Dhaher Bin Dhaher is responsible for the development and management of the registration process for both financial and non-financial services companies and real property in Abu Dhabi Global Market. As part of his authority, Mr Al Mheiri also has oversight of ADGM-registered firms’ compliance to its commercial rules and regulations.

Over the course of his 13 years’ career, Mr. Al Mheiri held numerous key roles in business development and strategy, including six years with the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority in various managerial positions.

Mr Al Mheiri began his career in the family business, playing an instrumental role in operational aspect for seven years. He was then appointed as the advisor and subsequently as a Board Member where he instituted the family governance and restructuring of the family business. Mr Al Mheiri currently oversees the estate on behalf of his family.

Mr. Al Mheiri holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Suffolk University, Boston, USA.

Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive track record of successful startups. He launched Binance in July 2017 and within 180 days, grew Binance into the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. An expert in blockchain and trading systems, CZ has built Binance into the leading blockchain ecosystem, comprised of Binance Exchange, Labs, Launchpad, Info, Academy, Research, Trust Wallet, Charity, NFT and more.

CZ is a Chinese-Canadian coder who spent time in Tokyo and New York in his earlier life, first building systems for matching trade orders, then developing software for Bloomberg’s futures trading on Wall Street. In 2005, CZ quit his role as head of the Bloomberg Tradebook Futures Research & Development team and moved to Shanghai to start Fusion Systems. Soon thereafter, he learned about Bitcoin and joined Blockchain.info as Head of Technology. In 2020, CZ was recognized in the Bloomberg 50 as one of the most influential people of the year.

Career
After university, Zhao got an internship in Tokyo working for a subcontractor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, developing software for matching trade orders. He then worked full-time for 4 years at Bloomberg Tradebook where he was a developer of futures trading software.

In 2005, he moved to Shanghai where he founded Fusion Systems, known for “some of the fastest high-frequency trading systems for brokers.”

Beginning in 2013, he worked for various cryptocurrency projects including Blockchain.info and also served as chief technology officer of OKCoin.

In 2017, Zhao left OKCoin to start a cryptocurrency exchange called Binance. He launched the company in July 2017, following a $15 million funding raised during an initial coin offering. In less than eight months, Zhao grew Binance into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, as of April 2018. Zhao also launched blockchain network Binance Smart Chain that has made significant contributions to the development of the decentralized finance industry.

In February 2018, Forbes Magazine placed him third on their list of “The Richest People In Cryptocurrency”. As of 2021, his net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion.

Bios in the media:
Forbes
Bloomberg

H.E. Gabriel Abed is the Ambassador of Barbados to the United Arab Emirates, Founder and Chairman of Abed Group and Co-Founder of Bitt.

He is internationally recognized as a leading authority on central bank digital currencies, math-based protocols and blockchain technology globally, having conceptualized and initiated the first global movement to encourage the use of central bank digital currencies. In November 2010, he established the Caribbean’s first blockchain company.

In 2013, he co-founded Bitt Inc. in Barbados, whose current flagship project is the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank national digital currency. During his tenure as CEO, Bitt raised $16M USD in 2016 from international investors. Currently, Bitt is known for its pioneering actives in the field of central bank digital currencies and remains as one of the leaders on that frontier.

In April 2018, Abed was appointed as the Special Technology Advisor to the Honourable David Burt, Premier of Bermuda and has advised the Premier and his government on establishing their policies and best practices related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, as well as assisting to create a vision for Bermuda’s future growth and economic prosperity. Abed continues to focus on the fields of financial and regulation technology to better serve central banks and governments around the world in their mission to digitize their offerings He is a graduate of the University of Ontario.

Ahmad Ali Alwan joined Mubadala Investment Company in 2011. Since then, he joined the UAE Clusters Asset Management team in April 2021 to oversee a portfolio of UAE-based Aerospace and Technology assets (Strata, Sanad, G42 and Hub71).

