GERALD SOLOMON

Gerald Solomon served as the Executive Director of the Samueli Foundation for 14 years managing their global philanthropy, providing grants to innovative entrepreneurial programs in excess of $500 Mil worldwide. The focus was STEM Education, Youth Development, and Health and Wellness. During his tenure, he designed and launched the STEM Learning Ecosystem which today consists of over 90 cities across the globe (www.stemecosystems.org). In 2018, Mr. Solomon designed and launched NASEF, (www.nasef.org) the Network of Academic and Scholastic Esports Federations, the nation’s first-ever academic approach to esports, whose mission is to provide opportunities for ALL students to use esports as a platform to acquire the STEM skills needed for the workforce of tomorrow. NASEF is based upon a credentialed State of California-approved high school, CTE, and middle school curricula. In 4+ short years, NASEF is now in 49 states with over 30,000 students and reaches over 200,000 students in over 5,000 schools and clubs and affiliates in 38+ countries around the world.