Jeremiah Ginn
Ellaury Hernandez
Amir Zmora
Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN & SASE. Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company.
Richard Betts
Richard is director of Sustainability Services at KPMG and a recognized international expert in sustainability. Richard has led a wide range of sustainability engagements in Turkey and over 20 countries across Europe and Asia. He is also a Certified Public Accountant with ACA accreditation and a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)
Richard has over 15 years of experience with Big 4 consultancies in Turkey and the UK. Over this time, he has led wide range of advisory and assurance engagements relating to sustainability & financial audit. Areas of expertise within sustainability include the following: Climate Change, Low Carbon Transformation, TCFD, Sustainability Strategy & implementation, Sustainability Performance Improvement, Integrated Reporting Advisory, Sustainability Reporting & Assurance, Total Valuation, SROI, Circular economy, Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Bonds, Environmental Due Diligence
Before moving to Istanbul, Richard lived in the UK, Italy and Mexico. He has dual UK-Turkish nationality and speaks 8 languages.
He has extensive experience in sustainability across many sectors including Finance (Banking & Insurance), Food & Beverage Sector, Cement, Glass Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Energy (O&G and Utilities), Holdings, Retail
Dr. Hüdai Kara
Dr Hüdai Kara is also founder of Metsims Sustainability Consulting. He has over 20 years of combined experience in low carbon sustainable technologies, critical metals research in energy generation supply chain, carbon footprint, life cycle assessment (LCA) and management, materials security, energy efficiency and renewable energy, waste management, and research and development covering industries from metallurgy to materials, chemical, energy and buildings.
Before establishing the consultancy business, Dr Kara worked as Research Fellow on smart materials at Bath University, as Senior Scientist at Johnson Matthey Technology Centre on materials and process development and as Technical Consultant at Oakdene Hollings advising UK DEFRA, DfT, WRAP and many private clients on sustainability, materials security, critical materials, resource efficiency, carbon and waste management.
Dr Kara is a global expert on Life Cycle Assessment and is currently leading the development of Turkish Life Cycle Inventory Database for sustainability performance assessment of the economic activity in Turkey.
He is on the Technical Advisory Board for European Commission on PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) development and an expert Evaluator for EU Horizon 2020 and other research and development funding streams. He sits on the technical committee of the International EPD System.
Dr Kara is the author of over dozens of scientific papers in refereed journals and presented in many international conferences. He regularly writes on sustainability and sustainable development issues in an industrial journal. He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science from the University of Oxford.
Kaitlyn Carty
Kaitlyn Carty is a beauty and wellness professional with a decade of experience educating employees, and assisting clients with making meaningful purchases that suit their lifestyle. Coming from a Haitian background she has always tried to find a way to incorporate traditional ways of healing into her work, from conversation to herbal recommendations. Being the East Coast-Sales and Education Executive at “The Beauty Chef”Kaitlyn focuses on connecting the dotes of beauty to internal wellness. She is passionate about giving individuals the tools to find success while nurturing people's inner beauty.
Dr. Anders B. Laursen
Dr. Anders B. Laursen has a BS in chemistry and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark with nine years of cumulative experience in electrochemistry and renewable energy storage. His experience includes electrochemical and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production (water splitting), materials synthesis, spectroscopic characterizations, and catalytic processes. He has authored 27 scientific papers and 4 patent applications. Dr. Laursen joined Prof. Dismukes’ group at Rutgers in 2013 and now works as a Research Associate. He also serves as the chief executive officer of RenewCO2, LLC a start-up formed with Prof. Dismukes and graduate student Ms. Calvinho. Anders has extensive experience with catalyst design, synthesis, characterization and activity evaluation, electrolyzer development, and fabrication of electrochemical cells.
Nina Birger
Nina Birger is Vice President of Partnerships at Greentown Labs, North America's largest climatetech incubator with locations in Somerville, MA and Houston, TX. Greentown Labs advances a mission of providing climatetech entrepreneurs with the resources, space. community, and connections that support them in scaling and succeeding. Nina studied English Literature at Tufts University and Oxford and received an MBA from MIT Sloan. In Fall 2020, she guest lectured at Sloan in Managerial Communications.
Rob Schreiber
Rob Schreiber is a Distinguished Engineer at Cerebras Systems, Inc., where he works on architecture and programming of systems for accelerated training of deep neural networks. Schreiber’s research spans sequential and parallel algorithms for matrix computation, compiler optimization for parallel languages, and high performance computer design. With Moler and Gilbert, he developed the sparse matrix extension of Matlab. He created the NAS CG parallel benchmark. He was a designer of the High Performance Fortran language. Rob led the development at HP of the PICO system for synthesis of custom hardware accelerators. He has help pioneer the exploitation of photonic signaling in processors and networks. He is an ACM Fellow, a SIAM Fellow, and was awarded, in 2012, the Career Prize from the SIAM Activity Group in Supercomputing.