Prior to joining the UAE Clusters team, Ahmad was part of the founding team of Hub71, where he was responsible for various functions including strategy, stakeholder management, finance, investor engagement and operations. Prior to that, Ahmad supported the launch of Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners.

Ahmad was also previously part of Mubadala’s Portfolio Strategy team where he worked on formulating the corporate strategy, overlaying internal and stakeholder objectives as well as supporting Mubadala’s leadership with special projects. During his time with the Portfolio Strategy team, Ahmad served as the working committee secretary and part of the PMO for the Mubadala-IPIC merger in 2016-2017. He began his career at Mubadala within Mubadala Capital’s Private Equity fund investment team.

Augusto Cardenas is the Senior Manager of International Operations at the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO).

Augusto and his team focus on developing ADIO’s outreach activities and presence in international markets, helping to generate investment into the emirate and promoting its status as a global investment destination across various business sectors.

Augusto has more than 15 years of experience across both private and public sectors in the fields of policy making, analysis of free trade agreements, branding strategies and global export counselling.

Starting his career as a researcher and then economic advisor to the Colombian Senate, Augusto turned to the private sector and built his career in quantitative market research, foreign direct investment analysis and global business strategies in Colombia, India and South Korea.

Augusto has a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Economics from Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia. He earned a Global MBA from EAE Business School, subsequently obtaining an MBA from the University of Barcelona, Spain.

About the Abu Dhabi Investment Office

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) is the government entity responsible for attracting and facilitating investment in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. ADIO enables opportunities for innovative investors and businesses of all sizes, facilitating connections across Abu Dhabi’s innovation ecosystem to help them establish and grow in the emirate. With a comprehensive range of tailored services and incentives, ADIO helps businesses achieve long-term, sustainable success in the market and across the region.

Fanglu Wang is CITIC Capital’s Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner of CITIC Capital ESG Group, focused on deploying sustainable investment strategies in emerging markets across Asia and globally. He has over 30 years of experience in capital markets, corporate finance, financial engineering and risk management. he has led several major capital raising transactions for the China Ministry of Finance and other major corporations. Mr. Wang was the former head of Product Marketing and Sales for China at HSBC, a Director in Investment Banking and Debt Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch Asia, a Vice President at Citibank Hong Kong and an Executive Director at Sakura Global Capital. Mr. Wang also sits on the board of several portfolio companies, across multiple sectors and geographies.

Mr. Wang received an M.A. in Statistics from the University of Chicago, a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Journalism from Fudan University in Shanghai.

Since 2014, Georgia Pont Garcia is the Co-Founder of Alkimia Capital, a Multi Family office based in the Principality of Andorra. She is highly accomplished in overseeing the mission, vision, and values of the company. She looks over the horizon at both internal and external competitive opportunities of expansion, proactively assessing emerging trends to improve the standards of the company. She is an active member of the compliance board and has a track record implementing regulatory policies. She has the expertise in managing people, operations, and budget. She enjoys taking on new challenges that are out of her comfort zone, as lately, executing a strategic allocation for real estate projects and developments into the business.

Until 2012, she was Senior Project Manager in Caldea and Marketing & Communication Manager for the Sport’s Hotel Group in Andorra. Before, she also worked 5 years in France as Manager and Coordinator of the Drilling Offshore American Transocean company for Middle East & Africa’s markets. Her first professional experience was at the Strasbourg’s European Council, were she worked as official translator and interpreter, with the knowledge of multiple languages English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic and Catalan.

She holds a BA in Translation and Interpretation, a master’s degree in International Relations, and a Post Graduate Diploma of Terminology by the University of Mons-Hainaut in Belgium. As well as multiple certifications in Anti-money Laundering, Compliance, and Fraud Prevention by KPMG and Crowe Global.

She is Andorra’s UNICEF Chair Board’s President.

Neelam Verma is Vice President and Head of Investments at the Continental Group International in UAE.

