EF Alumni

Hevar Abrihem

CTO, MoonGate

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Interests / background:

AI, Media and Gaming, web3

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London

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Hevar is a seasoned technical and business leader with expertise in building startups. At just 15, he built a game server hosting startup, and by 20 had an acquisition of a B2C startup under his belt where he then worked as their head of engineering post-acquisition. Soon after, Hevar joined a web3 gaming infrastructure startup as the lead engineer and was deeply embedded in solving web3 authentication problems. This has given him a unique perspective in the problem space and the challenges faced by many companies trying to improve accessibility and onboarding into web3.

Company:

MoonGate

Supercharge dApp UX: one-step web3 onboarding. No seed phrases, no downloads.

Kush Madlani

Ex-Tractable ML Researcher. Left career as a derivatives trader after teaching himself how to code.

Gregory Mostyn

Seasoned sales & marketing leader who's managed 25m+ in revenue across two high growth startups.

Julien Séveno-Piltant

EPITA AI graduate, deep-learning teacher & full-stack developer. Former CTO & serial entrepreneur.

Abdulhakim Bashir

CTO, Moonah Technologies

ML Engineer & Analyst @ Nigerian Government. Built AML algos to monitor finance & crypto sectors.

Cecy Price

CEO, Biographica

Oxford biological scientist. Imperial ML Masters. Experience commercialising gene-editing technology

Yanlin Duan

CTO, Greenspot AI

Machine Learning Master from Columbia University. Tech lead of Robinhood’s lifecycle marketing tool.

Christophe Auber

CEO, Greenspot AI

Math & CS Bachelors from Stanford. Led sales productivity & strategy projects at McKinsey.

Gian Luigi D’Alessandro

Physics PhD, ML expert at CERN. Indie Game Developer. Leading author of 3D modelling papers.

Oliver Markham

Second-time founder. Scaled previous company to 100+ employees, $MMs in ARR and raised $15MM in VC.

Timothy Wu

Self-taught AI Engineer. Lawyer & legal-tech founder. LLB Graduate at LSE.

Daniel Duma

Founder & CTO of multiple tech startups, PhD in AI, ex-Google, ex-Alexa.

Nicholas Ustaran-Anderegg

Machine learning engineer, MEng Imperial College London.

Param Kumar

Product manager leading SaaS teams, Ex-Just Eat, Ex-PolyAI.

Christopher Tan

ML Scientist in Language-based Reinforcement Learning, research partner at DeepMind & Google Brain.

Dr Dom Pimenta

MBBS UCL, pharmaceutical & cardiology physician, digital health academic, winner of RAE award.

Matthew Bond

CEO, Borderless

Oxford Maths + Berkeley MBA. 2x founder. Product builder in SF tech startups & London finance firms.

Lucien Maman

Ph.D. holder in Affective Computing / AI, with a background in software and video engineering.

Lorenzo d’Auria

Financial analyst turned product manager. Scaled B2B products processing billions of euros.

Ege Yay

CTO, CloudSale AI

Early employee & Country Manager at Bolt. Europe partner at MEGVII. Found & sold previous AI startup

Justin Cheng

CTO, Mycro Harvest

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

Christopher Klich

CEO, Mycro Harvest

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

Dr Miena Amiri

Ex Merck strategy lead & portfolio manager, physician by training, with PhD in med. psychology.

Alexander Götz

Physicist, CERN researcher, self-taught software engineer and second time founder.

Fabian Steuer

CTO, Amayu Health

Full-stack engineer, data scientist and product leader in VC-backed startups.

François-Guillaume Fernandez

Deep learning researcher for DevTools. Top contributor to the leading AI open source framework.

Anastasia Wolter

Data Scientist turned Product Manager, leading tech teams to deliver multi-million $ AI software.

Henri de Bouteiller

Sciences Po business grad. 8 yrs building early stage startups at Paack (unicorn), Bonjour & Matcha.

Julia Denoly

Bocconi & ESSEC business. Ex Buyer @LVMH, Sales Lead @Otrium & Women of Influence 2020 Nominee.

