Russ Ackerman has been preparing for DOXA for over four decades. A Creator + Builder, he has pursued order, truth, and beauty across his life and work. He founded DOXA, the capstone of that journey, as a hands-on partner to organizations advancing the human condition. The consultancy brings order, truth, and beauty to a chaotic world by building uncharted ventures, creating narrative content, and capturing evocative photography that enable human flourishing.

Russ’s career has been defined by forging order and creating content with Fortune 500 rigor. He launched market-leading International, Sustainability, and Geopolitical practices at KPMG; built Bertelsmann’s first global e-commerce markets; opened Africa’s internet content markets for Prodigy; and pioneered new consumer categories for Procter & Gamble and Mars in post-Communist Eastern Europe.

In parallel, he sought truth and created beauty. At 30, he traveled solo around the world to better understand the human condition and discovered a passion for photography. He co-created beauty for decades with his late wife, Sue, a designer, while navigating her 20-year medical trauma, and later deepened his insight as a Gotham Theology Fellow - amassing tens of thousands of photographs and reflections along the way.

Today he fuses these experiences at DOXA through original work: Paradox, a photo-essay spanning 60+ countries that seeks beauty amid pain, and 05May90, a memoir of a deferred 30-year quest for normalcy. He lives in Connecticut, in the home he co-designed with Sue, and savors time with his grown children, Adriana and Alexander, and his dog, Moose