Basel Ismail
Co-Founder & CEO
Basel is a data scientist and financial engineer. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Blockcircle. He has extensive experience across Wall Street and Main Street; he most recently left his executive position at American Express where he was the Director of AI & Product Engineering, to focus on his own ventures.
He has an MBA from Cornell University, an MS in Information Security and Risk Management from Norwich University, a BComm in Computer Network Engineering from Ryerson University, and substantial training in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has worked for and had leadership roles at Yahoo!, Scotiabank, Goldman Sachs, and American Express. .
Cornell University
