Eric Egnet

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Eric is a seasoned executive, senior technologist, serial entrepreneur, and emerging technology portfolio investor with over 26 years in executive management and senior leadership roles. He has worked across diverse industries to deliver disruptive innovation, strategy, planning, and execution that has successfully enable these companies to grow, differentiate, and transform their businesses.

As a C-Level Officer of many early-stage startups, mid-market, and large-market companies, Eric has been part of successful business exits, mergers, and funding transactions. He has led and strategically diversified companies, developed innovative technologies, created true competitive advantages, launched new businesses, established strong partnerships, and was crucial in helping one company successfully go public.

Dan Murphy

Co-Founder and Chief Revenue officer

Dan Murphy brings over 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions at major Consumer Electronics and Consumer Media companies. He has extensive knowledge on launching new products, emerging technologies, revenue strategies, and market segments for award winning products and subscription services.

Dan initially developed his skills at launching new products at SONY, managing their portable audio brands, and growing annual revenues to over $1 billion. After 11 years, Dan left the company as VP and joined an early-stage start-up company called XM Satellite Radio to launch a new, untested, Satellite Broadcasting technology and Subscription service. At XM Satellite Radio, Dan developed the consumer acquisition business plan, product line, and distribution channels to launch the industry. After several years XM annual revenues exceeded $1b.

Jawad Farooq

Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer

Experienced Entrepreneur with a consolidated background across spectrum of sectors including Real Estate , Finance, Asset Management and Technology. Jawad is a Co Founder to string of startups and grown them into multimillion businesses through his diverse skills in Strategic Planning, Commercial Negotiation and Business Development.

A Visionary, with a track record for finding innovative ways to grow revenue, Jawad has a history of success, leading initiatives for business development, marketing, advertising and product management.

Zvi Raskin

General Counsel to the Founder ( Arshad Hisham )

Zvi is a C-Suite-level Yale-educated corporate counsel with exceptional breadth and depth of legal experience and expertise, concerning a wide array of legal, corporate and commercial matters with more than 25 years as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.

He was previously General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of publicly-traded company where his areas of focus included corporate law, intellectual property, contracts, securities, corporate finance, SOX compliance, litigation, and employment and benefits law. He was also previously Chief legal officer of leading worldwide manufacturer and distributor of LED and solid-state lighting product where Established company’s first legal department, providing counsel and directing company policy on a wide range of legal and commercial issues.

Wladmir Silva

Chief Managing Consultant

Wladmir has more than 25 years of international experience in business management, leading multicultural teams in different sectors, including automotive, financial services, executive search, and management consulting. Wlad lives in Singapore and previously lived and worked in Brazil, the USA, the UK and Hong Kong.

As a management consultant, Wlad has worked with the leadership and senior management teams of Fortune 500 clients in over 40 countries in several industries, including consumer, retail, pharma, aviation, and financial services. He led workshops and projects ranging from USD 300k to over USD 6.5bn.

Arun Chandrasekhar

Co-Founder ( Kaiser.Haus ) and Operations Director

Experienced Entrepreneur with a consolidated background across sectors including Real Estate , Finance, Asset Management and Technology. Arun was a General manager at CBRE ,and an NIT / NICMAR Alumnus. He has a good track record for finding innovative ways to grow revenue, Arun has a history of leading initiatives for business development, marketing, and product management including previous stints at Carrefour, Cushman and Wakefield.

Mark Koops

Co-Founder and Advisor

Mark has significant international experience, most recently in the role as Regional Vice President at a large international company, responsible for Business Management for one of its 5 regions. He has worked in North America, Europe and Asia in various roles, for companies like AT&T, Oracle and Ericsson.

He set up organisations from scratch, had roles such as consulting partner, head of sales, operations and marketing. Mark also worked in Bell Labs, on next generation technologies, and holds various patents. Mark has a strong background in software and services, and has lead major consulting engagements, delivery projects, sales engagements and go-to-market initiatives successfully.

