TWIN Tech Global Advisory Council

Jørn Bang Andersen Denmark’s Trade Commissioner to Italy

I have worked with innovation, technology and change since the early 1990s and assisted companies, countries, cities and regions in Europe, North America, Asia and Northern Africa. I am currently Denmark’s Trade Commissioner to Italy, Malta and San Remo. Prior experience include Director for Communication, Marketing and Business Development at Invest in Denmark, European Director to international management consultancy firm. Expert to the World Economic Forum on Innovation and the Nordic Model. I have written several articles and in books on innovation and business development and been a guest lecturer on these themes to leading business schools in Europe and North America. I earned a MA in Western European Politics from Essex University and an M.S. in Political Science from Aarhus University, Denmark. Besides my professional interests I am a keen photographer and take great interest in architecture, Russian avant garde art and contemporary societal changes viewed with the lens of history.

Yitz Applbaum Co-Founder, MizMaa Ventures Advisor, EIGHT VC Partners and Owl Ventures

Isaac “Yitz” Applbaum is a co-founder of MizMaa Ventures, a $200M fund which invests in Israeli startup companies. Applbaum is a special advisor to both EIGHT VC Partners and Owl Ventures – the largest early stage Educational Technology fund in the U.S., and is on the advisory board of Vintage Investment Partners.

Isaac currently sits on the Board of Directors of Ment.io, Anagog, Shookit and Coronet. Applbaum has business operations experience building and leading companies large and small. He helped found and build SecureKey Technologies, a global leader in blockchain technologies. Applbaum served as an early investor and Director of mobile payments company Kili Technology Corporation before it was acquired by Square. Applbaum was a board member of 7/24 Solutions, the first publicly traded company to build a platform for mobile banking. He was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Concorde Solutions Inc., which he sold to Bank of America. Applbaum was a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture fund.

Isaac sits on the Board of Directors for the Asia Society, and is a Trustee of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and sits on the Governance and Nominating Committees. He served as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy to Jerusalem’s Mayor, Nir Barkat, and was the President of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, a 5,000 member organization that promotes venture investment, job creation, and a strong partnership between Israeli and California. Applbaum is on the Board of Directors of The Western Wall Heritage Foundation which oversees excavation of the tunnels under the Western Wall. He is also a founding board member of Him for Her for Him (HHH) which assists in the placement of women onto corporate boards of directors.

Carlos Arruda Professor of Innovation and Competitiveness Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil

Carlos Arruda is the Professor of Innovation and Competitiveness at Fundação Dom Cabral, a Brazilian business school where he is also the executive director of the FDC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center and director of the PGA – Advanced Management Program. He serves on the Advisory Board of Salesforce do Brasil; on the Board of Trustees of Biominas a Brazilian biotech incubator and on the Board of Directors of Riva Engenharia S/A a Brazilian construction company.

Arruda is the co-author of the books “Internacionalização de Empresas Brasileiras”; “Em busca do futuro”; “Analise da competitividade brasileira” e “Inovação ambiental”. He is the Brazilian partner for the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook and World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report. In 2004, Arruda founded the FDC Innovation Network (CRI), a network of executives dedicated to the management of innovation. Today there are three chapters of the CRI in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza engaging leading Brazilian and multinationals corporations from different industries.

Arruda received a B.Eng Mechanical Engineering and an MA in Business from University Federal of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and Ph.D., International Business from the University of Bradford (UK).

Tomas Barazza Strategy and Innovation Culture H-Farm, Venice

After earning his degree in Economics and Business at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Tomas completed his studies with a Master’s in Innovation Management from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa. Tomas started his career working for several large multinational consulting firms, followed by a few years with the Benetton Group, focusing on organizational change. He spent the following years in the consulting industry, leading projects with a substantial change management component. In 2006, he shifted his focus to entrepreneurship, working mainly with startups and digital innovation. He founded his first company in 2007 and used the ecosystem to create new opportunities, launching several other initiatives that are collectively known today as Strategy & Innovation Culture, H-FARM’s business unit dedicated to strategy, innovation, digital culture and service design. In 2015 Tomas founded a startup called Wethod, offering a project portfolio management solution for project-driven organisations. Tomas is a passionate learner, eager to explore progressive approaches to cultural and organizational change.

Truls Berg Managing Partner, Digital Insight Founder and Executive Chairman, Open Innovation Lab of Norway

Truls Berg is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur and a former round the world sailor that has started 12 companies with a total of 1200 employees. In Norway he’s a well known open innovation evangelist and a popular speaker, as well as the author of three books.

He serves as the managing partner of Digital Insight as well as founder and Executive Chairman of Open Innovation Lab of Norway where 42 of Norway’s leading corporations team up in order to improve their ability to innovate in new and combinatoric ways.

Truls is an avid proponent of the value of Inspiration, Innovation and Insight with diverse experience from Norwegian and international businesses. He has so far contributed to the launch of 12 businesses. He also served as the chairman of the Norwegian Computer Association from 2001 – 2003 and in 2002 he was voted Norwegian Leader of the Year. He’s also the Chairman of NorBAN (Norwegian Business Angel Network). Truls is also a popular speaker and a regular columnist in Computerworld, InnoMag and Nettavisen.

Euler Bropleh Founder and Managing Director VestedWorld

Euler Bropleh is the founder and Managing Director of VestedWorld, a venture capital fund focused on investing in underserved markets around the world, including several markets in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to VestedWorld, he was an attorney with Latham & Watkins and Vedder Price, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital transactions.

