Frontier Ventures

Najam Kidwai holds board and advisory roles at companies including Neurable, ForgeGlobal, Boxed, Alpha Square Group, Asia Innovations, and Hello Genius. He was the founding CEO of two companies that went public, and founded Real Time Content, an adaptive media platform acquired by Pitney Bowes. He previously held investment roles at Edge Venture Capital and Stanford Research International, and is a partner and co-founder of Equiam, a private-markets-focused VC fund.

Arjun Debnath has eight years of experience in data science and analytics. He previously worked as a Data Scientist at M&G, Principal AI Engineer at KawaSpace, and ML Engineer at Quantiphi. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Jadavpur University.

Céline Gauchey is a technologist and former software engineer with experience in AI, finance, and early-stage startups. At JPMorgan Chase she built internal tools for the post-trade technology division and later worked on enterprise AR/VR use cases within the new product development team. She most recently served as a Technical Fellow at Black Opal Ventures, and holds a Master's in Computer Science from Columbia University along with a dual degree in Economics and Psychology from Barnard College.

Holger Laubenthal is a finance executive currently serving as CEO of Cembra Money Bank AG. He previously held C-level roles at GE, including Head of Strategy for GE Money (Global) and later GE Capital, and led the Auto and Retail Sales Finance P&Ls at GE Money Germany, where he joined the Management Board. Earlier in his career he worked at Price Waterhouse Germany in audit and at Daimler-Benz in financial planning and commercial roles across Europe and Asia.

Tech entrepreneur and startup executive with over 10 years in leadership roles at hyper-growth ventures, including Uber Works, Rocket Internet, HelloFresh, and Uber Eats Russia; co-founded three companies.

Steven Hellman has three decades of experience across venture capital and private equity investing, global investment and private banking, international business and securities law, and telecom startups. He served as Chief Restructuring Officer of FESCO (2016-2018) and as Head of Investment Banking and later CEO of Credit Suisse, Russia & CIS in Moscow (2007-2016), following earlier roles as an oil & gas and industrials investment banker in London and Los Angeles and as an executive at wireless tower company UniSite. He began his career as a communications lawyer at Latham & Watkins and holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.