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Amol Sarva teaches entrepreneurship at Columbia University and has cofounded startups including Virgin Mobile USA, Peek, Halo Neuroscience, Knotel, and Popular Change. He studied cognitive science for his Ph.D. at Stanford with an undergraduate degree from Columbia. He is a backer, advisor, and mentor at 50+ companies

Dr. Leslie Field earned BS&MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT, MS&PhD degrees In EECS from UC Berkeley, and recently completed her 13th year of teaching on climate and engineering at Stanford University. An inventor with over 60 issued patents, Leslie’s industrial R&D work has made three billion-dollar impacts for her employers. Dr. Field has founded successful small businesses and climate-focused nonprofits, and her work over the past decade has focused on solving some of the world’s most urgent problems in climate. She is deeply committed to innovation, inclusive collaboration and perseverance applied to the challenges of preserving a habitable world, and in 2022 she was awarded the inaugural Mark Shannon Grand Challenges Award from the Transducers Research Foundation for her long-term work addressing humanity’s urgent challenges.

Dr. Raiskin is the Asia Pacific Head of Markets at Citigroup, one of the largest financial institutions in the world. In her 25-year career, she has also worked at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers across a range of roles and specialties. She is a strong advocate for the role of women and greater diversity in banking. Dr. Raiskin completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, and has a doctorate in law from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.