Dr. Zhao is an expert in semiconductor device design, manufacturing and characterization, receiving his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a serial entrepreneur and has successfully led fundraising efforts of a semiconductor startup. With a keen interest to combine unique technology with business insights, he oversees Atantares’ strategy, fundraising, business development and R&D.

Dr. Kolandaivelu is trained in both engineering and medicine, having received a PhD in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.D. from the Harvard Medical School. He was trained at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he is a licensed cardiologist and an expert on the measurement of blood properties and translational assay development.

Dr. Aniruddh Sarkar received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and did postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an expert on blood processing technologies and bioMEMS/microfluidics.

Dr.Shahar Barbash is a former startup postdoctoral fellow in the Runway program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and a visiting fellow at Thomas P. Sakmar's lab at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Barbash obtained his Ph.D. from Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Hermona Soreq. He is an author and co-author of over 20 publications in brain science and biology and the holder of four patents. Dr. Barbash is a recipient of the Rothschild postdoctoral fellowship and the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award for Ph.D. thesis.

Michael Levitt is a biophysicist and professor at Stanford University. From 1977-79 Levitt worked at the Salk Institute in California before taking up a permanent position at the Weizmann Institute, where he was appointed chair of Chemical Physics in 1980. In 1987, he was invited to work at Stanford University in California and has remained there ever since as Professor of Structural Biology. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."

Fernando Gómez-Baquero, Director of Runway and Spinouts at Jacobs institute, Cornell-Tech, is an innovation economist, nanomaterials engineer, and entrepreneur. He mentors a wide range of companies on diverse topics such as IoT, digital innovations, new materials for transportation, electric vehicles, wind, and solar power improvements, etc. Fernando specializes in novel energy storage materials, entrepreneurship in science and technology, academic research commercialization, and nanotechnologies' economic and policy analysis. Fernando holds a Ph.D. in Nanoscale Engineering.

Dr. Hansen Zhang is an established bioscientist and geneticist. He has published over ten publications and got two pharmaceutical patents. Between 2011 and 2017, he worked as a research associate at Cornell University, focusing on cancer treatment. He has more than ten years of experience in drug development. Hansen is also the advisor of Tiferet Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Hong Kong). Dr. Zhang earned his Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in genetics and bioscience.

Chandler Fang is a financial professional with over five years of experience in investment banking, VC, and capital market. He specializes in investment banking, fundraising, and product innovation. Before co-founding Alteron Therapeutic, Chandler worked as a fintech product manager at JP Morgan. He is also intensively involved in the Silicon Valley venture capital field and contributes to FoundersX Venture as an advisor.

Dr. Xinchun Zhang is a seasoned biostatistician and molecular biologist. She received her Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University and then worked as a research associate at Cornell University. Dr.Xinchun has extensive experience in biostatistics and molecular biology and has published over ten academic papers.

A biology graduate from Yale University, Louis Ausguste started his career with USAID managing over 1 million dollar worth of aid to Haiti in his first year as a program lead. After leaving Haiti, he joined Virgin Media UK as an iOS team lead / UX designer, where he developed an award-winning user interface for the TiVo remote app for blind users. Louis took part in the Virgin Media Pioneers program where he won the Technology Strategy Board's prize. Louis founded Alexapath in 2015 and has gone on to win numerous awards including, Top 10 Science Start Ups in the World, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers award for Best Hardware Prototype. With the support of the Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation, Alexapath launched the AiDA microscope in January of 2019.

Shishir is the co-founder and CTO of Alexapath. Before joining Alexapath, Shishir worked at the Center for K-12 STEM Education at NYU where he helped create and manage STEM programs and activities for K-12 students. During his time there, he managed programs that enrolled over a thousand middle and high school students with over a million dollars in funding. Shishir joined Alexapath in 2015 after graduating from NYU with an MS in CE. Apart from building diagnostic solutions, Shishir spends his time on projects that combine art with technology as well as photography.

Robert Luo is a three-time entrepreneur. He sold his first company, Xiamen Ubi Technology Inc., for $300,000 in 2017 while he studied at the University of Southern California for his Bachelor’s in Business Administration. He holds a place in the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. Robert is a Forbes Under 30 Scholar and was awarded Global Shaker's Sustainable Fashion Innovator 2019. He has also been nominated for LA Business Journal’s “20 in 20s”.

