AiiM Partners

Maisie Ganzler is a General Partner at AiiM Partners, where she works with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy and organizational scaling. She previously helped grow Bon Appétit Management Company from a $94M regional food service company to a $1.8B national brand, overseeing areas including strategy, culinary, purchasing, marketing, communications, and sustainability. She also serves as a Senior Fellow for Supply Chain Engagement at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and is an author and speaker on values-based branding.

Ellen Chang is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and Managing Director at CapZone Impact Investments LLC, where she leads business development and deal origination in the maritime, space, and energy sectors and structures public-private partnerships involving Department of Defense commitments. She is a member of Syndicate 708, a pre-seed investment syndicate focused on deep tech, with portfolio companies including Orbital Sidekick, Sea Satellites, and Phase Four. Chang also serves as a senior advisor at BMNT.

Jessie Lam is Head of Growth at Provocative and a tech investor focused on data-driven infrastructure technologies, with 20 years of experience across investments, operations, and finance. She was previously Partner, Investment Committee member, and CFO at the venture accelerator Brinc, where she founded three early-stage funds covering Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and has cumulatively made over 70 investments across 25 countries in sectors including logistics, supply chain, prop-tech, transportation, climate tech, drones, and manufacturing. Earlier in her career she worked in equity derivatives and fixed income valuation at Credit Suisse, Citigroup, and Ernst & Young; she holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting from New York University's Stern School of Business and is a New York-licensed CPA.

Justin Manley is President of Just Innovation Inc., where he advises businesses, public sector organizations, investors, and philanthropists on technology strategy in the fields of robotics and ocean technologies. His technical focus areas include uncrewed and autonomous vehicles, sensors, and marine technology and ocean engineering, with core competencies spanning leadership, strategy, intellectual property, and business and product development.

Sameer Halai is Founder and CEO of Hub Public Benefit Corp, which develops digital public infrastructure including Wehealth® by Hub and PHapp®, a platform serving over 3,000 communities with public health information and response tools. Over more than 20 years, he has co-founded and led ventures in public health, energy finance, and social computing, and previously held roles at Jirav, SunFunder, Limeade, and Microsoft Research. He also serves as a Venture Partner at AiiM Partners and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Máire P. Walsh is Managing Partner and CEO at Belayer, where she advises companies on fundraising, U.S. market entry, and enterprise growth. Previously, as SVP of Digital Technologies at Enterprise Ireland, she supported over 80 deep tech and travel tech companies entering the U.S. market. She is also a Venture Partner at AiiM Partners, an early-growth technology fund, and invests directly in companies across AI, hardware, software, and consumer infrastructure.

President of the Culinary Institute of America with prior global leadership roles at Google and Starwood Hotels & Resorts.

Noah Bernstein serves as Director of the Quality Jobs Fund and Senior Program Officer at the New World Foundation. His work encompasses social impact investing, multi-donor and multi-sector grantmaking, community-based partnerships, fundraising, and capacity building and strategic planning.

Preetish Ramasawmy is a Principal at AiiM Partners. He holds a PhD in Material Science and an MEng (Hons) from the University of Manchester, along with an MBA from Oxford's Saïd Business School. Prior to investing, he spent over eight years in R&D and senior management roles across the aerospace, automotive, and product manufacturing sectors, working on projects including the Airbus A380 fuselage and Range Rover vehicle development.