Mr. Angelou is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the International Accelerator in Austin, Texas, which is focused exclusively on foreign born entrepreneurs to help launch their technology startup businesses in the US. Angelos is an angel investor in several startups of foreign-born entrepreneurs.

He is also the Founder and Principal Executive Officer of AngelouEconomics (AE), and is widely regarded as the chief architect in establishing Austin as a nationally recognized high-tech center. Over the last 30 years the firm has conducted 650 economic development strategies for its clients and the location of nearly $18 billion in capital investments projects throughout the world. 

Prior to starting AngelouEconomics, Mr. Angelou spent nearly 12 years with the Austin Chamber of Commerce as Vice President of Economic Development and Chief Economist.

Mr. Angelou serves on the Advisory Board of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and he is also a fellow at the IC2 Institute at UT. 

Past board memberships include the International Economic Development Council, the World Congress of Information Technology and the Texas-Japan Economic Conference. Angelos was one of the founders of the Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce, and the Japan American Society in Austin and was also a founding member of the Site Selector’s Guild. He is the President of Schoox and of Gridmates, two portfolio start up companies in the International Acclerator. 

Angelos is the Texas Governor’s appointee to the oversight committee of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), a $3 billion grant fund that invests to recruit the best talent and commercialization of technologies for the cure of cancer.

Mr. Angelou attended the Ph.D. program in economics at Southern Methodist University, he holds a Masters in economics summa cum laude from St. Mary’s University, and a bachelor of arts in economics and political science from the University of Texas San Antonio.