Our Team

Sabrina Akhtar

Founder

A tech industry veteran and entrepreneur, Sabrina has wide range of experience in various industry sectors and in silicon valley startup ecosystem. She has technology expertise from semiconductor hardware engineering to software, IoT system integration to machine learning, AI and Blockchain. Her hands on approach to problem solving and strategic forecasting through data driven business intelligence helped companies reach their business goals. She has a patent on IoT System Integration in Smart Agriculture and a patent pending on Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure.

Sabrina also serves as a Board of Director for SAS Foundation. She is a Climate change activist and actively supports Citizens Climate Lobby, 350.org, Business Climate Leaders, NRDC and Conservation International.

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Tony Seba

Advisor, Product Strategy

Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, educator and the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling book ‘Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030’.

Tony is an accomplished entrepreneur - Founder and CEO of PrintNation.com; raised $30+million in venture funds, disrupted 4th largest manufacturing industry in US, winner of major leadership and entrepreneurship awards. He is also a founding executive at multiple clean disruption startup companies. Tony’s work focuses on the convergence of technologies, business models, and product innovations that disrupt the world’s major industries. As a speaker he has delivered keynotes for major companies and at global events including Google, J.P. Morgan, CLSA Investors Forum, Intersolar, Davos, COP21 World Climate Summit and the Global Leaders Forum. Tony has taught thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate leaders at Stanford University Continuing Studies. Tony earned a Stanford MBA and a Computer Science and Engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tony’s specialties: disruption, clean energy and transportation, entrepreneurship, business model innovation, product innovation, go-to-market strategy.

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Naeem Zafar

Advisor, Client Acquisition

Naeem is a seasoned executive who is an entrepreneur, an investor, and a mentor. He has led five high-tech businesses as the CEO and guided dozens as a Board member or an advisor. He works with CEOs as a coach and a Board advisor. His last venture, TeleSense was acquired by UPL- global provider of sustainable agriculture products and solutions, with annual revenue exceeding $6bn.

Naeem has taught entrepreneurship and innovation at several leading universities in the world. Having co-founded or worked at seven startup companies, he is steeped in the Silicon Valley culture and promotes the lessons of Silicon Valley to organizations and entrepreneurs all over the world. He is faculty at University of Calif Berkeley, Haas School of Business. He has written five books on topics related to entrepreneurship, some of which are now being used as curriculum textbooks at various universities. He co-founded Bitzer Mobile which got acquired as well one IPO, raised over $70M & 4 acquisitions. Naeem has served on the Board of Directors of several companies and as the Board Chair of OPEN Silicon Valley.

Naeem’s specialties: raising capital for startups, corporate strategy, product positioning, marketing, business development as well as M&A.

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Faisal Qureshi

Advisor, Business Strategy/Marketing

Faisal is a silicon valley Startup veteran with a unique blend of entrepreneurial and executive experience, across multiple early stage venture-backed startups (as Founder/CEO, VP in marketing, consultant, or advisor). Faisal has raised capital from tier-1 VC's (Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer, and others). An innovator and builder at heart – with some well deserved battle scars - Faisal knows first-hand what’s possible with a great idea, a small talented team, and the right focus.

Faisal’s areas of expertise: new product innovation, marketing, and distribution/go-to-market.

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