Junaise S Kodiyalathu

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer

Junaise is a highly accomplished engineer and an entrepreneur who has significant amount experience in Technology and Innovation. He holds a post-graduation in advanced computing and an MBA from Price School of Business. Prior to this worked as Technical Adviser in Baker Hughes GE, for their US & Canada markets.

He is a subject matter expert in automation, operations and has written many technical papers. He is an ardent enthusiast of artificial intelligence and robotics. He has also cofounded Eastman Harbinger, a renewable energy business and, has also been an Investment Manager in a startup.

John Grispon

Advisor and Early Investor

John is a highly experienced business growth strategist and a veteran entrepreneur. He was also the first Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at ITEN. Mr. John Grispon has been Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at MDClone since February 2018. Mr. Grispon Co-founded RespondWell, LLC in 2003 and served as its Chief Operating Officer.

Previously, Grispon co-founded the telehealth solution RespondWell, which Zimmer Biomet (NYSE: ZBH) acquired in 2016, and has served as senior vice president of business development for Corillian , acquired by Checkfree for $245 million. Grispon also worked at Microsoft and Monsanto Co.

Dr. Jennifer Prendke

Executive Advisor - Machine Learning & MLOps

Dr. Jennifer Prendki is an AI entrepreneur and a leading ML scientist with an expertise in Machine Learning lifecycle management, data preparation and Active Learning. As the CEO and founder of Alectio, she currently focuses on building more sustainable, cost-efficient and responsible ways to build ML algorithms. She is the inventor of multiple processes supporting the automated creation and optimization of a training dataset during the process of training, which are game-changing for the robotics and IoT industries.

She has been a speaker at events including ODSC, O'Reilly Strata Data, MLWorld, AINextCon, Data Council, Silicon Angle Cube, Women in Analytics, Global Big Data Conferences, IDEAS to name just a few; she is also a regular guest speakers at some of the best research institutions such as Stanford School of Engineering and Berkeley. She received her PhD in Particle Physics from Sorbonne University in 2009 and has since then worked as a data scientist for many different industries.

She was the Chief Data Scientist at Atlassian's where she built the first centralized Machine Learning function from scratch and ran the Search & Smarts team, a cross-functional team in charge of developing all Machine Learning-powered features for all Atlassian products. Later, she joined Figure Eight to build up their technology department and was instrumental in their $300M acquisition by Appen. She is particularly skilled at building and scaling high-performance Machine Learning teams, and is known for enjoying a good challenge. Trained as a particle physicist, she likes to use her analytical mind not only when building complex models, but also as part of her leadership philosophy.

Reginald Swift

Executive Advisor - Healthcare

Reginald Swift is the founder and CEO of Rubix LS, using innovation at a greater scale to change how health outcomes can be realized through patient product and service innovation. With a background in mechanical engineering, many of the research pursuits also involve the development of regenerative metals to target specific diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis for Myelin regeneration, ALS, PLS, PKAN, and much more (with a rare and infectious disease focus).

Reginald is a kinesthetic entrepreneur who has 16 years of mechanical engineering experience from a research, academic, and industry based perspective in a multi-variate forms of functions. Reginald is a native of Florida and holds a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from Florida International University, and a minor in Entrepreneurial Strategies. He is currently in pursuit of his PhD in molecular mechanical engineering, with a concentration in regenerative material molecularity, in Boston where he currently resides.

He has mentored and supported various startup and mid-size organizations from MIT, Harvard Medical School, Georgia Tech, Stanford, UCLA, USF, Georgetown, and more in the realm of engineering, biological engineering, virological engineering, software development, and more.

Fiona Harvey

Executive Advisor - Strategy and Marketing

Fiona is a CIM qualified marketer with extensive global experience in education marketing and international strategy developed through leading global marketing teams, general management roles and consultancy work. Fiona is Singapore based as the global head of marketing for a leading provider of international education.

Previous roles have seen Fiona run her own consultancy practice advising global clients on strategy, marketing and customer experience to attain 20%+ revenue growth. Fiona has developed teams to double revenue, drive growth and deliver customer retention of 98% as well as leading digital transformation projects. Beyond this she has led business units in Poland, Russia, the Gulf and India where she was responsible for emerging markets strategy and organizational growth targets of 15%.

