Kunal Sood is a social entrepreneur, the Founder of The Novus Summit, and X Fellows. He is also a partner at the X-Impact Group.

Sood is breaking ground at the intersection of education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Sood is engaged in high-tech startups, curates high-octane flagship summits, and serves on the board as an advisor to various education and entrepreneur initiatives. To name a few, he is involved with MIT Solve, Edcast, and Women’s Entrepreneurship Day.

Sood sees his life’s purpose of transforming and impacting a billion lives, a motto he adopted from his time at Singularity University.

Sood grew up with a myriad of challenges as a child. He was challenged by learning disabilities, dyslexia, and ADHD. He also dealt with weight challenges, and was bullied from the age of nine onwards. In India, his teachers often told him that he would amount to nothing in life.