Skype: ebropleh http://vestedworld.com LinkedIn | Twitter | Medium

Rosario B. Casas Co-Founder and CEO at XR Americas Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Business Creative Partners

Women-in-tech advocate. Colombian born entrepreneur with over seven years of hands-on experience in data and technology-driven platforms & 20+ in Executive roles. Spatial Computing expert and developer.

Co-founder of XR Americas, a NYC headquartered company, using spatial computing systems (AR + VR + AI) to sharpen organizations' competitive edge, improving performance and long- term workforce sustainability. Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Business Creative Partners, a consulting firm specializing in digital adoption and incubation. She is also Co- Creator of 4 Dimensional Quotient, a coaching company equipping leaders to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Rosario is a Big Data Advisory Board Member at Rutgers University, WE NYC Mentor, SXSW Pitch advisory Board Member, XR In Learning Advisory Board Member, Entrepreneurial mentor at the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU, Fellow at the Americas Institute for Cybersecurity Leadership (AICL), Entrepreneurial mentor at MujeresTech at the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, and TEDx speaker.

Former CEO of Grupo Senseta, Inc., a Silicon Valley state-of-the-art Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning technologies. Previously, she had a leadership role at the opening of Julius Bar Private Bank in Colombia. She was an external advisor for SAS Institute, Chief of Staff for a Colombian First Lady, and was a Senior Consultant at the World Bank, where she dealt with economic and anti-corruption matters in Latin America.

In 2017 was named one of the 100 Top World disruptors in New York City by the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In 2018 was selected by the IADB as one of the Latin-American leaders in Education. In 2019 named Mujer Legendaria 2019 on Technology by Ford Motor Company, and selected by the OBO Movement as one of the 100 Innovators 2020.

Robert J. Castro Founder, Bob Castro Strategies Counselor, Hamilton Advisors, Inc.

Robert J. Castro Founder, Bob Castro Strategies; and Counselor, Hamilton Advisors, Inc., Social Impact Team Bob Castro has balanced a 30+ year career between corporate, entrepreneurship, and public service, including 15 years in government and a lifetime in family- owned businesses. Most recently Senior Advisor at USAID and the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Partnerships, Bob spent the prior decade in the private sector focused on new market development and corporate engagement in Diplomacy, Development & Defense, living in the GCC Region, Egypt, Mexico, and Washington, DC. Bob held a series of appointed roles in the Presidential Transition, supporting confirmation of cabinet members while contributing to new policy initiatives and communication plans for Emergency Preparedness, Innovation, Private Sector Engagement, and Indo-Pacific Strategy, including impact investing and creation of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Previously Chief of Staff (rank of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary) for Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), Bob oversaw a $1.5 B annual budget, $5.7 B in construction and $14.0 B in assets. He served 10 years on Capitol Hill as professional staff for members of Appropriations, Ways & Means, Transportation & Infrastructure, Science, and Small Business committees and the Office of Technology Assessment. Bob was managing VP of a prominent public opinion research firm and Director of Global Security Policy at Lockheed Martin/PAE. He advised executive leadership of the Corporate Council on Africa, US-ASEAN Business Council, and American Chambers of Commerce. Widely published and quoted in national press, Bob has appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN, Univision, and Al Jazeera. He produced live content for C3 US-Arab Summits, Rotary International, and global conferences. Atlanta native and graduate of Georgetown University, Bob co-chaired the 100th anniversary alumni committee for Villa le Balze in Italy. In 2013, Bob received DACOR’s Tragen Award for founding “PROPS: Professional Partners & Spouses of the Foreign Service.” In 2016, Bob won AAFSW’s Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad.

João Ribeiro Da Costa Head of Digital Transformation Católica-Lisbon

João Ribeiro da Costa has a lifelong experience in information technologies, combined with a practical entrepreneurial experience. Having completed his first degree in Civil Engineering in the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal he got his Ph. D. in Lancaster University, UK. The first phase of his career was in Reseach (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil) and University teaching (Professor at the New University of Lisbon, Invited Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, the University of London and University of Parma).

In 1996 he made a major switch to the private enterprise world and cofounded Chiron Information Systems, after a challenge from the NASA Kennedy Space Centre. Since then he cofounded echiron in 2000 (the first ASP and MSP in Portugal), Guestcentric (a SaaS company) in 2008 and Truewind-Chiron in 2010 (Software Development). By the end of 2013 the 3 companies employed about 120 people, with a turnover of about 8M€. In February 2014 echiron was acquired by Claranet and thus integrated in a large MSP with European scale.

In 2015 he returned to the Católica-Lisbon to launch new programmes on the Digital Business area. In 2017 he became Head of Digital Transformation at Católica-Lisbon, with the mission of helping the School defining and executing its digital vision. In his professorship role he teaches Digital Transformation at Masters, MBA, Bachelors and Executive Education and launched and coordinates the Executive Programs on Digital Acceleration, Digital Transformation, Design Thinking and RGPD/GDPR Data Protection Regulation.

At Católica João is active developing digital transformation and innovation projects with companies, both in Portugal and abroad. This activity dovetails with teaching, providing real cases that students can analyse.

Kristen Davis CEO & Founder @ CinqC Chair of the US board of APOPO HeroRATS

I created CinqC after 20-years of disruption and innovation in international media groups, notably the New York Times, where I learned agility, resilience and established a global network of innovation experts. With CinqC I offer this experience as a service to my clients including La Poste (the French national postal service), Google DNI Fund, Cartier, Vivatech, France Digitale.

