Salim Ismail Biography

Salim Ismail is a Canadian serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, speaker, and technology strategist. Salim is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations, a sought-after business strategist, and a serial entrepreneur, having founded technology companies including Confabb, PubSub Concepts, and Ångströ, which was acquired by Google in 2010. He led Brickhouse, Yahoo!’s internal incubator, and was recently named an XPRIZE Foundation Board member. Salim is also Founding Executive Director of Singularity University; Chairman of ExO Works; Founder of The ExO Foundation; an Aion Advisory Board member; Board Member of Rokk3r Inc. and General Partner of Rokk3r Fuel ExO Venture Fund. Recently, Salim founded The ExO Foundation, a global consultancy dedicated to solving humanity’s most pressing challenges. Salim is a prolific speaker, having given more than 100 talks in 2017 to audiences of all sizes in 12 different countries. He has been profiled across a vast array of media outlets, including The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, WIRED, Vogue, and the BBC.

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