Saurabh Jejurikar

CEO, Endovision

5x founder, experienced in business development, AI and mathematics.

Kushagra Pandya

AI Engineer with a passion for video and edge computing.

Daniel Partida

MSc in applied mathematics from ETH Zurich. Passion for web3 with deep expertise in NLP/AI.

Moritz Gessl

WHU graduate, co-founded crypto start-up and built companies for an incubator, in crypto since 2017.

Amine Afia

CTO, Blocktorch

KIT & INP Grenoble grad. Specialist in building & leading teams to deliver SaaS products at scale.

Damodar Sojka

Experienced CTO. Built two-sided marketplaces. Passion for using Web3 to solve Web2 inefficiencies.

Adrian Ahne

CTO, Akuity Care

PhD in AI applied to digital health, studying psychological factors of chronic diseases.

James Hastwell

CTO, CarbonFarm

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

Daniel Sozonov

Founder of leading applied ML company in facial recognition for access control and payments.

Dilip Rajeswari

Led the R&D team, working at the intersection of Machine Learning, Neuroscience and Psychiatry.

Bali Lee

PhD in Neuroscience. Five years establishing preclinical, translational and clinical collaborations.

Henry Course

Fintech expert and previous founder. He’s built products that serve millions of people.

Tom Gotsman

CEO, SoLo Protocol

Oxford, UC Berkeley, Imperial College. Machine learning researcher. Previous AI startup manager.

Kit Burgess

Founding-team engineer at US$100M Startup. Cambridge Mathematician.

Rohan Tangri

CEO, Compass Labs

AI @ JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Statistical Machine Learning PhD @ Imperial College London.

Elisabeth Duijnstee

CEO, Compass Labs

Physics PhD @ University of Oxford, Machine Learning fellow @ Faculty AI.

Adithya Narayanan

Masters from Harvard University. Strong business, commercial and design skills. Experienced leader.

Vishal Bhalla

TU Munich graduate, with an AI major. Specialist in NLP and personal assistants R&D.

Agrim Singh

CS graduate, SUTD Singapore, Former web3 founder, worked with Pitbull.

Vibhor Saran

Ex VP - Data Science Team at Dozee, with 3 patents on applied Digital Signal Processing.

Sakshi Udeshi

CTO, Lumeros AI

PhD, Machine Learning Testing from SUTD. Discovered 100K+ bugs in Google, Microsoft and Amazon’s AI.

Kevin Yee

CTO, BetterData

BEng in AI. Ex-IBM. Unlocked phones with fake human fingerprints. Winner of Ideasinc 2017.

Admond Lee

Physicist turned full-stack data scientist.

Burhan Ul Tayyab

AI Researcher with Global Awards.

Fannie Lin

Repeat Entrepreneur and founder. PhD.

Negin Nahoomi

CTO, Speech Titan

NLP Engineer with experience developing AI products from R&D to production

Siyavash G. Nia

Former VP of Product, dual masters in Tech & Science, built FDA approved AI medical imaging product

Justin Macorin

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

Naveen Vedula

Artificial Intelligence PhD with expertise in computer vision and hardware

Charles Ashby-Lepore

CTO, Metacommerce

Senior Software Developer, with expertise in Machine Learning. Ex Co-Founder, Koïos Intelligence.

Sudipta Biswas

Expert in AI, machine learning, deep learning and product development.

Ritwika Chowdhury

Co-founder, unScript AI

Expert in Computer Vision and Scalable AI, former Research Scientist at Intel Labs

Avi Agarwal

Natural language processing expert, built products that grew revenue by $750,000

Saahil Dama

Former tech lawyer at top-tier firm, ran profitable EdTech company

Kushagra Manglik

Has experience building APIs and AI models for multiple large scale companies.

Siddharth Sharma

#13 @ Wayve. Deployed real-time Machine Learning on autonomous vehicles. Ex-Microsoft.

Tom Etminan

Founded 2nd Gen Art NFT project on Solana. 2x founder. web3 investor

Michael Baumgartner

2x founder, extensive experience with sales and product, Master’s from CBS

Reza Zolfaghari

Deep Learning/Computer Vision PhD, expert scientist in video creation

Robert Van Den Bergh

Prev CEO & Founder @ VC backed robotics and AI company. Expert in growth marketing and partnerships.