CinqC's tagline is 'Making it work in an evolving world' and provides pragmatic expertise in strategy, adapting and integrating new technologies & techniques to start-ups and established organisations that:

Need to quickly get their product to market; See their market disrupted and their revenues eroded; Want to take their organisation outside of it’s comfort zone; Have to evolve or expand to remain robust and pertinent today and tomorrow.

I’ve worked in diverse sectors and countries across five continents and this is the original of my five (cinq) Cs, along with my five core values: Pragmatic Change Business Continuity Creativity Community, and Culture - both international and inter-generational, because humility is critical to successful evolution and change.

I support multiple accelerators and incubators and am a Lead Mentor for the Katapult accelerator in Norway. I am also the Chair of the US Board of APOPO HeroRATS - we train rats to use their amazing sense of smell to save lives. Follow me @daviskris10 for more info.

Luis García de Paredes Chief Operating Officer Banco General, Panama

Luis García de Paredes is Chief Operating Officer at Banco General, the largest bank in Panama. He leads the group that supports the bank’s operations since July 2000 and he is responsible to coordinate the internal services provided by Information Technology, Business Architecture, Back Office Operations, Cybersecurity, Collections and Fraud Prevention, all based on best suitable practices and service level agreements to ensure a consistent service quality to internal users and bank’s customers.

He joined Banco General in November 1985 as an Assistant Operations Manager and in 1990 promoted to Vice President and Chief Information Officer. During his tenure in Banco General, acted as project leader for two mayor local bank mergers and one acquisition. He has been responsible for multiple important business process and technological transformation projects that resulted in operational efficiency and enabled improvements in customer service. Mr. Garcia de Paredes contributed to the evolution of the Information Technology Services and Operations embracing innovation, teamwork, lean six sigma techniques, agile practices and security as key components for the ongoing digital transformation the Bank.

He has been director of Telered for more than twenty-five years serving as president of the board of the directors for five years. For the last two years he has served has deputy director. Telered is a company made up of bank representatives, which administers the local banking switch named CLAVE (ATM and POS), ACH, Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment, as well as providing check-processing services.

Mr. García de Paredes is a member of the bank’s Ethics and Social Responsibility Committee and actively participates in the Bank´s employee volunteer program, “Neighbors in Action”. He served as director, for two years, of the United Nations Global Compact (Panamá) and acted as President of the Rotary Club of South Panama to which he joined in July 1988 achieving a perfect attendance record for thirty years. He also participates the Economic Council of the Catholic Archdiocese of Panama.

In February 2012, Mr. Garcia de Paredes hosted in Panama the KIN Winter Dialogue - Innovation in Latin America - setting the mark as the first KIN organized in the region. All international KIN participants witnessed the work in progress for the expansion of the Panama Canal and met the Panama Canal Administrator. They also experienced the innovation atmosphere of the City of Knowledge (previously a US military base), learned the secrets of the Hub of the Americas related by both the COPA´s CEO and its Chairman of the board, and had a flavor of the Panamá Banking Center interacting with the CEO of the largest local private bank.

In 1992, Mr. Garcia de Paredes became deputy director of Compañía Internacional de Seguros (IS). In 2016, he assumed the principal director role. IS was founded in 1910 and is recognized in the local market as the most technically profitable insurance company. It often ranks in the top two companies with regard to the largest market share.

Marc Stephane Goldberg Co-Founder Resilience Lab Co-Founder Kinnernet Europe

Marc is the co-founder of Resilience Lab a New York behavioural health innovator, and the founding partner of Maslow Capital Partners a global growth merchant bank where he advises the board of several technology growth companies. Resilience Lab has built the largest and most diverse mental healthcare collective that brings together star-clinicians, technology and evidence based therapies For New Yorkers seeking individualized and affordable care delivering measurable results.

Prior to founding Maslow, Marc was a founding member of the Reuters Greenhouse Fund and Occam Capital. He Sold Occam Capital to Bryan Garnier & Co. to launch BGPI. Marc brings more than 20 years of investment experience in TMT Europe/USA with more than 50 transactions as principal and 50 transactions as advisor, as well as 15 years of IT operation background in Europe/USA as the former Chief Architect of Reuters.

Marc is also the executive producer and co-host of Kinnernet Europe, and completed a BS/MS Paris VI University, Post Graduate Stanford, IHEDN session 61. He is an avid explorer and long-distance runner and lives between New York and Paris.

Njideka U. Harry Founder Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF)

Njideka U. Harry is the Founder of Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) an international education technology nonprofit established in 2001. YTF is empowering the next generation of leaders to enter the workforce with the skills they need to access employment or create their own entrepreneurial opportunities. YTFs work has impacted over 1.7 million youth and women across 5 countries.

In 2017, Njideka founded 3D Printing Academy for Girls (3DPAG), an education technology startup in the U.S. with a social impact that brings STEM to life by engaging under-represented girls in technology through making, creating and inventing the world they envision for themselves.

An Ashoka Fellow and a World Economic Forum social entrepreneur, Njideka has a global reputation as a thought leader on matters related to the fourth industrial revolution and the future of work. Her work has been published in 100 articles, 20 papers and she has been invited as a key note speaker and / or panelist in over 15 countries.

She serves as a consultant to private sector companies, social enterprises, for- profit businesses with a social mission and international agencies on matters related to technology, entrepreneurship and gender. She serves on the “Civil Society and the Future of Work” council at the World Economic Forum and is on the Advisory Council for the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI). She is a member of the panel of experts for the Education Index with the Legatum Institute, U.K.

