Rushdi Siddiqui joins the SKS faculty after spending the last 25 years working and traveling across the globe with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and nonprofits, as well as teaching, consulting, mentoring, and writing. Some excerpts from his career include roles as the Founder/Executive Director at the non-profit Children with Cleft; mentor at an AI and climate emissions platform, the Dow Jones Indexes, and Thomson Reuters; and as an advisory council member in Dubai, UAE, and Malaysia. Rushdi is also a founding member of the UAE’s Dubai Bank, has written numerous articles, presented in over 200 conferences, given more than 300 media interviews, and received over 30 international awards. In his free time, Rushdi is an avid tennis player and golfer, and married with two adult children.