Draft:Mohamed Abousalem
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Mohamed Abousalem, PEng, is the 3rd president of Keck Graduate Institute. Abousalem began his tenure on July 1, 2024. He previously served as the Vice President for Research and Innovation and as President of the Board of Directors of the SJSU Research Foundation at San José State University from 2019-2024.
Early life and education
[edit]Abousalem was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where he was also raised and went to school at Victoria College. He earned a BS in civil engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at Alexandria University before moving to Canada, where he received an MS and PhD in geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary. Abousalem also holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Career
[edit]Abousalem's distinguished career spans executive positions at non-profit organizations, private industry, and academia, focused on catalyzing technology solutions and advancing research and innovation. His deep experience in California includes serving most recently as the inaugural Vice President for Research and Innovation at San José State University (SJSU) and as President of the Board of Directors of the SJSU Research Foundation. At SJSU, he led the strategic growth of student-engaged research as he grew the SJSU research enterprise from $47M to $84M in five years. He also established the innovation strategic plan to serve as the blueprint for supporting student, faculty, and alumni entrepreneurs through technology transfer, a startup incubator, and several industry partnerships.
Prior to SJSU, Abousalem led the University of California Santa Cruz's (UCSC) technology transfer, commercialization, and entrepreneurship enterprise. There, he doubled the annual number of invention disclosures, generated substantial state funding, and established a wet-lab incubator and a Silicon Valley startup accelerator.
In 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Abousalem to the Board of Directors of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Abousalem also served on several other community and corporate including the Calgary-based technology startup companies Nanalysis Scientific Corp. and Litus Inc.
Prior to academia, Abousalem was the founding chief executive officer of TECTERRA, a Canadian not-for-profit organization supporting geospatial technology commercialization. Under his leadership, TECTERRA invested over $40 million to nurture 200 startup companies across Canada and 25 applied research projects from Alberta universities, generating over $325 million in economic impact. Prior to TECTERRA, he led several large-scale, multi-national Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and business operations at Hemisphere GPS and Thales/Magellan Navigation, where he led several technology partnerships including those with the American Automobile Association (AAA) and Hertz Rent-a-Car.