Prior to founding YTF and 3DPAG, Njideka worked in senior corporate roles in technology, strategy, product management and finance at General Electric and at Microsoft.

Njideka holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She completed post-graduate studies at Stanford University where she was a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow. She has lived and worked in Africa and Europe and in the last 20 years in North America.

Shariful Islam Founder, Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF) Founder, Bangladesh Innovation Conclave (BIC)

Mr. Shariful Islam is the Founder of Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF) and Bangladesh Innovation Conclave (BIC), founded in the year 2007 with the vision of Inspiring the Nation, through knowledge, ideas, innovation, branding ethos. The knowledge platforms are primarily designed to create eco system which is essential to shape the future of Bangladesh. Over the last 13 years under BBF and BCC, Mr Islam has created multiple platforms around – Retail, Fintech, Digital, Communication, Branding, Youth, Future Cities and Innovation. The platforms engage in harnessing knowledge and new insights for the sectors to evolve and for Bangladesh to realize its potential . Over the last 13 years these platforms have shared insights of 300 + local and global experts to 15,000+ professionals & 20,000 + youth physically and million more virtually. BBF has been bringing out a monthly business and knowledge publication and since 2008 have published 150 issues which reaches to 6000+ professionals every month in print version and 25,000+ digitally. The publication is shared complimentary for the industry. The relentless drive has helped Bangladesh Govt to embrace the core philosophy of branding within state thinking and Mr Islam helped shape the nations only district branding strategy. Mr Islam is also Sec General of Marketing Society of Bangladesh and is spearheading 2 regional projects of Asia Marketing Federation under Marketing Olympiad and World Marketing Community. He also represents Cannes Lions in Bangladesh and is the Founding President of International Advertising Association in Bangladesh. Shariful is taking the knowledge driven innovation led approach to Srilanka, Nepal and Mongolia. Prior to starting BBF , he worked at several leading multinational companies including Unilever Ltd., Novartis Ltd & New Zealand Dairy among others. Shaiful is also MD of brand consultancy company Brandzeal and has undertaken more than 30 consulting assignments, for leading local , multinational and government projects.

Sridhar Iyengar, PhD Founder & CEO, Elemental Machines Founder & Former CTO, Misfit Founder & Former CTO, AgaMatrix

Sridhar is the founder and CEO of Elemental Machines, makers of smart IoT products for the life sciences industry. He previously was a founder of Misfit who developed elegant wearable products, which was acquired by Fossil in 2015 for $260M. Sridhar also founded AgaMatrix, a blood glucose monitoring company that made the world’s first medical device connecting directly to the iPhone and shipped 15+ FDA-cleared medical products, 2B+ biosensors, 6M+ glucose meters, with partnerships with Apple, Sanofi, and Walgreens. Sridhar holds over 50 US and international patents and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. He has been known to run 13.1 miles on occasion and has sometimes been spotted on stage behind a wall of drums.

Twitter: @sridiyengar LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sridiyengar Facebook: www.facebook.com/sridhar.iyengar

Hermawan Kartajaya Founder and Executive Chairman MarkPlus Inc.

Hermawan Kartajaya is the Founder and Executive Chairman of MarkPlus Inc., a leading integrated marketing solution provider, which provides comprehensive Consulting, Research, Training and Media Services in Indonesia. He received a honorary doctorate degree from ITS Surabaya. He is also the founder of the Asia Marketing Federation and the Chairman of the Asia Council for Small Business (ACSB).

In 2003, Mr Kartajaya was named as one of the "50 Gurus Who Have Shaped the Future of Marketing" by The Chartered Institute of Marketing UK. In 2009, he received the Distinguished Global Leadership Award from the Pan-Pacific Business Association. He is both a strategic business thinker and a marketing practitioner. He has written nine international books with Philip Kotler—the father of modern marketing. His latest books, Marketing 3.0 is widely acknowledged globally and is published in 27 languages and Marketing 4.0 is already published in 24 languages.

Hiro Nishiguchi Co-Founder, Japan Innovation Network (JIN) Independent Director, PERSOL HOLDINGS Executive Senior Innovation Advisor of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Prior to co-founded Japan Innovation Network, Mr. Nishiguchi was an Executive Managing Director of Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Japan’s largest public-private investment fund with $20 billion investment capacity, after his post as a Worldwide Partner at Mercer. He also worked as a professional staff at the World Bank Group in Washington DC. Mr. Nishiguchi is concurrently serving as Independent Director of PERSOL HOLDINGS, President of Japan Bosai Platform, Executive Senior Innovation Advisor of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as well as Professor at Sophia University, Tokyo. He holds MBA from Kellogg Management School at Northwestern University and BA from Sophia University.

Mr. Nishiguchi focuses on Innovation Management building activities within large corporations. He manages an open innovation platform co-founded with UNDP, SDGs Holistic Innovation Platform (SHIP) that aims the achievement of the SDGs with private sector resources and technologies. With the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, he runs Innovation 100 Committee which is a community of CEOs who are committed to innovation activities within their organizations. He is also a chairperson of the Japan Mirror Committee of TC279 which has published ISO56002 in 2019, as well as Innovation Management Professional certified by RISE (Research Institute of Sweden AB).

Guido van Nispen Publisher, Independent Advisor, and Board Member in media & technology through holding company MENSEN.WORK ('mensen' is the Dutch word for 'people').

