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Adil is an experienced consulting leader, HR director, board member and Non-executive Director.

He is the Managing Partner at executive search and talent management company Blue Astral Consulting, and a Non-executive Director at Gate One Consulting.

Adil was a co-founder of Boxwood consulting, which was acquired by KPMG.

Anthony's experience includes:

• Director, Stonecross Investment Office

• Chairman Of The Board, Ashcroft Partnership LLP

• Non-executive Director, Simpson Travel.

Previously Anthony was a Partner with Gresham Private Equity, and Investment Director with Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) where he led the development of deal pipelines and buy-out acquisitions. 

• Pharmaceutical drug development and commercialisation.

• Leadership of biotechnology organisations.

• Global drug licensing and acquisition.

Brett has 25 years of life sciences experience, covering medicine discovery, development and commercialisation. He has been the CEO of several biotechnology organisations and is currently a non-executive director of Grey Wolf Therapeutics, an immuno-oncology focused biotechnology organisation.

Brett spent 8 years leading global licensing, acquisition and venture capital backed transactions for GSK (deals in excess of $2bn) and is the former Chair of the Global Health Investment fund (backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).

• Development and commercialisation of data products.

• AI-based deep tech.

• Scale-up product management.

Dash has extensive experience of Product Management in high-growth organisations, and of designing, building, launching and supporting data-centric SaaS products. She specialises in building investment propositions for data products.

As Founder and CEO of TUBR, Dash created a deep-tech company that utilises proprietary physics-based multi-dimensional spacial modelling to circumvent the data requirement limitations of traditional ML when applied to predictive analytics.

• Global cloud infrastructure at scale.

• Software platform engineering.

• Product engineering.

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Deepankar is currently leading the development and operation of the ChatGPT platform, for which Microsoft re-engineered their Azure could services architecture.

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Deepankar has held many senior roles with Microsoft, including Principle Program Manager for Office 365 and Principle Engineering Manager for Bing and Display Ads.

Shuen's experience includes:

• Senior Advisor to the CEO, ST Engineering iDirect.

• Senior Vice President of Engineering, ST Engineering iDirect.

• Chief Engineer, Inmarsat.

Shuen has extensive experience in satellite communications engineering and is acknowledged through the industry, particularly for his role in complex programs such as Inmarsat’s first global mobile broadband VSAT system (GX), the first 3G network over satellite (BGAN) and the first handheld satellite phone (IsatPhone Pro).

Liz has 20 years of experience covering all aspects of enterprise technolgy infrastructure, including architecture design, operations management, cybersecurity, deployment of enterprise ERP & CRM, end-user computing, cloud infrastructure design and data management.

Liz was previously CIO of Clarion Events where she successfully led multiple M&A transactions and post-acquisition integrations.

Martyn is the Head of Engineering at Clinical Design Technologies, where he is leading the scale-up of the world’s first clincally accurate digital Urine Testing System. He is an expert in hardware R&D, optical computing, and the virtualisation of hardware.

Previously, Martyn was head of Engineering at KETS Quantum Security, the deep tech company developing on-chip optical cybersecurity solutions to protect against threats arising from advances in quantum computing.

Martyn has extensive experience of product development and Integrated Circuit design in the IT, consumer electronics and semiconductor sectors.

Mayank has over 19 years’ experience leading professional services businesses in Data, Business Intelligence, AI and Machine Learning, Deep Learning (Computer Vision) and Big Data.

His expertise includes the commercialisation of Deep learning and Computer Vision AI solutions, and scaling SaaS businesses.

Previously, Mayank was Director of Professional Services for Cloudera.

He holds an MBA from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

• Creation and commercialisation of
  software-based AI & ML.

• Leadership of commercial data science.

• B2B AI services.

Patrick is the VP of Artificial Intelligence for
Samsung SDS America, Samsung's $10B global IT services company, where he leads the creation of embedded cloud AI services and the development of healthcare modelling in pathology, 3D MRI, X-ray and ultrasound.

Patrick founded and exited Algorithmica Technologies which developed ML analytics for the predictive maintenance and process optimisation in the chemical, petrochemical, and oil-and-gas industries.

Paul’s experience includes:

• CEO, UK healthtech, UK tech series A.

• Management Consulting – Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), The World Economic Forum, Arup.

• Technology development & product management – Vida HealthCare (IoT, SaaS), Inmarsat (Satcoms software and hardware), Hamel (SaaS).

Paul is a published author, facilitator at Davos, formerly a peer reviewer of the IEA's World Energy Outlook and formerly advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme. He is a Board member of several UK B2B and B2C businesses.

Sandeep has over 20 years experience in Product Marketing and Payments, mobile devices and acquisition marketing for SMBs and is the former Head of Marketing of Google Pay.

His expertise includes launching large-scale rollout of Payment systems, including Google Pay, and online marketing systems for  Google and Android.

Sandeep is currently CEO of Auxia, a marketing automation organisation that enables Enterprises grow customer base using AI. Previously, Sandeep had a long stint at Google as Marketing head of Google play and a variety of other marketing roles.

Sid is the director of SiliaData and formerly the head of Data Science for Tools for Humanity, the company co-founded by Sam Altman which aims to capture the digital identity of billions of humans through iris scanning. He has extensive leadership experience in global corporates focused on data science, machine learning, data engineering, business intelligence teams and advanced analytics solutions, including Chief Data Officer for Simply Business and VP of Data and Analytics for Glovo, Builder, and Inmarsat.

Sid has prototyped, commercialised and patented several industry-leading digital solutions powered by  bespoke machine learning and predictive models, successfully taking them to market in a variety of industries.

Sumesh’s experience includes:

• Commercial and Financial Due Diligence – Bolt Partners.

• Strategy Consulting – Gartner, Accenture.

• Technology development & product management – Inmarsat (Satcoms software and hardware), BT (IT systems), Turin (Hardware telecom equipment).

Sumesh is a non-executive board member of a syndicate VC fund a board advisor to 1st Zoom, the US start-up developing advanced real-time video analysis technologies.