Adriana is a product developer with a keen sense of listening to users and understanding their needs. Born and raised in Mexico City, she moved to the US and received her Masters in Integrated Product Design from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS degree from MIT in Math with Computer Science. She has experience in Project Management and Software Development at Morgan Stanley, algorithmic research at BMW, and UX Design at an NYC Health and Lifestyle startup. Adriana is committed to improving the lives of women through technology, and feels compelled to use her skills to make a difference and share her wonderful ride as a woman of color in tech.

Sujay hails from Hyderabad, a metropolitan city in South India, and completed his Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University. Sujay moved to the US and got a Masters in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on Integrated Circuit Design and Embedded Systems. In the High Energy Physics Group at UPenn, Sujay designed the oscillator circuit for the ATLAS experiment of the CERN particle accelerator. Prior to Lilu, he worked at Reliance Jio Infocomm, where he was an integral part of the team that launched 4G in India. He also founded a nonprofit to support women who were harassed by providing access to therapy sessions, self-defense classes, and a secure platform to encourage them to report their offenders anonymously.

Atilio is an Argentinean entrepreneur who specializes in new technologies. He founded his first company, ZDG Consulting at the age of 17 and has worked on several innovative projects since then. In 2015 Atilio’s company GTN Medical was selected by the Mexican government (INADEM) and Startup Mexico to participate in a soft landing program to bring talent to Mexico. GTN Medical was a Case of Success and Atilio was invited to give a speech at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs in Mexico City.

Alex Hejazi is an entrepreneur at the core with a finance background. He started his professional career working at a boutique investment bank in Dubai before moving to Chicago and joining Wells Fargo. After a couple of years in the banking industry, he decided to join a fintech startup by the name of Paro and helped lead the sales team to grow the company from six to 50+ employees, raising over 15MM. After finding some success with Paro, Alex decided to start BallBox in 2017 and fundamentally change the way that people access consumer products.

Abdi Shayesteh is a serial entrepreneur and 15-year corporate and banking lawyer. As an entrepreneur, he founded four and successfully sold two startups. During the course of his law career, he has worked in diverse settings from Biglaw, in-house at a global bank, to government and start-ups. Abdi holds a J.D. and has worked at prestigious firms and provided legal services to top organizations, such as White & Lee, LLP, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, King & Spalding LLP, and MUFG in the Americas. Fed up with the status quo, Abdi realized that there needed to be a better way to professionally educate lawyers in a meaningful, dynamic and experiential way, while providing access for everyone.

Jeremy Liles has a strong background in technology and product leadership positions. His past experience includes technical product manager at USinternetworking, the first cloud application service provider platform; head of software development at iPreo, where he helped build the first real-time capital markets joint book-running platform; and VP of Technology & Legal Affairs at Innovest Systems, a leading cloud-based trust and wealth management platform. Jeremy has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Finance, and a JD in Corporate & Commercial Law.

Stakh Vozniak is the main ideologist behind Cargofy and is heavily involved in the company’s business development and investor negotiations. Stakh was born in the small provincial town of Kalynivka Druha in central Ukraine and set up his first business at the age of 13 - selling DVDs. When Stakh was nineteen, he started his first trucking company Wozward in Ukraine. This allowed him to understand that individual truck drivers are always facing problems such as inconveniences working with truck dispatchers, high dispatcher fees, and too much downtime. He moved to the U.S. and founded Cargofy.com to solve these issues, which now has $2.5 million in revenue.

Yasser Boumenir graduated from GeorgiaTech as a biomedical engineer with a minor in mathematics. It was through this course that he got extensive experience at AT&T Foundry, where he took part in an accelerator-like program. Before starting Prinsta, Yasser worked at a biotech startup where he tackled a problem called 'Computer Assisted Surgical Navigation'. He has also completed several hackathons hosted by GaTech and a VC firm, where he was subsequently invited to be a speaker for the Atlanta community.

Sam Matthews holds a degree in mechanical engineering and one in communications, with a major in film production. Throughout his time as a filmmaker, Sam worked a variety of jobs, from waiter to telemarketer to house restoration. He also spent some time working for Sam Dolbel, working on the SEO and website development for his e-Commerce business. Moving away from e-Commerce, Sam shot a feature-length documentary in Tanzania, where he began learning to code through videos. This was the first of many steps towards the founding of SINC.