Salim Ismail (born May 17, 1965 in Hyderabad, India) is an Indo-Canadian serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, speaker, and technology strategist.
He is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded a number of tech companies (Confabb,[4] PubSub Concepts[5] and Ångströ, acquired by Google in 2010[6][7]) and led Brickhouse, Yahoo!
He traveled extensively as part of the school's co-op program, working with companies such as IBM UK, Control Data and Northern Telecom.
[citation needed] After graduating from university, Ismail worked as a software architect for CSC Europe and later as a business consultant at ITIM Associates in London.
[citation needed] Singularity University's goal is to “educate, inspire and empower a new generation of leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” Singularity University – whose founders hail from Google and the XPRIZE Foundation – has brought together people from more than 85 countries to apply disruptive technologies – biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience – to more than 100 startups.
[citation needed] For two years, Ismail worked with Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil, along with key partners NASA, Google, Cisco, Autodesk and Genentech to build out the university, assembling its core team and faculty, establishing the curriculum and leading the first programs.
The company's mission is to help organizations, institutions and people transform for the future by implementing and evolving the exponential thinking and practices.
[22] Rokk3r Fuel was launched as a venture capital firm in March 2017 with the goal of investing in exponential technologies at a global level, working with founders through a tested co-building strategy.
The ExO Methodology uses specific parameters to score an entity based on its use of assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks ten times better than its peers.
[10] In 2016, he created the Fastrack Institute, a non profit organization that accelerates technology into society by finding holistic approaches to solving problems, with a focus on large urban centres.