Rishad Usmani

With over 8 years of experience as a physician and a healthtech entrepreneur, Rishad is passionate about improving healthcare outcomes and access through innovation and collaboration.

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Moien Giashi PhD

Investing in Deep Tech Startups

Moien is a biomedical industry professional, and materials engineer turned Angel and Venture Capital investment professional. He is currently a Senior Investment Associate at GreenSky Capital, leading deep tech investments.

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Gregory Shepard

Co-Founder BOSS Capital Partners | BOSS Startup Science

Greg is a 20 year startup veteran and serial entrepreneur with 14 liquidity events under his belt, two of which were sold as part of a $925M transaction that won 4 PE awards for transactions between $250M-$1B.

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Nicolas Rouhana

Nicolas Rouhana is currently Chairman and CEO of IM Fndng, grouping IM Capital & IM Ventures, aggregating $60M under management, and respectfully funded under USAID MENA Investment Initiative & Lebanon Investment Initiative, providing Matching Capital.

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Rob Ryan

Professional Storyteller & Relationship Capitalist

I am primarily a Storyteller, Relationship Capitalist, Founder @Growthhax Mentor and aggregator of smart really good people worldwide and a uniquely loud/proud advocate of our entrepreneurial economic potential in LA where I’ve lived for 26 years now.

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Daniel Xu

Tech Incubator & VC | Columbia MBA

Columbia MBA focused on Tech Investment and Value Investing.

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Saad Hassan

Saad is the President of the Hassan Family Office, and the founder of Nvestiv. As an investment veteran that has facilitated over $10 Billion in deals for his partners, Saad identified a fundamental absence of technology in the way capital is allocated.

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Carey Ransom

Having extensive experience from startup to explosive growth to exit multiple times, and having sold a private company to a public company (while being CEO), I am a serial entrepreneur and investor.

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Peter Vesterbacka & Kustaa Valtonen

Helsinki-Tallinn Tunnel

Working hard on building the FinEst BayArea! I am heading the Finest Bay Area Development Company program management office. The project is getting ready to construct the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel (www.finestbayarea.online).

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Sanjeev Kohli

Sanjeev is a Founding Member at Glowfish, a tech-focused VC cum business builder based in Dubai. Glowfish’s ventures include CarSwitch.com –Used Cars Sales / Purchase Platform, oladoc.com – Digital Health Marketplace

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Anthony Choe

Founder at Provenance

Anthony Choe is the founder of Provenance, a growth-stage private investment firm focused on digitally-intensive omni channel brands. Provenance uses a highly analytical approach for due diligence and strategy development

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Nicole Denholder

Investing in female founders | Teaching women about money

Founder of Next Chapter Ventures (NCV), where we are redefining partnerships for Female Entrepreneurs, Investors and Partners.

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Cameron Atlas

Cameron delivers experiential keynotes, blending live music on stage with insights on high performance, leadership, creativity & innovation.

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Jordi Ferrer Rendé

Venture Capital | Business Development | Strategy

Entrepreneurial-minded executive with over 10 years of increased responsibilities in key management positions in Business Development and Strategy in Europe, USA, Middle East and Africa.

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Tiziana F. Bombassei

VC | Entrepreneurship | Impact | Emerging markets

I’m the Global Partnerships Manager for Seedstars, a Swiss investment holding with a presence in 80+ emerging and frontier markets.

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Ryan Else

Ryan has built businesses as a sales executive, investor and entrepreneur. He has also managed turnarounds, venture capital investments exceeding $3B in value and M&A activity exceeding $500m in value.

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Beatriz Franco

Beatriz Franco is a Managing Partner at Vita Ventures, an early-stage fund supporting innovations across the food industry while reducing demands on our planet.

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Ben Gibbons

Focused career on investment banking and consulting support to growth stage and middle market companies with extensive experience across mergers and acquisitions, debt, equity.

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Chirag Gupta

Chirag is the Managing Partner at 8X Ventures, a Deep-Tech focused venture capital firm. He invests and enables startups that will lead disruptive innovation and create sustainable value.

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Alan Costello

Alan is an Innovation, Strategy & Venture Investment professional. Always driving at innovation solutions and business models to important challenges – Climatetech, Food/Agtech – all convergent tech.

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Lewis Burnham

Lewis has a deep passion for leading and mentoring. Beginning in the earliest day of his career as an educator and coach, continuing through his career in the medical device industry.

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Jake Prigoff

Jake Prigoff is a Partner at Gaingels, one of largest and most active private investors dedicated to supporting diversity and inclusion within the venture capital ecosystem.

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Steve Tokarz

General and Managing Partner at Cantilever Investors Fund

Steve Tokarz is an experienced C-level entrepreneur, fundraiser and business developer and has been active in early-stage company and product development for the past 30 years.

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David Evans

I am a serial entrepreneur and technologist who started coding at 14, launched my first business at 19, and made by first angel investment before age 30.

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William A. Mejia

I am a Senior Investment Specialist with extensive Global Emerging Markets experience, built upon solid analysis and consistent investment returns.

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Ahmed Hazem

Experienced Investment Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Risk Management, Business Planning and Financial Analysis.

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Bryan Duarte

I am a Social Venturist, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and a licensed Professional Engineer. I am the Co-Founder and the Managing Partner at BlackTech Capital (BTC) and the Founder & CEO of Enliten.

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Sa'ad Shah

9 years at RBC Capital Markets in real estate banking, corporate credit, and derivative sales & trading.

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Meir Rabkin

Investor, entrepreneur, founder, accumulating 18 years of experience in the institutional asset management space and the international investment industry.

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Janneke Niessen

Janneke is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and mentor for startups and co-founder of CapitalT, a VC fund that invests in technology companies using proprietary technology to evaluate entrepreneurial teams.

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Tino Reyes

Our guest today is one of the Philippines’ up-and-coming angel investors and startup consultants, Tino Reyes. Tino shares the lessons he learned across the US, Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Canada with Jeffery Potvin (JP).

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