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Successful investor and entrepreneur who has been a founder, board member, and investor in several unicorns such as Kahoot!, Udemy, and Adaptive Insights during his decade-long career as Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. Sergio also held leadership roles at high-growth tech companies like eBay, PayPal, and Portal Software. He is a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Stanford, and is currently the Founding Partner at Roble Ventures. Sergio attended Stanford University for his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering, and received his MBA from Harvard University.
Alejandra Ríos is a business leader and passionate investor. As CEO of Ambrosía, she has guided one of Mexico's largest food and event companies to new heights of success. In addition, Alejandra is known for her influence in the startup world as one of the 'sharks' on Shark Tank Mexico, where she has demonstrated her ability to discover and support new entrepreneurial talent. Alejandra holds a bachelor´s degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard University.
a Health Economist and entrepreneur, currently serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Yale Ventures, where she supports healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship within the Yale community. Previously, as the VP of Data & AI at Nayya, she led a team of experts in data analytics, actuarial sciences, and business intelligence, developing innovative models to navigate the complexities of employee benefits and enhance decision support through advanced technology.
Norma's experience over the last decade spans academia, nonprofit, and the private sector. She has served as a faculty member at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and as a Research Scientist at the New York Academy of Medicine. She also served as the National Director of Applied Research & Data Analytics at the American Hospital Association, overseeing large-scale data initiatives to advance quality and safety. At Anthem's Digital Incubator and accelerator programs, she supported the implementation of digitally enabled care to improve the patient care experience.
Norma founded EmpiricaLab, a company specializing in peer-to-peer training within healthcare organizations, transforming it from an idea into a revenue-generating product within 18 months. EmpiricaLab is backed by Techstars, the AWS Impact fund, the Mount Sinai Incubation program, and Elementa Labs.
She holds a Ph.D. in health economics from Yale University, a master's degree in economics from Duke University, a master's degree in public health from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where she was a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, and a bachelor's degree in economics and math from the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
My journey from McAllen, Texas, to leading data-driven healthcare initiatives is driven by my mission to improve healthcare access and equity.
She is also committed to advancing diversity in STEM fields, having served on various boards promoting education and technology, including as Chair of the industry advisory board for an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center. Currently, she is a board member of Consilium Bots, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to education in Latin America through AI-powered tools.
is an accomplished entrepreneur with a successful track record of starting and building B2C and B2B technology companies in the fields of healthcare technology, data analytics, and digital marketing. He is a passionate innovator adept at identifying and capitalizing on business opportunities. With a strong background in sales, marketing, and branding, David also has extensive experience raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, SaaS platforms, software development, market research and education. As the CEO of The Santa Fe Group, David led the sale of the Shared Assessments program to One Trust in May 2021. In 2011, David started Seamless Medical Systems creating the leading platform for patient check in and medical practice efficiency. Seamless was sold to a GetWellNetwork January 2017. David founded Lumina Americas in 1999 (later called Latin Force), the first Hispanic consumer digital marketing agency, he sold in 2009. There he advised iconic brands seeking to engage Latino consumers, including: Nike, Wells Fargo, Pepsi, The NFL, Kraft Foods, MTV, Nestle and Nickelodeon. David won the 2014 Red Herring 100 North America Award for innovation at Seamless Medical and received the 2005 Hispanic Entrepreneur of the Year award from Hispanic Magazine. He has given a TEDx Talk and delivered the commencement address to the University of Vermont School of Business Class of 2007. A graduate of the University of Vermont and the father of two teenagers, David is a musician and enjoys vintage cars, fly-fishing, skiing, gardening and raising chickens in Santa Fe, NM.
is a Marketing and Merchandising executive with over 20 years of experience in retail and CPG. He was born and raised in El Paso, TX and started his career at Wal-Mart as a Supercenter Store Manager. After attaining his MBA from Georgetown University, Eli started his post-graduate career at Procter & Gamble working in Brand Management on the Dawn Dishwashing and Pampers brands. He then joined the alcohol beverage industry at Anheuser Busch where he led the Budweiser brand (including 3 Super Bowl commercials Brotherhood, Puppy Love and Heroes Welcome). He also led the High End Import, Craft, and Specialty brands for AB Inbev., while also leading M&A strategy. He then pivoted back to retail and joined Total Wine & More in 2014 to lead the Spirits Merchandising business. Over his tenure he also led the Beer, &More, Pricing, Assortment Planning, Concierge Sales, Marketing and Advertising functions at Total Wine & More. After growing Total Wine & More from $1.5B to $5.8B during his tenure, Eli made his most recent pivot into healthcare and joined MyEyeDr., a Goldman Sachs company, the nation's fastest growing vision healthcare retailer as their Chief Commercial Officer, leading Marketing, Digital, Merchandising and Supply Chain.
is a corporate and transactional attorney. His practice focuses on advising emerging growth companies and their investors on new venture structuring, corporate strategic planning, private equity and debt financings and general corporate legal and transactional issues services including technology development licensing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Mr. Borghese has advised companies from inception through the creation of multi-billion-dollar enterprises across a range of industries including technology, healthcare, and financial services. For the past three years, Mr. Borghese has been a member of the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches Legal and Transactional Aspects of Entrepreneurship, a top-rated course in the Wharton M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. programs (Profile). He is the author of M&A from Planning to Integration: Executing Acquisitions and Increasing Shareholder Value, published by McGraw-Hill in English and Chinese language versions (Link to Book). He has appeared as a commentator on PBS, CNBC’s Power Lunch (Video), CNNfn’s The Money Gang (Video), and has been quoted in the Financial Times (Article), Fortune, WSJ (Article), Forbes (Article), Technically Philly (Article), and Inc. (Article) magazines. Mr. Borghese is vice-chairman of the Advisory Board of the Port Fund, a Kuwait-based private equity fund focused on port facility and related logistics investments in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Mr. Borghese is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Borghese holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an M.A. in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge University, England, and a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Profile). In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Borghese has been involved as a founder and principal investor in a number of business ventures. Mr. Borghese is a founder and partner in Arno Capital Partners LLC, a private investment fund that focuses on investments in real estate and financial services companies. In 2008, a predecessor to Arno acquired the managed telecom assets of Fiberlink Communications Corporation (a Goldman Sachs portfolio company), turned around the business and sold the business to ANXeBusiness Corp. (a J.P. Morgan Chase portfolio company). Arno has also invested in Sivox Holdings LLC, a voice-recognition driven simulation technology company, and Corporate Training Technologies, LLC, a financial services regulatory compliance software and training company. In 2011, Arno launched North 90 Financial LLC, an investment fund focused on the acquisition of distressed mortgage assets. In addition, Arno is a sponsor and general partner in real estate investment partnerships focused on the acquisition and development of multifamily and commercial office assets. Mr. Borghese is also a founder and partner in Stonehedge Funding LLC, a real estate merchant bank that provides acquisition and development financing for commercial real estate projects.
Experienced leader in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors committed to gender equity and human rights in business. She´s a Board Director of Western Union, Apollo Strategic Growth Capital, and Cushman & Wakefield. She was previously Chief of Staff to the CEO at Bloomberg LP. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
A distinguished academic and educator, currently serving as the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Beyond his academic accomplishments, Allon is recognized for his contributions to educational technology and innovative teaching methods. He is the co-founder of ForClass, a platform designed to enhance student engagement and accountability in the classroom. Allon has a rich educational background with a PhD in Management Science from Columbia Business School in New York, and Bachelor and Master degrees from the Israeli Institute of Technology.