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Varisali Sayed

Varisali Sayed

Chief Executive Officer, Fincasa Ventures

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Varis was recognized by AsiaOne Magazine in the Young Asian Entrepreneurs 2020-21 Awards.

Erik Ekudden
Group CTO, Ericsson

will.i.am

will.i.am
Futurist & Technology Entrepreneur

Thierry

Thierry Henry
Footballing Legend and Activist

Jae Sook Evans
CIO of Oracle

Tim Draper

Tim Draper
Chairman Draper Associates

Susan Kilrain
NASA astronaut, Navy Test Pilot – the 2nd woman & youngest person to pilot the Space Shuttle

Gitanjali Rao
Teen Innovator, Author, STEM Advocate, TED Speaker, TIME Kid of the year 2020

Greg Williams
Editor in Chief, WIRED

Martin Urrutia Islas
Global Head of Retail Innovation and Experience, The Lego Group

Shashi Menon
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nervora

Mohamed-Ramzi Temanni
Scientific Director - Head of France AI & Genomics, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Shameer Khader
Executive Director, Sanofi

Faisal Khan
Corporate Vice President - AI and Analytics, Novo Nordisk

Daniel Maloney
Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Verizon

Jack Withinshaw
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AirSpeeder

Michal Borkowski
Chief Executive Officer, Brainly

Bill Diamond
President and Chief Executive Officer, Seti Institute

Ben Lamm
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Colossal Biosciences

Fabien Devide
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Team Vitality

Oliver Steil
CEO, Teamviewer

Thomas Oxley
CEO, Synchron

Jonathan Yaney
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Spinlaunch

Erik Ekudden
Group CTO, Ericsson

Dr. Anino Emuwa
Founder, Avandis Consulting

Kai Roemmelt
President, Udacity

Nicholas Dirks
President, The New York Academy of Sciences

Ott Velsberg
Government Chief Data Officer, Republic of Estonia

Marc Ettienne Ouimette
Global AI Policy Lead, AWS & Amazon

Ya-Qin Zhang
Chair and Dean, Tsinghua University. Former President of Baidu

Philippe Rambach
Chief AI Officer, Schneider Electric

Marie Ekeland
Founder, 2050

Harley Parks
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, BearClaw Esports

Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram
Founder, Proximie

Mary-Helen Black
Vice President - Head of Human Genomics, Foresite Labs

Dr. Daniela Braga
Founder and CEO, Defined.AI

Dr. Anna Zeiter
Chief Privacy Officer & Associate General Counsel of Privacy, Data & AI, eBay

Natalia Brzezinski
Global Business Development, Klarna

Natalia Bayona
Director of Innovation - Education and Investments, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
Partner, Tudor Investment Corporation

Noor Sweid
Managing Partner, Global Ventures

H.E. Carmen Gisela Vergara
Executive Director - ProPanama, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr. Vilma Matilla
Founder, 5ire

Jenny Fielding
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Everywhere Ventures

Sebastien Borget
Co-founder & Chief Operations Officer, The Sandbox

Jeff Maggioncalda
Chief Executive Officer, Coursera

Erica Lee
Vice President - Machine Learning Engineering, UpWork

Bill Wright
Chief Architect, Red Hat

Elizabeth Adams
Affiliate Fellow & Former Chief AI Ethics & Culture Advisor, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

Abrar Mir
Managing Partner, Quadria Capital

Vusi Thembekwayo
Chief Executive Officer, MyGrowthFund Venture Partners

H.E Laila Rahhal El Atfani
President & Founder, Business Gate

Tuck Lye Koh
Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Shunwei Capital

Mark Mobius
Chief Executive Officer, Mobius Capital Partners

Olivier Wenden
Chief Executive Officer & Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco

Faris Lodin
Managing Director, AxeHedge

Stephen Kennedy Smith
Board Member, Kennedy Family Office

Helen Pan
General Manager, Apollo Autonomous - Baidu

Margarete Schramböck
Former Minister of ICT, Austria

Jingbo Wang
Managing Partner, IDG Capital

Ma Hongbin
Chief Executive Officer - International Business, Kuaishou

Angela Kane
Vice President & Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, International Institute for Peace - Vienna

Dr. Seth Dobrin
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dobrin Ventures

Divya Gokulnath
Co-founder, Byju's

Malik Abu-Ghazaleh
Chief Digital Officer, Tiffany & Co.

