Elliott Bisnow
Elliott Bisnow
Overview
Elliott Bisnow is the Founder & CEO of Summit, the Co-Founder & Vice Chairman of Bisnow Media, and a founding board member of the United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council. Summit is the owner of Powder Mountain Ski Resort in Eden, Utah, which is best known as the ski resort with the most skiable terrain in North America. For the past 6 years, the resort has been ranked by Ski Magazine out of 400 resorts in North America as the #1 value resort and most recently was ranked #4 in character, #2 in Snow and #9 in overall satisfaction. On the back side of Power Mountain, Summit is developing a 500 homesite community and core village called Summit Eden. Summit is excited about the opportunity to preserve the character and history of the resort, which opened in 1972. As the 300 people who work at Pow Mow say, you’re only a stranger once! Read about Summit Eden here. Elliott founded Summit in 2008, and as CEO oversees its annual gatherings, which Forbes has called “The Davos of Generation Y.” He also helps lead its Action Fund, which made 15 startup investments in the past 36 months, including Warby Parker, Scribd, Uber & Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo!). Elliott is Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Bisnow Media Corporation, the largest publisher of commercial real estate news in North America and one of the largest business event producers in the United States. In 2013, Craine’s ranked Bisnow Media the 12th fastest growing private company in New York City. Elliott is a venture partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund which invests in companies revolutionizing how the world learns and currently has the largest portfolio of education technology investments in the world including Edmodo, Bridge Academies, General Assembly and Coursera. He co-founded The Get Well Soon Tour, which brings iconic musicians to perform for sick children. At each Get Well Soon Tour stop, children in hospitals across America are surprised by bedside visits from their idols, who so far have included Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Bruno Mars, John Legend, Pitbull, and Mandy Moore.
