https://www.mibconference.com/speakers daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/amjad-masad monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/dd6acec0-f062-4113-bb3c-9380995ccf15/Amjad_Masad_25A9909.jpg 2026 Speakers - Amjad Masad - Founder/CEO of Replit Amjad Masad is a Jordanian American entrepreneur and engineer. He founded Replit, a cloud-based AI-powered software development platform, and one of the fastest-growing developer communities in the world. Prior to his role at Replit, Amjad worked at Facebook, where he led the JavaScript infrastructure team and contributed to popular open-source developer tools. Additionally, he played a key role as a founding engineer at Codecademy, a prominent online coding school. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/sumaiya-balbale monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1764816452386-UFEUDC5X6MNU6NVNRU35/Sumaiya.webp 2026 Speakers - Sumaiya Balbale</span> - Former COO & CMO of Sequoia Capital Sumaiya Balbale currently serves on the Board of Directors of Shake Shack (SHAK). She is an experienced, multi-functional startup to scale up operator, with a proven track record and passion for building and leading businesses. Previously, Sumaiya was COO & Operating Partner at Sequoia Capital where she led the GTM platform team for the firm. In her role, she oversaw the creation and operations of Arc, Sequoia's seed stage sourcing and company building program, led Talent, Marketing, Communications, Partnerships, Scouts, IR and more. She also has been a guest lecturer for Stanford’s dydx program since 2023. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/ahmed-abonamah monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/5778a4b7-b7e8-4062-8601-a639d28da283/AA.jpg 2026 Speakers - Ahmed Abonamah</span> - CFO of the Cleveland Cavaliers Ahmed A. Abonamah is an accomplished finance and legal expert with extensive experience spanning both the public and private sectors. He currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Rock Entertainment Group and the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, where he oversees all financial operations of the franchise and various sports and entertainment brands. Ahmed earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Dayton and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Early in his career, Ahmed served as a public finance attorney at Squire Patton Boggs, serving as bond counsel on general obligation financings, revenue bond issues, and conduit bond issues. In 2016, Ahmed joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where he spent six years in progressively senior roles, including as Deputy Director of the Office of Municipal Securities and, ultimately, as Director of the Office of Credit Ratings, leading critical regulatory initiatives in the municipal securities and credit ratings markets. In February 2022, Ahmed joined Mayor Justin Bibb's administration as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance for the City of Cleveland. He managed over 300 professionals and oversaw the city's budgets, achieving bond rating upgrades from both Moody's and Fitch, and played a key leadership role in the Administration’s most critical priorities. Outside of work, Ahmed serves on the Board of Directors of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, Archbishop Hoban High School, and the Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Ohio; and on the Audit Committee of Accountability Counsel. He resides in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood with his wife and three children. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/noorain-khan monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/cfd14491-1242-45cf-aeba-2a7b9fef2a60/NoorainKhan_Headshot_8911_edit.jpg 2026 Speakers - Noorain Khan</span> - Chief Innovation Officer, Ford Foundation & National President, Girl Scouts of the USA Noorain Khan is a dynamic leader, executive, and philanthropic strategist who brings a powerful blend of acumen and empathy to her work across civil rights, law, policy, women’s leadership, and the arts. Over her career, she has propelled initiatives that expand opportunities, shape culture, and catalyze positive change. Noorain is Chief Innovation Officer of the Ford Foundation, where she drives Ford's innovation strategy and commitment to accelerating the foundation and social sector’s impact. She returned to Ford after serving as a philanthropic strategist for private clients and as a Senior Advisor at the investment firm XN. Noorain previously spent nearly a decade at the Ford Foundation, where she built and led the first-ever discretionary program team under President Darren Walker. She also launched Ford’s work in disability rights, growing it into the largest private funder of disability rights in the world. Noorain co-founded and incubated pioneering sector-wide efforts such as the Disability & Philanthropy Forum and the Disability Inclusion Fund. Noorain also helped spearhead Ford’s historic $1 billion social bond effort during the COVID-19 crisis. and she is the subject of a Harvard Law School case study on public sector leadership. In 2023, Noorain was elected the NationalPresident of Girl Scouts of the USA, where she presides over 1.8 million members and the National Board of Directors and has led historic efforts in strategy, transformation, governance, sustainable revenue, and inclusion and belonging She earned a JD from Yale Law School as a PD Soros Fellow, an MPhil in Migration Studies from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a BA from Rice University. Noorain began her career as an attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and was previously a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House and Chief of Staff at Teach for All. She has served on the boards of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars and Pillars Fund, and she is the recipient of the George Parkin Service Award for outstanding contributions to the Rhodes Trust. Her monthly Substack, Mission Critical, about purpose-led professions reaches over 20,000 people. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, NY. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/nadeem-meghji monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/a73c140b-c82a-4ff2-916f-cf835fa74dad/Nadeem.jpg 2026 Speakers - Nadeem Meghji - Global Head of Blackstone Real Estate Nadeem Meghji is the Global Head of Blackstone Real Estate. Blackstone is the largest owner of commercial real estate globally and an industry leader in opportunistic, core plus and debt investing across North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Meghji previously served as Head of Real Estate Americas and has played a leadership role in Blackstone Real Estate's investment activity in the region. Mr. Meghji joined Blackstone in 2008. Mr. Meghji received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He received a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Meghji was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2018 and serves as a board member for the Lupus Research Alliance. