James H. Faghmous, Ph.D .is a serial entrepreneur and the author of “Before ‘I Do’: 150 Questions Muslims Must Ask Before Marriage” and the forthcoming “Success with God: The 12 Rules of Spiritual Success”.

James helps Muslims achieve their biggest ambitions by tapping into their most neglected asset: their faith. With his wife Zahra Aljabri, he created their premier coaching program “Limitless Love”, the “Spiritual MBA” program, and the food freedom program “Ramadan 365” to help Muslims not be broke, broken, or bedridden.

Through his consultancy, WSDM.AI, James has advised some of the world’s largest VC funds (A16Z, FirstMark, Upfront, SignalFire, etc.) and helped multiple billion-dollar companies use AI to better serve their customers including Evidation ($1B), Ipsy ($1.3B), and Daily Harvest ($1.1B). In a previous life, James was a professor at Mount Sinai, Stanford, and USC and has taught MOOCs in AI and machine learning at MIT Sloan and Columbia. James graduated from City College of New York where he played men’s basketball and was a Gates and Rhodes scholar nominee