allis built a web site design agency called Virante. In May 2012, he visited the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya as part of a United Nations Foundation delegation.
In June 2011, Allis joined a delegation from the United States Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development to Cairo, Egypt to mentor Egyptian technology entrepreneurs and judge the United States. State Department NexGen Information Technology Boot Camp.
From 2008 until 2012 Allis was the Board Chairman of the international development non-profit organization Nourish International. Allis founded Hive Ventures, an investment fund investing in firms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and the United States.
Allis served as a National Company-Chairperson for Technology for Obama along with Marc Benioff and Reid Hoffman and worked with the Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign. At iContact, Allis created the 4-1s Corporate Social Responsibility Program through which the company donated 1% of payroll, product, employee time, and company equity to 501(c)(3) programs, modeled after the Salesforce.com 1/1/1 philanthropic model.
He has also contributed financially to the Council for Entrepreneurial Development in Durham, North Carolina and to Nourish International.
2008 Named Entrepreneur of the Year for the Carolinas by Ernst & Young
2009 Named one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA) by the United States Junior Chamber
2010 Named on of Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by Incorporated. Magazine
2011 Ranked as one of the Top Ten Technical Power Players Under 30 by PeekScore
2013 Fellow of the Harvard Graduate School Leadership Institute
2015 Levo League 100 Extraordinary Millennials.
Allis is now the Chairman of Connect in San Francisco, the Chairman of the Hive Global Leaders Program and a member of the United Nations Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council. Allis is a member of the United Nations Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council, which is made up of ten entrepreneurs who advise the United Nations Foundation.