Neelam is a seasoned Finance and Banking Professional with 20+ years of experience across Investments , Private Banking & Wealth Management ,Corporate & Commercial Banking, Real Estate Finance, Retail Banking and Islamic Banking across India and UAE. She holds an MBA – Finance degree from New Hampshire University, , USA, is an Advanced Strategic Management expert from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Advanced MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a Certified Wealth Manager from American Academy of Financial Management, USA & International Certified Wealth Manager from CISI UK . In addition to the above, she has completed several advanced courses with the Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange and various other Asset Management Companies.

Her career covers working in multiple senior positions across Global, International & Local Banks like Citibank, HDFC Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Commercial Bank of Dubai, to name a few.

A prolific speaker on Capital Markets, Neelam is known for her views on Global and Regional Markets and has been on the panel discussion on multiple webinars, newspaper articles and radio shows.

An Emirati Leader of Entrepreneurial Teams and Educator.

With over two decades of experience in executive management, investments, sales, logistics, IT security and economic zone development, Dr. Adil Alzarooni has served in various leadership positions within UAE government entities as well as family-owned businesses. He has bolstered his portfolio with directorship positions in diverse sectors including healthcare, education, financial services, logistics, media, technology, food and beverage, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and real estate. Currently, he operates two family offices.

Dr. Adil holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Etisalat College of Engineering, a master’s in business administration from American University of Sharjah and a PhD in family businesses and business systems from the British University in Dubai. He is a passionate educator and an inspiring public speaker in the fields of economic zone development and sustainability of family businesses. He is the co-author of Economic Zones: The Essentials and the author of Sustaining Family Businesses: The Essentials.

Ludwig Forrest is Head of Philanthropy at the King Baudouin Foundation’s Centre for Philanthropy that provides information, guidance and tailor-made help on strategic philanthropy to private donors, families, businesses and professional advisers who wish to engage in public benefit initiatives in Belgium, Europe and in the world. He serves as well as international philanthropy architect for global philanthropic movements. Helping donors and beneficiaries to find effective solutions for philanthropic intentions, and fostering and enabling the European and international cross-border giving environment by promoting the borderless giving Alliance Myriad and the Transnational Giving Europe network are his main objectives. Ludwig joined the KBF 22 years ago.

Ludwig is also member of the Board of the Belgian Federation of Philanthropic Foundations and highly involved in the PHILEA Philanthropy Advocacy initiative. He advocates at national and EU-level, and is publicist and regular speaker/moderator at international conferences. He has been appointed to take the Expert role for the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Opinion “Philanthropy, an untapped potential in Europe”. Also he organized and coordinated the three first editions of the Philanthropy Day in Brussels and the first edition of the Spring of Philanthropy gathering more than 1500 persons from Belgium and Europe interested in Philanthropy.

Next edition is foreseen on April 27, 2023.

www.kbs-frb.be
www.myriad.org
www.transnationalgiving.eu

Bashar Khan is currently the Senior Vice President at National Investments Company, Kuwait. He comes with over 10+ years of investment banking experience with leading asset management and investment banking company. Involved in wide range of assignments including: M&A, restructuring, private placements, valuation and offset/counter-trade. Additionally, responsible for overseeing Markaz Energy Fund and other direct investments.

Mr. Khan has been associated with some of the esteemed organizations in Kuwait, the likes of National Petroleum Services Company, Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) and KPMG.

Kaye-Anne Greenidge is the Chief Executive Office of Invest Barbados, the national investment promotion agency of the Government of Barbados; she assumed this leadership role effective September 2019.

Kaye holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Accounting, as well as a Master of Science in Business and Financial Economics. An Economist by training, she worked as a Senior Economist in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs until 2007. Desirous of learning all aspects of Business and Finance, she then entered the world of banking and credit.

During her twelve year stint in banking, the former executive banker managed an extensive portfolio, providing financial and investment solutions to players in a wide range of industries.

