Partners

Charles Huang
Co-founder, Guitar Hero (acquired by Activision); Co-founder, Green Throttle (acquired by Google); COO Leeo; Founder, Blue Goji; Activision; Google. (UC Berkeley)
SF Bay Area, CA

Shuja Keen
MD, The Resource Group; Co-founder, Haute Decor; Morgan Stanley. (MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Aamir Sheikh
CIO, Echelon Asset Mgmt; Bank of America; Merrill Lynch; President, Barra Inc. (acquired by Morgan Stanley); Morgan Stanley. Professor, Indiana University; (PhD Berkeley)
SF Bay Area, CA

Hasan Rizvi
Founder and CEO, Qlue; EVP Oracle; Founder, Karient; SVP Corio (IPO 1999). (Stanford)
SF Bay Area, CA

Ahmed Khaishgi
Co-founder Squaretrade (acquired by Allstate); Allstate; McKinsey; Proctor & Gamble. (Harvard)
SF Bay Area, CA

Jahanzeb Sherwani
Founder, Screenhero (acquired by Slack); Founder, iTeleport; Slack. (PhD Carnegie Mellon)
SF Bay Area, CA

Adnan Lawai
CEO, Folio3; Clickmarks; Silicon Graphics; General Instruments. (MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Shaheen Dayal
VP Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing, Intel Corporation. (MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Imran Sayeed
Sr. Lecturer, MIT-Sloan; Former CTO, NTT Data; SVP, Keane (acquired by NTT Data); Founder, Netnumina (acquired by Keane) ; Co-founder, Open Environment Corp (IPO, acquired by Borland). (Brown)
Boston, MA

Mohamed Fahmi
Deputy Regional Managing Director, First Republic Bank. (Harvard, Notre Dame de Namur University)
San Francisco, CA

John Leone
Managing Partner, ForeVest Capital Partners; MD & General Counsel, PineBridge Investments; Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP. (George Washington, U. of Binghamton)
Greater New York City Area, NY

Shaan Kandawalla
Co-founder, Playdate Digital; Nickelodeon; Hasbro. (Wellesley, MBA, Harvard)
Greater New York, NY

Khurram Afridi
Professor, U. of Colorado, Boulder; Schlumberger; Philips; Techlogix. (Caltech, PhD MIT)
Boulder, Colorado

Carlos Cashman
CEO, OrionCKB; Co-founder, Course Advisors (acquired by Washington Post); Co-founder, Opus360 (IPO 1999). (MIT)
Boston, MA

Noman Ali
Co-founder Peanut Labs (acquired by Research Now); Xuqa. (NUCES)
SF Bay Area, CA

Abid Mohsin
VP Sales, Rev.com; Google; McKinsey & Co; oDesk; Capital One. (Stanford)
SF Bay Area, CA

Irfan Essa
Associate Dean & Professor, Computer Science, Georgia Tech.; Consultant/Researcher Google; Visiting Scientist, Disney. (PhD, MIT)
Atlanta, Georgia

Omar Haque
Global Head of eCommerce, Colgate; Scholastic; Mindtree; ePresence; Scient. (Duke)
Greater New York, NY

Ruma Samdani
Design Thinking Expert, SAP; Director Innovation, AARP; Adjunct Professor, George Washington University; NTT Data; Bearing Point. (Harvard, Southern New Hampshire Univ.)
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Adnan Siddiqui
Group Corporate Counsel, The Abraaj Group; Barrister-at-Law – Lincoln’s Inn, U.K. (University of Paris- Sorbonne, France; University of Buckingham, U.K.)
Dubai, UAE

Rehan Jalil
Founder, Elastica (acquired by Blue Coat); Founder, Wichorus (acquired by Tellabs); Tellabs; Advisor, Mayfield Fund. (Purdue, Harvard)
SF Bay Area, CA

Tarim Wasim
MD, Hellman & Friedman; Director, Internet Brands; Bain Capital; Bain & Co. (Dartmouth, Harvard)
SF Bay Area, CA

Imran Haque
Head of Digital Strategy, Zoetis; Cofounder, LogonHealth; Pfizer; Viant. (Rutgers, Columbia)
Greater New York, NY

Shafiq Khan
Founder, Teach The World; Former SVP, Marriot Corporation; US Airways; United Airlines. (Harvard)
Washington, D.C.