Guido is a Founding partner of PCENL, a boutique consulting and executive search firm specialising in the Future of Work. This builds upon experience as publisher of Silicon Valley thinktank i4j (Innovation for Jobs) chaired by Vint Cerf. Furthermore, he is, among others, on the supervisory boards of World Press Photo, Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS, Lighthouse Reports and Cinekid, Advisor to the Dutch Council for Culture advising the Dutch government and advisor to fast-growing organisations.

As CEO of ANP Guido created one of the most efficient national news agencies and increased digitalisation and entry in to the SaaS-based BtB market of news and information management.

Guido ran two investment funds for seed and scaleups in media and technology.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidovannispen/

Marjorie Paillon Founder I Love Productions

Marjorie Paillon covers digital and media through 360 degrees, reviewing hot topics and trends (#TECH24 on France 24, Soft Power on France Culture, Médias le Magazine on France 5), interviewing innovators and those who matter in the industry (The Interview on France 24, L’Envers de l’éco on Yahoo!), along with moderating the most relevant events and conferences in the sector (TWIN Global, The Web Summit, Vivatech, Les Napoléons, Hub Forum, European Film Forum, Cannes Film Festival, Tokyo Forum, Series Mania – Transatlantic Dialogues, Mipcom, Midem, Miptv, Hello Tomorrow Challenge, TEDx Education Unesco…).

Marjorie also covers American politics, reporting on the Presidential elections since the 2007 primaries (France 24, BFMTV, ILovePolitics.info) and has also collaborated with US and Canadian media outlets (MSNBC, CTV). She is the author of "John McCain, le survivant" (éditions Alphée, 2008), a biography and investigation on late Senator McCain when he was campaigning for the 2008 general election.

To put those ideas into practice, she founded ‘I Love Productions’, her production company, in 2015.

Sam Potolicchio President, Preparing Global Leaders Forum Distinguished University Professor Department Chairman and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Political Science Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Dr. Sam Potolicchio was named one of “America’s Best Professors” by the Princeton Review, the Future Leader of American Higher Education by the Association of Colleges and Universities, and winner of the OZY Educator Award as one of the six outstanding American educators. He was also profiled in a cover story on his leadership curriculum by Newsweek Japan as the "Best Professor in America". Potolicchio is President of the Preparing Global Leaders Forum and Distinguished University Professor, Department Chairman and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He teaches in the EMBA programs at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown and at the Mannheim Business School (Germany). He is a visiting lecturer at University of Bologna (Italy). He is a columnist for Newsweek Japan, a Distinguished Global Scholar at the Canterbury School of Fort Myers, and the lecturer on Leadership at the Library of Congress for OWLC, an international leadership program of the United States Congress. He created and designed the first undergraduate degree in Global Governance and Leadership in English in the Russian Federation where he serves as Academic Director.

JOHN W. POWER President LSC INTERNATIONAL, Inc.

John Power has devoted his career to leading and advising companies throughout the Agri- Food Chain on a global basis. He has held executive positions in start-up business operations, mid-size companies and large multinationals.

He is President of LSC INTERNATIONAL, Inc., a Chicago based consulting firm specializing in the provision of strategic and business development advice to participants in the global Agri- Food Chain. LSC was founded in 1997 and has developed a client base in North America, Europe, Middle East and East Asia. The assignments undertaken include strategic planning, M&A transactions, business development for plant biotechnology and animal biotechnology, technology assessments and evaluations, the development and adoption of digital agriculture and the coaching of senior management teams.

He has founded a number of companies and is an active Angel Investor focused on the Midwest/Chicago region. He serves on the boards of SWARM Engineering, Psylotech Inc., and is a Senior Advisor for IntelinAir Inc. He’s an associate of the Farm Foundation Roundtable, and a member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the American Seed Trade Association.

He serves on the HBS Alumni Board and on the board of the Harvard Alumni Association as a HBS representative. He holds B. Comm and M. Econ. Sc. Degrees from University College, Dublin, Ireland and a MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He is a citizen of both Ireland and the United States of America.

Debu Purkayastha Managing Partner, 3rd Eye Industrial Advisor, EQT

Debu is Managing Partner at 3rd Eye, a Venture Capital and Private Equity firm investing in the technology, media & telecoms (TMT) sectors. Debu is also Industrial Advisor to EQT (global private equity fund, AUM $30B+) advising on late stage, big-ticket TMT private equity investments. Until 2017, Debu was Entrepreneur-inResidence at Octopus Investments (global investment firm, AUM $8B+) doing early-stage technology venture capital investments. Debu has significant Investment/M&A and operating experience - in US, Europe, Asia & Africa. Debu spent almost 6 years at Google, spearheading its M&A and Investment efforts including landmark acquisitions & investments globally. Debu also spearheaded Google’s New Business Development team & was instrumental in launching several of Google’s iconic products globally spanning multiple key strategic focus areas. Debu is a founding member of Google “Campus”, the pre-eminent co-working space for startups in London’s Tech City, which led to the “Google for Entrepreneurs” program. Prior to Google, Debu headed Sabre's Corporate Development/M&A team (sold to TPG/Silverlake in a $5B transaction) & in a past life was a Technology/Media/Telecoms M&A Banker with Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in Wall Street, Silicon Valley & London. Debu sits on the Boards of University Hospitals Birmingham (the largest hospital group in the UK), Cambridge University/Cambridge Enterprise, MercyCorps (global NGO) & Tadaweb (Cyber) - in addition to the Advisory Boards of Unilever, Sadara Ventures & Global Tech Advocates/Tech London Advocates plus the Technology Pioneers Selection Committee at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Curriculum Committee at London Business School. Debu has a MBA from London Business School & is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Debu spends a fair bit of his personal time working with leading NGOs & governmental institutions in several politically sensitive and conflict zones focusing on economic development initiatives (primarily helping fund & build small businesses). A certified cricket nut & film fanatic, Debu is also passionate about white-water rafting & hiking.

