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Skip to content Twitter LinkedIn GitHub Search for: HIDARY FOUNDATION HOME ABOUT CONTACT BLOG About Jack D. Hidary is a successful serial tech entrepreneur.6a00e55093e618883301910388baf5970c-150wi Jack first established EarthWeb, a company dedicated to the needs of tech professionals. Jack co-founded the company with Murray Hidary and Nova Spivack. Jack led the company from its inception through three rounds of investment and then its IPO. Under Jack’s leadership, EarthWeb acquired Dice.com, a website that connects users with jobs, and other sites dedicated to the needs of IT professionals. As Chairman and CEO of the public company, Jack continued to grow the company and engage with shareholders, customers and analysts. (NYSE: DHX) www.dice.com Jack now is the Senior Advisor to X Labs, the advanced innovation lab of Alphabet/Google. In his current role, Jack focuses on the marketplace scaling of X innovations and the scouting of new technologies. www.x.company Jack is the co-founder and Chairman of Samba Energy, a technology company that integrates and implements clean tech solutions for enterprise customers www.sambaenergy.com Committed to community and philanthropic causes, he has received several industry and community awards as well as being recognized as a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Davos. He is also a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). He serves on several boards including the X Prize Foundation www.xprize.org Jack studied philosophy and neuroscience at Columbia University and was awarded a Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Under the fellowship, he conducted research on the use of neural networks to model and analyze the data in functional neuroimaging using techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to study brain states. Jack is a regular guest on business and tech channels such as Bloomberg, CNBC and CNN. http://bloom.bg/26jlgmy Jack was born in the Ocean Parkway Sephardic community near Coney Island. Jack’s great-grandparents came to Ellis Island as immigrants, living in the Lower East Side tenements. Jack’s great-grandfather, Moses Hidary, worked as both an itinerant barber and teacher. In the 1920’s and 30’s Jack’s grandfather Jack Hidary was selling tablecloths and together with his son Moe founded the family business that is seventy years old and continues to thrive. His grandfather moved the family to Brooklyn and co-founded the community that continues to thrive there today. Jack was born at Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville and he and his parents spent his first year living in his grandmother’s house. The family then shared a two-family home with their uncle and aunt before moving to their own house. Jack grew up with strong role models and small business owners in a community where everyone had an open door. Jack’s father, David Hidary, joined the family business and is a very active community member dedicated to education and social services. Jack’s father was president of the local school for 20 years. Jack’s mother is head of the Orange Dance Program, a non-profit program for girls in memory of Mariel Hidary. The family shared a two-family home with their uncle and aunt upstairs before moving to their own house near PS 215 where Jack’s father had attended school. Jack is the oldest of four brothers and a sister, Mariel Hidary, who was tragically killed at the age of 23 in a traffic accident in 2006. In Jack’s community, it’s family first: the first-born is trained to be a leader and take care of the family. Surrounded by strong role models, Jack learned the importance of public service. In 1998, Jack and his brother Murray took their company public when Jack was 30 years old. From the tenements of the lower east side to the floor of the stock exchange is only a few minutes away and yet connects ninety years of the Hidary family history. RECENT POSTS _ Resources for Emerging Techies AUGUST 28, 2017 A New Day in Cancer Treatment JULY 9, 2017 PowerForward: a New Tech Ed Program MARCH 3, 2017 You are invited to attend a musical evening with Murray Hidary and the Mindtravel Orchestra with remarks by Dr. Dean Ornish MAY 27, 2016 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL UPDATES FOLLOW US ON TWITTER