Matthew’s career has straddled industry and academia. He is Executive Chairman of Centinus, NatureEye, MyOme, Marble Therapeutics and Natera (NTRA), which is a world leader in genetic diagnostics. He serves as a director, advisor or angel investor to multiple tech companies and nonprofits involved in biotech, machine learning, health services and nature conservation. He has been a consulting professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford and visiting faculty in Genetics at Harvard. Companies he founded have won two World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Awards, granted annually to 20 worldwide, and three Edison Awards. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and patents, from IEEE Transactions to the top reproductive and oncology journals, SCIENCE and the cover of Nature. He received the Scott Helt Memorial award from IEEE for work in signal processing and navigation. Matthew studied Electrical Engineering and Physics at Stanford, receiving the Levin and Terman awards, the top academic awards from each department, and a graduate fellowship to the School of Engineering where he completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.

Ben is a senior defense and technology executive with deep experience helping the U.S. Department of War, the Allied Defense Industrial Base, and Public Safety organizations adopt and scale mission-critical AI and advanced technologies. He has led large, complex teams at Microsoft and worked closely with defense primes, government customers, and investors on strategy, go-to-market execution, and growth.

Jonathan is co-founder and board member of Natera and an experienced entrepreneur with a record of technology innovation and operational leadership. Prior to Natera, Jonathan co-founded PocketThis, a leading-edge mobile technology provider. As a graduate student at MIT, he focused on large scale personalization, helping develop one of the first personalized news services at the MIT Media Lab. He was an early member of Firefly which was acquired by Microsoft to become Microsoft’s global identity service. Jonathan is an advisor and board member to a number of biotech and technology startups. He holds M.Eng. and B.S. degrees from MIT and patents in internet technology. Jonathan is an avid maker and built his first drone from scratch with his two kids.

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Gary is an entrepreneur, thought leader, and senior executive with expertise guiding organizations to industry-leading market positions and revenue growth. With his strong technical credentials and strengths in executive management, strategic and product planning, team leadership, finance, and operations, Gary has launched pivotal new product offerings and intrapreneurial ventures. His experience spans leadership roles with Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Hutchison Whampoa, as well as startup firms, transforming bold new product visions into sustainable revenue performance and commercially-successful market positions. Prior to joining Centinus, Gary was the CEO and co-founder of a global mobile services company, Syntonic Limited, focused on providing mCommerce services to the world’s leading content providers and mobile carriers. Gary received his PhD in High Energy Particle Physics and his Masters in Physics at the University of California, San Diego, and participated as a visiting scholar at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Jonathan is a serial founder in both B2C and B2B markets, and brings his entrepreneurial experience and customer focus to Centinus as CEO. In the consumer segment, he founded numerous restaurants, cafes, and the multi-award-winning Bandit Street Food Ltd. In the B2B segment, he co-founded X-trinsix, a specialist consultancy firm with a focus on the Ariba and SAP world market. Jonathan was the Senior Business Development Manager for Lloyd’s List Training, part of the Informa Group, a multi-billion pound publishing and business intelligence group based in London. He is also an experienced educator, having been an award-winning teacher and head of department for a number of prestigious UK schools and institutions. He began his career as a professional actor, writer, and director for the BBC, ITV, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, among others. He has worked on numerous film and theater projects as a scriptwriter and production director and brings visualization, storytelling, and organizational expertise to this project.

As a tech visionary with more than 15 years of experience building software for the betterment of the world, Hai has held various positions from a tech lead at start-ups to a Director of Research and Development at DJI. At DJI, he revolutionized flying cameras into aerial robots by inventing and creating a suite of drone SDKs. Hai was responsible for product management and company strategy for the North American market, including designing the roadmap, guiding market expansion, overseeing research and development activities, budgeting, and partnering with other companies to improve technology and design processes. Clients that he has helped integrate drone solutions include Google, Tesla, Microsoft, FedEx, Shell, and the US Government.

Rick Moore serves multiple clients in the defense sector as the Managing Member of The RGM Group, LLC. Rick served as a Lieutenant General in the US Air Force. His final assignment was the Air Force’s senior Planner/ Programmer, where he directed and coordinated all activities required to build the Air Force’s budget. He currently focuses on helping businesses do business with the government, including everything from understanding the federal budgeting process to developing compelling use cases to bridge to a Program of Record with non-dilutive government funding.

General Alexander is a retired four-star general with a 40-year military career, culminating in the role of the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Chief of the Central Security Service (CSS) from 2005-2014. He holds the distinction of serving in this role longer than any other director. He was the first Commander to establish and lead the US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), and is one of the foremost authorities on cybersecurity in the world.