Cameron Whitehead

Previously Senior Engineer at Series A tech company. Expert in building scalable consumer solutions.

Phil Haynes

PhD Molecular Biophysics at UCL and Imperial College London. Specialist in AI and microscopy R&D.

Rory Ryan

3x founder, exited 1x biotech company, experienced in engineering, 3 years working in Shenzhen China

James Branigan

Cambridge graduate. Degrees in Physics, Applied Mathematics, and AI. Former top B2C salesman

Ojas Shukla

Second time founder. University of Singapore dropout. Successfully exited first company at age 19

Marcus Naughton

CEO/CTO, Chatsight

LLB Graduate, with Economics. Self-taught NLP/AI Engineer. Red Bull Basement national winner 2019

Brent Rohner

Exited founder (MarTech), B2C growth marketer and full-stack engineer.

David Bouba

Co-founder, Swaap

Ex-Snap Inc. engineer building million-user scale software products

Pamela Carvallo

Machine learning specialist (PhD) & 2nd time technical founder.

Svend Court-Payen

Co-founded a video-first website builder. Expert in video, growth and social media.

Alesis Novik

Exited co-founder and CTO of AimBrain, formerly CERN and E Capital

Kacper Kielak

CTO, Quantum Boost

Software engineer specialising in machine learning and optimisation. Ex-Amazon and JPMorgan.

Rachiket Arya

NUS Science and Technology Scholar, with experience in building software products from scratch.

Oleksii Sidorov

Machine Learning expert who has built algorithms at Facebook AI Research and Oxford University.

Ivo Verhaegh

CEO, Powerhouse AI

Former founder and background in project leadership in innovation and process optimisation.

Majid Hasan

An economist and a data scientist with a Ph.D. in finance.

Jiale Tan

Driven by a mission to democratise access and analysis of ESG investing.

Maria Corlianò

Maria is an award-winning scientist and brings experience in the field of the gut microbiome.

Ian Chong

An experienced founder, founded & exited 2 businesses prior, specialising in performance marketing.

Srinidhi Moodalagiri

Computer scientist, built risk models for multi-billion dollar consumer portfolios

Mansoor Rahimat Khan

CEO, Beatoven.ai

Engineer combining classical music training and a background in live and recording industry

Siddharth Bhardwaj

CTO, Beatoven.ai

Solved problems in audio signal processing, machine learning, deep learning & generative music

Anshul Basia

Worked on critical NLP based solutions at Microsoft, graduate from IIT Delhi

Arthur Wandzel

AI researcher specialising in computer vision and robotic decision making

Gui Wainwright

Ran data & special projects for 5x governments, 2x militaries, 3x startups, 1x unicorn & JAMM

Cuong To

CTO, Cinference

Expert in machine learning, previously lead data scientist at AI startup

Daan Zeeuwe

Experienced software architect and published researcher, worked on multiple AI-related projects

Dominik Lambersy

CEO, Text Cortex AI

Experience in venture capital, automation, AI, ex-Imperial College London

Carmine Paolino

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

Avik Mukhija

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

Ilan Palacci

Engineer, former CPO of AI startup

Nicolas Carmont

CTO, Connect Earth

Experience creating sustainability startups with background in AI and software engineering

Ludovico Mitchener

CTO, PhycoWorks

AI engineer & interdisciplinary scientist

Kit Logan

Founded a product studio at 14, winning awards for activity tracking products loved by 350k people

Charlie Leggate

Experienced founder and commercial strategist, grew a FitTech community from 0-450k

Lorenzo Ampil

CTO, Hawksight.co

Data scientist, built financial AI software for global enterprises and asset management firms

Walter Frank Pintor Ortiz

Expertise across industrial robotics and automation

Dr Dirk-Jan van Veen

Expert in optimising software agents to communicate and collaborate

Davy Smith

AI researcher with post-doc in interactive and adaptive broadcasting technologies