Pablo Restrepo CEO & Founder, Negotiation by Design Colombia

Pablo Restrepo has over 26 years of experience as an international consultant and professor in business strategy, innovation, and negotiation in both the private and public sectors.

His practice has brought him to train negotiators and consult for hundreds of corporations and organizations in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. For the past two decades, Pablo has been invited to teach and facilitate at universities around the world, including Kellogg School of Management, Universidad de Los Andes, HEC, and McGill University.

Pablo has also worked for the ICCCR (International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution) at Columbia University for several years as an instructor for their program with the United Nations. He is a member of the Advisory Board of KIN (Kellogg School of Management).

He is currently the CEO & Founder of Negotiation by Design.

He has a BS from Columbia University, a BA from DePauw University, and an EMBA from Kellogg School of Management. Pablo is fluent in Spanish, English, and French.

Plamen Russev Executive Chairman Webit.Foundation

Dr. Plamen Russev is a Bulgarian serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist with over 25 years experience in tech and innovation and founder of one of world's largest and impactful communities of innovators, digerati and world leaders - Webit.

Currently he is executive chairman of Webit.Foundation - the organization behind the fastest growing tech events - Webit.Festivals and the Webit global community.

With the power of Webit and his personal global network Dr. Russev is changing the narratives about cities and entire countries building one of the most powerful marketing and rebranding campaigns.

Such an example is Bulgaria. While in the past international media called Sofia "the capital of the poorest country in EU", today the same media (The Economist, Forbes, etc) attribute the new image of Sofia as "Digital Capital" to the role of Webit as catalyzer in establishing the city and the country "as a credible location for technology talent and investment".

Prime Ministers, Ministers, CEOs and Presidents of the world's largest and/or most innovative companies, scientists and investors are part of the global Webit community.

Dr. Russev has been appointed a GW Ambassador for Digital Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, becoming the third such ambassador in the world.

Plamen Russev is featured in hundreds of international and local media and blogs including The Economist, Entrepreneur.com, Bloomberg, CNBCe, Forbes, Venture Beat, CNN to name a few.

Dr. Rafael Salmi President Richardson RFPD

Dr. Rafael Salmi, President of Richardson RFPD, is a technology executive with a Global P&L management expertise. He has a solid experience in successfully building and transforming organizations. Having been based in Europe, North America, South America, and spent extensive time in Asia has resulted in being an effective multi-cultural communicator and better understanding of Global Markets. Rafael has a PhD in Physics, is fluent in 6 languages and serves on several boards such as IoT Solutions World Congress and IoT Council at ITA.

Sten-Kristian Saluveer Founder,Storytek Digital, Festival de Cannes

Sten-Kristian Saluveer is Estonia, and Japan based innovation strategist, audiovisual producer, and content & technology entrepreneur. After more than 20 years in the audiovisual and content industry as a and a producer, Sten dedicates his time on projects that bring together world class creativity with world class tech and storytelling.

Sten is the Founder of Storytek /storytek.eu/ - a vertical focused mediatech accelerator and innovation hub and heading the Innovation track - NEXT - at the Marche Du Film of the Festival de Cannes. He is also a partner in the Exit Academy - a tailor-made coaching and advisory program that helps passionate startup founders to master the skills for reaching the potential of their companies towards successful exits. Most recently Sten helped to design and transform the worlds number one content market - the Marche du Film - Festival de Cannes into its first virtual edition with more than 10 000 attendees connecting to the Marche globally.

Anil Sethi Entrepreneur in Residence ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Anil Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, author and teacher. He founded his first company Flisom in 2005, from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. After raising over CHF 80 million, he exited successfully. Subsequently, he co-founded a number of other technology startups in Switzerland.

In 2020, he was recognized as Associated Fellow by the United Nations for their initiative “The Defeat NCD Partnership, which focuses on addressing non communicable diseases (NCDs) in order to mitigate early mortality. NCDs are responsible for over 70% of all mortalities in the world, and include cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, to name a few. His specific mandate as advisor to the CEO for health initiatives is to help identify the causes that lead to early mortality (including child mortality) due to NCDs, equalling over 15 million deaths. This effort has rolled out in Myanmar and Rwanda and will soon cover 90 of the least developed countries around the world.

Anil serves as an entrepreneur in residence and teaches entrepreneurship at ETH. His vision is to help convert technology excellence into commercial impact. He also serves as scale-up coach in Switzerland’s national program “Innosuisse”, where he advises technology startups on how to scale. Anil’s first book on technology entrepreneurship, “From Science to Startup” was published by Springer in 2016 & was recognised as one of the top five books in the world in 2017 for innovation and entrepreneurship. In this book, Anil fills the gap between science and startups by combining his learnings from his past startups. His upcoming book on how to create a billion dollar startup is scheduled for publication later this year.

