Daniel Saliba

Trying to figure out AI before it figures me out. The odds are 1 to a billion. But the wave is here, best to ride it...the intersection of human insight and machine capability, a time that shapes our collective future.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

Trying to figure out AI before it inevitably figures me out (and everyone else). I bet AI will get there first (if it hasn't yet)... but it's the journey that counts. Involving myself with some of the most innovative AI projects, including interoperability between AIs, how do AI connect and collaborate? How do we enable the direct interaction between AI agents and computational processes at scale, facilitating the emergence of more complex and intelligent systems? Other projects I am invovled in are enabling you and I and regular people to partake, contribute and benefit from the AI economy, additionally, another project is securing future wealth through cryptography and putting their wealth and data into people's hand (litterally) etc... Previously worked on Tech projects finding the synergy between real estate, land, and technology, leveraging Blockchain and innovative Data Structures... some of those projects produced superior technolgoy which is now becoming key infrastructure to successful tech projects outside real estate. I also worked on unlocking real estate liquidity through the creation of a Real Estate centic Exchange for tokenized and crowdfunded assets: too much and too many legal battles there, so had to shelf it for now.... Prior to jumping into the tech entrepreneurial journey (don't do it), I had a Commercial Real Estate private equity and investment background, lead and participated in transactions and deals worth more than $6B around the world.

Experience

  • Advisor at HyperCycle.ai
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Co-Founder at Land32
    Mar 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    Creating superior technology software that helps transcending land into the digital space. Recognizing land as one of the most important natural resources, the most important tangible possession humanity has ever had. It is valuable and in high demand but finite... supply has stopped few million years ago. Land32 is digitally capturing small divisions of earth's land, by the sqcm, and turning those land representation units into immutable exchangeable store of value. Land32's global applications will empower Governments, agriculture, farm and land owners, individuals and investors to participate in and benefit from wealth creation.

  • Chief Executive Officer at Araa | Land Transcendence Technologies
    Mar 2022 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Real Estate, a $333.3 trillion global asset class, is in the midst of disruption through technology and new regulatory frameworks. Soon there will be thousands of platforms crowdfunding real estate through tokenization and fractional ownership, and they need to reach a wider audience to fulfill the promise of Real Estate Liquidity. Similarly, Virtual Real Estate in the Metaverse is growing exponentially, yet accessibility and scattered information amongst other problems need a solution. Araa is a dedicated Vertical Marketplace Aggregator that is on a mission to help expedite the adoption of digitized real estate worldwide, be it physical digitized real estate or virtual metaverse real estate. Araa is building a global real estate community, an aggregator and marketplace that help connect demand and supply and provide each with their necessary tools to achieve their needs.

  • Asset Management and Investment Advisor at Self-Employed
    Sep 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    - Real Estate strategic planning - Execution of real estate plans - Restructuring - Equity and Debt Financing - Acquisition and Development - Value Optimization and Creation

  • Investment Director at Istithmar World
    Mar 2007 - Aug 2015 · 8 yrs 6 mos

    - Asset and investment management - Debt financing and restructuring - Investment origination, acquisitions and dispositions - Joint Venture agreement negotiation, structuring and implementation - Strategic planning and financial analysis - Hotel Asset Management - Hotel Investment Management - Hotel operator contract negotiation - Asset and Hotel Dispositions Select investments previously involved in: Mandarin Oriental Hotel NYC, W Hotel Washington DC, One&Only Palmilla Resort Los Cabos, Mexico, Fontainebleau Resort, Miami. Recent notable transactions: Disposition of 450 Lexington Avenue, a trophy office building in Manhattan, New York City (c.1m sqft).