Salim Ismail

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. Salim led Brickhouse, Yahoo!’s internal incubator, and was recently named an XPRIZE Foundation Board member. He is also Founding Executive Director of Singularity University; Chairman of ExO Works; Founder of The ExO Foundation and the Fastrack Istitute; an Aion Advisory Board member; and General Partner of Rokk3r Fuel ExO Venture Fund.

ExO Works and its corresponding ExO Network were founded to transform global business by catapulting organizations into the world of exponential thinking. ExO Works counts numerous global, Fortune 1000 companies as clients. Just as ExO Works is the face of the future of management consulting, Salim founded the Fastrack Institute, a non-profit dedicated to accerating technology into society, as the architecture for building solutions to some of of civilization's most pressing problems.

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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