Kaye has a love for teaching and this aspect of her life began in 1995. She is currently a certified online lecturer/ facilitator with the Cave Hill School of Business, University of the West Indies. She believes that knowledge should be shared and the greatest satisfaction one can have, is knowing that the knowledge imparted has charted the course of success for the recipient.

kgreenidge@investbarbados.org

Conrad Tsang is currently President and Executive Director of the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (HKVCA). Previously, he was Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s Chairman of the Board (2013-2015). Mr Tsang is also General Member of the Hong Kong Cyberport Investors Network. Prior to founding Strategic Year Holdings Limited, he was Senior Advisor,Asia with Apollo Education Group, a US higher education company.

Mr Tsang has been in the private equity and venture capital industry for over 20 years. Mr Tsang’s industry experience includes: education and professional services, TMT, retail and consumer products, real estate, natural resources/mining, advanced manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, logistics, environmental products/services, energy and alternative energy, financial services etc.

Alexandra Ammann joined Diamond Capital in 2016 as a Senior Portfolio Manager and is a:

– Investment Advisory and Discretionary Portfolio Management for HNWI
– Member of the Investment Committee for The Private Clients and The Principal Family

She has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, M&A, capital markets, wealth and asset management, having worked in large investment banks in London, Paris, Frankfurt and is now based in Geneva, Switzerland.

She graduated in Business Administration, Economics, Law and Social Sciences from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, with a masters in Finance and Accounting.

Julian Marwitz has had a dynamic career in investment and entrepreneurship, with a focus on cleantech and impact investments. Originally from Hamburg, he previously worked directly with the CEO of JLL, with involvement in strategic planning for growth and innovation in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He also worked as Development Manager at ECE, Business Development for ValuStrat and at his own family office investing into sustainable real estate and private equity. He founded a company, Arineos, focusing on energy efficiency in buildings.

Julian holds a Master of Sciences in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford and previously studied law in Geneva, Hong Kong and Germany, finishing with the German State Exam.

Kareem Anabtawi‘s role at Annex Investments is to help and lead alongside the Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Ahmed Nasser Al Nowais at Annex Investments’ Venture Building and Venture Investment activities. He and his firm are currently investing and building a portfolio of MENA based, early stage (Seed to Series A) tech startups, and backing them by adding their strategic values to help them achieve their goals.

At Annex, their mission is to take it upon themselves to join the journey of the startup, with the aim of opening doors for operational reasons, or even for fundraising purposes. Once a startup joins their portfolio of companies, they like to join their team. They always maintain that they are nothing but an informal call away, from lending a helping hand.

John R. Segeritz is a Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager at PK Rueck, a re-insurer of Swiss pension funds. He is also Head of ESG and spearheads the firm-wide transition into a sustainable investment era. Prior to joining the firm, John worked at Neuberger Berman as well as at the investment banking arm of UBS.

He earned a MSc in Finance at the University of Cape Town and a BSc in Economics at the University of Lausanne (HEC).

Michael Blank is the Managing Director & Partner of Holdun Family Office(HFO) in Miami, Florida. HFO is a fifth generation family office with locations in Nassau, Montreal and Cayman Islands. We offer specialized investment advisory services, direct investments, diversified funds and trust services.

Prior Mr. Blank was Managing Director of AndBank MIAMI. He was previously the founder of Swiss Asset Advisors, a multi family office located in Zug and Miami. He has been an International private banker for the past 30 years, during which time he established Bank Julius Baer in Palm Beach and Credit Suisse Private Advisors in Miami, Florida. In addition, Michael has over 14 years of experience in practicing international law, specializing in pre-immigration planning for high net worth individuals. He remains active in advising private clients, corporations and institutions with wealth preservation planning.

