Peter Diamandis

Is a Greek-American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being founder and chairman of the "X Prize Foundation", cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University and coauthor of The New York Times bestsellers Abundance: "The Future Is Better Than You Think", "The Future is Faster than You Think", "How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business", "Industries", and "Our Lives and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World".

Diamandis has participated on the boards of several companies throughout his career, including Hyperloop and Cogswell Polytechnical College.

He has also won several awards in his field, including Economist "No Boundaries" Innovator of the Year, the Neil Armstrong Award for Aerospace Achievement and Leadership, the World Technology Award, presented by the World Technology Counsel, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Innovation, among others.

In February 2018, Diamandis launched Celularity, a biotechnology company productizing allogeneic cells and tissues derived from the postpartum placenta.

Diamandis is married to Kristen Hladecek, having proposed in 2004. They have twin boys born c. 2012.