Martin Vilig
Co-founder, Bolt

Nigel Vaz
Chief Executive Officer, Publicis Sapient

Borje Ekholm
Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson

Arvind Krishna
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM

Jordi Van den Bussche
Founder/ YOUTUBER, JVDB Studios/ Kwebbelkop

Emmanuel Wallace
Big Manny

Anthony Joshua MBE
Two Time Heavyweight World Champion

will.i.am

will.i.am
Futurist & Technology Entrepreneur

Thierry

Thierry Henry
Footballing Legend and Activist

Jae Sook Evans
CIO of Oracle

Tim Draper

Tim Draper
Chairman Draper Associates

Susan Kilrain
NASA astronaut, Navy Test Pilot – the 2nd woman & youngest person to pilot the Space Shuttle

Gitanjali Rao
Teen Innovator, Author, STEM Advocate, TED Speaker, TIME Kid of the year 2020

Carles Puyol
UEFA Ambassador, World Champion, FC Barcelona and Spanish Footballing Legend

Sean Garnier

Sean Garnier
Influencer, world champion freestyle football - CEO of Urban Ball

John Lee
Chief Executive, Hong Kong SAR

Rola

Dr Rola Dashti
Secretary General of UN ESCWA

Pekka Lundmark

Pekka Lundmark
CEO of Nokia

Borje

Borje Ekholm
President and CEO, Ericsson

Adam

Adam Boulton
British Journalist and Broadcaster

Daisy McAndrew

Daisy McAndrew
British Journalist (former BBC)

Mark Hon

Mark Hon
Chairman, Sugarventures

Sumit

Sumit Dhawan
President of VMware

Robby

Robby Yung
CEO, Animoca Brands

Ravishankar

GV Ravishankar
Managing Director, India, Sequoia Capital

Tilli

Tilli Bannet
Managing partner SVB Capital

Eddie Wu

Eddie Wu
Co-founder, Alibaba

Benjamin

Dr. Benjamin Goertzel
Chief Executive Officer, SingularityNET Foundation

Hiroshi Ishiguro
Director, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory

Sol Rashidi

Sol Rashidi
Senior Vice President, Chief Analytics Officer, The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.

Cassie Kozyrkov

Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist, Google

Betsy

Betsy Greytok
Vice President, Ethics & Policy, IBM

Ivana

Ivana Bartoletti
Global Chief Privacy Officer, Wipro

Ricky

Ricky Ray Butler
CEO, BENlabs

Luc Vincent

Luc Vincent
VP Engineering & Product Group Lead, AI, Meta

Jack McCauley

Jack McCauley
Professor and Innovator in Residence

Ben Taylor

Ben Taylor
Chief AI Strategist, Dataiku

Gupta

Anjali Gupta
Board Member, American Society for Gravitational and Space Research

Andrew Walker

Andrew Walker
Founder and CEO, Airseed

Andrew Morfill

Andrew Morfill
Chief Information Security Officer, Komainu

Andrew Funk

Andrew Funk
Founding President, Homeless Entrepeneur

Anders

Anders Sloth Nielsen
Senior Investment Manager, Head of Sustainable Cities and Mobility, Copenhagen Capacity

Alashraf

Anas Alashraf
Digital Health Transformation, Strategy, Data, and AI enthusiast, Dynacare

Mitrasevic

Ana Mitrasevic
Senior VP of People & Sustainability, Delivery Hero

Ana Maiques

Ana Maiques
CEO, Neuroelectrics

Ana Barjasic

Ana Barjasic
Founder & CEO, Connectology

Amy Peck

Amy Peck
Co-Founder & CEO, EndeavorVR

Amir Barsoum

Amir Barsoum
Founder and CEO, Vezeeta

Merchant

Aman Merchant
Founder & General Partner, ReimaginED Collective

Aly Madhavji

Aly Madhavji
Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund

Alvaro Abella

Alvaro Abella
Managing Director, Gulf Capital

Allen Salmasi

Allen Salmasi
Chairman and CEO, Veea Inc

Aline Noizet

Aline Noizet
Founder, Digital Health Connector

Al Jehani

Ali Al Jehani
Vice President, General Manager MENA, WWE

Alexandre Hayek

Alexandre Hayek
President, WAPPP

Alexander Amartei

Alexander Amartei
Director and Producer of ‘Antara’, the first major movie in history to be funded via NFTs.

