Fadi Bishara
Education
The University of Texas at Arlington
BS, Industrial Engineering 1988-01-01 - 1992-01-01Work Experience
Blackbox
Current
Blackbox
VIP.fund
Current
VIP.fund
Stichting SPARK
2020-02-01 - 2024-01-01
Stichting SPARK
VLAB
2009-08-01 - 2014-09-01
VLAB
techVenture
1996-03-01 - 2012-03-01
techVenture
Startup Genome
2010-10-01 - 2011-12-01
Startup Genome
AIRS, an ADP company
2004-05-01 - 2005-06-01
AIRS, an ADP company
Project HIRED
2002-04-01 - 2002-12-01
Project HIRED
Venture Services Group
1995-01-01 - 1996-02-01
Venture Services Group
Skills
Summary
- Founder & CEO of Blackbox, a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit working to elevate entrepreneurs across the globe. - Connector; effectively matching human capital and venture capital needs across the globe - Angel investor, mentor & business partner to international startup accelerators such as Communitech, Nasscom, SeedCamp, Rockstart, NUMA, iBeta, StartupBootcamp, StartupChile, Enterprise Estonia, Etc. - Frequent speaker at incubators & accelerator, tech innovation & startup conferences, education initiatives and related economic development policy discussions around the world. - 15 years experience working with the venture capital community and talented technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to -often exclusively- craft and execute strategies for recruiting and building core teams for early-stage & high-growth startups companies such as Chromatic Research/ATI, Intraspect/VGNT, PeakStream/GOOG, SixAprt/SayMedia, Bebo/AOL, Splunk/SPLK, Zynga/ZNGA, Lala/AAPL, Tapulous/DIS, CubeTree/SFSF, Apture/GOOG, ShopKick, Etc. My vision is to awaken the entrepreneur within everyone and support the creation of one global entrepreneurial ecosystem.