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/mamoon-hamid monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/46ffa72f-4e46-48f4-9c45-d1537022fa45/KleinerPerkins_2025_Portraits_Mamoon_026.jpg 2026 Speakers - Mamoon Hamid</span> - Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Mamoon Hamid is the Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he leads the firm and backs founders building the next generation of transformative technology companies. Over the past two decades, he has been an early investor in and served on the boards of category-defining companies including Figma, Slack, Rippling, Glean, and Box. He began his career as an engineer at Xilinx, a Kleiner Perkins-backed company, before moving into venture capital in 2005 at U.S. Venture Partners, where he became a Partner. In 2011, he co-founded Social Capital, and in 2017, he joined Kleiner Perkins to lead its next generation. Mamoon grew up in Frankfurt, Germany and moved to the United States to attend Purdue University, earning a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/sade-muhammad monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1767882647440-YVBQ9910GZST2WPVGB3D/Sade+Headshot.jpg 2026 Speakers - Sadé Muhammad - Former Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Impact Officer at TIME Sadé Muhammad is the former Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Impact Officer at TIME, where she oversaw all integrated marketing and branded content for the global media company. She developed and delivered go-to-market strategies that drove revenue growth across live events, editorial franchises, and digital products. Muhammad transformed the business model from consumer subscriptions to corporate partnerships, building premium offerings including TIME100 and exclusive global events that create intimate spaces for change makers and mission-aligned brands to convene and drive meaningful impact. She leads a boutique strategic brand advisory serving elite athletes and entertainers at the intersection of culture, commerce, and community. Muhammad also advises communications firms on scaling cultural intelligence and unlocking new client partnerships in premium markets. With over a decade of experience spanning marketing, digital transformation, and organizational change, Muhammad founded the Representation & Inclusion Practice at Forbes—a revenue-generating business centered on equity as a path to marketing innovation and cultural change. Her work has been celebrated in Digiday, Adweek, and more. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/haroon-mokhtarzada monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1767887034078-8CV4LJ5LTM4LSKV2I2FF/Haroon+headshot+oct+2025.png 2026 Speakers - Haroon Mokhtarzada - Co-Founder/CEO of Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) Haroon is a Harvard Law grad turned serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Webs.com, a popular website creation platform that grew to 50 million users before being acquired by Vistaprint. After Webs, Haroon cofounded Truebill in 2015. As CEO, Haroon grew Truebill (now named Rocket Money) into a leading personal finance app that was acquired by Rocket Companies in 2021 for $1.3 billion. Haroon has a passion for technology startups, independent media, AI, and elegant problem solving. He has personally invested in over 100 technology startups and serves on the board of independent media organizations including Zeteo and Dropsite News. Haroon is a Henry Crown Fellow and was named EY’s National Entrepreneur of the Year in 2022. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/qasar-younis monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/b4514d93-a907-427c-97e2-e282e04459a8/QY.png 2026 Speakers - Qasar Younis - Founder/CEO of Applied Intuition Qasar Younis is a dynamic entrepreneur and seasoned leader in the automotive and tech industries. As the Founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, he drives innovation in the motor vehicles sector, leveraging his extensive experience from previous roles at Google and Y Combinator. With a strong technical background in engineering and product management, Qasar has successfully launched products that serve millions of users globally. Qasar holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University. His diverse background includes both corporate and startup environments, showcasing his adaptability and commitment to fostering new ideas. He is also an advocate for early-stage company funding and leadership development, making significant contributions to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/zaid-ashai monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/7ef67f19-47d6-4331-8700-29908cc95682/Headshot_Zaid_Ashai_redbrick_1.jpg 2026 Speakers - Zaid Ashai - Chairman & CEO of Nexamp Zaid Ashai is the Chairman and CEO of Nexamp, a leading clean energy company expanding access to affordable community solar and energy storage across the United States. Under his leadership, Nexamp has grown into one of the most innovative and trusted platforms in distributed clean energy, focused on making renewable power more accessible and equitable for households, businesses, and communities nationwide. Nexamp is backed by strategic investors including Mitsubishi Corporation, Manulife, and Generate Capital, and in 2025 raised $2.8 billion to accelerate its growth and expand its impact across the country. Before joining Nexamp’s executive team, Zaid was a General Partner at Point Judith Capital, overseeing investments in breakthrough energy businesses. He led investments in MyEnergy, Retroficiency, Power Assure, Powerhouse Dynamics, Sparkcharge, Saturday Robotics, Mederva, and Livedocs. He previously worked at Good Energies as a Kauffman Fellow focused on next-generation clean technologies and began his career in private equity with HarbourVest Partners and as an investment banking analyst in Credit Suisse’s Technology Group. Zaid holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was named a Zuckerman Fellow, as well as a degree in International Relations and Economics from Brown University. He serves on the board of Vote Solar, reflecting his conviction that clean energy must be both scalable and inclusive, and is also a member of the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/chris-blauvelt monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/ac23a929-9261-4f36-aca4-3218f949e3ae/CB.png 2026 Speakers - Chris Blauvelt</span> - Founder/CEO of LaunchGood Chris Blauvelt is a passionate Muslim American entrepreneur committed to building up the global Muslim community to reach its full potential. Chris is the CEO & founder of LaunchGood.com, the world’s largest faith-inspired crowdfunding platform and in 10 years LaunchGood has raised over half a billion dollars across 160 countries from 2.4+ million donors. He’s also launched GMW, a global convening body for Muslim changemakers, and PayGood, an ethical alternative to Stripe and PayPal. Chris lives in Michigan with his Lebanese-American wife and their 4 young kids. