Imperial College London

Andrea Bonaceto is a venture investor, entrepreneur, and contemporary artist who serves as Co-Founder and CEO at Orbit and Founding Partner at Eterna Capital, a venture capital firm focused on blockchain infrastructure. He founded AB Studio, a creative studio exploring art practice across physical and digital media with emphasis on artificial intelligence, and his work has been exhibited at leading international museums and auctioned at Christie's and Phillips. Bonaceto invests in early-stage technology and blockchain projects and lectures on blockchain and fintech at Imperial College London.

Associate associated with the Biofund strategy.

Brittany Barreto is a geneticist and entrepreneur who founded and exited FemHealth Insights, a women's health data and consulting firm. She has over 10 years of experience in science, entrepreneurship, venture capital, and consulting, and has hosted the FemTech Focus podcast. She currently works as a fractional operator and consultant, supporting companies with market research, fundraising, business development, and thought leadership initiatives.

Investment management professional with roles at State Street, ABN AMRO, Fortis, ING Investment Management, and Standard Chartered Ventures. Based in Singapore, she is a fellow and guest lecturer on emerging technologies and digital transformation.

Cornelia Gomez is Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainability at General Atlantic, where she leads the integration of environmental, social, and governance principles across the firm's global investment portfolio. With over four years in this leadership position, she collaborates with senior management to develop and implement ESG roadmaps aligned with investment strategies and sustainability objectives. Her work focuses on embedding sustainable practices throughout the investment lifecycle across General Atlantic's corporate operations, investment processes, and portfolio companies.

Edwin Appiah, a Black GP in a rare sibling-led UK team, scaled an Afro‑Caribbean angel syndicate into institutional VC and built a data-driven model scoring founders on coachability and pivoting.

Francesco Montomoli is a professor of computational aerodynamics at Imperial College London and a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow, holding a PhD in energy engineering and a Master's in mechanical engineering from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, plus study in management of technology and innovation at Cambridge. A recognized specialist in uncertainty quantification, he has worked with organizations such as Rolls-Royce, NASA, Airbus and Criepi.

Hemmel Amrania holds a Ph.D. and has previously led businesses in therapeutics and diagnostics. He conducted doctoral research at Imperial College London and has led the research and clinical trial development for Digistain.

Jay Bullen studied chemistry at UCL (MSci) before completing a PhD at Imperial College focused on water quality and the detection and removal of contaminants, including a research placement in Mexico where he created a low-cost, open-source Arduino method for electrochemical arsenic detection that the NGO Caminos de Agua now uses. He was also seconded to the civil service during his doctorate, leading a project on real-time water quality monitoring that grew out of early interest in wastewater surveillance.

Holds a PhD on Uncertainty in Climate and Energy Systems from UCL, with experience across government science policy, climate finance and R&D investment strategy. At Zinc he specialises in deeptech and environment, investing in early-stage mission-driven companies.

Senior DEI Advisor who is Head of Inclusion for London's Old Vic Theatre and a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, with extensive academic and policy experience in diversity and inclusion.

Co-founder of Eterna Capital (2018). Previously in BlackRock's Financial Institutions Group covering global and UK insurers. Holds a Master's in Finance from Imperial College London and is a CFA Charterholder.

Co-founded and has led Envestors since 2004. Expert-in-Residence at Imperial College London, former board member of the UK Crowdfunding Association and the UK Business Angel Association, and previously built Woolleys Healthfoods.

Sarim Siddiqui is a co-founder of Pelago Health and holds an MD degree.

Shanil Panara is a cofounder and computational lead at Nanograb, with doctoral study in physics at Imperial College London. His expertise spans computational methods and physics applications.

One of the firm's first investment-team fellows in a program for individuals with promising futures in academia, entrepreneurship, and investment.

Tugce Bulut is co-founder of Eloquent AI. She previously founded Streetbees, an AI company that grew to approximately 200 employees and raised $80M in venture funding with enterprise clients. Her background includes strategy consulting focused on technology companies and an economics degree from Cambridge.

Vreni Schoenenberger is a healthcare executive with over 15 years of experience in external affairs and partnership development across pharmaceutical, biotech, and venture capital sectors. She has held roles involving market strategy, commercial launches, and stakeholder engagement at major pharma companies and smaller biotech firms, with particular expertise in neurology, rare disease, gene therapy, and oncology. Schoenenberger holds a Ph.D. from Yale and is a Fulbright Scholar; she currently serves as an advisor and board director.