Global Annual Summit

Chris Cardona is a Maltese politician and lawyer. He has been a Deputy for the Maltese Parliament for just over twenty years and was elected as Deputy Leader for Party Affairs for the Labour Party as from June 2016. In 2013, he became Malta's Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small Business. Minister Cardona graduated as Notary Public and Doctor of Laws from the University of Malta. He furthered his studies in International Maritime Law at the United Nations International Maritime Organisation where he obtained a first Class master's degree in Shipping Law.

Gaurav Dalmia is the Chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a holding company for business and financial assets. It invests in private equity, real estate, public markets, structured debt and fixed income. He is an early investor in and a Board member of True North (formerly India Value Fund), a leading Indian private equity fund, which manages approximately $3.5billion. He is also the founder and Chairman of Landmark Holdings, a real estate investment firm, which has invested in more than 40 housing projects. He co founded GTI, a long term investment vehicle for India focused investments. He is a Board member of Brookings India. He was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000. Gaurav Dalmia received an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from Columbia Business School.

Founder at Metamorphoses GmbH, Germany Owner at BBraun Melsungen AG

Dr. Ingmar Hoerr founded CureVac in 2000 together with Florian von der Mülbe and other colleagues in Tübingen. His entrepreneurship was motivated by a surprising discovery during his doctoral research. Experiments conducted for this research showed that the mRNA molecule class can be injected into tissue directly and is capable of expressing genes into proteins effectively as well as generating a strong specific immune response, contrary to what had previously been believed. From this key discovery, the founders built up a company that was the first ever to treat a human subject with an mRNA drug and that is now a leading German “unicorn” in the research and development of mRNA-based drugs. Ingmar Hoerr received his PhD from the University of Tübingen and his MBA from Danube University, Krems, Austria. He currently advises the European Commission as member of the High Level Group of Innovators in developing a European Innovation Council and is juror of the founder prize Weconomy.

Fakhri Ahmadov is Managing Director of Ahmadoff & Company and Founder of Private Wealth Institute. In his role, he advises wealthy individuals and families on wealth visioning, capital transformation, multi-generational wealth structuring and philanthropy. He is a contributor for the Agenda of World Economic Forum. Mr. Ahmadov is a Certified International Wealth Manager (CIWM) and full member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEP).

Dr. Kailash Katkar is the MD and CEO of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, India’s leading IT Security Solutions Company. He is responsible for the overall leadership, strategy and management of the company. Under his leadership, Quick Heal Technologies became the first Indian software product company to hit the capital markets in 2016. Kailash was born on 1st November 1966 to a Maharashtrian family at Rahimatpur, a small village near Satara in Maharashtra. He grew up in Pune and from a very young age, chose to break the norms of attending rigorous classroom sessions and decided to divert his inquisitiveness and hard work to create his own business. This little spur of thought guided by sheer grit and gumption drove him to set up his own business – from a small one-room, boot-strapped electrical device repair station to an IT Security Solutions empire spread worldwide. As a true visionary, his strategic business approach has continuously produced significant business values for Quick Heal Technologies in the form of financial performance, customer satisfaction & retention, market share, and productivity. His strong commitment to operational excellence, innovative approach to business problems, and aptitude for partnering cross-functionally has made Quick Heal the most preferred consumer security solution brand. In 2015, the company successfully forayed into enterprise security with the launch of the brand ‘Seqrite’. His brainchild Quick Heal Foundation functions in the areas of community welfare, education and creating awareness around cybersecurity. The foundation has provided training and guidance on cybersecurity to more than 10 lakh students. In 2017, Chitkara University felicitated Kailash with the Honorary Doctorate for his outstanding contribution to Business, Education and Humanity.

Through numerous initiatives and collaborations with various organisations, Birla endeavours to reach out to various factions of society in order to empower them to lead fulfilling and enriched lives. Through Mpower, Birla hopes to spread awareness about mental health, alleviate stigma, and provide quality care to individuals from all walks of life and from all sections of the community. She is a strong advocate in the field of education. Her endless love for children is reflected in her dedication to her role as the Chairperson of The Aditya Birla World Academy, which is a pioneering educational institute. It has been ranked the third best international school in Mumbai and the sixth best international school in the country.

Born in Surabaya in 1965, Hary Tanoesoedibjo is the founder, controlling shareholder and chairman of MNC Group, which focuses on the following business activities: financial investments, media, financial services and property development. Hary obtained his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1988 and an MBA from Ottawa University in 1989 and regularly served as a speaker at various national and international media events, as well as lecturer in the form of general lecture in more than 180 universities covering entrepreneurship and economy. He's active in sports where he served as the general treasurer of KONI in 2003—2006 and is now the chairman of the Indonesian Futsal Federation and the Tarung Derajat.

