Kamran Elahian


Kamran Elahian is an Iranian-American entrepreneur who is the chairman and founder of and advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil-based economies to sustainable innovation economies. In the past, as a global high-tech entrepreneur, he co- founded ten companies, had 6 exits, 3 of them were Unicorn IPOs with a total
market cap of over $8B. For 15 years he was Chairman of Global Catalyst Partners, a global VC firm 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
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 and merged with Relief International in 2003; Global Catalyst Foundation, co-founded in 2000 to
improve lives through effective education and empowerment of the youth using the leverage of ICT, and UN-GAID, a United Nations global forum that promotes ICT in
developing countries where he served as Co-Chairman.

Career

Kamran co-founded 10 companies : had 6 exits, 3 of them were Unicorn IPOs with a total market cap of over $8B.