Shantanu Jha
Co-founder, Edufront
Shantanu Jha is a co-founder at Edufront, a company harnessing artificial intelligence to transform education for the world's most underprivileged children. He began his career by founding Beaconsfield Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund based in Boston, London, and Monaco, where he serves as Chief Investment Officer and developed the underlying engineering and investment frameworks. He was educated in mathematics, computer science, and economics at the University of Chicago after distinguished high school performance in mathematics and knowledge olympiads.
Tariq Khan
Trustee, TiE Global
New York, India
Tariq Khan is an angel investor and a specialist in financing start-ups at the earliest stages of their launch. He co-founded Games 24x7 Inc which launched the largest on-line games company in India. His other investments include Buddi-Health, Vectorly, Fitbark, Resolute Innovation and Baby Destination. He is Past President of the New York Chapter of TiE, the largest mentoring organization for entrepreneurship. Currently he is serving a two year term on the TiE Global Board of Trustees.
Previously he worked for twenty years in finance, with major banks and financial institutions in most of the support and operational functions including settlements, finance, risk management, compliance and technology. Main companies he has worked for include Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, GM Asset Management, Citigroup Private Bank, Natwest, Lloyds Bank and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.
In addition, Mr Khan has twenty years experience working in industrial and commercial organizations, from large Fortune 500 companies, to small, family owned enterprises. Major companies he has worked for include CNA Insurance, L’Oreal, Mitsui & Co USA, Fiat SpA, Filippo Fochi Spa, Hunter Douglas NV, Sun Chemicals, Colgate Palmolive, Ely Lily, Reuters, ENI and IBM.
Mr Khan grew up in Rome, Italy and after four decades in Europe moved to the US in 2000 where he has settled in the New York City vicinity.
Shreeram Iyer
CEO of Qubit AI Technologies(Jan 2018 - March 2020)
Shreeram is CEO of Qubit AI Technologies, a deep tech startup. Qubit technologies is new age technology firm, focused to deliver high performance Artificial Intelligence based solutions for Utility & Manufacturing Industries. Previously, he worked with Tata Consultancy Services, involved with strategic Acquisitions and Services Integration.
Shreeram is also the co-chair of TiE Global Education series. He is an avid reader and also has several diplomas from elite colleges including private equity executive program from IIM, Bangalore and Strategic IT Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.
Shreeram has a mechanical engineering degree from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University and a PhD from Birla Institute of Management Technology.