Raja Srivastav Chirravuri

Master's in Engineering, experience building and scaling natural language processing products

Ehsan Ghoreishi

PhD in AI, built content classification techniques for major telcos

Danica Damljanovic

CEO, Sentient Machines

PhD in AI and Natural Language Processing, worked in startups analysing natural language

Alex Palmer-Walsh

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su

Co-founder, PolyAI

Award-winning reinforcement learning expert, previously Facebook AI Research

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen

Machine learning researcher, previously worked at Google Brain and IPSoft

Nikola Mrkšić

PhD in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, first hire at VocalIQ

Jesse Shemen

Graduate of Stearn Business School, previously Deloitte Ventures and Octopus Investments

Caleb Chiu

Expert in consumer applications, developed AI-enabled digital therapeutics

Rose Haft

Studied Biomedical Optics at some of the world's leading engineering schools

Jurek Kozyra

PhD in DNA Nanotechnology, background in complex AI

Sagar Setu

CTO, Milky Way AI

Robotics and computer vision expert, PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Eunice Wong

CEO, Milky Way AI

Award-winning retail professional

Rob Palumbo

Growth marketing leader who scaled 3x B2C companies from Seed to Series A/B+ and millions in revenue

Sean Billings

Cloud + ML engineer going heads down on production-grade ML systems with OutPoint, Cambridge, Amazon

Yufan Wang

Co-founder, AIMS

Ph.D. in the area of wearable devices, artificial intelligence, and sports motion analysis

Audrey Gayman

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, TOffeeAM

PhD in Additive Manufacturing, expertise in robust analysis

Marco Pietropaoli

PhD in Fluid Dynamics, expertise in AI software for Additive Manufacturing.

Gong Yiwei

Co-founder, VRcollab

Brings experience in network and distributed systems

Joshua Oppenheimer

CEO, Transformative

Emergency medicine doctor

Marek Sirendi

CTO, Transformative

Ex-researcher at CERN, PhD in High Energy Physics

Sumukh Avadhani

AI expert, previously Samsung Creativity Lab, Toshiba and Google

Shubhankar Srivastava

Specialist in AI and machine learning

Misha Filippov

Chief Scientist, Quod AI

Mathematical physicist, built AI models for prestigious institutions

Kaveh Taghipour

PhD in Natural Language Processing, developed information extraction and text classification systems

Lingxiao Xia

Expert in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Jaron Collis

Co-founder, Plural AI

PhD in AI, experience building natural language and knowledge-based systems

Haoyu Bai

Co-founder, Movel

PhD in Computer Science with experience in AI and robotics

Mislav Stipetic

CTO, Magic Sandbox

Full-stack engineer, previously led the IoT platform at Infarm

Yazan Al Alami

Co-founder, Creative AI

Helped local and global brands 10x their reach and engagement on social media

Lukas Dirzys

CTO, Creative AI

Expert in optimised image and text generation

Laura Douglas

Experience building AI health products, degrees in Machine Learning and Statistics

Alex Reed

Degree in commerce, led creation of AI driven buying experience

Nick La Rooy

Co-founder, LoopPerfect

Full-stack developer, ex-Barclays Capital with MA in AI and Philosophy

Helene Guillaume

Ex-hedge fund quant, MSc in financial risks and ultra athlete

Alan Mosca

Researched deep learning theory and optimisation methods, previously worked in quantitative finance

Dev Amratia

Led national review on AI, ex-project manager

Jorge Alexander

CTO, Syndi Health

2x CTO with a track-record of implementing scalable and disruptive machine learning solutions

Akshay Gugnani

CTO, Expertia AI

AI and NLP researcher, developed the current state-of-the-art job recommender & hiring system

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

Experienced in R&D, applying AI & ML solutions to various real world problems

Dr Elias Willemse

CTO, Waste Labs

Expert in optimisation modelling, developed AI to optimise waste collection

Lucas Lopez

CTO, Volatile AI

Award winning digital smell researcher, built cutting-edge artificial neural networks

Dr Stefano Goria

Expert in mathematical modelling & multi-modal ML (17 years), PhD in Theoretical Physics, ex-quant

