Deloitte Ventures

Jessica Turner is a Director at Deloitte specializing in digital and AI transformation consulting within the public sector. She advises executive teams on enterprise-scale digital transformation initiatives, focusing on aligning organizational capabilities and workforce structures with technology innovation to achieve business outcomes.

Omar Mohout is Scaleup Director of M&A & Finance at Deloitte, where he advises technology companies on mergers, acquisitions, and growth strategy. He has built and scaled startups, raised funding, and expanded businesses internationally. Mohout serves on boards and advisory committees for numerous technology and innovation organizations across Europe, and regularly mentors founders and participates as a jury member in startup accelerators and competitions.

A regulatory lawyer specializing in financial sector law and a trusted advisor to crypto companies and investors in the Web3 space.

Serial entrepreneur and investor who founded and exited Vezeeta, a leading MEA digital healthcare platform. He established a Los Angeles-area family office and later founded InVitro Capital as a venture studio; he holds an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Ayaka Matsumoto is Corporate Development Manager at TNB Aura, where she works on investor relations and fundraising with Japanese corporates and researches Japan–Southeast Asia market dynamics. She previously held strategy and venture advisory roles at Accenture Japan and Deloitte Japan (Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support), supporting Japan-based CVCs on new business strategy, startup due diligence, and cross-border collaboration, and began her career in the real estate division of a Japanese railway group. She holds a Bachelor of Law from Waseda University.

Brett Rampal is a nuclear energy and power generation specialist. He previously led nuclear energy policy advocacy and R&D work at the Clean Air Task Force, worked as a fuel engineer at NuScale supporting certification for a small modular reactor, and held roles at Westinghouse including lead core designer and engineering project manager for the Millstone, North Anna, and Surry nuclear power stations. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Florida and also provides consulting for organizations such as the American Nuclear Society.

A founding partner of Thunderbird responsible for corporate finance, deal structures, legal matters and company strategy, and led Thunderbird's 2018 go-public transition. He practiced corporate and securities law for fifteen years, specializing in corporate finance and M&A across media, natural resources and technology.

MBA candidate at Johnson Cornell Tech with operations experience at healthcare technology startups and primary care practices. Economics graduate from Cornell interested in venture capital or operating roles.

Milos Kujovic is a Senior Associate on Deloitte Advisory's M&A team in Belgrade, where he works on sell-side and buy-side transactions across Southeast Europe. His responsibilities include valuation, financial modeling, preparing deal materials, investor outreach, and coordinating due diligence. Prior to Deloitte, he worked in venture capital, advising founders and portfolio companies on growth strategy and fundraising.

Nils Howland is a Senior Associate in Deloitte Advisory's M&A team in Belgrade, working on sell-side and buy-side transactions across Southeast Europe. His responsibilities include valuation, financial modeling, preparing deal materials, investor outreach, and coordinating due diligence. Prior to Deloitte, he worked in venture capital, advising founders and portfolio companies on growth strategy and fundraising.

Raed Attia is a Senior Consultant in Strategy, Growth & Transformation at Deloitte, where he leads projects for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies across technology, life sciences, and healthcare, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, digital transformation, and organizational change management. He has experience in venture capital from his work at Taihill Venture and in startup environments through Babson College's Summer Venture Program. Attia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Lewis & Clark College and a Master of Science in Management in Entrepreneurial Leadership from Babson College, and is fluent in English, Arabic, and German.

Raymond Luk is a Toronto-based Canadian software, financial-services and startup-ecosystem founder, former venture investor, educator and conference chair. After earning a Bachelor of Music at McGill University in 1996, he founded HBE Software in 1997 and Opendesk Corporation in 2000, then served as vice-president of operations at Aptilon. His experience struggling to finance a Canadian startup led him to build Flow, a founder-focused consultancy that helped technology companies secure SR&ED tax credits, grants, loans and venture funding. BetaKit reported that Flow worked with thousands of founders and helped companies raise more than C$350 million over seventeen years. In 2010 Luk initiated the model that became Year One Labs with Ben Yoskovitz, Alistair Croll and Ian Rae. The privately funded, hands-on micro-VC and venture studio selected people before ideas, paired some founders, used hackathons and Lean Startup milestones, and invested up to US$50,000 in five companies. Three failed, Massive Damage continued, and Airbnb acquired Localmind. Luk currently describes the realized fund return as 7x, while one first-person essay says 7.5x; neither figure has independently published fund statements. The program stopped new investing after its planned year because the partners could not make its intensive model scalable or sustainable, although Luk’s professional profile carries portfolio management through 2023. He later co-founded bookkeeping-software company Scalability, which he says was sold to a private accounting firm, and founded Hockeystick, a private-market data and fundraising platform. Hockeystick raised reported equity financing, acquired LaunchSpot in 2017, built partnerships with Canadian and US innovation organizations, and in 2023 sold its data and software businesses to unidentified innovation funders; its education assets became Founder in Residence. Deloitte acquired Flow’s team in January 2024 for undisclosed terms and appointed Luk senior advisor and founder in residence. He now publishes and teaches through Founder in Residence, created the Swagger venture-capital board game, mentors Techstars and Antler founders, and founded Source Canada, a 2025–2026 summit designed to accelerate corporate and government procurement of Canadian technology, including sovereign and defence technology. His teaching emphasizes founder storytelling, financial literacy, ownership, critical consumption of startup advice, empathy in pitching, rigorous validation, contrarian founder selection and non-transactional mentorship. Techstars named him one of four inaugural Give First Award recipients in 2024. He has publicly identified Elle AyoubZadeh, founder of Zvelle, as his wife and previously served as Toronto Summer Music Foundation vice-chair. No reliable reviewed source establishes his birth date, birthplace, comprehensive personal angel portfolio, current willingness to invest, personal transaction proceeds or net worth.

Roger Jones works in the sports industry, focusing on building strategic brand relationships at local, regional, and national levels. He is co-founder and president of Amplio Global, where he leads a team working on sponsorships, investments, negotiations, and marketing strategy, and also serves as an executive consultant at Underdog Venture Team, which works across sports, health, media, and lifestyle. He serves on the advisory board at Florida Innovation Capital.