Samer Bishay is President and CEO of Iristel, Canada’s leading provider of wireless IP services. As Iristel’s founder, Samer led the company from a small startup to an international telecommunications service provider with domestic infrastructure licenses on three continents.
Samer has won numerous awards and accolades. Most notably, he is the recipient of Profit Magazine’s Young Entrepreneur Award as the youngest CEO among the Top Profit 100 companies in Canada.
Prior to founding Iristel, Samer was a lead Systems Engineer in the Radarsat program at the Canadian Space Agency. He brought about optimization techniques which further improved performance and significantly increased revenues for the Space Agency’s satellite mapping initiative.
Samer is a graduate of the Space & Communications program at York University, Toronto, with an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree.