Dr. Khaled Ismail

Founder and Chairman of Kiangel, an angel investment fund investing in early-stage startups in Egypt (2011-present).

Member of the Board of Feather Invest, Member of Leap Ventures Investment Committee,

Advisor to the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, Member of the Board of Elsewedy

Electrometer and ZPASmart Meters (2014-present)

Member of the Egyptian Presidential Advisory Board on Economic Development (2014-2015)

Founder of SySDSoft (2003-2011), which has been acquired by Intel in March 2011.

Managing Director of Intel Mobile Communications (2011-2014).

Senior Advisor of the Egyptian Minister of CIT ( 2004 and 2007).

VP of Engineering at Ellipsis DigitalSystems (2000-2002)

Managing Director of GEMMA (1997-2000)

Research Staff Member at IBM’s TJWatson Research Center (1989-1997).

Ph.D. from MIT in 1989.

IEEE Fellow since 1997. Published over 160 papers in international journals and holds 22 US patents.

Recipient of the EtaKappa Nu “Best Young ElectricalEngineer in the US”award in 1994, and the Shuman Award for the “Young Arab Engineer” in 1995.

Married, 2 children, speaks Arabic, English, German and French fluently.