Karim Shariff Founder Majlis Investment Management

Karim Shariff is the founder of Majlis Investment Management, a principal investment firm, sponsored by three American investors and two Indian families, whose focus is to design and develop investment strategies alongside substantial families across the Middle East, East Africa, and India. Majlis means ‘network’ or ‘gathering’ in Arabic. The firm’s philosophy is rooted in the belief that ‘regional’ investors should benefit from access to cross-disciplinary counsel, to advocacy, and to communities of like-minded investors, across geographies, confronting similar challenges. Karim is a Senior Advisor to Teneo, a global CEO advisory firm that integrates the disciplines of communications, strategy, talent development, and intelligence, offering independent counsel to significant institutional clients. Karim holds a BA degree from Amherst College, graduating magna cum laude in economics and chemistry. Thereafter, Karim pursued an MA from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University. He arranged to pursue jointly an MPPM from the Yale School of Management where he graduated with distinction.

Karim is keen on raising awareness and capital for two-lifetime passions: empowering youth through education and preserving cultures. Karim has established two permanently-endowed scholarships at Amherst College: the Saffron Scholarship, whose aim is to improve the access, depth, breadth, and quality of education afforded to Indian students while encouraging them to return ‘home’ with that newfound knowledge; and the Insaan Fellowship to provide financial support for American students to spend their summers working in a‘developing’ country within an impactful, enterprise. Karim is also working with the team at Segera in Laikipia, Kenya one of East Africa’s most important migration corridors, on wildlife conservation initiatives. In August 2018, Karim was asked to join the Africa Council at THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, whose purpose is lasting conservation in Africa. In 2018, Karim established Hush House, a private community designed primarily for millennials across geographies fostering culture, conversations, creativity, and connections. In 2020, Karim joined the Board of the Mohamed Amin Foundation, whose mission is to preserve, protect, and expose African photojournalist Mo Amin’s unique cultural photography archives.

Kunal Sood Founder X Fellows, NOVUS and #WeThePlanet

Kunal Sood is an internationally renowned impact entrepreneur and award winning disruptive innovator. From serving in the slums of Mumbai as a Global Health scientist with Harvard at PUKAR to building global movements at the United Nations General Assembly with world leaders, explorers, and artists, Sood is on a mission to make the impossible possible as the Founder of X Fellows, NOVUS and #WeThePlanet. Forbes named Sood an Impact Icon and highlighted him as a movement builder at the inaugural Forbes Impact summit given his work as the curator for TEDx at the United Nations, NOVUS and launching highly successful global campaigns such as #WeThePlanet #SDGInnovation, #SDGMoonshots, #FirstWoman and #NeverAlone. His work for social innovation and impact has also been featured in The Week, Hindu, Fortune Magazine, Times of India and Republic TV. He is a TED Resident, Tribeca Disruptor Fellow and Innovation Fellow at Columbia University. Currently he serves as a global ambassador for the Non-Violence Project, Singularity University and OpenEXO. Sood has a lifelong love for learning having earned five Master’s degrees that includes an A.M./M.Sc., from UCSF, M.B.A., from Kellogg at Northwestern University and M.A./M.Phil., from University of Pennsylvania. He started his career in the fashion and wellness industry in New York City 20 years ago after graduating from Parsons School of Design before dedicating his life’s purpose towards transforming the world and positively impacting a billion lives over the next decade.

http://linkedin.com/in/xfellows https://m.facebook.com/wetheplanet.live

Juhani Talvia Managing Director North Zone

Juhani Talvia joined AIG at 1987, and was appointed to North Zone Managing Director 2014. (All 4 Nordic Countries +Baltics with 350M USD GPW).

Juhani Talvia is a strategic business leader with wide experience in insurance industry. Juhani has natural charisma, great drive, and he is enthusiastic about new opportunities. His communication style is diplomatic, and he has broad internal and external networks which he can use for the benefit of the business, when ever needed.

Key Achievements: 1. Setting up AIG in Finland as the first fully licensed foreign carrier in Finland 1987 and later in all Baltic countries. 2. Establishing AIG in Baltics and Soviet Union / Russia 1995. 3. Launching Consumer Division to Finland at 2000 and being able to grow it to half of the Finnish book today with excellent profitability. 4. Establishing EMEA North Zone with 5 % growth in 2014 and 12 % in 2015 with excellent financial results.(All 4 Nordic Countries +Baltics with 350M USD GPW).AIG is the lead foreign carrier operating in all 4 Nordic Markets.

Education and previous work experience: ·L.L.M from Helsinki University Law School (1980) ·Pohjola Insurance Company, head of Foreign Service Department

AIG Carrier: ·Finland, General Manager 1987-1994 ·Baltics, responsible for Baltic Countries 2004-, Board Member of AIG’s Baltic JV Insurance Companies 1991-2004. ·Russia, President of AIG Russia 1995-1999 and Board Member 1994 – 2005. Board Member of Russian Re 1994-1998. ·North Zone, Managing Director 2014-May 2016.(retirement from AIG,June,2016)

External Activities: ·Board Member of Alliance Scan East Fund (1994-2007). AIG was a major investor in said fund, which was one of the first private equity funds in East Europe. ·Board Member of Finland Insurance Association (Non-Life) (2003-2016) ·Chairman of Nordea Bank Advisory Board for corporate clients in Helsinki Region (2012- 2014) ·AMCHAM, Finland: founding member and Board Member 2005-2010

Post AIG: -Marsh, Finland-senior advisor: August 2016-August 2019, Marsh is global leader in insurance broking and risk consulting. since August 2019 I have engaged in initiating /supporting activities regarding Finland/USA trade and investments.

