Eric Egnet

Chief Strategy Officer

Eric is a seasoned executive, senior technologist, serial entrepreneur, and emerging technology portfolio investor with over 26 years in executive management and senior leadership roles. He has worked across diverse industries to deliver disruptive innovation, strategy, planning, and execution that has successfully enable these companies to grow, differentiate, and transform their businesses.

As a C-Level Officer of many early-stage startups, mid-market, and large-market companies, Eric has been part of successful business exits, mergers, and funding transactions. He has led and strategically diversified companies, developed innovative technologies, created true competitive advantages, launched new businesses, established strong partnerships, and was crucial in helping one company successfully go public.

Wladmir Silva

COO

Wladmir has more than 25 years of international experience in business management, leading multicultural teams in different sectors, including automotive, financial services, executive search, and management consulting. Wlad lives in Singapore and previously lived and worked in Brazil, the USA, the UK and Hong Kong.

As a management consultant, Wlad has worked with the leadership and senior management teams of Fortune 500 clients in over 40 countries in several industries, including consumer, retail, pharma, aviation, and financial services. He led workshops and projects ranging from USD 300k to over USD 6.5bn.

Rajeev Verma

CTO ( Engineering Strategy )

Rajeev is a proven leader with over 15 years of experience managing diverse product portfolios and strategies and working closely with channel partners to drive innovation and delivery of disruptive technologies.

In previous roles, he collaborated with business and technology leaders to explore emerging technologies, assessed their impact on business and has successfully delivered technology demonstrators, industry standard products, frameworks, R&D Programmes and Services.

Rajeev has proven Leadership experience in managing and leading cross-functional, cross-location design, transformation, and engineering teams. He has experience working with major global Aerospace and Defence companies, including Boeing, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, NATS and QinetiQ. He is currently operating at a Senior Leadership role at a leading Aerospace and Defence Organisation bringing wealth of Engineering Management and Product Development experience to Ingen Dynamics.

Joanna Catalano

Interim Chief Growth Officer

Joanna Catalano is an accomplished leader in growing and scaling businesses, building customer relationships and leading multidisciplinary teams. She acquired a depth of expertise in commercial and digital transformation, new business development, leading teams that built bespoke digital products, and outcome-led application of data and analytics, while working cross-culturally in America, EMEA and APAC.

Joanna commenced her career in economic development partnering with the Ukrainian government on market reform education and micro-lending for female start-ups, as Ukraine transitioned to a capitalist economy. Witnessing disruption at such a significant scale piqued a curiosity both in human and systemic behavior and change that has since guided her professional journey. Over the last 20 years, she’s gathered a holistic view of B2C and B2B businesses, having spent time working brand-side, for technology platforms and software businesses, as well as leading services businesses.

Her passion as a people-leader, and focus on people as an organization's most important asset, has guided repeated success in executive and leadership roles.

At Piano.io, a SaaS business focused on customer journey orchestration and analytics, she’s built a new function to drive a growth strategy rooted in product, industry vertical and partnership expansion.

As CEO of iProspect Asia Pacific, a digital marketing agency of $500+M billings operating across 14 countries with a 1000+ employee base, she re-positioned the brand for a second wave of growth, acquired four new businesses and achieved double-digit revenue and profit growth for three consecutive years. Her comprehensive people strategy improved employee satisfaction significantly.

At Google, she built the inaugural go-to-market function focused on growing product share of revenue and inked large annual deals with blue chip brands like Hilton, P&G, Citibank, Expedia and many others.

At American Express and Starwood Hotels, she worked with executive sponsors on strategic change initiatives to increase revenue and c-sat.

Janada Dunbar

Managing Consultant - Strategy and Finance

Janada is a senior finance professional with 15+ years’ experience in management consulting. She has deep expertise in business and finance transformation, as well as strategic performance management, and has successfully led cross-cultural transformation teams in Europe, the US and Africa. At the Weir Group, a global manufacturing company, she manages the team which provides assurance over the financial and operational controls of businesses in over 50 countries and uses data analytics to provide strategic business insights and manage risks.