Dr Emilia Molimpakis

Expert in language use as cognitive biomarker (12 years), Neuroscience PhD, Innovation Award Winner

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

Guglielmo Montone

Specialist in deep and transfer learning

Manasa Nadipally

Co-founder, Litmus Eye

Expert in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Medical Image Processing

Satyakama Paul

CTO, BrainEnTech Neuroscience

Data scientist with PhD and postdoc in AI and experience in Machine Learning

Uzair Ahmed

CTO, Right-Hand Cybersecurity

Expertise across leadership, AI and software development

Shivam Mani Tripathi

Deep research in AI and automation, experience in product building

Dornoosh Zonoobi

PhD in AI medical imaging, experience in leading clinical research

Boon Khai Lim

CTO, Interviewer.AI

Built large-scale web applications, passionate about disruptive tech

Hardik Thakkar

Built complex systems as a software engineer, experienced in Data Science and managing large teams

Puneet Chhabra

CTO, Headlight AI

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

Ali Safari

Trained as a nuclear engineer, passionate about using technology to impact climate change

Dmitry Vedenypain

PhD in AI and MBA, experience in consultancy and scaling product teams in VC-funded fintech

Zeena Qureshi

Speech and language therapy expert

Rayna Patel

CEO, VineHealth

Doctor and neuroscientist, previously Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Columbia

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

John Flynn

MSc Sound Computing, film industry

Sachin Chiramel

CEO, real analytics

Experience in investment banking and financial services

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Laina Emmanuel

CEO, Brainsight AI

Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Rimjhim Agrawal

CTO, Brainsight AI

PhD in AI in Psychiatry from National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience

Sasha Haco

Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

James Thewlis

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

Pahini Pandya

Cancer researcher, post-doctorate from Cambridge

Hazel Savage

Experienced music industry professional, previously Shazam, Pandora and Universal Music

Aron Pettersson

Data science specialist, degree in Physics and Master's in Molecular Biology

Pandu Raharja

Machine learning expert, experienced in developing models for cancer detection

Alex Dalyac

Ex-Imperial College London, LSE and Rocket Internet, co-founded EF's first Unicorn, Tractable

Razvan Ranca

Computer scientist, previously Cambridge, worked with leading academic in Machine Learning

Sadaf Monajemi

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milad Mohammadzadeh

PhD in Biomedical Fluid Dynamics

Karim Benchaaboun

Machine learning engineer, previously Axa and Criteo

Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah

MSc in Computational Mechanics, built city-scale simulations

Maria Meier

CTO, Phantasma Labs

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

Yassine Emile Tahi

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Anshul Gupta

CTO, Retail Pulse

Engineering degree from NIT, led winning team in P&G Global AI Challenge

Theo Saville

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer, background in metals 3D printing

Chris Emery

Engineer programming since age 12, expert in 3D graphics and high-performance computing

Tomide Adesanmi

CEO, Circuit Mind

Electronics engineer, Master's from University of Leeds

Basilio Gentile

CTO, Circuit Mind

PhD in mathematical algorithms for complex systems from ETH Zurich

Dr Sripad Devalla

CTO, Origin Health

PhD in clinical AI algorithms for medical imaging and worked with global health systems

Jens Thang

CEO, Origin Health

Experience in building companies with specific expertise in the technology industry

Arun Bhatia

Master's in Computer Science, built deep tech AI products for companies in India and Japan

Carl Robinson

CEO, Rumble Studio

Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Joris Guerry

CTO, Rumble Studio

Machine learning and AI expert, previously built full-stack applications for industry giants.

Guillaume Rivals

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

Elton Soares

3x founder w/ expertise in infrastructure product. Built last venture to 45 employees & R$120 M GMV.

Gian Luigi D’Alessandro

Physics PhD, ML expert at CERN. Indie Game Developer. Leading author of 3D modelling papers.

Oliver Markham

Second-time founder. Scaled previous company to 100+ employees, $MMs in ARR and raised $15MM in VC.

Michael Martin

Grown social media accounts with millions of followers & billions of views. Self-taught app dev.

