Salim Ismail is a sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He travels extensively addressing topics including breakthrough technologies and their impact on a variety of industries. Salim has spent the last four years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames and is training a new generation of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Before that, as a Vice President at Yahoo, he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal incubator. His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web.

Global Ambassador (and founding Executive Director) @ From November 2008 to Present (7 years 2 months) Chairman & Co-founder @ From October 2006 to Present (9 years 3 months) Chairman @ From July 2006 to Present (9 years 6 months)

B.Sc. @ University of Waterloo From 1983 to 1989 Salim Ismail is skilled in: Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Angel Investing, Business Planning, Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Leadership, Venture Capital, Strategy, Corporate Development, Business Strategy, Product Management, Business Development, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing Strategy