Galina Antova is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Claroty. Claroty is the leader in cybersecurity for industrial control networks. In June 2018 the company announced $60 million in Series B funding from a prominent syndicate of investors, including industrial operators and ICS vendors, bringing the company’s total investment to date to $93 million. The round was led by Temasek and included Rockwell Automation, Aster Capital (Sponsored by Schneider Electric), Next47 (Siemens-backed global venture firm), Envision Ventures, and Tekfen Ventures. Original Claroty investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Team8, Innovation Endeavors, and ICV all participated in the round. Prior to co-founding the company, Galina was the Global Head of Industrial Security Services at Siemens, leading the cybersecurity practice and cybersecurity operations center, which provided managed security services for critical infrastructure customers. Previously, Antova was with IBM Canada, with roles in the Provisioning and Cloud Solutions business. She holds a BS in computer science from York University in Toronto, and an MBA from the International Institute of Management and Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Omer Keilaf has spent 19 years driving cutting edge technologies from inception to commercialization. As the co-founder and CEO of Innoviz Technologies, a leading provider of LiDAR sensing solutions, Mr. Keilaf is helping enable the mass commercialization of autonomous vehicles by providing high-performance LiDAR at mass market prices. He has overseen the company’s tremendous success as it overtook older, more established LiDAR developers to earn a design win with BMW, marking the industry’s first major design win for series production of autonomous vehicles. The company has also secured partnerships with Tier 1 solution providers including Aptiv, Magna International, Samsung HARMAN and HiRain Technologies. Mr. Keilaf spearheaded the company’s rapid growth as it raised $82 million and expanded to over 170 employees in a little over two years. For his efforts, Mr. Keilaf was named CEO of the Year by the 2018 Image Sensors Europe Awards, while Innoviz itself has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Automobility LA Top Three Startup, and CES Innovation Award winner, among other awards. Prior to co-founding Innoviz, Omer served as an officer in an elite technological unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces, before going on to a distinguished career in opto-mechanics, electrical engineering, MEMS and more. He held senior leadership roles at companies including Consumer Physics, STMicroelectronics and IDF, where he served as the System and Product Team Manager, R&D manager, and Project Manager and System Architecture Manager, respectively. He holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, all from Tel Aviv University, where he has also served as a lecturer.

Wiktor is CEO of Netguru, a company he co-founded in 2008, and a technology enthusiast, investor, and connector. Netguru builds digital products that let people do things differently – they have changed the way people do banking, listen to music, learn languages and rent bicycles. With more than 350 people on board and 400 completed projects, Netguru became one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, recognised by the Financial Times, Deloitte, and Forbes. As Netguru’s CEO, Wiktor is responsible for the company’s long-term strategy and growth. He is also an active angel investor in several technology startups and a supervisory board member of Ten Square Games, a free-to-play game studio. He acts as a keen mentor in the technology development community through organisations such as Startup Weekend, Hive61, and YPO.

Mr. Deballon is Co-founder and CEO of Weezevent.com that provides to thousands of event organizers online and innovative ticketing and cashless tools that helps them to sell tickets or manage transactions during the event. Pierre-Henri is also owner of Velotour.fr a mass event (around 50 000 attendees/year) that gives the opportunity to discover by bike and in a funny way 10 french cities, and business-angel with Aveine, Captain-Contrat, Immersit. In 2017 he joined as administrator Paris & Co, the number one incubator network in France. Paris&Co has supported more than 800 innovative companies in the past 19 years.

Vivek Garipalli is the co-founder and CEO of Clover Health, a health insurance company leveraging data to proactively improve health outcomes, filling gaps in care and reducing avoidable costs. Prior to founding Clover, Vivek founded CarePoint Health, a fully integrated healthcare system in New Jersey. Through his role at CarePoint – whose mission is to serve uninsured and underinsured patient populations – Vivek experienced the misalignment of providers and insurance companies first-hand. Prior to CarePoint, Vivek owned and operated various outpatient facilities. He began his career in finance, holding roles at Credit Suisse First Boston, J.P. Morgan Partners and Blackstone Group. Vivek is active in health tech, serving as a board member of Flatiron Health and Doctor Evidence. He earned an undergraduate degree in business administration at Emory University with a concentration in entrepreneurship.

With a strong background in Economics, tech enthusiast and selftaught entrepreneur Marciano Testa is the founder and CEO of Agibank, a Brazilian digital bank whose purpose is to make people’s life better and to promote the financial inclusion of nearly 60 million Brazilians from emerging classes who live on the margins of the traditional banking model. Working as a tech company with a banking license, Agibank was dubbed the “WhatsApp of the Banks” when it became the first bank in the world to turn a cellphone number into a checking account – meaning anyone with a smartphone could have an account. With a full product portfolio the bank also offers innovative payment solutions along with their digital account for about one million users, who are able to make payments through QR Code, P2P or P2B, directly on a smartphone, without any fees, machines, intermediaries, or delay.