Fiona holds a BA(Hons) in Management and French, a Licence en Sciences de Gestion and has lived in the UK, France, India, Australia and Singapore.

Dr. Amit Shanker

Executive Advisor - Healthcare

Dr Shanker is a US-based Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Global Health Technology Executive with significant MedTech experience in the Asia-Pacific/ANZ, MENA, Sub-saharan Africa, Europe, North America, and South America markets. Selected by Who's Who in America (in 2021) as an international thought leader for his efforts in influencing and supporting cardiovascular and SARS-CoV-2 initiatives across the globe, he has held clinical/health policy and commercial MedTech roles to help drive patient access to emerging therapeutics and reduce healthcare inequities.

Having served as Chief Medical Officer for Terumo (where he was based in New York/Tokyo) and Boston Scientific (where he was based in Singapore), Amit has significant experience in building and managing emerging markets and worldwide strategic medical affairs functions (clinical trial operations, professional education, health economics and market access, medical diligence for safety and quality) that coordinate speed-to-market strategies focused on rapid therapy adoption and aligned with business objectives.

Dr Shanker has extensive experience in providing medical/clinical diligence for new business development, upstream R&D, and M&A activities with medical therapeutic and digital diagnostic firms . These efforts have culminated in numerous market creation/expansion initiatives and 3 acquisitions. He has advised venture capital, start up, and non-profit organizations based out of North American, Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. He has also served as Chair of the Asia-Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) Medical and Clinical Affairs Committee. Previously as Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University School in New York, he served as Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Arrhythmia Medicine holding leadership positions in US Physician/Facility Payment Policy and global health care policy with the American Medical Association (AMA), US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), US Patient Centered Outcomes Research Initiative (PCORI), American College of Cardiology (ACC), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS).

Dr. Shanker maintains a clinical practice that has included 70,000 patient encounters/4,200 cardiac surgeries, 75 publications, and research grants from the American Heart Association and the National Institute of Health (NIH). Dr Shanker received his post-graduate medical training at Brown University, the Mayo Clinic, Washington University School of Medicine, and the NIH. He was awarded the Ruth Kirchstein Research Award by the NIH in 2003 for his work in molecular cardiac gap junction proteins.

Joanna Catalano

Executive Advisor - Growth and Market Entry Strategy

Joanna Catalano is an accomplished leader in growing and scaling businesses, building customer relationships and leading multidisciplinary teams. She acquired a depth of expertise in commercial and digital transformation, new business development, leading teams that built bespoke digital products, and outcome-led application of data and analytics, while working cross-culturally in America, EMEA and APAC.

Joanna commenced her career in economic development partnering with the Ukrainian government on market reform education and micro-lending for female start-ups, as Ukraine transitioned to a capitalist economy. Witnessing disruption at such a significant scale piqued a curiosity both in human and systemic behavior and change that has since guided her professional journey. Over the last 20 years, she’s gathered a holistic view of B2C and B2B businesses, having spent time working brand-side, for technology platforms and software businesses, as well as leading services businesses.

Her passion as a people-leader, and focus on people as an organization's most important asset, has guided repeated success in executive and leadership roles.

At Piano.io, a SaaS business focused on customer journey orchestration and analytics, she’s built a new function to drive a growth strategy rooted in product, industry vertical and partnership expansion.

As CEO of iProspect Asia Pacific, a digital marketing agency of $500+M billings operating across 14 countries with a 1000+ employee base, she re-positioned the brand for a second wave of growth, acquired four new businesses and achieved double-digit revenue and profit growth for three consecutive years. Her comprehensive people strategy improved employee satisfaction significantly.

At Google, she built the inaugural go-to-market function focused on growing product share of revenue and inked large annual deals with blue chip brands like Hilton, P&G, Citibank, Expedia and many others.

At American Express and Starwood Hotels, she worked with executive sponsors on strategic change initiatives to increase revenue and c-sat.