Founder and Chief Executive Officer of start-ups in artificial intelligence, biotech, fintech and cleantech. Senior executive leadership positions at Cisco, Inbev, Oliver Wyman, Interbank Group and McKinsey & Co. Former founding Chief Executive Officer of biotechnology start-up Bioingenieria Aplicada focused on developing advanced bio-products in the Amazon. Founder and Chairman, Planetary Skin Institute, a Silicon Valley research and development corporation co-founded with NASA that won Time Magazine’s Top 50 Global Innovations in 2009. Founder and Chairman, SpaceTime Ventures (www.spacetimeventures.com) and SpaceTime Labs (www.spacetimelabs.ai). Currently member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Bio-economy and have been active member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council for the last eight years designing and incubating innovation programmes to address global critical issues in energy, food and water security, risk management, climate change, tropical ecosystem protection and biodiversity genomics. Founder of the Earth Bank of Codes (www.earthbankofcodes.org). Member of the Working Group of the Earth BioGenome Project (www.earthbiogenome.org). BEng in Chemical Engineering and MEng in Biochemical Engineering, University of Cambridge; MBA, INSEAD.