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 technology founder & CEO, venture capital investor, and professor. He founded Time Zero Capital to advance responsible technology innovation. Dinesh has founded numerous technology companies including Hatch Labs Inc., where he served as founder and CEO and cofounded Tinder (NASDAQ: MTCH) in 2012.

Dinesh cofounded Kleverbeast, a SaaS platform for mobile app development. Dinesh cofounded Monet, an AI platform that decodes human emotion—now widely adopted by leading global studios and research teams. He joined the founding team to start Saffronart, a global eCommerce marketplace and auction house for Indian fine art and collectibles, backed by Sequoia Capital, where Dinesh continues to serve on the board.

Dinesh has served in numerous executive leadership roles at multinational corporations, including as Managing Director at Comcast Ventures and Sr. Vice President and Group Head of Mobility at IAC/InterActive Corp. Dinesh held various leadership roles at Samsung Electronics across the US and Asia where he conceived of and commercialized cross-border deep tech innovations. He built his early career in the Global Energy Practice at AD Little, in the Investment Management Division at 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 on portfolio company boards. Dinesh is also a founding advisor for dozens of technology startups.

Dinesh is an Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and regularly guest lectures at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Dinesh serves on the Harvard Business School California Research Center Advisory Board and serves as an Affiliate Researcher in the Urban Informatics Lab in the Engineering Department at Stanford University. He supports disenfranchised youth and education through his non-profit work on the board of the United Friends of the Children, the Organization for Social Media Safety, and the USTA Foundation. Dinesh is also a board trustee at the University of California, Merced.

Dinesh earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and his Engineering PhD from 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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Rishee K. Jain is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, a Chambers Faculty Fellow and the Director of the Urban Informatics Lab at Stanford University. Professor Jain's research focuses on the development of AI-driven and socio-technical solutions to sustainability problems facing the urban built environment. He is a recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and a Building Innovator Fellowship from the Department of Energy. Professor Jain has served as an advisor to numerous startups in the AI, buildings / data centers, energy and climate space and is engaged with several entrepreneurial programs at Stanford (Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Stanford Technology Ventures Program).