Faruq Hunter is the founder and President of GeniusCo and its subsidy GeniusCorps. He has traveled and worked in over 90 countries, servicing both the public and private sectors and is the Head Geek in charge connecting innovative start-up communities across 180 countries with Geeks Gone Global. Mr. Hunter has been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine for creating a legacy of wealth and stability for your family and selected as one of the 50 most important African Americans in technology. Mr. Hunter's primary focus is on using innovation as a foundation for developing systems to create, re-create, rejuvenate and sustain the concept of the rural town as efficient hubs for economic progress and production.

Mr. Hunter was a 13 year old high school graduate. He completed his first degree at the International University of Africa in Khartoum, Sudan. Primarily a self learner and self starter, after training himself to be a computer programmer, Business Analyst and Project Manager he held positions at Fortune 500 companies and has successfully lead projects with multi-million dollar budgets and led two multi-national tech firms with locations in more than 60 countries. Having never borrowed money to launch or operate a business and having never gotten a promotion within the same company, Mr. Hunter went from a graphic designer at Deloitte to a Chief technical officer at a multi-national 300 Million dollar fashion company by the age of 25, after creating his first multi-million dollar software company at the age of 21. 

A father of 8, Mr. Hunter is currently dedicated to eradicating poverty through distributed local manufacturing, self sustainability and innovation through the social organization, GeniusCorps.

Hunter will speak at Georgia Tech's IMPACT Speaker Series on Wednesday, January 28th, 2015. All are welcome to attend.  

About the Impact Speaker Series:

Since 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership". The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders.

The series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.