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/mona-siddiqui monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/9a0d0697-0197-4947-80a0-568446ec62df/Mona.jpeg 2026 Speakers - Mona Siddiqui</span> - Senior VP at Highmark Health Dr. Mona Siddiqui is the current Senior Vice President for Home and Community Services at Highmark Health. Her career highlights her passion for building high performing teams to solve critical business problems with velocity that result in business transformation and drive enterprise value. Her experience across the healthcare ecosystem, including health systems, payers, technology and the federal government, gives her a unique perspective in successfully leading transformation and change management in complex organizations. She has served as the SVP of Clinical Operations at Humana, as the Chief Data Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, and as the first healthcare hire for the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. Dr. Siddiqui has a medical degree from Johns Hopkins, a degree in Quantitative Methods from Harvard and in Management/Engineering from Stanford. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/karim-lakhani monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/87917768-58dc-494d-bcb2-42a00b65cf62/Karim_Lakhani_at_SXSW_2025_%28cropped%29.jpg 2026 Speakers - Karim Lakhani - HBS Professor of Business Administration Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). His innovation-related research is centered around his role as the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard and as the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory. Karim is known for his original scholarship on open source communities and innovation contests and has pioneered the use of field experiments to help solve innovation-related challenges while simultaneously generating rigorous research in partnership with organizations like NASA, Harvard Medical School, The Broad Institute, TopCoder, The Linux Foundation and various private organizations. His digital transformation research investigates the role of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping business and operating models. This research is complemented through his leadership as co-founder and chair of the The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard and as co-founder and co-chair of the Harvard Business Analytics Program, a university-wide online program transforming mid-career executives into data-savvy leaders. Karim has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in leading management, economics and natural science journals, executive-oriented articles in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Business School case studies. He is the co-editor of two books from MIT Press on open and distributed innovation models including Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities and Open Innovation (2016) and Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (2005). He is the co-author of Competing in the Age of AI (2020) a book published by the Harvard Business Review Press. His research has been featured in BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc., MarketWatch, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Science, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WBUR, WGBH, and Wired. Karim has taught extensively in Harvard Business School’s MBA, executive, doctoral and online programs. He has co-developed new courses on Digital Innovation & Transformation, Digital Strategy and Innovation, and Laboratory to Market. He co-chairs the HBS executive program on Competing with Big Data and Business Analytics, various custom executive education offerings and developed the HarvardX online course on Technology Entrepreneurship. Karim was awarded his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds an SM degree in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University in Canada. He was a recipient of the Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship and a doctoral fellowship from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Prior to coming to HBS he served as a Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Karim has also worked in sales, marketing and new product development roles at GE Healthcare and was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/joe-bradford monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1768338464793-4Y7539GTPWXYUK14WT9R/Joe+Bradford.jpg 2026 Speakers - Joe Bradford - Sheikh & Sharia Advisor Joe Bradford is an ethical finance advisor, Islamic scholar, and educator focused on helping individuals and organizations align their financial lives with Islamic values. He combines deep traditional Islamic scholarship with practical financial expertise, offering guidance on personal finance, Shariah-compliant investing, business and startup funding, and wealth management from an Islamic perspective. Joe’s professional background includes serving as Vice President and Senior Shariah Consultant at Al-Rajhi Bank, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the Middle East, and advising Islamic financial platforms and family offices. He holds two master’s degrees — in Islamic Judiciary Process and Islamic Capital Markets — and is a Certified Shariah Adviser and Auditor (CSAA) accredited by AAOIFI. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Islamic Law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia, focusing on financial injustice. Through his newsletter, courses, consultation services, and community events, Joe aims to make complex financial and Shariah compliance topics accessible and actionable, helping his audience thrive professionally and personally. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/salma-qarnain monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/c689983d-f241-4974-bca1-8081567f1f4f/Salma+Qarnain+%281%29.jpg 2026 Speakers - Salma Qarnain - Co-Founder of Black Man Films A Pakistani-American Co-Founder of Black Man Films, Salma is a rare multi-hyphenate bridging aerospace engineering, technology, entertainment, and academia. She built and launched satellites for NASA and DARPA, managed a $250M budget at AOL, ran a leading MBA admissions firm in NYC, and holds degrees from Stanford (Henry O'Fuchs Prize for Mechanical Design), MIT (Dean's Fellow), and Harvard Business School—where a case study was written about her. She is completing her PhD in Human Resources & Organizational Behavior at IE Business School. As a producer, her films have earned 150+ festival selections and 60+ awards, including being a finalist in the HBO Max short film competition, being shortlisted for the NAACP Image Awards, and winning the Audience Choice Award at ESSENCE Fest. Her short film SILENT PARTNER was a 2023 Oscar contender, and she is currently in final post-production for the feature version Susan Heyward (THE BOYS) and Jeff Perry (SCANDAL). At Synetic Theater, she produced 20 shows earning 30 Helen Hayes nominations and 9 awards—personally winning two as an actor. As an actor, she has performed across film, TV, and theater. In 2023, she starred in Broadway's LIFE OF PI (3 Tony Awards)—likely the only Harvard Business School graduate to perform on Broadway. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/reshmaan-hussam monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1767883002121-KQVHKHXUJCECOOUX54KV/Reshma.png 2026 Speakers - Reshmaan Hussam - Associate Professor of Business Administration Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). Her research explores questions at the intersection of development and behavioral economics, with research in three areas: migration, health, and finance. Her most recent work engages refugee populations including the Rohingya in Bangladesh, examining the psychosocial value of employment in contexts of mass unemployment, the role of home in migration decision making, and refugee preferences for repatriation, integration, and resettlement. In her work in health, which involves field experiments across South Asia, she considers the puzzle of the ubiquitously low adoption of low cost, high return goods, behaviors, and technologies in the developing world, exploring the role of learning and habit formation in behavior change. Her work in finance explores how to identify high-return microentrepreneurs using local community knowledge in India and how to increase credit access and returns to capital among refugee communities in Uganda. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Hussam was a postdoctoral fellow at the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She received her SB and PhD in economics from MIT. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/kashif-sheikh monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/5448b11e-adec-42e6-8ab4-248a9c58eb27/KashifShaikh.jpeg 2026 Speakers - Kashif Shaikh - Co-Founder & President of Pillars Fund Kashif Shaikh is the co-founder and president of Pillars Fund. In 2010, Kashif and a small group of Muslim philanthropists founded Pillars to strategically organize wealth within their communities and support American Muslim civic institutions and leaders building a more just, equitable society. For the next five years, Kashif volunteered his time and resources to grow and lead Pillars. In 2016, he was asked to be Pillars’ first full-time executive director and transitioned Pillars from a volunteer-run fund to a fully operational foundation. Under his leadership, Pillars has invested more than $15 million to support Muslim civic and creative leaders. Today, Pillars is a leading cultural institution in the United States that focuses on building narrative power — intentionally shifting the stories, perceptions and ideas that shape the public imagination — to drive transformational policy and social change that advance equity and justice for Muslims and all people. At the heart of Kashif’s career in philanthropy is a dedication to promoting racial equity and creating opportunities for Muslims and communities of color to tell their stories. Prior to launching Pillars, Kashif was a program officer at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, where he helped manage a portfolio that distributed more than $20 million annually and helped scale a variety of Chicago nonprofits working at the intersection of racial justice, poverty, and education. He also managed the Foundation’s corporate partnerships and helped develop corporate social responsibility strategies for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago Bulls, among others. His career began at the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, where he helped develop strategies to engage the organization’s largest corporate partners. Kashif’s expert insights and writings have been featured in The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Variety, NPR, Vice, and Vogue among others. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Peabody Awards (East Coast division), Chicago Humanities Festival, the Bloc, and Donors of Color Network. He has been named a Philanthropy Forward Fellow by the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group, a New Profit Civic Lab Entrepreneur, and an Ambassadors for Health Equity Fellow. In 2017, Crain’s Chicago Business named him to their 40 Under 40 list. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/archie-jones monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1767883296101-OY4E2IF1HP5H2I11YHV2/Archie+Jones+Headshot.png 2026 Speakers - Archie Jones - Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field Global Immersion course (Nairobi, Kenya ‘23 and Accra, Ghana ‘24) and, co-designed and teaches Scaling Minority Businesses. He is also a faculty advisor to the school’s Social Enterprise Initiative, faculty lead of the Upswell Forum, and faculty co-sponsor of the Black Investment Club. He is the recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harvard Business School and the Dr. James I. Cash Advancing Pathways Award for his commitment to educating and/or mentoring the next generation of leaders contributing to business and society. Beyond academia, Archie is an accomplished author, advisor, investor, and speaker. As the founder and CEO of NxGen COACH Network™, he leverages his leadership experiences to guide both emerging and seasoned leaders worldwide. Grounded in the Leadership Capital Framework, from his best-selling book, The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital, Archie empowers leaders to unlock their unique capabilities and value. Through workshops and speaking engagements, he helps them build confidence and pursue their dreams with purpose and clarity. Archie extends these insights through his popular podcast, Training Camp for Leaders with Archie L. Jones, Jr., on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to pursuing board service. Podcast guests have included Lynn Martin, President of the New York Stock Exchange, Chuck Gray, US CEO and Board Practice Leader of Egon Zhender, Arlan Hamilton and Brittany Davis, (MBA 2015) of Backstage Capital, Mr. Wonderful aka Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank and others. For over three decades, he has led successful private equity investments and value creation in public and private companies, including Merrill Lynch, Parthenon Capital, Kenexa, IBM and NOW Corporation. With his focus on strategy, private equity and corporate M&A transactions, Archie led investments across a variety of industries and sectors in the US, Asia and Europe. He currently serves as a Board Director for Corpay (NYSE: CPAY), an S&P 500 company, and is a senior advisor and operating partner at Six Pillars Partners. Archie is a recognized thought leader in social impact, dedicated to driving innovation and systemic change through his work with organizations like New Profit, Year Up United, Junior Achievement Africa, and the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs. As Board Chairman of Project Evident, a board member of Genesys Works and the National Association of Corporate Directors (Atlanta), Archie continues to shape initiatives that transform communities. Archie earned a B.A. in Accounting from Morehouse College and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a NACD Certified Director. In his downtime, he enjoys fishing and golfing with his three sons. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/tarim-wasim monthly 0.5 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/06673991-2936-4e2b-9445-24e862718804/Tarim.png 2026 Speakers - Tarim Wasim - Partner at Hellman & Friedman Tarim joined H&F in 2005 and focuses on the software, internet and business services sectors. He is a Director of Checkmarx, Curriculum Associates, Sprinklr and Zendesk. He was formerly a Director at AlixPartners, Baker Tilly, Genesys, Internet Brands, Renaissance Learning and Simplisafe, and was active in the firm’s investment in Artisan Partners. Prior to H&F, Tarim was employed by Bain Capital in Boston and worked as a consultant in the Boston office of Bain & Company. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/saleem-khatri monthly 0.5 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/f1a96e05-6194-4a3e-88c7-db2384baca29/Saleem+Khatri+NEW.jpeg 2026 Speakers - Saleem Khatri - CEO of Lavu Saleem S. Khatri is CEO of Lavu, the restaurant system of record behind Marty, an AI operator layer that prevents profit leaks in real time. Lavu is a global restaurant SaaS and payments platform serving thousands of restaurants worldwide with an all-in-one suite that includes mobile point of sale, online ordering, payment processing, and back-of-house software. Before joining Lavu, Mr. Khatri was Founder of Instavest, Inc., a software-based investment manager backed by Y Combinator. Prior to that, he served as an executive officer in the Office of Financial Stability at the United States Department of the Treasury, where he held leadership and investment responsibility for the $79 billion Automotive Industry Financing Program, including Ally Financial, Citigroup, General Motors, and a range of regional banks. Earlier in his career, Mr. Khatri co-founded and sold His Black Box, a men’s subscription sampling service and customer analytics platform for premium consumer brands, and worked in principal investment roles at Goldman Sachs and Oaktree Capital Management. While at the Treasury, he served as a Board Observer for CommunityOne Bank and Community First Bank & Trust on behalf of the U.S. taxpayer. He began his career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Khatri currently serves on the Board of Directors of Compliancy Group. Mr. Khatri earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA with Distinction from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/azra-kanji monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/484a543d-449f-414c-86f5-ed19cfa60eac/Azra.jpg 2026 Speakers - Azra Kanji - Founding Partner at Astira Capital Partners Azra Kanji, Founding Partner of Astira Capital Partners (“Astira”), a $675 million middle-market private equity firm primarily focused on investing in North American-based, B2B workflow solutions businesses in target areas including Governance, Risk, and Compliance (“GRC”), Government Technology, Financial Services and Marketing Services. Astira was founded in 2023 by Azra Kanji, former Partner at Abry Partners, who has over 20 years of private equity experience. Prior to founding Astira, Azra was a partner at Abry where she spent 20 years in the private equity strategy. While at Abry, Ms. Kanji led investments in companies in compliance, subscription information, logistics, marketing services, and travel and hospitality. Ms. Kanji was a partner at Abry since 2014, served as a Board Member of 20 companies during her tenure and served on the investment committee of Abry’s flagship fund. Prior to joining Abry, she was an investment banking analyst focused on telecommunications, media, and technology at Goldman Sachs. She graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Economics in 2001. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/derek-van-bever monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1769809123507-VWU73YE8N1BUTSVPDZWD/Derek+Van+Bever.png 2026 Speakers - Derek van Bever - Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise” in the second year elective curriculum), and he is the faculty lead for the Executive Education course entitled “Disruptive Innovation.” In the Spring 2025 term, he is debuting a new course entitled "The Spiritual Lives of Leaders," which grows out of a popular J-Term SIP (Short Intensive Program) of the same name. This course brings together the domains of management and spirituality, faith and leadership, and has been developed with faculty partners from four other Harvard graduate programs. The course brings together leaders from the private and public sectors to discuss with students how their faith and spiritual commitments and practices shape their agency and ambition. He is also the Director of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a research project founded by Professor Clayton Christensen that is focused on discovering, developing and disseminating predictive theory on management and innovation. Derek is a co-founder of The Advisory Board Company, a global research, consulting, and technology firm serving hospital and university executives, and he was a member of the founding executive team of The Corporate Executive Board, a global thought leadership and advisory network, which spun out of the Advisory Board Company in a highly successful 1999 Initial Public Offering. The Corporate Executive Board, acquired by Gartner Group in 2017, is now the world’s largest executive advisory network, with a membership spanning over 50 countries and including executives from 85% of the Fortune 500 and 50% of the Dow Jones Asian Titans. In his role as Chief Research Officer for the Corporate Executive Board, Derek directed teams studying best practices in strategy, innovation, talent management, finance and governance in the large-corporate sector worldwide. He oversaw the development and launch of the firm’s new practice areas following the IPO, and he led the development of the firm’s internal corporate academy. He co-authored the book Stall Points, an analysis of the growth experience of the Fortune 100 across the past half-century, which was published by