Dr. Kibar is an entrepreneur and an inventor, with numerous successful start-ups under his belt. He was the Scientific Founder of Genoptix (an oncology diagnostics company), which went public in 2007 (NASDAQ: GXDX) and was later acquired by Novartis in 2011. Dr. Kibar was also a Co-Founder of E-Tenna, whose assets relating to wireless antennas were acquired by Titan and assets relating to thermal management of microprocessors by Intel. He was a Vice President at Pequot Capital's venture capital and private equity team.

Dr. Kibar received his MS and PhD, specializing in Biophotonics and Optoelectronics, from University of California, San Diego, a BS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech and a BA in Mathematical Economics from Pomona College.

Mr. Horsley has two decades of experience building businesses as a private equity investor and entrepreneur. Most recently, he was a Partner and a founding member of Intervale Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm with multiple funds under management. Previously, Mr. Horsley worked as a Principal at Watermill Group, a generalist private equity firm, and as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New York and Frankfurt.

Mr. Horsley has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in Psychology and English from Harvard College.

Dr Finian Tan is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and the founder and current chairman of Vickers Venture Partners, an international venture capital firm with a presence in Singapore, Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco. Before he started Vickers, Dr. Tan was Managing Director and head of the Credit Suisse First Boston’s (“CSFB”) group of banks in Singapore and Malaysia, a role he took on after leaving his position as the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet for Asia, where he made an early and probably his most famous investment in Chinese tech giant Baidu. Prior to this, in 1997, Dr. Tan served as Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry for the Singapore Government.

Dr. Tan received his Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University on the Shell/Cambridge Scholarship. He received his B.Sc. Degree in Engineering from the University of Glasgow, where he also won all the academic awards available for the examinations, including an award for being the top student for his course, as well as the most distinguished graduate award.

Stephen Zachary is a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Sands Capital and serves on the Boards of various therapeutics, diagnostics, and life sciences tools companies. Stephen received his PhD in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and received a BA in Philosophy from Washington & Lee University. He is a member of the Kauffman Fellowship (Class 23).

Mr. Ahmed Khizer Khan is the CEO of Daman Investments, a pioneer firm in the UAE's financial services industry. Mr. Khan is a globally recognized business leader, banker and change agent with over three decades of global leadership experience. After an Honors degree in Economics from Bucknell, and an MBA from Rutgers, he spent his formative years in USA, Central Europe, UAE, and Pakistan with PWC and Citibank; before joining Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Bank as its Chief Executive, Emerging Markets, responsible for 15 countries including high-growth markets like India, UAE, Africa, Russia, Pakistan and Indonesia.

Mr. Khan served on the Barclays Board for several countries, working with the Global Chairman on formulating strategies for the emerging markets. After an impactful stint at the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, Jeddah, as its COO & Director Coverage, Partnerships and Syndication, across 35 countries; he became the President & Chief Executive Officer of Burj Bank Limited in Pakistan, where he turned around a small loss-making entity into the fastest growing Islamic Bank in Pakistan.

Mr. Khan, with nearly three decades of international banking industry experience, took over the reins at Daman Investments in 2016, with a mandate to re-engineer the business. Under his leadership, the company has increased footprint in new areas and won mandates for large M&A and investment banking projects. In a short span of time, he has been instrumental in achieving over 100% growth in profitability. He has led Daman Investments in conducting one of the largest leveraged buyouts within the family-owned entities in UAE. Established in 1998, Daman Investments has been actively offering investment opportunities to the institutional, high net-worth, and retail customers in UAE and beyond.

Simon Faure is the Managing Director of IH International Advisors, a global private equity investment advisory business. Prior to joining IHIA in 2021, Simon spent 16 years at M&G Investment’s private equity team. Simon has over 20 years’ experience investing in private equity and over 25 years' investment experience in total. Simon has a History degree from University of Southampton..