Ronil Sujan is an innovative and experienced value creation strategist and global finance expert with over 30 years of success in strategic growth, operations transformation, value creation, investing across multi-assets, venture development, board chair and board direction, and in mentoring and academia. He has deep experience in key sectors notably global financial services, consumer, education, life sciences and healthcare and emerging technologies derived from progressive and varied leadership roles ranging from global banks to venture capital and start-ups. He carries strong expertise in finance / accounting, strategy development, mergers / acquisitions / divestitures, investor relations, value creation, organizational transformation, strategic marketing and branding, talent acquisition and management, risk management, compliance, ESG, eco-system building and portfolio management.

VALUE CREATION STRATEGIST | GLOBAL FINANCE EXPERT
BOARD DIRECTOR | ADJUNCT FACULTY | MENTOR
Entrepreneurial and Turnaround Excellence
ESG Trained and Multi-Asset Investing Expertise
M&A Leader and Technology Venture Builder

Managing Director at Rabobank Group for 14 years (rated World’s Most Sustainable Bank by Global Finance). Ronil ran the global M&A and Capital markets business for Asia-Pacific. Member of Senior Leadership Team in Asia and the Global Executive Committee with NM Rothschild. This involved leadership / turnaround / integration and value creation in a cross-cultural platform. He also led the strategic cornerstone acquisition in the Agricultural bank of China for the Rabobank Managing Board. Ronil, prior to this was the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Rabobank India Finance, a greenfield NBFC in India. He was instrumental in managing, scaling up from scratch until final divestiture of stake to Rabobank. Rabobank India was ranked by Bloomberg as Top Corporate Finance House in India.

At the foundation of his versatile and innovative leadership, Ronil spent 8 years early in his career progressing through professional roles in internal audit, operations analysis, IT Consulting, corporate and structured finance, at United Technologies Corporation, Price Waterhouse, Bank of America, ANZ Bank Entrepreneurial and Investing expertise, Ronil is currently co-founder and CEO/CIO of an independent firm Raaga Holdings Pte Ltd for 10 years, a leading alternative investments and strategic advisory since 2013. He has built the Multi-Asset investing business along with key strategic partners and family offices. In addition, he holds senior roles with leading technology venture capital funds. Also completed key strategic advisory assignments for leading banks, family offices, corporates, institutions, government, and entrepreneurs.

Board expertise, Ronil is a member of the board of directors of Omnivore Partners and Mega Delta Capital, both leading venture capital funds as well as serves as Board Chair at a real estate asset manager. He has in the past served on the board of a listed consumer beverage company, a global block-chain firm, which was acquired, Rabobank / Rothschild joint venture which had oversight for the global business and has served as a Board member and Vocational Committee Chair for the Rotary Club of Singapore (non-profit).

A strong education and professional/academic development history. Ronil is currently an appointed Adjunct Faculty at Asian Institute of Management (Manila) and WMI (Singapore), both leading institutions. He also serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD since 2017 where he has mentored students extensively. Ronil was appointed Member of the Innovation Evaluation Grant Committee and a BIG (Business Innovation Generator) Mentor at SMU in 2020.

Ronil is an alumni member of INSEAD and holds the IDP-C. (Certification in Corporate Governance). He also holds a Masters from Texas A&M University and a Bachelors from Muhlenberg College (Dana Foundation Scholar). In addition, he has completed the ISEP (Insead Social Entrepreneurship Program) from INSEAD, FMP (Financial Management Program) from Stanford University and was part of a Harvard Leadership Program nominated by Rabobank. Ronil is an invited Fellow of Institute of Directors, Member of Singapore Institute of Directors and the Rotary Club of Singapore. He is a citizen of Singapore by invitation.

A Financial Services professional with deep expertise in Family Office and the Investment Advisory space, Nitai Utkarsh is the Lead for Investment Strategy and Chairman’s Family Office at Hero MotoCorp Ltd., world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer.

Nitai has been exposed to different aspects related to running Family Offices and investing in various asset classes, and has been actively participating in capital markets globally over the last two decades, giving him years of rich experience and an extensive network. Over time, Nitai has led multi-functional teams at Private Banks, Institutional and Boutique Multi and Single Family Offices.

