EF Alumni

Anant Kapoor

CEO, Guided Energy

Founded:

Cofounder:

Eric Daoud Attoyan

Interests / background:

Sustainability, Transportation and Logistics

Location:

Paris

Cohort:

Social:

Anant is a Cambridge & MIT engineer with a deep expertise in logistics. As product manager and then head of product, he’s launched and grown products used by thousands of fleets to track and cut their emissions.

From wave power to smart HVAC systems to fleet optimisation software, his career has been marked by a passion to mitigate the risk of climate change.

Company:

Guided Energy

Smart energy for electric fleets.

Farrah Barber

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Ex-McKinsey consultant and software engineer, with experience in private equity and sustainability.

Kriti Dang

Bachelors of Business. Has experience leading teams and being part of the 0-1 Journey of companies.

Benjamin White

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Expert in Nanotechnology & Smart Materials. PhD from the Uni of Oxford & MChem from the Uni of Bath.

Amaury van Trappen de Buggenoms

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Cambridge Graduate. Ex-Rolls-Royce Thermal Engineer. Specialist in Photovoltaic Thermal Transfers.

Justin Cheng

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Mechanical engineer from University of Waterloo. Background in robotics & smart farms.

Christopher Klich

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Polyglot business leader with exp. scaling start-ups globally. MSc in Economics & Sustainability.

Emily Sheridan

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PhD Bio-Nanoscience from top 1% nano research centre. Specialist in biochem, biotech & nanotech.

Seadna Quigley

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Repeat founder; CFO in sustainability, scaling company through 7x revenue growth in 5yrs.

Tomek McClintock

Economics MPhil from Cambridge & BEng from Imperial College. Ex-Bain consultant focused on finance.

Amit Kumar Khan

PhD in Biomaterials Science, startup experience, built & led tech team, 6 patents, 4 publications.

Jon Ho

CEO, Allium Bio

Agrifoodtech VC. Launched $30M healthtech business. Raised $3M for previous startup.

Jake Berber

As a neuroscientist with an MBA, Jake was employee #8 at a biotech startup and a foodtech VC.

Jakub Stojek

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Founder of the 22nd fastest growing company in Europe @ FT 1000. Forbes 30 Under 30 Finalist.

Vassily Carantino

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Ex-McKinsey consultant. Focus on sustainability & carbon markets. Columbia Business School grad.

James Hastwell

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Ex-Head of Data Science managing 15 engineers. Big-data product expert. École Polytechnique grad.

Brett Cotten

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Alternative protein domain expert. Food and materials book author. Cambridge MBA for biotech (MBE).

Jacqueline Good

Launched 4 data apps, <$10M in tech sales. Ex-OMERS, TIBCO, Avid.ly. Sponsored by ESA.

Milton Calderon Donefer

Founded & scaled restaurant service organization across 10+ Canadian cities. Loran Scholar @ McGill

Tony Qu

Engineer with a background leading business development @ energy companies in developing countries

Rishabh Varshney

Building climate solutions since 2012. CEO @ buywithimpact (acq), Product/Design @ RBC, Wrapbook

Justin Macorin

2x founder focused on ML & cybersecurity. Built & sold enterprise SaaS to Fortune 500s

Anna Wang

Experienced investor in renewable & infrastructure projects. Helped companies with energy transition

Nicolas Carmont

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Experience creating sustainability startups with background in AI and software engineering

Alex Lempka

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Experience founding and scaling businesses, worked in FinTech his entire career

Ludovico Mitchener

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AI engineer & interdisciplinary scientist

Stefan Grossfurthner

CEO, PhycoWorks

Prize-winning synthetic biologist with a PhD in algal biotechnology from Cambridge

Dr Dinaz Zenobia Stutterheim

Expert in advanced mechanics of materials, PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Prakruti Kodali

Degree in Civil Engineering, experience driving growth strategy and innovation as a consultant

Mohammad Sherafatmand

PhD researching novel electrochemical technologies

Cesar Valencia-Gallardo

Former academic, deep expertise across biophysics and biotechnology

Haïkel Balti

Trained mechanical engineer and material scientist

Guillaume Rivals

Computer science and AI engineer, passionate about using data to fight climate change.

Ahmed Isber

Experienced in B2B sales, passionate about sustainability as a service.

Daniel Ruiz

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10+ years of technical entrepreneurship, NGO founder and mentor, and engineering leader at Fintechs.

Nael Cavazos

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3x founder, MBA candidate, mechatronics engineer, and self-taught CFO.