Alessio Garofalo

Alessio Garofalo
CIO/CTO, Oxagon, NEOM

Albarara Fares Alshabib

Alan

Alan Qi
Managing Director, Cloud Business, Huawei Saudi Arabia & CEO, Sparkoo Saudi Arabia

Ahmed El Chami

Ahmed El Chami
Resident Engineer, CDM Smith

Ahmed Khairy

Ahmed Khairy
CEO, Gameball

Ahmed Alzahrani

Ahmed Alzahrani
Director General, National Energy Services Company (Tarshid)

Ahmed Alenazi

Ahmed Alenazi

Ahmad Hanandeh

Ahmad Hanandeh
Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship

McDonald

Adrian McDonald
President, Dell Technologies

Yousef Alomran

Yousef Alomran
Chief Executive Officer, Mobily Ventures

Walid Faza

Walid Faza
Partner & Chief Operating Officer, MSA Capital

Varisali Sayed

Varisali Sayed
Chief Executive Officer, Fincasa Ventures

Tim Ringel
Investor & Advisory Board Member, Adit Ventures

Tala Al Jabri

Tala Al Jabri
Board Director, Middle East Venture Capital Association

Simon Sharp
Partner, Global Ventures

Ahmed Durrani

Sardar Ahmed Durrani
Partner, Osiris Group

Sandeep Bhadra

Sandeep Bhadra
Partner, Vertex Ventures

Sam Jones

Sam Jones
Co Founder, Torch Capital

Salwa Radwi

Salwa Radwi
Founder, NuqtahNFT

Romanna Dada

Romanna Dada
Head of Ventures, PwC

Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan
Director, Americas, SoftBank Vision Fund

Reema Khan
CEO, Green Sands Equity

Prakash

Prashanth Prakash
Partner, Accel

Tay Hong

Pauline Erica Tay Hong
Director, National Health Innovation Centre

Paul Dugsin

Paul Dugsin
General Partner, Raiven Capital

Keating

Patricia Keating
Scale Lead, ME, PwC Ventures

AlShabaan

Omar AlShabaan
CEO, The Space

Nancy

Nancy Najm
Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudhoods

Nadia Mannell
Founding Partner, Seed South Capital

Mashal

Mashal Waqar
Founder & Managing Director, Milestone Ventures

Filipowska

Mal Filipowska
Partner, Seedstars

Al Mozaini

Mae Al Mozaini
Founder & CEO, nusf - The Arab Institute for Women's Empowerment

Laurie Fuller

Laurie Fuller
Strategic Advisor, Executive Coach - Stanford Seed

Stanislawska

Kinga Stanislawska
Managing General Partner, Co-Founder, Experior VC

Khaldoon Tabaza

Khaldoon Tabaza
CEO & Co-founder, iMENA Group

Hamad Al Fahad
Managing Partner, Tajawoz

Ghazal Alagh

Ghazal Alagh
Co-Founder, Mamaearth

Eunice

Eunice Ajim
Founding Partner, Ajim Capital

Emon

Emon Shakoor
Founder & CEO, Blossom Accelerator

Graham

Danielle Graham
Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Phoenix Fire

Daniel Bernard
Investor & Venture Partner, Mindspring Capital

Carine

Carine de Meyere
President & Founder, Women of the World

Bina

Bina Khan
Co-Founder, Summit Venture Partners LLC

Coppola

Alfredo Coppola
Co-CEO, US Market Access

HE Ursula Owusu
Minister of Communications

Maelle

Maelle Gavet
CEO, Tech Stars

Amin Nasser

Amin Nasser
CEO, Aramco

Sian

Sian Proctor
SpaceX Astronaut

Almoaiqel

Abdulrahman Almoaiqel
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO, Tawal

