Kyle Nel is Chief Executive Officer of Ortelan, where he leads the lab’s products, client work and investments. For nearly two decades, he has built teams and companies around emerging technology.
Before Ortelan, Kyle was a Partner at Sandbox Industries and President of Singularity Labs at Singularity University, which acquired Uncommon Partners, the firm he co-founded and led as CEO, in 2019. Before that, he founded Lowe’s Innovation Labs, where his team put augmented and virtual reality, autonomous retail robots, and wearable robotics into practice, and sent a 3D printer to the International Space Station. He also built a technology lab and incubator in Bangalore, India.
Kyle is co-author of Leading Transformation (Harvard Business Review), a book on organizational change drawing on narrative, behavioral science and applied neuroscience. He serves on the boards of emerging technology companies, is on the faculty of Singularity University, and previously sat on the XPRIZE Foundation Innovation Board. His recognitions include Advertising Age’s 40 Under 40 and the National Retail Federation’s People Shaping Retail’s Future.
Kyle holds an MBA from the AC Nielsen Center for Marketing Research at the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University–Idaho.
