Alex Crenshaw is the founder of the Zen Institute. At the age of 28 years old, he quit his job as a corporate accountant and began his semi-monastic Zen Buddhism training for seven years at the Rochester Zen Center in Upstate New York. He then returned to the corporate world in Charlotte, NC where he worked in a petrochemical company for six years. While living in Charlotte, he completed his MBA from Wake Forest University. To better understand the problems affecting society, Alex volunteered for 2 years with homeless children with the organization A Child’s Place based in Charlotte, NC.
