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As an award-winning and versatile senior-level executive in the technology industry, I thrive on working with with some of the world’s most renowned enterprises to create substantial value through strategic execution.
My compelling record of building and leading world-class sales, marketing, operations, and business development teams has driven digital transformation within global markets across North America, China, Singapore, Africa, India, Vietnam, Russia, and Brazil.
My extensive and multidimensional expertise includes:
► Over 20 years of success building and managing print, online, and event properties in the technology and business industries
► Conceptualizing and launching revenue-enhancing events, products, licensing, and concierge professional services
► Leading and managing national, regional, and custom events across international locations
► Mentoring entrepreneurs and team members on presentation skills, business, and career development
Specialties: Sales Leadership, P & L Management, Product Development, International Licensing, Presentations & Public Speaking, Event Producer, Online Publishing, Client-Focused 
Emily Steel is an award-winning business journalist who has worked at The Times since 2014. Along with a team of reporters who exposed sexual harassment and misconduct across industries, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 as well as several other journalism awards.
Her reporting uncovered a series of settlements totaling $45 million related to sexual harassment allegations against Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News host. The reporting laid the foundation for an international reckoning over issues of sexual misconduct.
She also was recognized with a Livingston Award for national reporting, a Freedom to Write Award from the Pen Center USA, and the inaugural Matrix Incite Award from New York Women in Communications.
Before joining The Times, Ms. Steel was a media and marketing correspondent at The Financial Times for two years. Ms. Steel previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she contributed several articles to the What They Know and End of Privacy series about the pervasive practices of tracking Americans online. The work was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting in 2012, and won a Gerald Loeb Award and a Sigma Delta Chi public service award in 2011.
Ms. Steel graduated from the University of North Carolina, where she was a top editor at The Daily Tar Heel. Ms. Steel now lives in New York City, where she enjoys reading, dance, music and running after her toddler. 
Based in Silicon Valley since the dot-com era, I’m a venture capitalist with a background as a founder, industry analyst, angel investor, startup advisor, and global keynote speaker.
-As a General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, I'm investing in early-stage AI startups that have the potential to quickly scale with viral effects and network effects.
-I host Llama Lounge, an AI startup event that draws hundreds of technology founders, investors, and corporate leaders. I also regularly speak at technology conferences worldwide.
-Speaker at TED AI, Web Summit, Step Conference, Techcrunch Disrupt, Swiss Economic Forum, LeWeb, Frankfurt Auto Show. A professional speaker at corporate events including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Visa, Nvidia, Disney, Toyota, BMW, and LinkedIn.
-Quoted in: Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, The Information, USA Today, Adweek, Harvard Business Review, and Wired. 
