Angel Gambino 
Angel Gambino is a WIRED Top 100 executive who has built companies on three continents. She's also an urban regeneration pioneer, a visionary investor, and a passionate environmental lawyer. The technology phase of her career has included co-founding investment partnership Prehype Partners, senior roles at the BBC and MTV Networks, and leading the pioneering UK social network Bebo. She has also played pro soccer, and she ran logistics for the USWNT at the Olympics.
Raised in Detroit, she recently returned to San Francisco as founder-CEO of a social artificial intelligence startup called Sensai. Sensai gives small businesses and artists the technology tools they need to be successful at social media marketing.
Angel is a founding partner of Prehype, a venture development firm, co-creating startups with the world's top corporations and entrepreneurs, and which has spawned several companies with substantial exits.
Angel is also CEO of Alchemists Collective, a venture development holding company which owns and operates companies in the US, UK and Latin America, focusing on startup innovation around real estate hubs. She recently sold a space in Corktown, Detroit to Ford Motor Company to create a smart mobility hub.
During her London era, Angel held the position of Global VP, Music & Content at social networking giant Bebo, where she was responsible for global music strategy, product and partnerships.
She was also a media executive at MTV Networks and BBC, where she had responsibility for extending the companies’ many brands across mobile, broadband and on-demand platforms, including development of the BBC’s revolutionary iPlayer. Angel was also Director of Broadband at gameplay, and has consulted to a number of Fortune 500 companies on issues of online commerce.
Raised in Detroit, she recently returned to San Francisco as founder-CEO of a social artificial intelligence startup called Sensai. Sensai gives small businesses and artists the technology tools they need to be successful at social media marketing.
Angel is a founding partner of Prehype, a venture development firm, co-creating startups with the world's top corporations and entrepreneurs, and which has spawned several companies with substantial exits.
Angel is also CEO of Alchemists Collective, a venture development holding company which owns and operates companies in the US, UK and Latin America, focusing on startup innovation around real estate hubs. She recently sold a space in Corktown, Detroit to Ford Motor Company to create a smart mobility hub.
During her London era, Angel held the position of Global VP, Music & Content at social networking giant Bebo, where she was responsible for global music strategy, product and partnerships.
She was also a media executive at MTV Networks and BBC, where she had responsibility for extending the companies’ many brands across mobile, broadband and on-demand platforms, including development of the BBC’s revolutionary iPlayer. Angel was also Director of Broadband at gameplay, and has consulted to a number of Fortune 500 companies on issues of online commerce.
