Russ Ackerman has been preparing for DOXA for four decades. A Creator + Builder, Russ pursued beauty, truth, and order across life and work. He founded DOXA as the capstone of that journey—a hands-on partner to organizations advancing the human condition. DOXA creates photography, content and strategy initiatives and builds uncharted ventures that bring beauty, truth and order to a chaotic world, fusing Fortune 500 rigor, a technology mindset and an artisan’s hand.

Russ turns ideas into realities. Early in his career, he created content for blue-chip brands like Kraft, then traveled round-the-world solo to better understand the human condition, and fell in love with photography. He co-created beauty for decades with his late wife, Sue, a designer, and later deepened cultural insight as a Gotham Theology Fellow.

Professionally, in parallel, he launched market-leading International, Sustainability and Geopolitical practices at KPMG; built Bertelsmann’s first global e-commerce markets; opened Africa’s internet markets for Prodigy; and pioneered new consumer categories for Procter & Gamble and Mars in post-Communist Eastern Europe.

Today he is fusing these strands at DOXA through Paradox, a photo-essay book 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 two grown children, Adriana and Alexander, and the family dog, Moose.