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Stephen Mackintosh is the General Partner at Karatage, a Hedge Fund that has backed the most significant innovators in crypto and cyber security. Previously was CCO at Re:infer, where he led the development of a UCL AI Research spin-out into a fast growing technology scale-up, recognised by Gartner as a cool vendor for NLP. Re:infer was then acquired by UiPath. Founded his first company aged 22 at UCL. He like to help young founders with similar ambition.
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Jonathan Ward
Jonathan Ward is the founder of Enumero and the former CTO of Fetch AI. Previously, he received a PhD in machine learning from University College London, where he studied protein folding problems. He was also involved in applying machine learning algorithms to problems such as time series and machine vision.
Cais Manai
Cais Manai is co-founder and head of Product at Ten and was previously Principal Product Manager at R3 and associate Director of prime brokerage at UBS.
Bobby Ong
Bobby Ong is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of CoinGecko, an established cryptocurrency data analytics and research platform. He has been in the industry since 2013 and was recognized as a recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from University College London and Singapore-GCE A-Levels from Anderson Junior College. Previously, Bobby worked as a Digital Marketing Manager at Sime Darby Property Berhad.
Helena Gagern
Helena Gagern is a graduate of UCL who worked in software development and product design before co-founding Salsa in 2022.
Vance Gong
Vance Gong is the Founder & CEO of MAY.Social. He graduated from the University of London in the UK and holds an MBA degree from Peking University.
Brendan Playford
Brendan Playford is co-founder and CEO of Masa and previously was co-founder and CEO of Pngme and founder and CEO of Constellation.
Mustafa Al-Bassam
Mustafa Al-Bassam is the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, a UCL Blockchain Scaling Ph.D. He is also a co-founder of Chainspace, which was acquired by Facebook.
Ben Caselin
Ben Caselin is chief marketing officer at VALR and was previously vice president and chief strategy officer at MaskEX and vice president at AAX.
Oliver Sleafer
Oliver Sleafer is CFO of Backpack and previously served as Head of liquidity Management for Asia Pacific at Stripe. He is a graduate of Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Westminster.
Rand Hindi
Rand Hindi is the co-founder and CEO of Zoma and previously the founder and CEO of Snips. Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded his first startup at 14 and created a web development agency at 15 before starting his PhD at the age of 21. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL), as well as two graduate degrees from Singularity University in Silicon Valley and THNK in Amsterdam.