
Kamran Elahian
Chairman and Co-Founder at Global Innovation Catalyst
TED Attendee
Los Altos, California, United StatesAbout Kamran
I am a…
Brainstormer, Business leader, Change agent, Entrepreneur, Global soul, Idea generator, Investor, Life mentor, Philanthropist, Social entrepreneur
Bio
Chairman and Co-founder, Innovera (Global Innovation Catalyst)
Chairman, Advisory Board, LetsMod.com
Founding Mentor, Unreasonable Institute;
Founding Board Advisor, Harbour.Space University;
Advisory Member, Seedstars World;
Advisory Member, UNICEF Innovation Fund
As an Innovation Catalyst, Kamran advises leadership of major global corporations on Tranformation to the AI Economy!
As a global high-tech Entrepreneur, he co-founded ten companies, three of them failed (e.g. Momenta), six of them produced a total market cap of over $8B (e.g. Cirrus Logic). As a VC, Kamran co-founded Global Catalyst Partners with investments in the U.S., Japan, China, India, Israel and Singapore. Underlying his vision for global philanthropy is the conviction that modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be instrumental in dissolving barriers between nations and bridging the social and political differences among people. This vision was reflected in Schools-Online, a nonprofit he co-founded in 1996 to connect the world, one school at a time (6400 schools in 36 countries were provided with computers and access to the Internet) and merged with Relief International in 2003; Global Catalyst Foundation, co-founded in 2000 to improve lives through the effective application of ICT, and UN-GAID, a United Nations global forum that promotes ICT in developing countries where he served as Co-Chairman (2009-2011).
www.Innovera.ai
I'm passionate about
The needed transition from knowledge economy to AI innovation economies.
An idea worth spreading
The Arc of Human Civilization is Long, But it Bends Towards Unification!
Things you might not know
Self Healing