Tristan Mace is the Co-Founder & CEO of Transplants.org.

In 2021, as a healthy 31-year old, Tristan abruptly went into quadruple organ failure, leading to an emergency heart transplant just 48 hours later. A week later, he awoke to learn of the life-saving transplant and that his lung failure caused two strokes and five years of permanent memory loss.

Working from a laptop in his ICU bed with newfound perspective for his “bonus time,” Tristan began building Transplants.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to improve access and outcomes for transplant patients, donors, and families.

His story of resilience and commitment to the transplant community was profiled by The Wall Street Journal in the article, “He Got a New Heart. Now This 34-Year-Old Is Fighting to Fix the Transplant System,” as well as by Fortune, Bloomberg, and CNN.

Prior to founding Transplants.org, Tristan built his career as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and lecturer.

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