Al Olayan

Abdulrahman Al Olayan
Chief Executive Officer, Dammam Valley

Abdulrahman Aljudai
CEO, Al-Elm Information Security Company

AlDayel

Abdullah AlDayel
Founder & CEO, Qoyod

Shafar

Abdullah Shafar
President, SDAIA

Alkhalaf

Abdullah Alkhalaf
CIO, Najm Company for Insurance Services

Almalik

Abdulaziz Almalik
Deputy Minister for Research & Innovation, Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture

abdulaziz

Abdulaziz Al Dayel
Senior Director, Financial Investment, Takamol Holding

Alejandro Longueira
Senior Manager, Roland Berger

Abdallah Abu Sheikh
Chief Executive Officer, Botim

Alessandra

Alessandra Sala
Sr. Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Shutterstock

Lucy Hedges

Lucy Hedges
Travel Show Presenter, BBC

Lee Daley

Lee Daley
CEO, HelloGenius

Abdulwahab

Ahmed Abdulwahab
Chief Executive Officer, Next Arabia FZE

LAILA AL HADHRAMI

Laila al Hadhrami
Development Manager, RMA Advisory

Adwa

Adwa Al Dakheel
Founder & CEO, Falak Business Hub

James Caan CBE

James Caan CBE
Entrepreneur, Media Commentator and Former Investor on BBC's Dragons' Den

Filby

Adam Filby
VP Sales, Dendra Systems

Isaac Applbaum

Isaac Applbaum
Founding Partner, Emkan Capital

Frank Salzgeber

Frank Salzgeber
Head of Innovation and Ventures, European Space Agency

Fabio Fontana

Fabio Fontana
Chief Digital and Technology Officer & CEO E.ON Digital Technology GmbH, NEOM

Abdulrahman

Abdulrahman Ibrahim
Chief Data and Innovation Officer, Madinah Region Development Authority

Abdullah Al Hammadi
Regional Business Lead - Saudi Arabia, Snapchat

Benoit Lebot

Benoit Lebot
Senior Policy Advisor, MTE

Ben Goertzel

Ben Goertzel
CEO, SingularityNET

Baroness Karren Brady CBE

Baroness Karren Brady CBE
Vice Chairman, West Ham United Football Club

Aamir

Aamir Allibhoy
Chief Marketing Officer, Tim Hortons Middle East

Amal Dokhan

Amal Dokhan
Partner, 500 Startups

Abdallah Abu Sheikh

Abdallah Abu Sheikh
Investor & CEO, Rizek

Alzubi

Mohammed Alzubi
Founder & Managing Partner, Nama Ventures

Nick Cooney
Managing Partner, Lever VC

Milad

Milad Alucozai
Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Marcel Dridje
President Emeritus, Sophia Business Angels

Marcel Dridje
President Emeritus, Sophia Business Angels

Karim Radwan
Chief Investment Officer, Chimera Capital

Mahdi Aladel
CEO, Aramco Ventures

Kinga Stanislawska
Managing General Partner, Co-Founder, Experior VC

Juan Caño
Managing Director (MIRA), Head of Iberia, Macquarie Asset Management

Julia Sohajda
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Vespucci Partners

Faisal Aftab
Co-Founder & GP, Zayn Capital

Yasin Aboudaoud

Yasin Aboudaoud
Chief Development Officer & Managing Partner, Brinc

Jonathan

Jonathan Keidan
Co Founder, Torch Capital

Tugce Ergul
Partner, Hypernova Capital / Angel Labs

Fady Yacoub
Managing Partner, HOF Capital

Adam Ladjadj
Founder, Oros MFO

Giovanni Jackson
CEO-President, TGE Inc.

Alliott Cole
CEO & Founder, Octopus Ventures

Darrell Steward
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Jerome Bell
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Albert Flores
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Theresa Webb
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Cody Fisher
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Devon Lane
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Jerome Bell
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Dianne Russell
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Arlene McCoy
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Jane Cooper
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Leslie Alexander
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

James Caan CBE
Entrepreneur, Media Commentator and Former Investor on BBC's Dragons' Den

Ghazal Alagh
Co-Founder Mamaearth

Baroness Karren Brady CBE
Vice Chairman West Ham United Football Club

Steven Bartlett
Founder Social Chain

Abdulaziz Al Dayel
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Joseph Bradley
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Andrew Whalley
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

Andrew Whalley
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance

dasf

Christy Overgard MacLear
Co-Founder Greentech Alliance