Ahad Khan
COO, MileIQ (acquired by Microsoft 2015); Director, Microsoft; Associate, Spectrum Equity; Discovery Equity Partners. (U. Penn, Washington Univ.)
SF Bay Area, CA

Aditya Dayal
Founder, Throwmotion; KLA Tencor (Dartmouth, ASU, Caltech)
SF Bay Area, CA

Zafar Khan
Co-founder, ConstellationCK; Founder, Sofizar; Rovi (now TiVo). (Caltech)
San Diego, CA

Ashhad Syed
Founder, ApexChat; Principal, Ibex Solutions. (Cornell)
San Diego, CA

Suneel Goud
Sr. Product Manager, Amazon Lab126; Microsoft; 3Com; Mortorola (Michigan State; Indiana U.)
San Diego, CA

Ejaz A. Khan
CIO and Vice President, Vulcan Materials. (MIT, U. Penn)
Birmingham, AL

Faraz Khan
Co-founder, Screen Hero (acquired by Slack); iTeleport; Emergen Consulting; Slack. (Cornell)
SF Bay Area, CA

Vishal Kapur
Cofounder, Screen Hero (acquired by Slack); CTO, iTeleport; Chief Architect, Truveo (acquired by AOL); Slack; Oracle. (MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Patrick McGinnis
Managing Director, Dirigo Advisors; Author, The 10% Entrepreneur. (Harvard, Georgetown)
Greater New York, NY

Mudassir Sheikha
Co-founder, Careem; Co-founder DeviceAnywhere (acquired by Keynote); Brience; Garage Ventures; McKinsey & Co. (Stanford, USC)
United Arab Emirates

Pat Costello
MD and General Counsel, The Resource Group; Afiniti; Ocumenta; O’Melveny & Myers. (BS – SUNY; JD – Boston University)
Greater New York, NY

Mobeen Khan
iOT Strategy Head, AT&T; Mobiflex; Inzigo. (MBA Columbia; Rutgers)
Dallas, Texas

Paul Riley
Director, WorldFamily English; Director, Oxford University Press; Isuzu. (Colgate; Temple)
Kanagawa, Japan

Hang Li
Credit Suisse NY; US Military. (MBA, Harvard; West Point Military Academy)
Hong Kong

Omer Rao
Price Waterhouse Coopers; The Arab Investment Co; Ernst & Young. (ACCA, UK)
SF Bay Area, CA

Phil Rettger
Board Member, MIT Club of Northern California; Board Member and Chairman, HBS Alumni Association of Northern CA; Co-Founder & CEO Aetherix Corporation; Board Member, Tablet Command. (Harvard; MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Fawad Ahmad
SVP, State Farm; Senior Director, Staples; GM, eBay; (Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Southeastern)
Bloomington, Illinois

Faheem Ahmed
General Manager, Siemens Healthineers; Founder, HealAR; SVP, Sutherland; VP, SAP; (LSE; Warwick)
SF Bay Area, CA

Rahul Merani
MD – Client Services, DLC; Board Member, ACG Los Angeles; Founding Board Member, The Spark Academy. (FINSIA, UC Los Angeles)
SF Bay Area, CA

Nicos Vekiarides
VP Dell-EMC; CEO & Co-founder, TwinStrata (acquired by DELL-EMC); Founding Team, StorageApps (acquired by HP); Sun Microsystems; Encore Computer. (MIT, CMU)
Boston, MA

