GEB Advisory Board

Tal is the undoubted Accelerators Guru, founded 10 accelerators programs in Israel and several globally. Tal is also a renowned Keynote Speaker sharing his toolbox of knowhow with entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide. Tal serves as advisory board and chairman in a variety of companies and technology startups. His experience enables him to establish and enhance entire startup ecosystems. Tal’s active involvement with startups, accelerators, innovation hub and major players in the entrepreneurial ecosystems stretches from Israel to Austria, Italy, Romania,Russia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, India and China. Tal brainstorms with municipalities, government offices and financial leaders to format the right recipe that would serve as a wakeup call and motivation boost, to get the ecosystem engine running.

Prof. Rajesh Nair is an inventor, product designer, and entrepreneur with more than 25 years experience in multiple startups in Boston area. He is Professor of Practice in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Asia School of Business, a new school started by MIT-Sloan in Kuala Lumpur where he heads the ASB-Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His research is in developing ways to catalyze innovators and entrepreneurs in communities from the ground up and to build local entrepreneurship ecosystems. He has conducted transformational workshops on Making, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India, USA, Malaysia, East Timor, and Vietnam. His work has catalyzed more than 50 student startups.

Rajesh is a teacher and practitioner of Design Thinking process. He founded three product manufacturing companies in the US. He is also the founder of a nonprofit organization, TechTop Trust that promotes innovators & entrepreneurs among Indian youth since 2006.

He holds 13 US patents. He received Master degrees in Engineering & Management (MIT), Manufacturing Engineering (UMass, Amherst) and Electronic Product Design (IISc, Bangalore). He holds Bachelor degrees in Physics and Electronics & Communications Engineering.

Richard Myhill is the Director of the London International Youth Science Forum(LIYSF) and is responsible for the planning and running of the annual international academic student conference. Since September 2008 he has ran LIYSF and manages all academic strategy, student recruitment and selection, speaker programme and all event aspects. LIYSF welcomes 500 students aged 16-21 years old from 75 countries to Imperial College London for a two week science enrichment programme and was established in 1959.

Richard has a varied background and interest in science, education, economics and society. He has a Bachelor’s degree in law and qualifications in Human Anatomy and Physiology, with a keen interest in Maths, Technology and Biology. He has judged at many national and international science competitions worldwide and has been invited to give lectures on science communication, outreach and education.

Roopam Sharma is an Indian Scientist and innovator creating social impact through disruptive technological inventions and solves perennial problems. He is the youngest person ever to be recognized as one of the top innovators under 35 by the MIT Tech Review for the year 2016 and was awarded the Gifted Citizen Prize – the Nobel Prize of Social Innovation in 2016. He recently has been bestowed upon with the National Youth Award, the highest youth honor in the country by President of India for his contribution to the field of national development and social service through research and innovation in the year 2018. He is best known for his work on Manovue, the world’s first intelligent personal assisting system for the visually impaired suffer from braille illiteracy and remain unemployed. Manovue combines vision intelligence and internet of things in the form of an inexpensive wearable to deliver a technology that would replace the 200 year old braille language and empower more than 94% of the visually impaired people. Roopam believes that people with passion can change the world.

Karolina is a Co-founder and Managing Director of International Youth to Youth Initiative which empowers and inspires youth to become active community leaders and change-makers. She is also the Impact Coordinator at SingularityU Nordic and a co-author of a collaborative book project ''A Mile in Our Shoes: stories of our global journeys''.