Who We Are

Board of Directors

Joël André Ornstein

Joël André Ornstein

Founder & Chairman, Mitorn LLC

AMS Group, The Carlyle Group, Euris Group, The First Boston Corporation, Hyperloop TT, Monument Capital Group Holdings, Mori, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Romulus Capital, Sears, Veea, M.I.T.

Douglas Baker

Principal & Founder, Baker Global Advisory

U.S. Homeland Security, Border & Transportation, US Commerce Department

Tim Gale

Founder & Chairman, AMS Group

GEC Ltd. (UK), ALSTOM S.A. MAN GmbH., American Society of Naval Engineers, Surface Navy Association, U.S. Marine Corps Association, Association of the United States Army, British American Business Association, Governor, Royal Mathematical School, Arnhem Fellowship

Brett Reed

SVP of Operations, Prosperity Behavioral Health

Cohealo, Mirah

James Row

Founder & Managing Partner, Entoro Capital, Capturiant

Enron, Five Star Capital, LLC, Houston World Affairs Council, Houston Producers Forum, International Finance Corporation, Oil and Gas Asset Clearinghouse, Producers Energy, LLC

Javier Sandoval

Managing Director, Mitorn LLC, Mitorn Latin America LLC


Senior Industry Advisory Board

Ramon Betolaza

Managing Partner, BP Energy Partners

Black Toro Capital, Credit Suisse First Boston, Matlin Paterson

Maurizio Borletti

Founding Partner, Borletti Group

Christofle, Grandi Stazioni Retail, Karstadt Real Estate, Printemps Retail, La Rinascente

Jose Miguel Knoell

Managing Partner & Head of LatAm, ACON Investments

Blackstone, GBS Finanzas

Ricardo Lacerda

Founding Partner, BR Partners

Citi Group, Goldman Sachs

Ford Nicholson

President & CEO, Kepis and Pobe

BNK Petroleum, Bankers Petroleum, EverGen Infrastructure, InterOil Corporation, MCF Energy, Nations Energy

Alex Pentland

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence  Fellow, Stanford.  Professor, MIT School of Engineering & Sloan School of Management

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ADIA Lab, AT&T, Google, Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy. Nissan, Telefonica, UN Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, World Economic Forum - Davos, Indian Institutes of Technologies Media Lab Asia

Manuel Roumain

Founder & Managing Partner, Kharis Capital

EJS Investment Management, Goldman Sachs

Jean-Louis Salas

Founding Partner, Clermont Energy Partners LLP

BNP Paribas

Allen Salmasi

CEO & Chairman, VEEA

5G Edge Acquisition, KINS Technology, Nextwave Wireless, Omninet, Qualcomm

Serge Schoen

Founder & Chairman, Ambrosia Investments and EightStone

BCG, COFCO, Itsu, LD Com 9 Cegetel, Louis Dreyfus Company, THIA Ventures, M.I.T.


Technical Advisors - Energy Board

Ruben Alberto Carbonell Cera

Founder & CEO, SORC Ingeniería Group

Promigas, ONAC (Organismo Nacional de Acreditación de Colombia)

Ralph C. Hesje

Founder & President, Hesje & Associates

Amoco Corporation, CCS Corporation, Enron Gas do Brasil, NOVA Corporation, Petrowest Energy Services Trust, Surepoint Technologies, Transportadora de Gas del Norte, Willbros MSI Canada

Asfaha Tesfai

The AES Corporation, BP - Amoco, Future Energy Resources Corporation, Sempra LNG‍ ‍

Guy Wyld

Texaco, Telgua, Alas Doradas, Universidad Francisco Marroquín


Technical Advisors - Food and Ag-Tech

Adam Behrens

Co-Founder & CEO, Mori

Hyperion Biosystems, M.I.T. Langer Lab