Abid Rizvi
COO & CFO, AriZona Holdings; Mckinsey & Co; Merrill Lynch; Goldman Sachs; Jefferies. (MIT)
Greater New York, NY

Umer Khan
VP, SpaceX; Sr. Director, Broadcom; Rockwell. (MBA, UPenn; Illinois Inst. of Tech)
Orange County, California

Asim Mohammed
SVP Westfield; Bank of America; RSA. (UNC; MBA, Duke)
SF Bay Area, CA

Junaid Iqbal
Managing Director Careem; Chairman, Salt Arts; BMA Capital. (U. of Michigan, HBS, LUMS)
Karachi, PK

Basil Hashem
Advisor, McKinsey & Co; VP, VMWare; Sr. Director, Mozilla; Co-founder CenterRun; Admob; Yahoo; AOL. (USC, UCLA)
Redwood City, CA

Rashad Itani
Technical Architect, PLAE; SugarCRM; Shoretel; Apple; Cisco. (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)
SF Bay Area, CA

Junaid Bajwa
Global Lead for Strategic Alliances, Merck; NHS, England; MSD Healthcare, UK; FRCP.
(Imperial College; MBBS King’s College, HBS, Harvard Kennedy School)
London, UK

Henrik Scheel
(Founder, Startup Experience Inc., Defy Ventures, Innovation Center Denmark, Vestas, IDA. Stanford, Aarhus University Denmark)
SF Bay Area, CA

Shan Sinha
Founder HighFive; Founder, Docverse (acquired by Google); Microsoft; Beansprout. BS and MEng, MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Roy Lurie
VP of Engineering, Mathworks; Founder Opti-num. (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Natick, MA

Shalini Agarwal
(EIR, Google; McKinsey & Co. MIT, Harvard Business School)
SF Bay Area, CA

Eram Hasan
CSO, Karachi Electric; Abraaj; CocaCola; Unilever. (BS/MS MIT; MBA Harvard)
Dubai, UAE

Atif Mian
Professor of Economics, Princeton University; UC Berkeley; U. of Chicago; Author, House of Debt. (PhD Economics, MIT; BS, MIT)
Princeton, New Jersey

Megan Berry
Founder & CEO, by REVEAL; Starbucks Global Store Development
(USC, WashU, Harvard Graduate School of Design)
New York, NY

Rifat Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard University
(Harvard University, Imperial College London & University of London)
Boston, Massachusetts
Advisors

Moazzam Chaudry
Director, Oracle Corporation; Sun Microsystem; Phillips. (U. of Wisconsin Madison; UET)
San Diego, CA

Radhika Nagpal
Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University. (PhD, MIT)
Boston, MA

Christine Abernathy
Developer relations, Facebook; Alidora; Mshift; Nokia; Adaptec; Co-founder, Clickmarks (acquired by Semotus). (MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Sourav Dev
Co-founder Dataholiks; Co-founder Glifft; Sr. Data Scientist, Nest (acquired by Google), Qualcomm. (PhD MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

Vivek Mohta
Co-founder, Dataholiks; Founder, Project Altitude; Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (MIT, PhD Harvard)
SF Bay Area, CA

Mateo Jaramillo
Former VP Energy Products, Tesla; COO Gaia Power; Director, Predictive Networks. (Harvard, Yale)
SF Bay Area, CA

Usman Rabbani
CTO, KKR; Pfizer; Founder, Nannycast; Razorfish; McKinsey & Company. (Yale, Harvard, UPenn)
Palo Alto, CA

Quinton Zondervan
CTO, eCarevault; Co-founder ExcelImmune; Clickmarks; IBM; Lotus (MIT)
Boston, MA

Atul Sood
(CRO, Kitchen United; Director, McDonalds; Founder, Oventio; Tucker Capital; Trilogy. (U.Penn)
Los Angeles, CA

Rebeca Hwang
(Managing Partner, Rivet Ventures; CEO, YouNoodle. PhD Stanford, BS & MEng, MIT)
SF Bay Area, CA

