Geoff is CFO of LanzaTech (NASDAQ: LNZA), a carbon capture and waste transformation company. He has over 25 years of experience building and leading companies through rapid expansions, turnarounds, and exits as an operating executive, equity and debt investor, and board director.

He led finance & corporate development for multiple venture & private equity backed businesses in analytics, biotech, financial services, and social impact industries. Geoff led the financial strategy & operations of Obama for America, the $1.2 billion 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama as its Chief Financial and Budget Officer. Geoff was a private equity & debt investor, sourcing and structuring investments across the capital structure and serving as an advisor to the management teams. He began his career as a management consultant managing acquisition integration, due diligence, strategic sourcing and operational improvement projects.

Geoff completed his BA in Public Policy and Economics at Hamilton College and received his MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago.

Shan is the CEO and Co-founder of Verre Vert, Inc., an innovative and high-sustainability solution for the wine and spirits industry. She also founded Lianju Capital, an early stage venture fund in China, and serves as advisors for enterprise software and technology companies.  

Shan started her career with EY San Francisco serving multi-billion alternative investment companies and subsequently joined Sequoia Capital leading the fund operations and finance functions.
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Shan received her MS in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dinesh Moorjani

Dinesh Moorjani is a serial tech founder & CEO, venture capital investor, and adjunct professor. He founded Hatch Labs Inc., where he served as Chairman & CEO, and cofounded cofounded Tinder (NASDAQ: MTCH) in 2012. Dinesh built numerous consumer software businesses, including Saffronart - a global eCommerce marketplace for Indian fine art and collectibles, backed by Sequoia Capital, where he continues to serve on the board.  Dinesh cofounded Kleverbeast, a no-code SaaS application development platform, Monet Analytics, an AI technology SaaS platform that decodes human emotion, and several other technology companies.
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Dinesh served in numerous executive leadership roles at multinational corporations, including as Managing Director at Comcast Ventures, Sr. Vice President and Group Head of Mobility at IAC/InterActive Corp, and in various leadership roles at Samsung Electronics in the US and Asia. He built his early career in the Global Energy Practice at AD Little, Goldman Sachs, and as an early employee at Mainspring (IPO 2000, acquired by IBM 2001). Dinesh served as an independent board director at Alight (NYSE: ALIT) and on the advisory boards of Fortune 500 companies including American Express, Assurant, and Cox Automotive. He served on the board of directors of Zoox (acquired by Amazon), a leader in autonomous vehicles. Dinesh served as an advisor to Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm, where he was previously an EIR co-investing alongside the firm and serving in a governance capacity at portfolio company boards.

Dinesh is senior lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and regularly guest lectures at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Dinesh also serves on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board. He supports disenfranchised youth and education through his non-profit work as a board director at the United Friends of the Children and the Organization for Social Media Safety. Dinesh continues to serve as a Board Trustee at the University of California, Merced. Dinesh earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and MBA from Harvard. Dinesh is a PhD Candidate in the Engineering Department at Stanford University.

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Peter C. Horan is an entrepreneur and digital media investor with a history of building successful media, commerce and advertising technology businesses.

As a CEO and independent director he has been part of eight  profitable exits in the last ten years totaling almost $1.8 billion in value and more than $4 billion in public market value-creation. He has also been actively involved in $800 million in acquisitions over that same period.

Peter received his BS in English and History from Santa Clara University and MBA from San Francisco State.

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Fahad Nabi is a recent grad from Stanford University, where he specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction.

Fahad has led engineering, product growth, and operations at several early stage seed ventures as well as at scale for millions of customers for Amazon and Microsoft AI. He is a recipient of the Accel Leadership Fellowship, a highly selective entrepreneurship and VC fellowship on Stanford's campus.

Fahad received his BS in Symbolic Systems and is currently pursuing his MS. in Computer Science from Stanford.