Pascal Finette

Pascal is the Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation at Singularity University where he built the university’s start-up programs including the SU Accelerator and Venture Fund. He is also the enfant terrible and Co-founder at Radical Ventures, a management consultancy and investment company that helps companies to innovate and keep up with the changes in the world today.

He has spent his career pushing the boundaries of technology and passionately believes that it can profoundly impact the betterment of humankind. Pascal led Mozilla’s Open Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, and headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair. As Principal at Google.org, he invested in social impact organisations around the globe where he managed the philanthropic funds of $150 million each year. Apart from these roles, Pascal started on the net before there was a web browser, founded a series of technology start-ups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe where he built a $1 Billion business unit.

Pascal also founded the non-profit organisations Mentor for Good and The Coaching Fellowship; the GyShiDo (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated newsletter, The Heretic, which is read by tens of thousands of change-makers globally. He’s the author of the published book, The Heretic - Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs.