David Orban

David Orban is the Founder and Managing Partner of Network Society Ventures, a seed stage global investment firm focused on innovative ventures in exponential technologies and decentralized networks.

He is an entrepreneur, visionary, guru, author, blogger, keynote speaker, and thought leader of the global technology landscape. His entrepreneurial accomplishments span several companies founded and grown over more than twenty years.

David is on the Faculty of and Advisor to the Singularity University, based in Moffett Field, CA. He is an Adjunct Professor at LUISS Business School in Rome. He is also a mentor for the Thiel Fellowship, a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Lifeboat Foundation, a Founder of the Open Government Data working group, and an Advisor to the Institute of Ethics and Emergent Technologies and numerous startups in Europe and North America.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, David studied Physics at the University of Milan and the University of Padua.