Lucien Maman

Ph.D. holder in Affective Computing / AI, with a background in software and video engineering.

Lorenzo d’Auria

Financial analyst turned product manager. Scaled B2B products processing billions of euros.

Dan Swygart

Experienced founder. Consumer addictiveness & networking effects. Worked with Celebrities & Creators

Sophia Parvizi-Wayne

CEO, Kanjo Health

Mental health expert. Tech founder. Pioneered the largest education campaign of its time as a teen.

Agrim Singh

CS graduate, SUTD Singapore, Former web3 founder, worked with Pitbull.

Michael Baumgartner

2x founder, extensive experience with sales and product, Master’s from CBS

Reza Zolfaghari

Deep Learning/Computer Vision PhD, expert scientist in video creation

Pamela Carvallo

Machine learning specialist (PhD) & 2nd time technical founder.

Svend Court-Payen

Co-founded a video-first website builder. Expert in video, growth and social media.

Sean Kortschot

Co-founder, UpBeing

ML & Human Factors engineer advancing cutting edge research in behavioural-based emotion detection

Srivar Harlalka

MSc in Finance and Strategy, founded 3 consumer facing startups

Srinidhi Moodalagiri

Computer scientist, built risk models for multi-billion dollar consumer portfolios

Mansoor Rahimat Khan

CEO, Beatoven.ai

Engineer combining classical music training and a background in live and recording industry

Siddharth Bhardwaj

CTO, Beatoven.ai

Solved problems in audio signal processing, machine learning, deep learning & generative music

Daan Zeeuwe

Experienced software architect and published researcher, worked on multiple AI-related projects

Jan Mundin

Ex-Stanford & WHU, experience building profitable organisations

Andrew Ologunebi

Strong knowledge of design processes and tools, and experience leading fast-growing Saas products

Alistair Thomson

Expert software development skills in building graphically-intense & high-traffic products and games

Rob Minford

Built metric driven, high growth end user products, where focusing on the user has been paramount

Jack Cantillon

Named by Sport for Business in their 30 under 30 as a young leader of the sports industry

Bradian Muliadi

CEO, Hawksight.co

Built and sold Indonesia's largest creator platform, scaled leading social SaaS startup

Sharon Reid

Deep experience in the entertainment industry

Davy Smith

AI researcher with post-doc in interactive and adaptive broadcasting technologies

Raja Srivastav Chirravuri

Master's in Engineering, experience building and scaling natural language processing products

Jiameng Gao

Engineer, Master's in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Technology

Jesse Shemen

Graduate of Stearn Business School, previously Deloitte Ventures and Octopus Investments

Rose Haft

Studied Biomedical Optics at some of the world's leading engineering schools

Majdi Rabia

CTO, Fairphonic

Two Master's in Applied Probability and Statistics

Tang Heng Yang

CEO, Fairphonic

Expertise in music licensing, audio engineering and creative production

Jordan McRae

CEO, Mobilus Labs

MSc in space and ocean robotics, built complex hardware/software systems

Jatin Shah

Expert in distributed systems with a PhD in Computer Science

Swayam Narain

Award-winning computer scientist and software engineer

Nisarg Shah

Spearheaded software automation and big data projects, launched a social learning platform

Animesh Anand

Experience in developing groundbreaking VR/AR applications

Shivlal Viknesh

Founder of profitable firms in the events space, experienced in strategy and deployment

Dr Emilia Molimpakis

Expert in language use as cognitive biomarker (12 years), Neuroscience PhD, Innovation Award Winner

Dr Yousef Amar

PhD in distributed networks and edge computing, avid marathoner

Jose Martin Quesada

Experience in digital, consumer growth and data, CrossFit competitor

Alice Pelton

CEO, The Lowdown

Built and monetised digital products, passionate about contraceptive healthcare

Vasileios Katranidis

PhD in Digital Manufacturing, developed first predictive software tool for thermal spray coatings

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha

Engineer, previously IIT, Samsung and Cisco

Zeena Qureshi

Speech and language therapy expert

John Flynn

MSc Sound Computing, film industry

Sasha Haco

Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

James Thewlis

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

Hazel Savage

Experienced music industry professional, previously Shazam, Pandora and Universal Music

Aron Pettersson

Data science specialist, degree in Physics and Master's in Molecular Biology

Yassine Emile Tahi

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Henri Mirande

Deep learning expert, graduated from CentraleSupélec aged 20

Ankur Singh

Built and sold products for video companies

Carl Robinson

CEO, Rumble Studio

Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Joris Guerry

CTO, Rumble Studio

Machine learning and AI expert, previously built full-stack applications for industry giants.

