Ms Di Fleming
Ms Di Fleming is is a professional educator, lateral-thinking leader and learner whose success has been realised across education and industry alike. As Executive Director of the Ducere Foundation and Founding President of the Australia Africa Chamber of Commerce, Di has been working in Africa for nearly ten years, creating teaching and learning models for […]
Mr. Rabih Shibli
Mr. Rabih Shibli, architect and designer of the Ghata structure, is the Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. At AUB, Rabih develops programs and strategies that create a nexus between the university, stakeholders, and targeted communities with an overarching objective of fostering […]
Mursal Hedayat
Mursal is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and founder of Chatterbox. A former refugee to the UK from Afghanistan herself, Mursal was inspired to create pathways into professional careers for refugees after observing first-hand the vast untapped talent in the refugee community. Since starting up in August 2016 Chatterbox has been backed by British and Silicon Valley […]
Mr. Dwayne Iserief
Dwayne Iserief is the co-founder and COO of Uptale. He lives in Paris, France. Half Belgian half Dutch, he moved to France in 1995 after graduating with an MBA from INSEEC institute. He joined the consulting company, Phineo on a “Startup project” in the field of sports in the US. This experience gave him the […]
Mr. Lu Mai
Mr. Lu Mai is the Secretary General of the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF). Under his leadership, CDRF leveraged critical support for enactment of the National Nutrition Improvement Plan for primary students in rural compulsory education, Child Development Plan in poverty-stricken areas of China, and the Two-Child policy. Prior to CDRF, he had a long […]
Deepak Ramanathan
Deepak Ramanathan is a co-founder of AskMyClass and married to Aparna. He is an engineer, product and marketing executive in the technology industry, having worked for over 20 years at IBM, Google, worked on AI and the voice assistant and most recently, Twitter. With AskMyClass he combines his experience with scalable technology together with a […]
Aparna Ramanathan
Aparna Ramanathan is the CEO and co-founder of AskMyClass, with a focus on accessible mental health support. Aparna worked for 11 years as a medical doctor in Australia. After moving to the U.S., she coached professional women in practical stress management techniques, showing efficacy through heart-rate variability. Aparna sees a huge benefit in voice technology, […]
Manon Oskian
Manon graduated in 2013 from HEC business school in France. She majored in marketing and a digital innovation. Prior founding Wiloki, she worked at International SOS, the world’s leading medical & travel security services company. She is fond of new technologies and convinced that technology could make a difference in the education world, Manon co-founded […]
Hugo Oskian
Hugo graduated in 2018 from Central Nantes, a French leading Engineer school, as a New Technology and Virtual Reality Engineer. He has had various experiences as a 3D and VR developer in French startups and on Phillips’campus in the Netherlands. Hugo is also an FX wizard and has been working as a freelance UX & […]
Alejandro Sepulveda
Alejo and Juan grew up in a poor neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia. Inspired by a teacher to become coders and entrepreneurs, they chose not to attend college but instead, created their first company which they sold at 19 years old. Following this, they went on to build three more companies focused on supporting teachers in emerging countries. […]