Janada has also worked in 2 of the Big 4 accounting firms (PwC and Deloitte) where she acquired a vast knowledge in IFRS and US GAAP. She demonstrated this knowledge in designing an efficient Chart of Accounts for Lloyds Banking Group which facilitated adherence to regulatory reporting requirements (US SEC and UK FCA). She has also been involved in several SOX Readiness Assessment, SOX Implementation, and Financial Due Diligence projects. Janada is based out of London.

While with the award-winning finance and risk management advisory firm, Novo Altum, Janada undertook IPO Readiness Assessment projects. She was also responsible for the design of the Finance Shared Services Model for the FinTech company Finastra (then Misys) which included defining the optimum location strategy. Other industries where Janada has relevant experience include digital (AKQA, Appnovation) and retail (Tesco).

She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) with an MBA from Cranfield University.

Jawad Farooq

CFO

Experienced Entrepreneur with a consolidated background across spectrum of sectors including Real Estate , Finance, Asset Management and Technology. A Visionary, with a track record for finding innovative ways to grow revenue, Jawad has a history of success, leading initiatives for business development, marketing, ad-vertising and product management.

Drew Stokesbary

Corporate Counsel

Drew is a corporate and securities attorney for startups, emerging and mid-market companies, and private investment funds. While based in the Pacific Northwest, Drew represents clients around the country and across the world. Drew handles a wide range of corporate transactions, including formations, corporate governance, convertible and preferred equity financings, and business combinations.

Drew also maintains a burgeoning political and election law practice in Washington State. He is lead counsel for two different redistricting cases currently pending before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, and he has represented Republican candidates, political committees and activists in matters ranging from ballot eligibility to campaign finance compliance.

Outside of his legal practice, Drew represents Washington’s 31st Legislative District in the State House of Representatives. He currently serves as the Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Committee and is part of the House Republican leadership team. He has previously served as the Minority Floor Leader and as Chairman of the Select Committee on Pension Policy. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Auburn Valley YMCA.

Drew is a lifelong Washingtonian and has been married to his wife Ashley for 14 years. Together they have three boys, Jack (age 8), Eli (age 6) and Walker (age 1), and a border collie named Scout. When Drew isn’t working, he enjoys hiking and camping throughout Washington with his family.

Drew graduated cum laude from University of Notre Dame Law School and earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University, where he also studied mathematics and history.

Drew is admitted to practice in Washington (state) and Arkansas, as well as to the bars of the United States Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Arun Chandrasekhar

Co-Founder ( Kaiser.Haus ) and Operations Director

Experienced Entrepreneur with a consolidated background across sectors including Real Estate , Finance, Asset Management and Technology. Arun was a General manager at CBRE ,and an NIT / NICMAR Alumnus. He has a good track record for finding innovative ways to grow revenue, Arun has a history of leading initiatives for business development, marketing, and product management including previous stints at Carrefour, Cushman and Wakefield.

Paramananda Ponnaiyan

Head Of Engineering (Software, Infrastructure and embedded)

Paramananda has 20+ experience in MNCs and platform startups. Deep expertise in software architecture and engineering, platforms, and infrastructure, and building high throughput systems that are extensible, fault-tolerant, and resilient. He was previously Head of Infrastructure at GoJek, and CTO at KawaSpace.

Aashish Kumar Gupta

Interim Head of Products

Aashish is a tech-geek turned entrepreneur with extensive knowledge that spans from frameworks and processes to team building, resulting in the creation of cross-domain innovative and unique products. He has previously founded Discovr.AI, OneLabs, Brainify.

He has been nominated in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list for 2020. He has also won Global AI Awards 2019 winner in the category "Best Use of AI in Automation" at Global AI Summit 2019.

His experience in B2B, B2C, and SaaS encompasses complex and specialized AI/ML products and high-growth mobile applications with millions of downloads, delivering multimillion-dollar bottom-line growth. He has built many AI-driven Enterprise Softwares personalized in Computer Vision, Predictive Maintenance, Chatbots, highly efficient OCRs model and worked with many multi-billion dollar companies and state governments to help them boost their growth and become more efficient, data driven, transparent.