Biography
Stephen Ibaraki is the Chair and General Partner of REDDS Capital.
Serial entrepreneur, investor, and futurist, Stephen’s accomplishments and global leadership positions with more than 100 programs/organizations and 300+ recognitions are too numerous to list. His leadership working daily with more than 400,000 CEOs, Investors, and Scientists with the world’s leading CEO, and scientific, technical, and financial organizations allow him a unique vantage point to oversee where innovation is heading in the coming years. Stephen is the visionary behind REDDS whose tireless work has positioned REDDS to take advantage of the globally unique superior intelligence received by the group. As a small sampling representing under 5% of Stephen’s current activities, he is the:
- Founder chair outreach UN ITU AI for good global summit, adopted by governments, corporations, and academia, with 3+ billion reach, as the largest AI innovation impact movement and daily summit driving AI business solutions across 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
- Founder of Fintech Ideas Festival, Technology Advisory Council, providing industry solutions ten years into the future for CEOs representing US$92.7 Trillion in managed assets;
- Founder of YPO EU Impact Summit Advisory Board, creating workable business solutions for the world’s largest opportunities/challenges. YPO: 31K CEOs, US $9 Trillion annual revenue across 142 countries. With work underway since May 2019, the first summit Oct 2020, and continuing as chair impact advisory board;
- Recipient of 20 Microsoft Global Awards (17 MVP Awards), 2018-2023 in AI, recognizing decades of lifetime achievement, global–leadership, entrepreneurship, investments, disruptive innovation; and
- Contributor to Forbes/Cognitive World and IT World Canada on leading new investments, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
More here on lifetime achievement for innovation, investments, and entrepreneurship as CIPS Founding Fellow and on LinkedIn.