Steve Marchese is a distinguished business leader with a passion for innovation in the beauty and wellness industry.
Serving as the CEO at LightStim, he has transformed the company into a prominent name recognized for its advanced LED technology and its contributions to both skincare and health.
Pat Pataranutaporn is a technologist, scientist, and artist at the MIT Media Lab, exploring the intersection of AI, synthetic biology, and wearable computing.
His projects fuse art, science, and technology — from AI “wisdom wearables” to bio-digital tools that enable self-healing and space medicine.
Kathleen R. McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and is also the Founding Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia.
Personal pain as a banker led to a deeper interest.
Observed entrepreneurs’ struggles with taxation and wealth.
She unexpectedly began in biochemistry and had many South Asian friends.
She began taking courses in South Asian civilizations and learning Hindi.
Stuart’s early passion for modifying running shoes as a high school student
A serendipitous partnership with George Cole
Sara is the CEO of Duct Tape Marketing.
She’s also an author of a book titled Unchained: Breaking Free from Broken Marketing Models.
Professor Makinda is Professor Emeritus of International Relations & Security Studies at the College of Law and Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University, Western Australia.
He was earlier a senior journalist with the weekly review and the nation group of the newspapers in Nairobi, and he has been recognized and awarded by former Kenyan President Mogwai Kibaki as the one of the elders of the order of the Burning Spear.