Abdulhakim Bashir

CTO, Moonah Technologies

ML Engineer & Analyst @ Nigerian Government. Built AML algos to monitor finance & crypto sectors.

Zachary Schwartzman

CEO, Moonah Technologies

Former Wall Street Internet & Crypto Analyst @ RBC. Worked on ~12 IPOs (Jumia). Oxford MBA.

Dirk Brink

CTO, Salus Labs

Web3 security expert and full-stack SW engineer. Chartered Engineer and Imperial graduate.

Cornelia Weinzierl

CEO, Salus Labs

Serial entrepreneur, Crypto since 2017, Web3 community building, BSc Technology and Management.

Daniel Duma

Founder & CTO of multiple tech startups, PhD in AI, ex-Google, ex-Alexa.

Nikita Bulgakov

LSE, Finance. ex-VC (invested $17M+ in 30+ companies) & B2B Sales specialist (led team of 25+).

Pac O’Shea

Ex-VP and Sales leader. Led teams across fintechs and financial institutions.

Praneet Sinha

Fintech/web3 entrepreneur with 5+ yrs exp; built & scaled products in DeFi, banking & paying domain.

Syed Salman Haider

CarletonU Computer Science Grad, specialist in computer & internet security. Ex-Blockchain Engineer.

Vladimir Stoyanov

MSc, MFin, MBA; Led, grew & exited a B2B SaaS Co. Ex-trader at UBS with US$6B AUM.

Arnaud Favier

PhD in Distributed Systems; Web3 specialist and e-commerce founder with US$300k spent in ads.

Fatima Rizwan

CEO, Metaschool

Bitcoin maxi, passionate about edtech and developer ecosystem.

Greg Wilsenach

PhD Maths/Computer Science & postdoc/researcher & Gates Scholar at Cambridge University.

Rav Singh Sandhu

Fmr EMEA Lead at Facebook, built the largest decentralised newsroom in the world pre-DAO.

Daniel Partida

MSc in applied mathematics from ETH Zurich. Passion for web3 with deep expertise in NLP/AI.

Moritz Gessl

WHU graduate, co-founded crypto start-up and built companies for an incubator, in crypto since 2017.

Gerald Pollak

CEO, Blocktorch

London Business School graduate. Self-taught developer. Ex-Apple biz dev and Series A VC.

Amine Afia

CTO, Blocktorch

KIT & INP Grenoble grad. Specialist in building & leading teams to deliver SaaS products at scale.

Damodar Sojka

Experienced CTO. Built two-sided marketplaces. Passion for using Web3 to solve Web2 inefficiencies.

Chris Parsons

CTO, Grey Swan Finance

Oxford-trained software engineer. Professional experience in backend, and solidity development.

Ben Stemper

CEO, Grey Swan Finance

Former Options Quant at Citadel. PhD in Options Pricing. Oxford Mathematics MSc.

Tom Gotsman

CEO, SoLo Protocol

Oxford, UC Berkeley, Imperial College. Machine learning researcher. Previous AI startup manager.

Louis Lammerting

CTO, SoLo Protocol

Founded Math X (40k users). Ex-Consultant at Strategy & University of Chicago Blockchain Engineer.

Rohan Tangri

CEO, Compass Labs

AI @ JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Statistical Machine Learning PhD @ Imperial College London.

Elisabeth Duijnstee

CEO, Compass Labs

Physics PhD @ University of Oxford, Machine Learning fellow @ Faculty AI.

