Pascal heads up everything Entrepreneurship at Singularity University, including the Startup Program, Global Expansion and the Entrepreneurship Track where he inspires, educates and empowers entrepreneurs tackling the world's most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies.

Pascal has spent his career pushing the boundaries of technology and passionately believes the internet can deeply impact the betterment of mankind.

He got started on the net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay's Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla's Innovation Lab, created Mozilla's accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla's Office of the Chair and has invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. He also founded the non-profit organizations 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 ten of thousands of entrepreneurs around the globe. Recently he published "The Heretic - Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs" book, in stores globally now.

He frequently speaks and writes about the magic which happens at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology & global impact. As a trained Co-Active executive coach, Pascal works with clients on achieving their full leadership potential. But most of all - Pascal loves to work with entrepreneurs who are making things better and go from zero to one.

Jeffrey Rogers is a facilitator, speaker, and program designer who creates interactive educational experiences driven by storytelling, engagement, and play. He’s an academically trained social scientist (UC Berkeley, University of Texas-Austin) with a knack for future-thinking and a deep belief in the transformative potential of exponential technologies as tools to de-risk experimentation, accelerate learning, and create change.

Jeffrey speaks frequently across the US and abroad on exponential thinking and leads workshops on creative problem solving and storytelling. He’s connected dots, ideas, and people as a moderator recently for the SU Executive Program and Exponential Tech and Strategy programs for Oracle, Google, Roche, NBC, Aegon and other global brands.

Prior to joining SU, Jeffrey spent a decade building learning and development solutions across sectors and designing and delivering award-winning educational and training programs. He currently serves as Singularity University’s Director of Faculty & Facilitator Development, working closely with our faculty to discover their unique strengths as communicators and teachers and to co-create rave-worthy, learner-centered experiences at SU and on the web worldwide.

Jaya Baloo is the CISO of KPN in the Netherlands. The CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is the director of information security. Basically, it is a role played at the executive level and its main function is to align the security of information with business objectives. In this way, it is guaranteed at all times that the company's information is adequately protected.

Jaya works with an amazing information security team of highly driven specialists. Working in the information security arena for the past 18 years, she has worked mostly for global telecommunications companies such as Verizon and France Telecom. Jaya is also a frequent speaker at security conferences on subjects around lawful interception, mass surveillance, and cryptography. In 2017, she was recognized as one of the top 100 CISO's globally.

Kris Verburgh (1986) graduated magna cum laude as a medical doctor from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Kris is a researcher at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) at the Free University Brussels (VUB) and a member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group at the Free University of Brussels.

Kris’ fields of research are aging, nutrition, metabolism, preventive medicine and health. In this context, he created a new scientific discipline, called 'nutrigerontology', which studies the impact of nutrition on the aging process and aging-related diseases. Besides medicine, Kris has a keen interest in evolution, the origin and complexity of life, and neuroscience (consciousness, neurotheology, neuroesthetics, theory of mind and the origins of creativity).

At the age of 25, he was the author of 3 science books. His books got many reprints and nominations. He wrote his first book at the age of 16, making him the youngest author of a science book in Europe. This book was nominated for the Eureka Science Prize.In his second book, that Kris wrote at the age of 21, he draws on recent scientific discoveries and insights to answer age-old philosophical questions about the origin and evolution of life, human nature and consciousness. The book got 7 reprints and was also nominated for theEureka Science Prize.
In his third book The food hourglass Kris writes about a subject that is a strong interest of his: the aging process. In this book he uses the latest scientific insights to explain how different kinds of foods and food patterns can slow down or speed up the aging process.
Kris wrote articles for various newspapers and appeared in radio and television shows. He regularly gives lectures on medicine, health, aging and science.

Nadine is a synthetic biologist and passionate about designing life through genetic engineering. She received her Master Degree in Life Science & Technology from Delft University of Technology and is currently pursuing her PhD at INSERM in Paris where she works on drug discovery for tuberculosis.

In parallel to her scientific work, she is actively bridging the world of science with the business and society. In 2011, she co-founded the science communication agency Science Matters to support scientific institutions with the communication of their research to the public and develop education to enthuse both children and adults about science. More recently, she serves as Vice President of Hello Tomorrow, a Paris-based non-profit organization that helps science entrepreneurs in their journey to bringing laboratory inventions to the market.

Dr. Eric Rasmussen is the CEO of Infinitum Humanitarian Systems, a Washington State Profit for Purpose social business specializing in vulnerability reduction for systems and populations. He is also a practicing Internal Medicine physician with an additional specialty in Disaster Medicine. His other roles include Research Professor for Environmental Security and Global Medicine at San Diego State University, Affiliate Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, Visiting Researcher in Disaster Management at the Institute for Disaster Preparedness in Beijing, China, Senior Lecturer within the International Disaster Academy in Bonn, Germany, and Core Faculty at Singularity University within the NASA Ames Research Center in California.

Dr. Rasmussen retired in 2010 as President and Chief Executive Officer of InSTEDD, a highly-regarded international NGO created by Google.org from a TED Prize awarded to Dr. Larry Brilliant. He remains the Chair of InSTEDD’s Board of Directors. Before his selection as CEO of InSTEDD, Dr. Rasmussen had spent 25 years on active duty with the US Navy, including deployments to multiple natural disasters and three wars. On his Navy retirement he was both Chairman of the Department of Medicine within the Navy teaching hospital near Seattle, Washington, and Special Advisor in Humanitarian Informatics for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has been a Principal Investigator for both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and for the National Science Foundation. He now sits on several boards and committees, including the Committee on Grand Challenges in Global Development for the US National Academy of Sciences. Eric is a Combat-Service Disabled Veteran, the CEO of IHS, and the majority owner of IHS. As a consequence, IHS is registered as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.