Nationality Canadian Home town Hamilton, Ontario | Name Michael Serbinis Residence Toronto, Canada | |
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Born October 28, 1973 (age 50) ( 1973-10-28 ) Alma mater Queen’s University & University of Toronto Occupation Founder and CEO, The Everlong Project Education Queen's University, University of Toronto Board member of Ontario Science Centre, Young Presidents' Organization, OMERS | ||
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Michael Serbinis (born October 28, 1973) is an entrepreneur, engineer and angel investor based in Toronto, Canada.
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Early life
Serbinis has an interest in science and technology and while in high school designed a high temperature superconductor propulsion system that won Gold at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and subsequently led him to work with NASA, Rockwell Aerospace and Intel. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University, and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Early in Serbinis’ career he developed Internet routing technology at Microsoft and search engine technology at Zip2.
Career
Serbinis was the co-founder and CEO of Kobo Inc., a global digital reading company. Kobo was founded in December 2009 as a spinoff from Canadian bookseller Indigo Books and Music.
Serbinis also co-founded LEAGUE Inc., a health and wellness company, in 2014 and serves as its Chief executive officer.
Philanthropy
Serbinis is G7 Fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman School of Management and member of the Board of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.