One of the first professionals to work on the Multi-Family Office concept in India, Nitai was key to developing and executing the first commercial launch of an MFO offering in the country. Having set up teams and processes for pioneering Multi-Family Office firms and subsequently for large Single-Family Offices, Nitai has spearheaded many firsts in the Family Office space in India.

In addition to multi-asset capital market investments across the globe made over the last two decades, Nitaispecializes in early-stage investment transactions. He has invested in sectors as diverse as air purification, electric vehicle manufacturing, co-living, edtech, social media, ride sharing, logistics SaaS, mobile entertainment, sportstech, consumer products, rooftop solar, EV charging infra, B2B business platform, last-mile mobility, smart kitchen devices, and more.

Nitai has set up two large, Single-Family Offices from ground up, laying down frameworks around family constitution, wealth structuring, estate management, family business lifecycle, succession planning, legal, taxation, and accounting overview, and global cross-jurisdiction matters.

Nitai holds a degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.

Saeed Al Darmaki is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sheesha Finance. He is a Special Advisor of CasperLabs. And a Co-Founder of Alphabit Digital Currency Fund.

Saeed was Nominated Investor of the Year by AIBC summit UAE May 2021. He is a Board member of entities such as DEX, RealEx, MENA Fintech Association, BeMobi, Jahani & Associates, LEAD Ventures, Royale Finance, Artha, TeraBlock and Kenzi Wealth, to name a few.

Traditional Finance – fixed income specialist working for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Khalid Alhuamid is a Chief investment officer for Aseel Capital which is one of the leading firms in the Fintech sector in Saudi Arabia, he led his team through multiple well-known crowd-investing funds in KSA, in addition to that, he has been a financial consultant to Awqaf authority, board member of multiple investment funds. Khalid holds MBA Finance from Jacksonville University, he has a deep interest in crowdfunding Fintech Proptech, and investment

Bill Qian manages the Cypher Capital multi-strategy crypto investment firm.

Prior to joining Cypher Capital, Bill was the Global Head of Fundraising, Binance Labs, and M&A for Binance ‒ the largest global crypto platform holding 55% of the global market share, with $34 trillion in transactions in 2021.

Before this, Bill was the Head of Investment of Fintech/Tech for JD.COM ‒ an Asian internet tycoon with more than $400 billion in annual e-commerce transactions. Bill has also worked with Trustbridge Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity fund with more than $15 billion in assets under management, and has deployed and managed over $20 billion across Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 projects in his career. Bill sees himself as a “web-native investor”, looking for phenomenal founders in the
Web 3.0 industry.

Having completed his Bachelor of Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he was elected as Vice President of the student union with the highest voting rate ever recorded. He also holds an MSc in Finance from Nanyang Technological University and an MBA from the University of Toronto. Alongside his main roles, Bill serves on the executive committee of the Hillhouse Value Investing Institution.

Cypher Capital Overview

Established in 2022 by Co-Founder and Partner, Bijan Alizadeh, Cypher Capital is a leading multi-strategy crypto investment firm based in the UAE, covering venture capital, public markets, nodes, mining, etc.

The previous fund, Phoenix VC, successfully invested $10 million in blockchain startups. Following Phoenix VC’s great success, Bijan co-founded Cypher Capital, with the vision to be the leading global partner for projects in the crypto, blockchain, and digital asset community.

Working alongside globally acclaimed Web 3.0 founders, not limited to only financial capital investment, Cypher Capital also leverages its global relationships and industry expertise to ensure long-term success.

Apart from investing in projects, Cypher Capital is also building a 10,000 sq. ft. crypto hub in Jumeirah Beach Residence, Dubai – to be operational by Q4 2022.

Cypher Capital has an existing portfolio of more than 150 projects with a Return on Capital Deployed of 45x. The investment ticket size is $250K – $1M and the investment track record includes renowned names such as Polygon, Axie Infinity, PancakeSwap, Kilt, Splinterlands, CasperLabs, etc.

