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Shervin Pishevar: Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist & Angel Investor

Shervin is Chairman and General Partner of the Edison Companies (incubator of Sizzle Pizza, acquired by Gopuff); co-founder of Sherpa Capital ($650m under management); former managing director at Menlo Ventures ($4+ billion under management); co-founder and first executive chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One; and founding investor of Miami Beach-based Bolt Mobility.

A four-time Forbes “Midas List” honoree (ranking the world’s top 100 venture capitalists), Shervin averaged more than an 88 percent IRR (Internal Rate of Return) as a VC/fund manager from 2011-18. He also takes an active role in his investments, including having served on the Board of Directors for Uber, Wag, Pillpack, Machine Zone, Cue Health and Munchery.

Shervin is one of 10 members of the UN Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council; recipient of the “Outstanding Americans by Choice” honor (one of just 100 chosen); 2016 Ellis Island Medal of Honor award recipient; presidential appointee to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board; inaugural member of UN Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council; entrepreneurial ambassador to the U.S. Department of State; and the keynote speaker at President Obama’s Summit on Entrepreneurship in Algeria.

In addition, Shervin is a devoted and influential philanthropist, active in charitable pursuits that include: Charity Water, Malala Fund, UNICEF, 1% of Nothing, Build.org, Cyrus Prize and Invisible Children.

Bio: Rebecca A. Fannin

Rebecca is a CNBC contributor, author of four books, and a media entrepreneur who has covered global innovation for more than 20 years. She was one of the first American journalists to write about China’s entrepreneurial boom, interviewing Jack Ma of Alibaba and Robin Li of Baidu, among others. Inspired by the entrepreneurs she met, she formed her own media and events group Silicon Dragon Ventures in 2010. Rebecca’s forward-looking and resource-rich books Silicon Dragon, Startup Asia, Tech Titans of China (and a forthcoming book), launched her as a commentator and public speaker. A guest on BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and a quoted expert in the New York Times, she also has spoken at the Brookings Institution, Asia Society, and many universities including Harvard, Yale, and Oxford.

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Silicon Dragon presents its online series. We kicked off the series in April 2020 with Bill Tai, a first investor in Zoom, and have since featured nearly 60 guests on the show. We regularly feature a VC or Tech Titan in a Q&A session. This series helps startups, strategists and investors connect and provides valuable insights into what makes them tick. Whether you're raising capital, perfecting your business model, scaling up, going for unicorn status, an IPO or M&A deal, or figuring out your Give Back strategy, don't miss this series. Register and join us online.

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