Angela Lee teaches venture capital, leadership, and strategy courses at Columbia Business School. She brings 20 years of innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship experience to the classroom. She started her career in product management and then moved into strategy consulting at McKinsey. Angela is passionate about entrepreneurship and has started several companies in the education sector. She is a startup investor and the founder of 37 Angels.

With over 30 years of experience, Sabaa Quao is a creative leader, entrepreneur, and business strategist. As a digital and social veteran, he has built and grown several platforms and companies across the content, tech and culture space—including Newsrooms, Filminute, and Wealthie Works Daily. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Sabaa holds degrees in Marketing from Concordia University and Communication and Design from Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), and has an Executive MBA

Dr. Hadley’s expertise is in translating big data into precision medicine and digital health. He earned his PhD in genomics and computational biology while at medical school at PENN, and he trained in clinical pathology while at residency at Stanford. His research generates, annotates, and ultimately reasons over large multi-modal data stores to develop clinical intelligence, identify novel biomarkers and potential therapeutics for disease.

Matt Fullbrook, dba Fullbrook Board Effectiveness Inc. (FBE), is a corporate governance speaker, author, educator, and advisor. One of the most recognizable and respected Governance voices in North America, Matt has 22 years of experience working in over 300 boardrooms with senior executives to improve governance effectiveness. Through FBE’s global footprint, has worked with every imaginable type of organization, from tiny community charities to multinational listed companies.

Mrs. Sandra A. C. Glasgow has a few passions – high among them: startups, scaleups, angel investing, business incubation and corporate governance. She is the Managing Director of her consulting company, BizTactics Limited, a Co-Founder of Jamaica’s first Angel Investor Network, FirstAngelsJA, and a Co-Founder and Managing Director of RevUP Caribbean, a virtual business incubator. In 2023, she was appointed Honorary Consul for the Republic of Suriname in Jamaica.

Kurtis Rudd envisions a Caribbean business ecosystem where strategic marketing leadership, fully integrated with digital technologies and AI-driven marketing strategies, is not merely an option but a fundamental component of all business strategies. His mission is to guide businesses through these transformative times, demonstrating how effective integration of technology with traditional marketing principles can achieve unprecedented levels of market engagement and business growth.

Olga Cruz is an investor at Good & Well, an impact investing family office based in Toronto. She invests in early-stage Canadian businesses and leads the impact measurement and management practice across the portfolio. She has also worked with Grand Challenges Canada, investing in healthcare innovations mainly in Africa, and with Swiss fund LGT Venture Philanthropy, preparing a start-up in the Colombian Amazon to be investment-ready.

Ali Jamal is a Venture Investor, Product Leader, Growth Expert, Data Scientist, and Corporate Strategist. He is the Founder of First Check Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups across the globe. First Check Ventures has supported and invested in more than 130 startups from more than 30 countries. Before starting First Check Ventures, he was the Director of Growth and Performance Marketing at PayClip, Mexico's First FinTech Unicorn.