Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail is the Chairman and Co-Founder of OpenExo. He is also the Global Ambassador at Singularity University focusing on its global presence. Salim spent two years as Singularity University’s founding Executive Director and currently serves as its Global Ambassador focusing on its global presence. Salim is a sought after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur – his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. Prior to that, Salim was a Vice President at Yahoo and the Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal ‘ideas factory’ where game-changing ideas were brought in, built and launched. Salim also serves as Co-Founder and Chairman of Confabb.com, co-founded PubSub Concepts and is also on the board of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization focused on violence against women, racial justice and immigrant rights. Salim earned his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Waterloo in 1989.