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{{short description|Indo-Canadian serial entrepreneur, angel investor and author}}
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'''Salim Ismail''' (born May 17, 1965 in Hyderabad, India) is
He is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded a number of tech companies (Confabb,<ref name="techcrunch">{{cite news|last1=Arrington|first1=Michael|title=Salim Ismail To Head Yahoo Brickhouse|url=
He is the lead author of
==Early life==
Ismail was born in [[Hyderabad|Hyderabad, India]], spent early childhood in [[Mumbai]], and at 10, moved to [[Toronto
==Career==
After graduating from university, Ismail worked as a software architect for CSC Europe and later as a business consultant at ITIM Associates in London. In 1999, he became the COO of [[New York Business Forums]] in New York City.
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In 2001, Ismail founded the
In 2002, Ismail co-founded [[PubSub (website)|PubSub Concepts]], which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. The company had an ugly ending that was discussed at various PR crisis management conferences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wyman.us/main/2006/06/the_rumors_of_o.html|title=The Rumors of our death are only slightly exaggerated.|last=Wyman|first=Bob
In 2006, he co-founded Confabb.com with four others to create a centralized place to get information about conferences.
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In early 2007, Yahoo appointed Ismail as Vice President and Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator.<ref name="techcrunch" /> The objective of Brickhouse was to form teams to work on disruptive ideas.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://gawker.com/323002/silicon-valley-tool-tries-to-cozy-up-to-valleywag|title=Silicon Valley Tool tries to cozy up to Valleywag|last=McCarthy|first=Megan|work=Gawker|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US}}</ref> During his tenure with [[Yahoo!]], Ismail worked on several products and launched new products for them including WildFire, Yahoo Pipes and Fire Eagle as well as created a relationship between [[Yahoo!]] and [[NASA]] to explore various collaborative projects.
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Ismail was one of the executives that left [[Yahoo!]] in the wake of the failed [[Microsoft]] bid
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In September, 2008, [[NASA]] invited Ismail to the founding conference of [[Singularity University]], held at
Singularity
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Ismail founded
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In 2017, Ismail co-founded ExO Lever, later renamed OpenExO, where he acts as Chairman. The company's mission is to help organizations, institutions and people transform for the future by implementing and evolving the exponential thinking and practices. It hosts the world's leading ExO transformation ecosystem, with more than 5,000 experts.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
Ismail speaks frequently at conferences and industry events on the topics of disruptive convergence, exponential organizations, future of entrepreneurship, future of democracy and future of education, such as [[TED (conference)|TED]] conferences, the [https://www.nocofoundation.org/ Noco Foundation] and [[Ciudad de las Ideas (conference)|Ciudad de las Ideas]] in 2012.▼
=== Rokk3r Fuel ExO ===
In 2012, he participated in the debate at the [[Oxford Union]] as part of [[Saïd Business School]]'s ''Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 12'' programme.▼
Rokk3r Fuel was launched as a venture capital firm in March 2017 with the goal of investing in exponential technologies at a global level, working with founders through a tested co-building strategy. On September 20, 2017, Salim Ismail joined the firm as a General Partner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rokk3rfuel.com/rokk3rfuel-names-salim-ismail-as-general-partner/|title=Rokk3r Fuel Names Noted Technologist Salim Ismail as General Partner {{!}} Rokk3r Fuel|website=www.rokk3rfuel.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-25}}</ref> With the addition to Mr. Ismail as General Partner, Rokk3r Fuel also announced that it is naming its flagship fund Rokk3r Fuel ExO, which has $150 million to fund startups using the ExO Methodology. The ExO Methodology uses specific parameters to score an entity based on its use of assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks ten times better than its peers.{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}
==Public speaking==
▲Ismail speaks
▲In 2012, he participated in the debate at the [[Oxford Union]] as part of [[Saïd Business School]]'s ''Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford 12'' programme.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
{{As of | 2012}} he holds the position of Global Ambassador for [[Singularity University]], representing it at various conferences and industry events.<ref>{{cite news
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== Book ==
In 2011, Ismail started writing ''
The book aims to provide readings with information on “why new organizations are ten times better, faster and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)” and comes down to a simple philosophy: in business, performance is key and when it comes to performance how you organize your efforts is the key to growth.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/277779|title=5 Key Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read|last=Sykes|first=Timothy|date=2016-06-22|work=Entrepreneur|access-date=2017-08-03|language=en}}</ref>
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From 2012 to 2014, Ismail was a judge for [[The Economist magazine|The Economist Magazine]]'s Annual Innovation Awards.{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}
In March 2017, he was elected to the board of [[Xprize|XPRIZE]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}
== Philanthropy ==
After 9/11, Ismail founded
In 2016, he created the
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.salimismail.com/ Official website]
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