EF Alumni

Leon Farrant

CEO, Green Li-ion

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Energy, Engineering, Environmental Science

Location:

Singapore

Cohort:

Leon Farrant is an accomplished leader who has been exposed to the energy and engineering sectors as a CEO and in executive management. Leon’s experience driving performance of global energy industry companies saw him lead large, dispersed teams and projects to success.

Leon is known for his consensus-building ability, vision and rigour. He brings experience in strategy development and implementation for startups and established business. Leon has proven to scale hundred-million-dollar energy industry companies to success across four continents with a focus on best in class corporate governance and compliance.

Leon is a socially and environmentally conscious leader, and is passionate about giving back.

Company:

Green Li-ion

World-first deep-clean technology to fully rejuvenate lithium-Ion batteries.

Green Li-ion founders

Funding announcements

Green Li-ion bags US$20m to transform energy storage industry

13 March, 2023

Green Li-ion team

Funding announcements

Battery recycling startup Green Li-ion secures US$20.5M pre-Series B funding

13 March, 2023

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Fannie Lin

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Justin Macorin

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Anna Wang

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

Naveen Vedula

Artificial Intelligence PhD with expertise in computer vision and hardware

Ajay Gupta

Domain expert with 20 years at GE and previous start-up founder (exit 2019)

Dr Saeid Masudy Panah

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Award-winning scientist in field of nanoscale materials and renewable energy devices

Tulika Raj

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Experienced commercial leader, scaled renewable energy companies and led large project investments

Arjun Bhattarai

PhD on vanadium redox flow batteries

Avishek Kumar

Expert in renewable technologies with product design and manufacturing experience

Simon Spurrier

Engineer and product manager, built financial optimisation algorithms

Francesco Montomoli

PhD in Energy Engineering, Imperial College reader and REng Enterprise Fellow.

Animesh Kumar Jha

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Degree in Mechanical Engineering, developed novel nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing methods

Aashish Mehta

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Serial innovator, IoT and big analogue data expert

Christian Schiller

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Volkan Bilici

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Chris Choy

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Data scientist and full stack developer, PhD in Statistics

Ashish Justin

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Certified Energy Manager with a Master’s in Automation

Reza Katal

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Industry expert in lithium battery recycling

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Experienced in business development for tech and energy companies

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Experience in capital markets, launched successful energy trading ventures

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PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy systems

Shivani Shah

PhD from French Nuclear Research Institute CEA, applied Machine Learning to large datasets

Laurent Bourgouin

Experienced in energy industry, led digital transformation for industry heavyweights

John C. Waite

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Developed technology for sustainable energy with a background in Material Science

Mark Aaron Chan

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PhD in Mechanical Enginereing, expert in thermal systems

Nicolas Le Borgne

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Experience in startups, Master's in Economic Law from Sciences Po

Emir Nurov

Expert in product development and commercialisation

Jayantika Soni

Expert in the development of control algorithms for energy and power systems

Chong Chieh Tseng

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John Michael Bernil

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Experience in energy infrastructure projects

Ali Naderi

Deep researcher in field of gas processing membranes

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Clemens Tepel

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Mohamed Tazi

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Robert Rouse

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Yanlin Duan

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Hayyaan Ahmad

Full stack Engineer and Operator. Led teams for Amazon Tier-1 experiences.

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Jonathan Raphael

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Edinburgh Maths grad. Former founder. Full-stack software engineer at 2 early-stage startups.

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.

Justin Cheng

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

Mohammad Shahan Mehdi Kamla

2x founder. Engineering background. Self-taught digital marketing & exp. in growth & sales for SMEs.

Nikhil Mudholkar

Computer Science at IIT Bombay. Data engineering at Tier Mobility & Capital One.

Fabian Steuer

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

Amine Raji

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Food & Beverage manufacturing specialist. Ex corporate industrial expert at Nestlé.

Kate Ma

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Experience software engineer with an MSc in Financial Statistics from London School of Economics.

Elizabeth Chan

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Experienced software engineer and full stack developer with a MA and BA in economics from Cambridge.

Cyril Nie

Master’s degree in Computer Science from University College London. Experienced full-stack engineer.

Arthur Sousa

Repeat founder with 10+ years in B2C Growth, Product & Engineering for global tech companies.

Peter Little

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Software Engineering Graduate. Led teams at scale-ups and specialised in augmenting 3rd party UIs.

Alex Wilton

Experienced technologist and entrepreneur.

Robert Ihnatisin

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Electrical Engineer. Ex-R&D @ Formlabs & Google. 7 Hackathon wins, Microsoft Imagine Cup Finalist.

Jeffrey Schuster

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Physics PhD with 30 years of industry experience developing advanced inhaled drug delivery systems.

Kevin Bonte

Experienced Engineer in B2B payments.

Omar Dekkiche

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

Duncan Ryan

Experienced developer in regulated environments, and integrating unstructured, disparate data.

Chris Parsons

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

Chris Gudde

Self-taught data scientist & full stack developer. Led 1000+ teams in risk, compliance & operations.

Alex Hooper

Self-taught software engineer, previously building and leading engineering teams at 11:FS.

Kit Burgess

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

Elaf Deyab

2x Founder. Ex-Goldman Sachs. Engineering graduate.

Cyril Deroy

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PhD Bioengineering at Oxford. Microfluidics & 3D print specialist. Work used in academia & industry.

Rumessa Raja

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Designed & scaled e-commerce platforms leading B2B companies in advanced industries (ex-McKinsey).

Manick Kalra

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Ramya Seetharaman

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Priya Ramani

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Burhan Ul Tayyab

AI Researcher with Global Awards.

Ulysse Mizrahi

Serial early-start-upper, passionate about all things productivity

Pierre Yser

Double expert in simulation and Deep Learning, PhD in computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Nicolas Rasamimanana

Entrepreneur with tech background, PhD in Machine Learning

Bhargav Sosale

Software engineer and product designer

Reza Larimi

Background in design, control systems & automation. Multiple international patents & publications

Tony Qu

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

Siyavash G. Nia

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

Jacob John

Former product lead and second-time founder with experience taking startups from 0-1

Lazar Jovanovic

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PhD graduate with 9 academic publications and multiple presentation awards in the last 4 years

Sudipta Biswas

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Andrew Jajack

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Mahmut Martin Yüksel

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Marcus Hott

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Claire Trant

7+ years in wastewater engineering strategy and innovation, PhD with Rolls-Royce Aerospace

Cameron Whitehead

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

Ojas Shukla

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

Yat Chi Fong

PhD in Electrical Engineering, designed controllers and management systems

Raghu Raman Sekhar

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Mohammad Reza Vedady

Award-winning engineer and pioneer researcher

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Christian Wirsching

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Former management consultant with degrees in engineering and business

Holger Nießner

Full-stack developer with experience leading engineering teams, MSc in Space Science and Technology

Ceyhun Derinbogaz

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Carmine Paolino

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

Fabien Koutchekian

Former Strategy Consultant and Mining Engineer, 2nd time deep-tech startup founder

Amélie Quilichini

Engineer with experience in managing tech & hardware projects as a strategy consultant

Wilmer Daza

Full-stack software & machine learning engineer with experience in the software development industry

Adam Glen

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PhD in cell biology, experience at the intersection of biology and engineering

Alistair Thomson

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

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

Lorenzo Sani

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Product-obsessed full-stack software engineer. Imperial dropout

Rob Minford

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

Nicolas Carmont

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Experience creating sustainability startups with background in AI and software engineering

Kartik Arora

Full-stack developer and engineering manager across fast-growing startups

Tamir Shklaz

Computer Science nerd, 3x startup founder & South African Entrepreneur of the Year (2019)

Pulkit Agarwal

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

Daniil Moskovtsov

Fullstack engineer with experience in marketplaces and e-commerce. Ex-Redmart and Shopback

Harry Conor Lucas

Software engineer with a background in technical project leadership at JPMorgan Chase and the Europe

Dr Saeid Masudy Panah

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Award-winning scientist in field of nanoscale materials and renewable energy devices

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

Michele Riccardo Esposito

Product-thinker & part-time coder

Prashant Maurice Dhara

Built multiple deep learning solutions, experience building tech in startups

Sreenadh Narayanan

Degree in Engineering, helped tech companies accelerate growth and monetise new products

Raja Srivastav Chirravuri

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

Jedd Cheong Jia Hao

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PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, expert in medical imaging

Amiya Patanaik

Experience studying sleep and cognitive neuroscience. PhD in Computer Engineering

Tanguy Serrat

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MSc in Machine Learning, developed state-of- the-art deep learning systems for medical surgery

Amber Hill

Expertise in medical research and engineering, PhD in Biomedical Neuroscience

Micol de Ruvo

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PhD and postdoc in Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering

Amir Nejadmalayeri

PhD in Electrical Engineering, specialising in optics and photonics

Henry Irish

Full-stack developer, MEng doing security research

Vivek Sheraton

Degree in Chemical Engineering, developed cancer simulation models for PhD

Rose Haft

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

Xavier Millot

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Computer Science graduate, grew team and technology at Hinge Health

Sagar Setu

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Robotics and computer vision expert, PhD in Aerospace Engineering

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

Hrishi Olickel Arumaraj

Full stack engineer, built tech products for non-early adopter markets

Vishvesh Suriyanarayanan

Software engineer turned product manager

Amit Kumar

PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Simon Spurrier

Engineer and product manager, built financial optimisation algorithms

Siddhartha Gunti

Co-founder, Adaface

Researched in context based machine translation, ex-Quant

Deepti Chopra

Co-founder, Adaface

Engineer, former researcher at Caltech

Francesco Montomoli

PhD in Energy Engineering, Imperial College reader and REng Enterprise Fellow.

Robin Tindale

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Computer scientist with versatile engineering background

Jerome de Lafargue

CEO, Zeroheight

Award-winning computer scientist with deep knowledge of the app industry

Animesh Kumar Jha

Co-founder, Volt14

Degree in Mechanical Engineering, developed novel nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing methods

Raz Ghafoor

Prize winning engineer, developed machine learning algorithms

Mandeep Gill

PhD focused on distributed systems engineering, experience in startups and finance

Leo Anthias

Former founder solving issues he encountered as a CTO

Avni Agrawal

Computer science engineer, experience in big data analytics and machine learning

Akanksha Jagwani

Mechanical engineer, led digital product design and management teams

Vadim Toader

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Valuation and forecasting experience, degree in Engineering, Economics and Management

Dan Greenfield

Degrees in Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computer Engineering

Will Hanschell

Systems engineer with experience in creative service

Hemang Rishi

MSc in Electrical Engineering, worked and published in Computer Vision

Guillem Singla Buxarrais

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Prize-winning biomedical engineer

Ben van Enckevort

Creator and engineer, started first software business aged 18

Jack A. Cohen

PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics, lifelong maker and creator

Arnor Davidsson

Experienced in software engineering, product management and UX, MSc in Computer Science

Majed Chaaraoui

Experience in consulting and investment banking

Dennis Sandmark

Full stack software engineer, built robust, scalable systems

Morris He

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Experience in chip and circuit design

Chi Fung Lok

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Design experience in analog, mixed-signal and RF architectures and circuits

Alex Nodeland

Serial innovator with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Alex Kosenkov

Experience in high performance computing

Misha Filippov

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Mathematical physicist, built AI models for prestigious institutions

Herve Roussel

Experience building software in the US, mentor for IBM AI XPRIZE

Nidhi Gupta

Experience in the logistics industry

Tuhin Chakraborty

Software engineer, previously led engineering teams

Mathieu Johnsson

Designed planes for Airbus Future Projects, MSc Engineering

Mislav Stipetic

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

Abhishek Agrawal

Experience in high precision manufacturing sector

Surbhi Krishna Singh

Award-winning engineer, experience in manufacturing and industrial automation

Yazan Al Alami

Co-founder, Creative AI

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

Ran Fan

CTO, ArrayStream

Experience in building real-time automated trading systems for companies

Reza Katal

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Industry expert in lithium battery recycling

Jack O’Meara

Biomedical engineer with experience bringing new technologies to market

Bashir Beikzadeh

CTO, Metis Labs

Experienced software engineer with a background in electrical and electronic engineering

Alex Appelbe

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Mechanical engineer, experienced in factory operations and new product development

Sven Mischkewitz

Award-winning software engineer, worked on annotation tools for brain cells

Fouad Al Noor

Master's in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology

Nick La Rooy

Co-founder, LoopPerfect

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

Efe Surekli

A cambridge graduate and serial founder, competent in software engineering, specialising in AI & ML.

