EF Alumni

Syed Salman Haider

CTO, Fortephy

Founded:

Cofounder:

Mohammad Shahan Mehdi Kamla

Interests / background:

Security, web3

Location:

Toronto

Cohort:

Social:

Salman is a blockchain security engineer, with extensive experience in cyber security and software engineering. He was the first blockchain security engineer @ Figment, working on developing and implementing a secure software development lifecycle across 5 product teams. Previously, he has worked at the Bank of Canada, TD, Wealthsimple and ResMed. On the side, he’s a partial-load Professor @ George Brown College teaching the blockchain security and tools course.

Company:

Fortephy

AI-enabled smart contract auditor.

Abdulhakim Bashir

CTO, Moonah Technologies

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

Rea Liu

BD leader & data scientist. Built Meta’s 1st data tech partnerships team to solve ad data loss.

Dirk Brink

CTO, Salus Labs

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

Nicolas Assouad

ENS Paris grad. Software engineering specialist in HRTech scale-up & early-stage startups.

Daniel Sozonov

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

Uzair Javaid

CEO, BetterData

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

Siyavash G. Nia

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

Andrius Sutas

CEO, Simple Construction Software

Co-founder & CEO of AimBrain (B2B deep-tech security, acquired), author of The Founder Handbook

Alesis Novik

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

Andrius Sutas

Exited co-founder and CEO of AimBrain, graduated top of class in Computer Science and Electronics

Julien Grossman

CEO, reKnowledge

MA Intelligence and International Security, built technological solutions for intelligence research

Henry Irish

Full-stack developer, MEng doing security research

Donald Gillies

BSc in Financial Economics, background in regulated markets

Jiameng Gao

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

Vishram Mishra

Award-winning researcher and a certified information security professional

Hrishi Olickel Arumaraj

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

Nicholas John Leishman Clarke

Former Royal Marine Commando, experience in the security industry

Raz Ghafoor

Prize winning engineer, developed machine learning algorithms

Ben van Enckevort

Creator and engineer, started first software business aged 18

Richard Vibert

Data scientist, sits on the committee of the Data Protection Forum

Boris Ploix

Degree in Applied Mathematics, experience in the transport industry

Rashid Khan

Master’s in Machine Learning, industrial experience

Mohamed Ben Arbia

Specialist in signal processing and machine learning

Hasan Sheikh Faridul

Co-founder, Eyn

PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, worked in world-leading security companies

Patrick Camilleri

VP of Research and Innovation, Crypto Quantique

PhD in Neuromorphic Engineering, designed semiconductor chips and researched parallel computing

Shahram Mossayebi

CEO, Crypto Quantique

PhD in Post-Quantum Cryptography, expert on security of modern cryptosystems

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

Edoardo Barp

Vice President of Engineering, X80

Mathematician and machine learning specialist

Simon Janin

Cyber security expert, invented a cryptographic protocol presented at National Bureau of Economics

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

Sawsen Rezig

PhD in Computer Vision, previously worked on biometrics

Sara Sebti

Experienced as a risk manager within financial institutions

Abhishek Anand

Co-Founder, Marlin AI

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

Uzair Ahmed

CTO, Right-Hand Cybersecurity

Expertise across leadership, AI and software development

Theo Nasser

CEO, Right-Hand Cybersecurity

Experienced in managing cybersecurity businesses

Natalie Doran

Built start-ups, working across gaming, HR and Blockchain

Jean-Vincent de Carvalho

Hacker, full-stack engineer and machine learning expert.

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.

Hevar Abrihem

Exp tech lead; founded game server startup, acquired B2C venture, dev web3 interoperability solution

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

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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