About

Samir Adams Ghosh is a 30-year tech entrepreneur, exec, and mentor.  He has worked at 7 tech startups and advised 100’s of tech startups.  Samir has corporate management experience at Microsoft, IBM/Lotus, P&G, and has cross-functional experience in Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and Marketing to numerous industries.  Samir specializes in bringing to market products that leverage frontier technologies like AI, AR/VR, drones, mobile, PaaS, DevOps, social collab, etc.  He has an international heritage, and has lived/worked globally throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.  Mr. Ghosh holds an MBA from UCLA, an International Business Diploma from the Stockholm School of Economics, and BS in CS from WPI.

Subhash is Chairman and Managing Director of Rising Straits Capital.  He has led and closed $1B+ in equity investments for real estate projects in India as co-founder & senior MD of Red Fort Capital.  Subhash managed all functions within the Red Fort Capital platform.  In 2015, Subhash was named one of 100 most influential persons of the decade in global real estate by PERE.  He received the E&Y’s Emerging Entrepreneur Award.  He is a Board Member of the Confederation of Indian Industry, National Real Estate and Housing Association.  Subhash was previously a Partner at Krista International.  He earned an MBA from Kellogg – Northwestern University, and a BS (Computer & Electrical Engineering) from the University of Tennessee.

Amrita’s global business experience in the technology industry spans a breadth of roles, from CEO to CMO to globalization consultant. Amrita has held several permanent and interim CMO positions in companies that focus on next generation technology products and services. Amrita has packaged and taken to market virtually hundreds of solutions in areas such as Security, Big Data, Machine Learning Automation and Cloud. After having been in the global technology industry for a decade, Amrita founded Ahilia in 2007 with the goal of helping global technology companies create differentiated market identities, develop go-to-market strategies and establish effective marketing programs. Since then she helped expanded the company to focus on user experience and content based digital marketing. Amrita has built and managed global teams across the world including South & Central America, East Asia, South Asia and Europe.

Joh has over twenty years of experience leading healthcare teams in management, operations and strategy roles. Recently retired from Stanford Healthcare to focus on his successfully bootstrapped direct-to-consumer e-commerce business (Treehut.co), now in its fifth profitable year with a growing team. As an advisor and board member to multiple thriving startups, Joh also helps businesses create value at scale. Joh enjoys process improvement, customer service enhancement, leadership development and team building.

Steve Rourke is a co-founder of CFE Media LLC, a B2B publisher specializing in delivering high value, engaging content to engineers using their preferred communication channels. Steve leads operations and new product development with a focus on developing technology that best services the evolving target audience’s and customer’s content needs.

Prior to starting CFE Media, Steve was GM and Group VP of RBI’s DM2-DecisionMaker (DM2) and Hospitality Publishing brands. Steve has a background in software development, holds an MBA from Boston College and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Iowa.

Dr. Christopher Thornberg is founding partner of Beacon Economics, one of the most respected economic research organizations in California. He is also Director of the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting. Christopher is an expert in economic and revenue forecasting, regional economics, economic policy, and labor and real estate markets. He became nationally known for forecasting the subprime mortgage market crash that began in 2007, and was one of the few economists on record to predict the global economic recession that followed.

Christopher is a panel member of the National Association of Business Economists’ quarterly “Outlook,” and a contributor to monthly economics polls published by the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Thornberg holds a Ph.D in Business Economics from The Anderson School at UCLA, and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.