Roger Spitz

Roger Spitz (M.Sc., FCA, APF) is an international bestselling author, a celebrated futurist, the president of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and the chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute, based in San Francisco.

Spitz lectures and publishes extensively on anticipatory leadership, futures capabilities and decision-making in complex unpredictable environments. Spitz has two decades of leading investment banking and venture capital businesses. He advises CEOs, founders, boards, and shareholders on their most strategic decisions, evaluating their organizations' competitiveness and identifying disruptions ahead.

Spitz sits on a number of advisory boards of companies, climate councils, venture capital funds, and academic institutions worldwide. He is also the Foresight & Sustainability partner of Vektor Partners (Palo Alto, London), a VC firm investing in the future of mobility, and an LP investor in Berkeley SkyDeck fund. Spitz is an industry-recognized expert, writer, speaker and investor in Artificial Intelligence, he chairs the Techistential Center for Human & Artificial Intelligence, and is known for coining the term "Techistentialism".

As former Global Head of Technology M&A with BNP Paribas, Spitz launched the bank’s US M&A practice in San Francisco and built its European Technology & Digital investment banking franchises in London and Paris.

Born in South Africa, Roger Spitz has lived in 10 different cities across three continents.