Yale University Press in 2008. An article based on the book, entitled “When Growth Stalls,” appeared in the May 2008 Harvard Business Review and won the McKinsey Award for that year. His survey of the CEOs of newly-public companies, “The Perfect Storm: How the IPO Experience Threatens Good Work for Leaders of the Young Public Company,” was published as part of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s GoodWork series, edited by Howard Gardner. He and Professor Christensen co-authored a number of articles in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and Foreign Affairs with members of the Forum research staff. Derek is a 1988 graduate of HBS and a 2011 graduate of Harvard Divinity School. His divinity school thesis, “A Mission Beyond Commerce,” examines the challenges to personal and corporate mission posed by pivot points such as a change of ownership or leadership transition and suggests practices and disciplines for retaining a sense of perspective in the “high hurry” of business life. His current research interests include the circumstances that allow leading incumbent organizations to respond correctly to disruptive entrants, as well as the broken reinvestment cycle in market-creating innovation in the large corporate sector. Derek lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, and their children, Grace, Owen and Graham. He serves on the board of directors of FranklinCovey and is on the ordination path for ministry in the United Church of Christ. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/amir-memon monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1767883591483-AA6TK9UQI603BGPDWFLZ/Amir+Memon+Headshot.png 2026 Speakers - Amir Memon - Co-Founder/Managing Parter at OneWell Amir Memon is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at OneWell - a growing Outsourced-CIO firm, serving values-aligned Family Office and Institutional Clients. He brings extensive investment expertise, including his role as Investment Director at Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO), where he has helped steward the University’s $36 billion endowment and reshaped their PE/VC program. Previously, Amir spent 15 years at Advent International. During his time at Advent, he led 7 investments deploying $3B+ of equity capital and served on the boards of NielsenIQ (NYSE:NIQ), Culligan, Encora, amongst others. He began his career at McKinsey & Company. He holds a BA/BSc (magna cum laude) and an MBA/MA with Distinction from the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School. Amir is actively involved and on the Boards of several community mosques in New Jersey. When not working, Amir loves running after his 4 kids. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/kristen-mugford monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/a0bab6e6-dece-4181-b223-dbd2e6d38515/kristen+mugford.jpeg 2026 Speakers - Kristen Mugford - Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community. She previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and co-curricular programs in the MBA program. For the last decade she taught "Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring," a popular advanced finance elective that analyzes how economic stress and restructuring creates challenges and opportunities for businesses and their stakeholders. She has also taught Venture Capital and Private Equity, and the FIELD Global Immersion. Kristin received the HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award multiple times, the Charles M. Williams Award for teaching excellence, the Robert F. Greenhill Award, and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/danish-munir monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/27f70c47-97b4-4f09-8563-85cdd2f21f3c/Danish+Munir+-+Headshot.png 2026 Speakers - Danish Munir - Founding Partner of GreyMatter Danish is a Founding Partner of GreyMatter, a VC firm dedicated to advancing innovation in mental & brain health through a systems change approach.‍‍ Prior to GreyMatter, Danish founded Genoa Telepsychiatry one of the first (and prior to the pandemic, the largest) telepsychiatry companies in the country, which was acquired by Optum. At Optum he participated in the early transformation of their behavioral health network, working with numerous emerging mental health startups, that have since gone on to become defining companies in our space. GreyMatter was born out of the desire to continue this work to support bold founders pushing this space forward. Danish started his career at Microsoft. He received a Bachelor of Science and Engineering, Computer information Sciences from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Danish grew up in Karachi, and considers both Karachi and New York home. His interests include cutting edge developments in mental health and therapeutics, ultimate frisbee and live music, and he is an active angel investor. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/aamir-rehman monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1767883787578-ZZYOEKBNYX5CQE0C61A8/Aamir_A_Rehman_Portrait_02Jul24_1.jpeg 2026 Speakers - Aamir Rehman - Associate Professor of Professional Practice Aamir A. Rehman is as Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Senior Fellow at the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University. Since 2021, he has taught private equity courses to over 500 students in Columbia Business School's full-time MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education programs. Dr. Rehman is Chair of Innate Capital Partners, which has invested as a Limited Partner over 10 funds and as a direct investor in over 15 companies. He serves on the boards of directors of multiple private equity related businesses, including both asset managers and portfolio companies. He is also an advisor to Fajr Capital, a private equity group of which he was a co-founder and managing director. Dr. Rehman has also advised family businesses on their sales to private equity groups. In addition to his work in investment management, Dr. Rehman has served as a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and a Consultant to the World Bank Group’s Finance and Markets Global Practice. He is a trustee of Mercer County Community College and of the Rutgers Preparatory School. Dr. Rehman is the author of the books Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and Gulf Capital & Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players (McGraw-Hill, 2009). He is also author of numerous articles on finance and investments, capital flows, and the Gulf states. Dr. Rehman’s work has been published and featured in journals including the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey on Society, and the Wharton Leadership Digest. He has presented at events hosted by the United Nations, the World Bank, the CFA Institute, the Global Impact Investment Network, and numerous universities. His family office