Dr Anshul Govila is an experienced Surgeon with a Passion for Managing Healthcare Organizations. Having worked and trained in the Middle East, UK, S.Korea, Taiwan and India he tries to bring the breadth of this knowledge and experience into an empathetic healthcare consultant. His clinical exposure of managing clinical disaster situations, adventurous surgical tales from inland India gives him a depth of character which makes civil city healthcare quite easy.

Further with 15 years of progressive surgical training in various geographies and payer environments he has developed a global understanding of the healthcare market and its challenges from inside out. Trying to arbitrage value between surgery and management he is currently responsible for advising a Part Private Part Public Healthcare Group on their local and global growth strategy.

His interests lie in redefining the culture of healthcare establishments, turning around sick hospitals and creating sustainable business models around service lines. A pragmatic and inclusive leaders he has been adept at transforming hospitals and clinical units, addressing operational and revenue cycle issues, managing healthcare resource both human and material. In the beginning of 2013 Anshul was chosen as the First Non Korean and youngest Senior Advisor to the Global Planning team at Seoul National University Hospital and he helped them on defining their market entry strategy to the Middle East with eventual reward of the management contract for Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah.

An MBA from London Business School and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edin) he also holds qualifications in quality and project management.

Austin Walters is a healthcare technology investor and operator who is passionate about supporting fellow entrepreneurs in working to improve human health and wellness. Prior to starting SpringTide, he founded or was an early employee at a number of successful ventures, including EchoNous, Edilytics, Friendemic, and Innosight.

Austin holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from BYU and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Past and present board director roles include Superconductive, PathologyWatch, Tula Health, Prolucent Health, and Vigor Medical Systems.

Arnaud Roland Barray is based in Geneva Switzerland; currently Managing Director of AB Private Office. Arnaud was born and raised in the South of France. He lived in the US, in Argentina and now in Switzerland since 2010.

Most of his career was in Private Banking with institutions such as BNP and Barclays.

He holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA). He is fluent in French, English and Spanish. He is also the President of a business club call Millionaire Lunch GVA. He is married and is the father of three children.

Tomer Sofinzon is the Founder and General Partner of T&Team Venture Capital Partners, the fund’s principal investment officer, and is responsible for capital deployment. Most recently, and prior to founding T&Team Venture Capital Partners, Tomer founded and was CEO of 2030 Group, a global innovation group for Crypto and DLT, where he was a member of its Board of Directors and the group’s Executive Committee.

Prior to founding T&Team and 2030, Tomer spent over 20 years between Europe, the United States and Israel focusing purely on technology innovation, venture capital and angel investments.

A serial entrepreneur and a passionate activist championing the role of technology in transforming society for the greater good, Tomer has founded 12 startups and invested both as an angel or a VC in 50+ startups, several of which were successfully acquired or went to IPO.

An experienced business developer and deal-maker, Tomer has raised over $500M for his personal and professional portfolio companies.

Stergios Voskopoulos is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ALTNOVEL, a tech powered multi-family office that was set up in 2021 to provide exclusive assess for our club of FOs in alternative investments.

Before founding ALTNOVEL, Stergios was CEO of Kanoo Capital, the Investment Division within YBA Kanoo – one of the largest family conglomerates in the Middle East – where he was responsible for the active management of direct and indirect investments both regionally and globally.

He has 25 years of global experience, with over 13 years working in the GCC region, in the areas of Asset Management, Private Equity and M&A, having previously held positions at AIG Global Investment Group, Barclays, Investcorp, and Seera Investment Bank. He is also an angel investor in startups and a serial entrepreneur.

Stergios is a regular guest commentator providing his expert opinion for global media news outlets, as well as speaking on the topics of investment management, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and global affairs at international summits.

He has an MBA in Finance & Investments from Zicklin School of Business in New York City, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Athens. Stergios speaks six languages having lived and worked in over seven countries and has been a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).