We help founders, funders, institutions & leaders create value, achieve scale and drive impact.
We help founders, funders, institutions & leaders create value, achieve scale and drive impact.
About Us
Saif Y. Ishoof - Managing Partner/Lab22c
Saif Y. Ishoof, Esq.
Saif is a Miami native and expert on how the forces of disruption are transforming how we learn, work, and play. Saif has been recognized with several prestigious distinctions including as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a scholar of the German Marshall Fund. Saif is a frequently sought-after advisor and board member to venture & private-equity backed companies and also a speaker and writer on subjects ranging from innovation, talent, American competitiveness, the #FutureOfWork & Web 3.0.
Saif previously served as the Vice President for Engagement at Florida International University and as the founding Senior Advisor for Innovation & Technology to City of Miami Mayor, Francis Suarez. As VP for Engagement, Saif built transformational partnerships for the university and generated over $70m to fuel institutional impact. In Saif’s role as the founding Head of Mayor Suarez’s Venture Miami team, he has worked to assist scores of companies and funds that have relocated to Miami and advised on several signature projects in the frontier technology domain in support of Mayor Suarez’s vision of Miami as the ‘capital of capital’. Prior to FIU, Saif served as the founding Executive Director of City Year Miami.
Saif earned his bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law.