Salim Ismail spent the last seven years building Singularity University as its founding executive director and current global ambassador. He is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and travels extensively lecturing on how organizations can leverage ongoing technology disruptions to grow 10x faster than their peers. Singularity University has empowered people from more than 85 countries to apply disruptive technologies - biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience - to more than 100 startups and countless patents and ideas. Prior to Singularity, Salim was a vice president at Yahoo, where he built and ran Brickhouse, the company's internal incubator. His last company, Ångströ, a news aggregation startup, was sold to Google in 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies.