Marmik Pandya

MS Computer Science from Northeastern. Engineering at Nielsen, Dream11 & Amazon.

Dhawal Patel

Built Loan Origination & Management Systems for Capital Float & Funding Societies. Ex-CTO at Aureal.

Agrim Singh

CS graduate, SUTD Singapore, Former web3 founder, worked with Pitbull.

Samarth Shyam

3rd time founder, investor. Secured deals with large airlines and telco's in MENA and Europe.

Raymond Yeh

CTO, Bluejay Finance

Expert in privacy, smart contract auditing and trading. Ex-smart contract engineer at Govtech SG

Sherry Jiang

CEO, Bluejay Finance

UC Berkeley graduate in Business. Previously at Google working on emerging market payments.

Uzair Javaid

CEO, BetterData

PhD in blockchain. Hacked 670 Ethereum wallets. Ex-Merkle Science. E-gaming competition winner 2010.

Katrin Shechtman

CTO, Trust Chain

Tech entrepreneur with 17+ yrs. Led her own consultancy company with FinTech & government clients

Giancarlo De Lio

CEO, Trust Chain

Seasoned entrepreneur with 20+ yrs including co-founding VitalHub (IPO) and multiple exists

Charles Ashby-Lepore

CTO, Metacommerce

Senior Software Developer, with expertise in Machine Learning. Ex Co-Founder, Koïos Intelligence.

Ryan Watkins

CEO, Metacommerce

Product-focused entrepreneur and growth leader with 8+ years experience scaling 3x B2B startups.

Sanskar Jayaswal

Supported startups across business & growth functions in 0-1 stage, pivotal role in FinTech domains

Pranav Nair

Hands-on experience in Blockchain 2.0, Solidity & Smart Contracts, built banking products

Siddharth Sharma

#13 @ Wayve. Deployed real-time Machine Learning on autonomous vehicles. Ex-Microsoft.

Vatsal Aggarwal

Built Alexa’s first human-like voice, have 8 patents + publications in speech ML; Maths @ Cambridge

Tom Etminan

Founded 2nd Gen Art NFT project on Solana. 2x founder. web3 investor

Dr. Desiree-Jessica Pely

CTO, MetaWealth

Financial Economist trained at LMU Munich, Yale, & University of Miami, Computer Science background

Florian Drummen

CEO, MetaWealth

Built and scaled ventures at BCG Digital Ventures and FinTech Unicorn SumUp, WHU Graduate

Adrian Kozhevnikov

Product-focused full-stack web3 developer working with startups since 17. Started the YC for Oxford.

Bisola Asolo

Previously exited web3 founder. Full-stack developer with a finance background, ex J.P. Morgan.

James Branigan

Cambridge graduate. Degrees in Physics, Applied Mathematics, and AI. Former top B2C salesman

Ojas Shukla

Second time founder. University of Singapore dropout. Successfully exited first company at age 19

Marcus Naughton

CEO/CTO, Chatsight

LLB Graduate, with Economics. Self-taught NLP/AI Engineer. Red Bull Basement national winner 2019

David Bouba

Co-founder, Swaap

Ex-Snap Inc. engineer building million-user scale software products

Cyrille Pastour

Co-founder, Swaap

Ex-BCG. Master’s in Finance from HEC Paris.

Srivar Harlalka

MSc in Finance and Strategy, founded 3 consumer facing startups

Srinidhi Moodalagiri

Computer scientist, built risk models for multi-billion dollar consumer portfolios

Artur Begyan

Mathematical financial developer and economist, including working as a Quant at Bank of America

Simon Jones

Strong financial technology startup background; prior founder, operator and investor

Pulkit Agarwal

Math nerd, Stanford GSB Alum and Ex-Palantir, Top of class at Georgia Tech at the age of 20

Nirmal AK

CTO, Merkle Science

Fraud data scientist

Mriganka Pattnaik

CEO, Merkle Science

Experience from across investment banking and technology

Volkan Bilici

Full-stack software and blockchain developer

Jatin Shah

Expert in distributed systems with a PhD in Computer Science

Arpit Bajpai

Software Architect with expertise in blockchain and machine learning