Summary
Saf Elmansour is the Senior Coordinator for the Ozmen Center for Entrepreneurship, and i also an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the College of Business.
Right before he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, Saf founded his first start-up at age 24 with clients including Georgetown, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities. Over the next years, he gained valuable global strategic and operational expertise with leading multinationals such as Orange Telecom, General Motors, USA TODAY, and OOREDOO before going back to the tech entrepreneurial scene in the heart of San Francisco, building brands and growing marketing teams for SaaS platforms like SMULE and more recently as CMO for the iconic Auto-Tune® / Antares Audio Technologies.
During his career, he went on to launch and grow over 45 different products and services on 4 continents with both startups and Fortune 500 companies, lead multinational and multicultural teams, and manage integrated campaigns with top creative agencies (BBDO, Leo Burnett), media agencies (Horizon, Zenith, Starcom), and PR agencies (Hill & Knowlton).
His passion paved the way to earning many creative awards, prestigious public speaking engagements on University campuses and at top tech & entrepreneurial gatherings (The Global Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by president Barack Obama, MoDev), mentorships at leading orgs (Audio Developer Conference, US State Department, Gener8tor), as well as being interviewed by major news outlets like the International Business Times or France’s #1 business news channel BFM.
Creativity is the name of Saf's game whether at work or during his leisure time. In addition to marketing, Saf is able to apply the right side of his brain as a published photographer and semi-pro DJ & producer.
Courses taught
- MKT 451: Brand Management & Strategy
Education
- B.S. in Business Administration (Honors), Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- M.B.A. in Marketing, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC