Global talent investor

EF Alumni

Ollie Graham

CEO, Surge Analytics

Founded:

Surge Analytics

Cofounder:

Dr Vishvak Kannan

Interests / background:

Biotechnology, Data science, Engineering, Finance

Location:

Cohort:

Ollie has a Biochemistry degree and was a CFA Charterholder from 2009-2013. He brings experience in financial services, culminating with being a Vice President and trader at Morgan Stanley. In 2015 he switched careers to software engineering where he developed AI/ML algorithms for health and security applications.

Surge Analytics pitch at our Singapore 7 Demo Day.

Company:

Surge Analytics

SaaS simulation software powered by AI for rapid, cost-effective energy storage system R&D.

Dr Elias Willemse

CTO, Waste Labs

Expert in optimisation modelling, developed AI to optimise waste collection

Vladimir Chuchkin

CEO, Waste Labs

Experienced in business development for tech and energy companies

Dr Akhilesh Chaurasia

Leader in field of genetically modified organisms

Hubert Tse

Experience in capital markets, launched successful energy trading ventures

Atual Yadav

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

Abhimanyu Godara

Experience across consulting, VC and startups, built multiple products

Dr Siddhartha

Expertise in multiple machine learning domains, in particular Natural Language Processing

Jose Sampedro Mazon

Ex-corporate lawyer, experience in strategy & ops transformations and business development

Dr Vishvak Kannan

CTO, Surge Analytics

PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy systems

Ricardo Sancho

Computer and data engineer, built and scaled complex systems

Matthew Mottola

Leading voice in freelance economy, built Microsoft 365 freelancer toolkit

Kunal Sandeep

Co-founder, Polymerize

Industry experience in product development and management

Dr Abhijit Salvekar

Co-founder, Polymerize

Polymer scientist with expertise in Process-Structure-Property Relationships and DoE.

Ali Naderi

Deep researcher in field of gas processing membranes

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Dr Sripad Devalla

CTO, Origin Health

PhD in AI algorithms for medical imaging

Jens Thang

CEO, Origin Health

Advised healthcare operators and knowledge of visualisation technology

Cesar Valencia-Gallardo

Former academic, deep expertise across biophysics and biotechnology

Ben Lakey

CEO, Syndi Health

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

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

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

Aridni Shah

CEO, immunitoAI

Experience in immunoassays, molecular techniques & molecular data analytics

Dr Akhilesh Chaurasia

Leader in field of genetically modified organisms

Hubert Tse

Experience in capital markets, launched successful energy trading ventures

Dr Abhijit Salvekar

Co-founder, Polymerize

Polymer scientist with expertise in Process-Structure-Property Relationships and DoE.

Mona Kab Omir

Specialist in nanomedicine with multidisciplinary research experience in industry and academia

Alex Sheppard

Experience in the diagnostics industry space and successfully scaling medtech startups

Christopher Thompson

CTO, Micrographia Bio

Molecular biologist, machine learning engineer and roboticist

Julia Fan Li

CEO, Micrographia Bio

Immunologist, ex-VC and engineer

Andrea Mambrini

Award winning data scientist, developed bio-inspired algorithms for European Space Agency

Federico Paoletti

Award-winning computational oncology PhD, previously WHO

Ting Lye

Experience implementing data-driven health solutions

Dr Akbar Vahidi

Co-founder, Allozymes

PhD in enzyme technology, delivered industrial projects to big pharma, food and biofuel companies

Dr Peyman Salehian

Co-founder, Allozymes

Entrepreneur-scientist, managed international team as Head of Business Development

Ian Hu

CTO, Phycobloom

PhD in Evolutionary Biology, experience studying algae, synthetic biologists and leading teams

John C. Waite

CEO, Phycobloom

Developed technology for sustainable energy with a background in Material Science

Christian Mellor

Expertise in Biomedical Engineering and medical devises

Jonathan Baptista

Experienced in managing international teams with an MSc in complex systems simulation

Aditya Nayak

CTO, Plantik Biosciences

Structural and molecular biologist, leader in field of Ambient Temperature Sensing in plants

Ying Shao

CEO, Plantik Biosciences

Experience in company building, leading business development, strategy and marketing

Ferdinando Randisi

CTO, FabricNano

Phd in Computational Biophysics, co-authored oxDNA

Grant Aarons

CEO, FabricNano

PhD in Economics, worked in systems engineering and mathematical modelling

Dr. Mohammad H. D.A. Farahani

Entrepreneurial scientist, PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Moses Kakanga

PhD in biochemistry, experienced running clinical trials

Emiliano Lepore

PhD in biomaterials with experience in product innovation and business development

Ali Naderi

Deep researcher in field of gas processing membranes

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Karol Rogowski

CTO, ElementZero Biolabs

PhD in Biochemistry, experienced in RNA/DNA research

John Moura

CEO, ElementZero Biolabs

Led product development, sales, and operations in global companies

Shubhita Tripathi

Pathogen expert with PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, designed pathogen identification assays

David Gorgan

CEO, Nostos Genomics

Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Rocio Acuna Hidalgo

CTO, Nostos Genomics

Medical doctor with PhD in human genetics, previously Max Planck Institute

Joanne Kanaan

PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure, research at the frontier of biochemistry and biophysics

Anna Shirinskaya

PhD in bioelectronics from Ecole Polytechnique, expert in bio-sensing devices

Hana Janebdar

Biochemical engineer, previously UCL and Imperial College London

Leighton Turner

Interdisciplinary scientist, PhD in Molecular Genetics

Alexandre Reeber

CEO, Core Biogenesis

Master's degree in Neuroscience, former project manager in Neurotechnology

Chouaib Meziadi

CTO, Core Biogenesis

PhD in Plant Genetics, postdoc in Epigenetics

Alexandra Boussommier

Biomedical engineer, using AI to tackle infertility

Peter Kecskemethy

Background in high-performance computing and statistical genetics

Christopher Reynolds

CTO, Better Dairy

Synthetic biologists, led projects to optimise protein expression in cells

Jevan Nagarajah

CEO, Better Dairy

Experienced across banking and technology

Avlokita Tiwari

Bioinformatician with expertise in computational biology and genomic data

Praapti Jayaswal

Molecular and microbiologist combatting anti-microbial resistance

Marie-Christine Imbert

Molecular biologist

Timothy Bouley

Medical doctor and environmental scientist

Alec Mocatta

Founder, Hadean

Rethinking and simplifying big data complexity, previously built indoor positioning platform

Matt Schofield

CTO, Credit Kudos

Computer scientist, former CTO and data science team lead

Freddy Kelly

CEO, Credit Kudos

Computer scientist and engineer, was responsible for deployment of Bitnami's cloud launchpad

Jordan Noble

Statistical machine learning expert focused on implementing real-time solutions at scale

Jack Hogan

Privacy enthusiast and data scientist, specialised in multi-source data fusion

Wladimir Nikoluk

CEO, Atlas Metrics

Entrepreneur at the intersection of impact and data

Alex Tupper

Experienced full-stack engineer, data engineer and product specialist

Tanrajbir Singh Takher

Former Data Scientist with a Master's in machine learning from UCL

Atual Yadav

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

Abhimanyu Godara

Experience across consulting, VC and startups, built multiple products

Jose Sampedro Mazon

Ex-corporate lawyer, experience in strategy & ops transformations and business development

Dr Vishvak Kannan

CTO, Surge Analytics

PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy systems

Ricardo Sancho

Computer and data engineer, built and scaled complex systems

Shivani Shah

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

Prateek Gaur

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

Andrea Mambrini

Award winning data scientist, developed bio-inspired algorithms for European Space Agency

Nyasha Japondo

Electronic and hardware engineer, expert in designing electronic sensor devices

Ting Lye

Experience implementing data-driven health solutions

Favour Nyikosa

Specialist in datamining and interpretable models

Jon Forester

Built data and analytics products in startups and finance sector

Tom Walker

Worked at the cutting-edge of mathematical optimisation and on production machine learning

Tom Barber

Experience at the intersection of fashion and technology

Jose Martin Quesada

Experience in digital, consumer growth and data, CrossFit competitor

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

William Nash

Strong knowledge of IG problems and solutions, experience of working with healthcare systems on data

Hugo Pascail

CTO, Invest Insight

PhD in Quantitative Finance, experience building AI models and econometric algorithms

Jean-Régis de Vauplane

CEO, Invest Insight

Worked on AI and web projects as an Agile Coach and Product Manager

Guglielmo Montone

Specialist in deep and transfer learning

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

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Shubhadeep Roychowdhury

Software developer and machine learning engineer, published author on data science

Renan Pereira

Data scientist, experience developing and managing scalable machine learning models

Barnaby Hussey-Yeo

Data scientist with interests in finance and machine learning

Tarik Dadi

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

Dennis Xenos

Expert in optimisation and data analytics for industrial applications.

Abhishek Anand

Co-Founder, Marlin AI

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

Satyakama Paul

CTO, BrainEnTech Neuroscience

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

Hardik Thakkar

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

Gui Wainwright

CEO, Project Nomi

Worked on wide-scale data and behaviour change projects and lead on Special Projects and Data

Shubham Kaushal

Seasoned software engineer, first engineer at Chaldal

Saptarshi Nath

Led quant studies for Fortune 100 companies

Rubal Chib

Electronics engineer, previously Havells and IOTA

Shrishti Batra

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

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Aron Pettersson

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

David Gorgan

CEO, Nostos Genomics

Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Peter Kecskemethy

Background in high-performance computing and statistical genetics

Avlokita Tiwari

Bioinformatician with expertise in computational biology and genomic data

Carl Robinson

CEO, Rumble Studio

Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Guillaume Rivals

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

Bashir Beikzadeh

CTO, Metis Labs

Experienced software engineer with a background in electrical and electronic engineering

Alex Appelbe

CEO, Metis Labs

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

Previously co-founded a VC-backed AI startup. Early engineer at Tractable. Postgrad in Cambridge

Haïkel Balti

Trained mechanical engineer and material scientist

Victor Moreau

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

Sigurjon Isaksson

Full-stack software & machine learning engineer with a background in 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

CEO, Syndi Health

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

Shourya Lala

Computer science engineer and an accomplished application developer

Dr Elias Willemse

CTO, Waste Labs

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

CTO, Surge Analytics

PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy systems

Ricardo Sancho

Computer and data engineer, built and scaled complex systems

Julia Fan Li

CEO, Micrographia Bio

Immunologist, ex-VC and engineer

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

CTO, Thermosphr

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

Shubhadeep Roychowdhury

Software developer and machine learning engineer, published author on data science

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

Co-founder, F-drones

Aeronautical Engineering specialist, experienced bringing investment to Singapore

Yeshwanth Reddy

Co-founder, F-drones

Aerospace engineer, experienced in drone product development

Puneet Chhabra

CTO, Headlight AI

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

Sahil Tapiawala

CEO, Atomionics

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

Benjamin Tang Hao Zhe

Expert in AI and software engineering, youngest ever quant at a top investment bank

Arjun Ramaswami Palaniappan

Electronic expert with industrial PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Dr Mohammad Tavakkoli

PhD in Chemical Engineering, researched into advanced materials

Theo Saville

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer, background in metals 3D printing

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