Haïkel Balti

Trained mechanical engineer and material scientist

Victor Moreau

Ex-strategy consultant with expertise in financial services, engineering degree from CentraleSupélec

Sigurjon Isaksson

Strong interest and background in Machine Learning and Financial Engineering

Evan Kervella

Data scientist with extensive network in the medical industry

Han Lai

Co-founder and Director, Open Cosmos

Led industrial projects, degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Alex Tupper

Experienced full-stack engineer, data engineer and product specialist

Ben Lakey

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

Shourya Lala

Computer science engineer and an accomplished application developer

Dr Elias Willemse

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Expert in optimisation modelling, developed AI to optimise waste collection

Dr Akhilesh Chaurasia

Leader in field of genetically modified organisms

Atual Yadav

FCull-stack engineer with experience in building and scaling world-class SaaS products

Dr Vishvak Kannan

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PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy systems

Ollie Graham

CEO, Surge Analytics

Experience in financial services and software engineering

Julia Fan Li

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Immunologist and recovering VC

Nyasha Japondo

Electronic and hardware engineer, expert in designing electronic sensor devices

CJ Cassar

PhD with a focus on building augmented and virtual reality tools for engineers

Chris Whitehead

Former systems engineer and technology specialist, experience in B2B sales

Mark Stokes

Mechanical and machine learning engineer, experience in startups and the aerospace industry

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Mark Aaron Chan

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PhD in Mechanical Enginereing, expert in thermal systems

Kannan Reghu

Experienced in product and tech, ex-VP of Engineering at Grover

Maria Silvia Scetta

CEO, Deltablock

Ex-trader and portfolio manager, financial engineer

Tarik Dadi

Led data science projects around the world, Master's Degree in Machine Learning

Nitish Mutha

Software engineer, coding since the age of 5

Chris Butcher

Engineer, experience scaling business to serve SMEs

Dr Stefan Glatzel

CTO, CheMastery

Experience in building software and hardware technologies

Ankit Parashar

Engineer, built SAAS-based analytics product for hardware

Dr. Mohammad H. D.A. Farahani

Entrepreneurial scientist, PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Emir Nurov

Expert in product development and commercialisation

Shivam Mani Tripathi

Deep research in AI and automation, experience in product building

Aaron Lim

Expertise in high-end client engagement, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate

Nicolas Ang

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Aeronautical Engineering specialist, experienced bringing investment to Singapore

Yeshwanth Reddy

Co-founder, F-drones

Aerospace engineer, experienced in drone product development

Puneet Chhabra

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

Sahil Tapiawala

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M.Sc. Chemistry and B.Eng. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, experience in product development

Brittany Harris

Experienced civil engineer, recognised thought leader in building sustainable futures

Jade Cohen

Environmental advisor, managed environmental impact on Crossrail

Theo Saville

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer, background in metals 3D printing

Tomide Adesanmi

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Electronics engineer, Master's from University of Leeds

Basilio Gentile

CTO, Circuit Mind

PhD in mathematical algorithms for complex systems from ETH Zurich

Robert Rouse

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PhD in Environmental Science and ML at the University of Cambridge. Former climate tech founder.

Firoozeh Foroughi

PhD Material Science at National University of Singapore. Specialist in Polymers and Ceramics.

Susmita Roy

PhD Chemistry specialist in green chemistry, catalysis. Experienced Formulation chemist.

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.

Ling Ka Yi

CTO, Shiok Meats

PhD in Endocrinology and Reproductive physiology, specialist in stem cells

Sandhya Sriram

CEO, Shiok Meats

PhD in Biological Science, specialist in stem cells, a serial entrepreneur, and a thought leader

Simon Spurrier

Engineer and product manager, built financial optimisation algorithms

Mohammad Sherafatmand

PhD researching novel electrochemical technologies

Reza Katal

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Industry expert in lithium battery recycling

Entela Benz

Expertise in climate risk data for finance

Saurabh Singh

PhD in Weather and Climate Prediction, previously worked as a Flood Consultant

Ali Safari

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

Brittany Harris

Experienced civil engineer, recognised thought leader in building sustainable futures

Jade Cohen

Environmental advisor, managed environmental impact on Crossrail

Timothy Bouley

Medical doctor and environmental scientist