**Salim Ismail **has spent the last six years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames and is training a new generation of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Prior to that, as a Vice President at Yahoo, he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator.
His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. He has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Wired, Vogue and the BBC.
He advises Fortune 500 executives and many world governments on the future of technology and recently released his first book, Exponential Organizations, which launched live on CNBC's Squawk Box on October 14th 2014.
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References
- Salim Ismail, amazon.com