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13 C AT H AY I N N O V AT I O N ALEX LAZAROW Alex is a Director with Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Previously, Alex was a Principal with Omidyar Network, focusing on fintech investments across US, Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. This includes investments in a number of innovative companies including GuiaBolso, Offgrid:Electric, Juntos, Cignifi, Lenddo, MicroEnsure, Pagatech, RUMA, and Zoona. Prior to joining Omidyar Network, he was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co's Brussels and Washington D.C. offices. Alex is a Kauffman Fellow, earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. C I S C O I N V E S T M E N T S K ARIM ANCHASSI Karim Anchassi joined Cisco Investments in 2017 and focuses on Big Data related investments and acquisitions. Before coming to Cisco, Karim was at Jefferies Technology Investment Banking Division in New York. At Jefferies, he has helped complete M&A, equity, and debt related transactions across various verticals. Karim graduated magna cum laude from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University where he received a BS in finance. He is fluent in English and Arabic and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma honors society. C O TA C A P I TA L SHUBHRA JAIN Dr. Shubhra Jain joined Cota in 2018 as a Senior Associate where she is responsible for sourcing, executing and analyzing healthcare investments. Prior to Cota, Shubhra was Associate Director of Commercial Strategy and Corporate Development at Natera where she focused on Biopharma Partnerships, the diligence of potential acquisitions, market research and competitive positioning. Prior to Natera, she led Product management for Acute care suite of products at Pieces Technologies where she led product development and launch of SaaS risk surveillance and prediction solutions for clinical outcomes and published peer-reviewed research on the subject. Prior to Pieces, Dr. Jain served as a consultant and an advisor to several health tech startups and Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Jain is a Primary Care Physician from India, has her Masters in Engineering from Stanford with a major in Biodesign and her MBA from the Wharton School of Business. C R E A N D U M CARL FRITJOFSSON Carl leads Creandum's San Francisco office. Carl started his career in management consulting and went on to co-found the digital ad network AdProfit, bootstrapping the business into one of the leading digital channels for B2B advertising in the Nordics. Following this, he joined Creandum's investment team but soon left to co-found Wrapp, which became a portfolio company of Creandum, Greylock and Atomico. As COO of Wrapp, Carl scaled the company across 18 markets and raising an aggregate of $27M in VC funding. Carl rejoined Creandum in 2016. He is particularly interested in SaaS and consumer products related to the future of work and food tech, anything gaming-related, as well as products leveraging data transparency and collaboration.