EF Alumni

James Kent

CEO, Xihelm

Founded:

Interests / background:

Agriculture, Hardware

Location:

London

Cohort:

James has a firm pedigree in innovation. He set up one of the earliest cloud computing companies and spent five years at Google, with responsibility for hardware launches including Chromecast. While at Google, he filed no fewer than 16 patents as an inventor.

Company:

Xihelm

Using deep artificial intelligence software to revolutionise robotic harvesting.

Omar Dekkiche

Engineer. Former M&A banker. Second time deep tech startup founder.

Brett Cotten

CEO, Arda Biomaterials

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

Karam El Assaad

Strong expertise leading enterprise and SME sales across MEA region

Syed Shakeel Ahmed

PhD in Cancer Biology, experience leading collaborative projects with cancer clinics

Harold Mollison

Head of Sales and Marketing, Spidfier

Background in marketing and management

Phong Vo

PhD in Signal and Images, expertise ranging from machine learning to computer vision

Steven R Tsitas

PhD in Planetary Science, produced innovative work on 6U CubeSat

Pieter Fabry

Experience implementing reinforcement learning models on videos, ex-nano satellite researcher

David Hunter

CEO, Optimal Labs

Studied aeronautical engineering and computer science, ex-pilot and quantitative strategist

Abdel Wahab Turkmani

2x founder building businesses that positively impact the world

Christopher Chavasse

CTO, Muddy Machines

Robotic innovation, built everything from UAVs to next gen robots at Dyson, Deliveroo and Karakuri

Florian Richter

CEO, Muddy Machines

Serial entrepreneur, commercial roles at Google, SumUp, Bookatable. Large family farm in Portugal

Dr Akhilesh Chaurasia

Leader in field of genetically modified organisms

Hubert Tse

Experience in capital markets, launched successful energy trading ventures

Mark Jager

CPO, HIER Foods

Product veteran with expertise in UX1

Lara Hammerle

CEO, HIER Foods

Experienced in growth, built company to 6,000 users in 6 months

Rubal Chib

Electronics engineer, previously Havells and IOTA

Shrishti Batra

PhD in Computational Biology & Chemical Ecology, previously NCBS, Max Planck Institute

Naveen Vedula

Artificial Intelligence PhD with expertise in computer vision and hardware

Mohammad Reza Vedady

Award-winning engineer and pioneer researcher

Taras Iakymchuk

Industry experience in hardware design, PhD in Electronics

Roeland Nusselder

Master’s in Mathematics, researched Efficient Deep Learning algorithms

Jordan McRae

CEO, Mobilus Labs

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

Jesse Lozano

Co-Founder, Pi-Top

World-class salesman, named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018

Ryan Dunwoody

MEng from University of Oxford

Haïkel Balti

Trained mechanical engineer and material scientist

Ben Lakey

CEO, Syndi Health

Impact-driven Bioengineer, specialised in Medical Device regulatory navigation and commercialisation

Dr Stefan Glatzel

CTO, CheMastery

Experience in building software and hardware technologies

Chong Chieh Tseng

CTO, Energy Lite

Experience in tech companies in software and hardware sectors

Rohit Jha

CEO, Transcelestial

Bachelors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering NTU, previously RBS

Mohammad Danesh

CTO, Transcelestial

PhD in Nanophotics from NUS, designed and built photonic systems

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