Eric Daoud Attoyan

CTO, Guided Energy

Machine Learning PhD from INRIA & Paris-Saclay Uni. Transport & Resource Allocation specialist.

Sarthak Shrivastava

Has experience in logistics and building multiple business verticals at Indian startups.

Alexander Reichenbach

Former lead product owner at Mercedes-Benz. Master’s in Computing/Machine Learning from Imperial

Karl Johan Clausen

Background in road logistics and experienced sales manager. Recently helped scale a startup

Fuad Becirbasic

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Full stack developer, expertise creating scalable marketplaces and leading engineering team

Benjamin Noyan

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Passion for transforming the freight industry, advised Europe's largest transportation businesses

Carmine Paolino

Began programming at 5, developed machine learning and anti-corruption systems

Aswin Ramachandran

PhD in Decentralised Systems Communication, built hardware and software for autonomous robots

Victor Borsche

Master's in International Management, previous founder in travel and manufacturing, ex-BMW

Avik Mukhija

Machine learning scientist & entrepreneur, developed & sold AI solutions to grocery retailers

Martin Postel

Expert in automation and optimisation for supply and production, with a PhD in AI in Manufacturing

Helen Murphy

Strong expertise in leading commercial and technical businesses across consumer goods and operations

Walter Frank Pintor Ortiz

Expertise across industrial robotics and automation

Dr Dirk-Jan van Veen

Expert in optimising software agents to communicate and collaborate

Jedd Cheong Jia Hao

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PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, expert in medical imaging

Thomas Yue

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PhD in Computational Physics, experience in algorithmic trading

Navid Nourani Vatani

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Roboticist with experience developing autonomous trucks, trains, and off-road vehicles

Sandip Gangakhedkar

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Wireless systems engineer, developed the first 5G-based teleoperated driving prototype

Koosha Kaveh

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Experience in strategy consulting, MEng in Electrical Engineering

Dennis Sandmark

Full stack software engineer, built robust, scalable systems

Chris Jones

Ex-Merchant Navy, experience conducting cargo ships

Boris Ploix

Degree in Applied Mathematics, experience in the transport industry

Lingxiao Xia

Expert in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Nidhi Gupta

Experience in the logistics industry

Christian Schiller

Led and scaled BlaBlaCar Germany to 6 million registered users

Volkan Bilici

Full-stack software and blockchain developer

Abhinav Warrier

In-depth knowledge of robotics, worked on navigation and battery management

Anurag Dutta

Experienced in warehousing, supply chain and operations

Dr Elias Willemse

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Expert in optimisation modelling, developed AI to optimise waste collection

Vladimir Chuchkin

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Experienced in business development for tech and energy companies

Prateek Gaur

Extensive background in computer science and machine learning, ex-Head of Data

Dmitri Ameriei

Experienced leading logistics, shipping products in over 45 countries

Simon Jordan

Machine learning expert, ex-researcher in Silicon Valley and led development teams at Volkswagan

Alexander Palffy

Experienced in warehouse operations and logistics

David Meyer

Former LEK consultant, experience in fast-growing mobility startups

Juan Barragan

Experienced in software development with work on pattern recognition in finance and advertising

Hubert Baya Toda

Expert in remotely characterising materials using electromagnetic waves

Mehdi Adjaoue

Machine learning expert, deployed autonomous museum guides as an undergraduate

Abhishek Anand

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Award-winning data science with experience in product development and cybersecurity

Aditya Singh

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Expert in the shipping and transportation space

Manasa Nadipally

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Expert in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Medical Image Processing

Nikhil Sharma

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Expert in logistics with experience from corporate and startup worlds

Sudeept Sinha

Ex-quantative trader, developer price prediction algorithms

Kaushik Reddy

Experienced in shipping across Asia and Europe

Nicolas Ang

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Aeronautical Engineering specialist, experienced bringing investment to Singapore

Yeshwanth Reddy

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Aerospace engineer, experienced in drone product development

Puneet Chhabra

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Experienced in LiDAR, Radar, and Sonar technologies, PhD in Electrical Engineering

Jean-Baptiste Clouard

Experienced in supply chains, previously Anaplan, Quintiq, and Dassault Systèmes

Karim Benchaaboun

Machine learning engineer, previously Axa and Criteo

Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah

MSc in Computational Mechanics, built city-scale simulations

Maria Meier

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MSc in Software Engineering, previously TU Munich, Brown University and Oracle