Chris Tun Managing Director of Digital Banking at AYA Bank

Chris Tun is Managing Director of Digital Banking at AYA Bank, Myanmar’s second largest private bank. He leads digital transformation and innovation initiatives, including running AYA Innovation Labs, where Chris focus on incubating innovative partners and accelerating financial inclusions for Myanmar people. Prior to joining AYA, he was the Group CEO of Max Myanmar Holding and CEO of Max Global Investment.

Chris has more than 25 years of professional experience including 12 years with Big 4 consulting firms. He was a partner for Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia for Myanmar from 2013 to 2016. Throughout his consulting career, he has specialized in strategy and implementation of business and technology transformation projects for private and public sector clients across the US and Asia. His experience spans several industries, including Public Sector, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Financial Services Industry.

Prior to joining consulting, Chris was an entrepreneur, co-founding three successful technology and media companies in Myanmar and Singapore.

Chris holds a MBA from the University of Southern Queensland, and a MS in Project Management from the Boston University. Chris is also an Eisenhower Fellow of Middle East South Asia Program 2017.

Martin Wezowski Chief Designer & Futurist SAP’s Technology & Innovation Strategy Team

“I want to innovate what we call ‘work’ out of our lives - via an empathic symbiosis between human ingenuity and machine intelligence.”

Martin Wezowski works as Chief Designer & Futurist for SAP’s Technology & Innovation strategy team. He is a faculty member of Futur/IO, an European future institute and he is involved in other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systemic design to define innovation visions and strategies. Right now, he is on the mission to map, build and inspire a future we want to live in. He crafts future outlooks, concepts, products, defines and runs innovation frameworks to find out what’s next and beyond for SAP’s cast ecosystem and the future of work. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary” (“Handelsblatt”).

Prior to joining SAP in 2013, he worked for Sony Ericsson (Sweden) as creative director later he lived in Shenzhen, China for 2 years while serving as director of the UX board (Huawei).

He builds on his international adventures stretching from Poland, Sweden, China to Germany, and frequently shares his passion for the future of humans and work around the world (Duke University, as EU-advisor and keynote speaker, SxSW, TEDx, Singularity-U Summit, BOMA, CES, Tech Open Air - TOA, HUB Berlin, DMEXCO, WEBIT, Ada Lovelace festival, TWIN Global, CeBIT, CES. WeAreDevelopers, etc.)

Stephanie Wolcott Stratagist Aluna

Based in Bogotá, Colombia, Stephanie is proud to have participated in the rebuilding of a beautiful, ecologically diverse country after decades of social unrest. For five years, she co- lead Aluna, a consulting firm specializing in high-stakes negotiations and innovation strategy.

Previously, Stephanie was Principal Manager of Alcoa Foundation, developing their global signature programming in environmental sustainability including the DOEs Better Plants Carbon Emission Reduction pledge and reforestation efforts. Prior to that, she was the Global Manager, Corporate Citizenship for Tyco International, a $40 billion conglomerate, where she created their strategic framework for global community investment and led the creation of Tyco’s first EHS report.

She has spoken at Kellogg School of Management, Harvard University, TEDxLeh (Ladakh) and the Net Impact National Conference. She has co-authored social impact case studies for Kellogg and has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Ensia.

She’s proud to have served as a sustainability expert on two expeditions to Antarctica and one solar mission to the Himalayas with Sir Robert Swan, polar explorer.

Maysoon R. Zayed

Maysoon R. Zayed is a recognized Chief Marketing Officer with over 20 years of experience in advising governments, and C-level executives of large and emerging firms on building invincible brands. She is a trusted strategist with a proven track record of building, and leading marketing commercialization and venture architecture for mid-sized and large corporations in emerging markets.

An adept MENA expert, she brings forth agile marketing management and investment assessment expertise. Maysoon has held a variety of senior positions including, CMO, and CCO. She is highly tuned to private equity, venture capital, and marketing early stage IPOs. From establishing emergent companies on behalf of a semi-government foundation designed to support the vital socio-economic development goals of a knowledge based country; to nation branding and leading the development and oversight of one of the largest healthcare capacity expansion projects in the world; and contributing to important research, AI and evidence based policy governing the water, cyber security and agricultural needs of a booming nation; to attracting global companies and private sector funding for commercialization of innovative research IP at a pioneering hub for a technology based entrepreneurship ecosystem - purposely established to meet the demands of a growing nation and transcend barriers, Maysoon is the go to person to achieve diverse corporate and entrepreneurial objectives.

She is a seasoned risk and crisis communications expert with proven experience managing corporate and government reputations and driving national, socio-economic growth strategies.

Maysoon earned a Master of Business Administration - MBA, from the prestigious Northwestern - Kellogg School of Management with concentrations in Marketing Management and Finance.

Fluent in English and Arabic, she effectively resonates with MENA leaders at the highest echelons of business.

Originally from the US, Maysoon lives with her family between Doha, Qatar and Chicago, Illinois - USA.

Teddy Zmrhal Global Vice-President of Design and Innovation Salesforce

Teddy Zmrhal has co-founded several startups and non-profit boards, built new teams within global organizations, and advised numerous startups. He is currently Global Vice-President of Design and Innovation at Salesforce, and just prior Director at the IDEO Singapore Studio.

Teddy has taught at the Haas School of Business, the Kellogg School of Management, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University, among others. He was the Associate Chair of the Design MBA program at the California College of the Arts.

Teddy earned a BA from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Masters from Northwestern, and MBAs from Columbia and London Business Schools. He sits on the Board of Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, and on two Boards for the Aspen Institute.

He is most proud of his curious and thoughtful 6 year old son, Edison.