Michael Serbinis

Michael Serbinis

About

Detail

Founder and CEO
Canada

Timeline

work
Job
school
Education
folder
Project

Résumé

Jobs verified_user 0% verified
  • Creative Destruction Lab
    Board Member
    Creative Destruction Lab
    Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)
  • Perimeter Institute
    Board Chair
    Perimeter Institute
    May 2021 - Current (5 years 6 months)
    "Perimeter Institute is now one of the world's leading centres in theoretical physics - if not the leading centre" -- Stephen Hawking

    As the foundation of a new "Quantum Valley" in Canada, Perimeter’s vision is to create the world’s foremost centre for foundational theoretical physics, uniting public and private partners, and the world’s best scientific minds, in a shared enterprise to achieve breakthroughs that will transform our future.
  • CDL Rapid Screening Consortium
    Director
    CDL Rapid Screening Consortium
    Oct 2020 - Current (6 years 1 month)
  • Vector Institute
    Board Director
    Vector Institute
    Mar 2017 - Current (9 years 8 months)
    The Vector Institute is an independent, non-profit research institution dedicated to the transformative field of artificial intelligence, excelling in deep learning and machine learning – an area of scientific, academic, and commercial endeavour that will shape our world over the next generation
  • League
    Founder and CEO
    League
    Nov 2014 - Current (12 years)
    Founded in 2014, League is the leading healthcare consumer experience (CX) platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), reaching more than 63 million people around the world and delivering the highest level of personalization in the industry. Payers, providers, and consumer health partners build on League’s platform to deliver high-engagement healthcare solutions proven to improve health outcomes. League has raised over $285 million in venture capital funding to date, powering the digital experiences for some of healthcare’s most trusted brands, including Highmark Health, Manulife, Medibank, and Shoppers Drug Mart.
  • T
    CEO
    Three Angels Capital
    Apr 2014 - Current (12 years 7 months)
    3 Angels was founded in 2014 to invest in world class teams looking to disrupt markets and change the world. We invest where we know we can help, from our years of experience building and financing great technology companies. We focus on early stage tech companies seeking angel investment. We like disruptive platform plays with global aspirations. We only invest in teams with the will to do great things. Some of the areas we like: Internet of Things, Digital Health, Payments, Digital Content.
  • MaRS Discovery District
    Board Director
    MaRS Discovery District
    Oct 2015 - Jun 2021 (5 years 9 months)
    MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is the one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs. MaRS supports promising young ventures tackling key societal challenges in the health, cleantech and ICT sectors. In the last three years, these ventures have raised $1.3 billion in capital and earned $640 million in revenue. In addition to helping startups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries and driving ideas to impact.
  • Perimeter Institute
    Director
    Perimeter Institute
    Jun 2014 - May 2021 (7 years)
  • Kobo Inc
    Founder and CEO
    Kobo Inc
    Dec 2009 - Feb 2014 (4 years 3 months)
    Kobo is a global eReading service with nearly 3 million eBooks, magazines and newspapers -- one of the largest eReading catalogues in the world. Kobo believes consumers should have the freedom to read any book on any device and has attracted 10 million readers from over 190 countries across the globe.

    Kobo award winning eReaders are also available at leading booksellers including Indigo, WHSmith, FNAC, Collins, Libris, Whitcoull's, Rakuten and Mondadori

    Kobo has top ranked eReading applications for iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows and MacOS, and is the eReading application of choice for leading tablet OEMs.

    Kobo's innovative Reading Life is an industry-first comprehensive social eReading experie
  • K
    Founder, CEO
    Kobo Pilot
    Apr 2008 - Dec 2009 (1 year 9 months)
    A global eReading Platform, the pilot for Kobo called "Shortcovers" that went live on Feb 26, 2009. In March 2009, we set out to gain board approval, raise funding and spin out of Indigo to form Kobo Inc. We rebranded, launched new apps and a new experience on Dec 15 2009.
  • Indigo
    CIO & EVP Online
    Indigo
    Feb 2006 - Apr 2008 (2 years 3 months)
    I joined Indigo upon moving back to Canada from California. Responsible for technology, strategy, operations and a $100M+ online business. Conceived of Kobo, a global eReading platform, launched a pilot and spun out to form Kobo Inc in Dec 2009.
  • Critical Path
    CTO & EVP Marketing
    Critical Path
    Mar 2000 - Dec 2005 (5 years 10 months)
    One of the leading providers of messaging technology to carriers, enterprises and governments, at one time, Critical Path ran one third of the world's email through it's software and services. Responsible for technology strategy, product development, marketing, world-wide pre-sales. I became involved with this company upon selling DocSpace to it in 2000. This experience was mostly a turnaround, recapitalizing and rebuilding an early stage, public technology company. Over a thousand layoffs, products EOL'd, offices shutdown, managing through DOJ/SEC investigations, NASDAQ delistings, telecom crash...and raising over 100 million in private equity. We got back to profitability and eventually, after I left, the company was taken private by
  • D
    Founder & CTO
    DocSpace
    Aug 1997 - Mar 2000 (2 years 8 months)
    Created one of the first cloud services, enabling people to store, share and deliver their documents on the Internet. As CTO, responsible for technology strategy, product development, team building and getting this company from launch to sale in under 24 months. We sold 7 days before the peak of the market in 2000 for over $500M.
  • Z
    Engineer
    Zip
    Apr 1996 - Nov 1996 (8 months)
    One of the first 10 employees on a small team that built Zip2's local search engine. Zip2 was later sold to Altavista for $300M in cash. A great experience and my first taste of Silicon Valley.
  • Microsoft
    Software Research
    Microsoft
    May 1993 - Sep 1995 (2 years 5 months)
    Developed an advanced network routing system using genetic algorithms.
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • University of Toronto
    MSc, Industrial Engineering (Finance)
    University of Toronto
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 (2 years 1 month)
  • Queens University
    BSc, Engineering Physics
    Queens University
    Jan 1992 - Jan 1996 (4 years 1 month)
Projects (professional or personal) verified_user 0% verified
    This is a community-created genome.