is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study published in May 2025. Dr. Rehman holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a doctor of education (Ed.D.) degree from Columbia University. He was born and raised in New York City and resides with his family in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/peter-gould monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/9724e428-6e7e-4616-b501-225ab9514cab/PeterGould+%28dont+put+in+booklet%29.jpeg 2026 Speakers - Peter Gould - Author, Designer, & Canva Brand Ambassador Peter Gould is a designer, educator and advocate for heart-centered design. For over two decades he has helped global teams and emerging leaders to align spirituality, creativity and entrepreneurship, including for clients Apple, Google and the UN. His popular online programs and recent bestselling book, The Heart of Design, have impacted thousands of professionals on their path to living and ‘designing for remembrance’, in an age of ‘design for distraction’. Peter is Canva’s Brand Ambassador for the MENAP Region and is a UNHCR Ambassador for Refugees. He is a recipient of the Stanford Certificate of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and his contributions to design have resulted in international acclaim and awards. His mission is to nurture a global like-hearted movement that empowers the design-led, heart-centered future. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/ali-akbar monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/528f62d8-342d-49cf-b4c2-9fecf6780682/AliAk.jpg 2026 Speakers - Ali Akbar - VP of Product & Digital at Grainger Ali Akbar is VP, Product, Portfolio, and Digital Strategy at W. W. Grainger, a leading industrial supplies distributor. As part of his responsibilities, Ali currently leads development of Generative AI solutions Grainger is building. Ali previously led Strategy and Analytics for the company. Prior to joining Grainger, Ali spent 12 years at Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Partner and Managing Director working across Industrials and Medical Technology. His early career roles were in data science and analytics. Ali earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and BA in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Ali grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. Outside of work, Ali serves on the Board of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and is based in the North Chicago suburbs. Ali and his wife, Nilofer, have two children aged 10 and 8. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/rudwan-azmeh monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/e5d9def6-d65a-4ce6-b2cb-a6299389ac4c/RA.png 2026 Speakers - Rudwan Azmeh</span> - Founder of NoorQuest Capital Rudwan Azmeh is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of NoorQuest Capital, a private investment firm pioneering sharia compliant private equity through the acquisition and growth of essential service businesses across the U.S. He also serves as President of Skyward Building Services, a rapidly expanding facility services company operating across multiple states. Previously, Rudwan was with McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500 firms and high-growth ventures on strategy and transformation. His career spans engineering, entrepreneurship, and private equity, unified by a commitment to building enduring, values-driven businesses that uplift communities and create meaningful economic opportunity. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/safeer-mohiuddin monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/5ee70d2b-11a4-42a4-9f4b-5d1f4e94f369/SM.png 2026 Speakers - Safeer Mohiuddin - Co-Founder of Neeyah and Souq Capital Safeer Mohiuddin is a technology and finance entrepreneur who has founded several debt-free investment funds. He’s the co-founder of Neeyah for co-investing in owner-occupied homes at scale and Souq Capital for working capital to fund inventory and service contracts. Safeer is also the author of muslim.finance and serves on several non-profit endowment boards. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/deena-shakir monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/a6151060-bbd6-42ea-86cc-1d841e4f5533/deena-shakir+%282%29.jpg 2026 Speakers - Deena Shakir</span> - Partner, Lux Capital Deena's investments span stages and sectors, and include women's health, digital health infrastructure, health equity, foodtech, and fintech. Above all, she seeks out extraordinary, often underdog, founders on a mission. Prior to Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), led product partnerships at Google for health, search, and AI/ML, and directed social impact investments at Google.org. Deena also served as a Presidential Management Fellow at The U.S. Department of State under Secretary Clinton, where she helped launch President Obama’s first Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Deena self-funded her undergraduate degree at Harvard (Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and MA at Georgetown through a variety of merit scholarships and side hustles, including co-founding and selling her first company while in college. She is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Board Director for the National Venture Capital Association, and a member of Kauffman Fellows, Aspen Finance Fellows, and The Council on Foreign Relations. Deena is a frequent speaker and commentator and has been featured in print and television on Bloomberg, CNBC and NBC, in print in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Techcrunch, Marie Claire, STAT, and more, and has delivered keynote addresses at major industry conferences. She was named a "Top 30 Under 40 in Healthcare" by Business Insider and "Top Senior Woman to Watch in Venture Capital" by the Wall Street Journal in 2021, "Top 50 in Digital Health" by Rock Health and 40 Under 40 by Fortune Magazine in 2022. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/nasser-chanda monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/9b7fa186-67d1-4e09-afcd-7955235783d2/p19___01918__websize.jpg 2026 Speakers - Nasser Chanda</span> - CEO of Accounting Seed Nasser Chanda is the CEO of Accounting Seed, an accounting platform built natively on Salesforce. He previously served as CEO of Paymerang, a FinTech company acquired for $475 million in 2024. Under his leadership, Paymerang grew revenue 1,500% over eight years, earned consecutive Top Workplace and Inc. 5000 awards, fostered a strong values-driven culture where employees were proud and joyful in their work, and created hundreds of jobs. Nasser is a strong advocate for the positive impact American Muslims can bring to society through entrepreneurship, hard work, and principled leadership. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/shakeeb-alam monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/59f22a37-7096-42a4-899a-b1b3c885bf56/Shakeeb+Alam+HEADSHOT+.JPG 2026 Speakers - Shakeeb Alam - Chief Investment Officer at Kedvale Holdings Shakeeb Alam is the Chief Investment Officer of Kedvale Holdings, a single-family office that is an opportunistic, long-term focused investor across both private companies and listed public equities. Shakeeb is also a Senior Advisor at East Bridge Capital Management, the investment partnership he co-founded in 2011 and led as President through the end of 2025. Under his leadership, East Bridge scaled into a multi-billion-dollar investment partnership focused on long-term compounding. Prior to founding East Bridge, Shakeeb began his hedge fund career at Highfields Capital in 2003, where he led large-scale investments in consumer and services companies as a Partner for five years. He also traded through the global financial crisis as a Portfolio Manager at SAC. Earlier in his career he worked in private equity at GTCR and investment banking at Bear Stearns. Shakeeb serves in a volunteer capacity as Chairman of the Investment Committee at the University of Illinois Foundation (UIF), which oversees a $3 billion endowment. Under his stewardship, UIF has implemented a comprehensive transformation of its investment program. Shakeeb earned his BS in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MBA from Harvard Business School. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/ira-renfrew monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1764817229998-8ZUF22E1F7BRA4P97SQC/IR.webp 2026 Speakers - Ira Renfrew</span> - Co-Founder of Familiar Machines & Magic Ira Renfrew (HBS MBA'14) is co-founder and Chief People & Product Officer at Familiar Machines & Magic. He is passionate about creating a world full of robots that make a positive impact. For the last decade, Ira has been leading product development teams at iRobot, Amazon, and Outrider to build new robotic products and develop new lines of business. Ira lives in the Boston area with his wife and two daughters; together they enjoy great coffee, the outdoors, and travel. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/yousef-abugharbieh monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1764816926257-I4VU02B5PRH3X353MHCL/YA.webp 2026 Speakers - Yousef AbuGharbieh - Founding Partner, Companion Ventures Yousef AbuGharbieh is an investor, operator, and advisor who has spent a decade working with early-stage and emerging companies. He is a founding partner of Companion Ventures, an early-stage investment partnership, and advises growth-stage companies through Boustan Advisors. He also serves as an advisor to Noorquest Capital and Crescent Private Wealth, both of which are faith-based investment managers. His investment experience includes venture capital, growth equity, and search funds. He has made personal investments in technology startups, search funds, and healthcare services businesses, and currently serves on the board of Faro Energy, a solar energy developer in Brazil. Previously, Yousef spent seven years as Chief Operating Officer of a renewable energy investment holding company and three years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Yousef holds a JD/MBA from Yale University and is a licensed attorney in North Carolina. He graduated as a Robertson Scholar from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill, where he continues to mentor current scholars. He lives in North Carolina's Triangle region with his wife and their two children. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/kareem-reda monthly 0.5 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/b155b7c1-da22-4bbd-ad9f-3cd244ddccc4/1PicHeadshot.jpg 2026 Speakers - Kareem Reda - Founder, Cumulus Therapeutics Kareem is the founder of Cumulus Therapeutics, a company dedicated to building fast follower biologics for critical disease in autoimmune and inflammation space. The company last year established a partnership with FairJourney Bio, a $1B privately held antibody discovery and development biotech in Portugal, to establish their first three assets through initial preclinical proof of concept. He is also on the board of George Church spinout 64x Bio and advises several companies on strategy, capital formation, and partnerships. He was most recently Chief Business Officer at Elevate Bio where he led and executed multiple strategic long-term partnerships for the company including collaborations with Moderna and Novo Nordisk and helped the company raise >$1B in equity financing during his tenure. Prior to joining ElevateBio, Mr. Reda was the Head of Business Development and Corporate Strategy at Evelo Biosciences. While there, he played an integral role in the company’s $85 million initial public offering (IPO) and private Series B and C fundraising rounds, helping to raise over $200 million. Mr. Reda previously worked at Celgene in business development where he executed over a dozen deals with a total value greater than $5 billion. Notably, Mr. Reda led the B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) collaboration with bluebird bio and the $1 billion, 10-year collaboration with Juno Therapeutics. He started his career at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. In his career he has played a role in the development or acquisition of 6 FDA approved therapies. Mr. Reda graduated magna cum laude with honors as a Chemical Engineer from Brown University and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/sana-mojarradi monthly 0.5 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/5ccac720-0f82-4dff-b8cb-33daee03fa73/Sana+Mojarradi.jpg 2026 Speakers - Sana Mojarradi - Founder of Titan AI Sana Mojarradi is the founder of Titan AI, a data intelligence platform for finance and real asset industries. She began her career at D. E. Shaw, a hedge fund in NYC. She then moved to IBM Watson as a product manager, where she built and scaled products in generative AI tooling and MLOps for thousands of enterprises. Sana is a recent graduate of Harvard Business School, where she was proud to be co-president of the MENA Club. She holds bachelors in Engineering Sciences and Global Affairs from Yale University. https://www.mibconference.com/speakers/injil-muhammad monthly 0.5 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e7d96d7d941c621f61081b/1767882357786-YOD2NU6OO1E79V9BHOMH/Injil+Muhammad+Jr.+Headshot.JPG 2026 Speakers - Injil Muhammad - Co-Founder/CEO at Buddle Injil Muhammad is a first-year MBA student at HBS and the co-founder and CEO of Buddle, a platform using AI to help businesses retain their junior talent. Buddle empowers young professionals to cultivate essential soft skills, bridging the gap between academic preparation and career success. Before founding Buddle, Injil honed his analytical expertise at Goldman Sachs, where he worked in the Investment Management Division trading Mortgage-Backed Securities. 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