Praveen Mandal
Praveen is a veteran of 7 successful formative stage start-ups and a seasoned tech executive at 3 publicly traded companies. He is named co-inventor on 10 patents. As a founder, his 7 early stage startups have yielded 3 acquisitions, 2 unicorns (2 IPOs) and 0 failures. Companies he has founded: Pipal Systems (acquired by Riverstone Networks), ChargePoint, the Emerging Technologies Group at SGI, and 2predict. Praveen has held SVP of R&D or CTO positions at Riverstone Networks, Lucent Technologies, SGI and is currently CTO at Volta.
David Holz
David Holz is the founder & CEO of MidJourney, the most popular AI image generation platform on the internet. David began his startup journey as co-founding CTO of Leap Motion, one of the first AR/VR companies. Prior to founding Leap Motion, David worked for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Institute. He studied Applied Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ultimately leaving his PhD program to co-found Leap Motion in 2010.
Georges Sudarskis
Georges lead the private equity practice at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for 11 years. He shaped ADIA into one of the most sought-after sovereign wealth funds in the world, directing their investment into some of the most successful private investment vehicles of the digital age. Georges has been recognized as one of “The 100 most influential people of the decade in private equity” and one of “The 30 most influential LPs in Europe”.
Bharat Mediratta
Bharat joined Google in 2004 and lead Google’s search team for over a decade until 2015. In the industry, he is considered the architect of modern search. Under his leadership, Google captured 92% of internet search queries worldwide powering 30 billion searches per day and over 10 trillion searches per year. Bharat recently joined Coinbase as the first “fellow”.
Stephanie Sher
Stephanie Sher was on the early team at Datadog, shaping and executing on GTM strategy. She has led product and growth at robotics and machine learning companies, and now focuses on her portfolio of 30+ companies building social, machine learning, and software infrastructure in SF, NYC, and Europe.
Alexander Hess
Alex is passionate about shepherding advanced technology from concept to commercial reality and empowering founders and science to change the world. He has spent the past 5 years leading the technical development and the commercialization strategy of a wide variety of advanced materials, nanotechnology and sustainability inventions in R&D at IBM Research and more recently in senior R&D operating roles in the deeptech start up world (Cypris Materials, Terapore Technologies). Alex holds a DPhil (PhD) in Chemistry from Oxford University and is the proud holder of 6+ granted patents.