Salim Ismail

Futurist and best-selling author of "Exponential Organizations" and "Exponential Transformation," Salim Ismail has been building disruptive digital companies as a serial entrepreneur since the early 2000s.

Ismail is the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and Co-Founder and Chairman of OpenExO, a global transformation ecosystem that connects world-class professionals with organizations, institutions, and people who want to build a better future through cutting-edge ideas and actionable methodologies. The ExO consulting ecosystem consists of more than 155 certified coaches and advisors from 29 countries doing business in 24 different languages. OpenExO and the global consulting team at ExO Works transform global business by catapulting organizations into the world of exponential thinking through the ExO Sprint, a proprietary process to achieve 10x performance for organizations of all types.

Ismail founded and led some of the most influential tech companies at the foundation of our digital society, including PubSub Concepts and Angstro, which Google acquired in 2010. He also led Yahoo!’s internal incubator, Brickhouse, and is a member of the XPRIZE Foundation Board. Ismail also co-founded the Fastrack Institute, which harnesses new technologies to solve the most pressing problems faced by cities today. He sits on the Board of Rokk3r, Inc. and is a general partner at its Rokk3r Fuel ExO venture fund, where he identifies the next founders of exponential growth companies.

A prolific speaker, Ismail gives more than 150 talks a year to audiences of all sizes around the world. He has been profiled in a wide array of media outlets, including The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, WIRED, Vogue, and the BBC.