Sahir Ali is the founder of Modi Ventures, a venture capital firm at the forefront of investing in the convergence of biology and technology. With a focus on scientific superintelligence and the engineering of life, he has backed breakthrough companies advancing AI-driven drug discovery, diagnostics, and next-generation therapeutics. As a parallel entrepreneur, scientist, and innovator, Sahir has led transformative work across artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and precision medicine. Sahir is also the co-host of Membrane, a flagship gathering co-led with Sir Richard Branson that brings together global leaders in science, medicine, and technology.

Junaid is a Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering, where he leads the UK, and serves as a Science Partner for Pioneering Intelligence globally. He is also a practising physician in the UK’s National Health Service. Previously, he was the Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft Research, focusing on how trusted, reliable, and human-centered AI can transform the practice of medicine. In this role, he led a number of strategic partnerships with leading health and life sciences organizations and spearheaded Responsible AI initiatives in the sector. Academically, Junaid is a Clinical Associate Professor at University College London (UCL), a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Visiting Scientist at the NTU in Singapore.

Since 2001 Dr. Kucherlapati is the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and was the first Scientific Director of the Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics (HPCGG). He was a co-founder of several biotechnology companies including Cell Genesys, Abgenix, Millennium and AVEO Oncology. He served on the Board of Directors of all these companies and is now the Chair of the Board of Directors of a public traded company, Puretech Health. Raju Kucherlapati received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana and did his post-doctoral work at Yale University.

Mikael brings 40 years of executive and strategic leadership experience across the pharmaceutical, biotech, and finance sectors, including 25 years as CEO of therapeutic and diagnostic companies developing and commercializing products across multiple disease areas and global markets.

Jay Roberts, MBA, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cancer Genetics, Inc., a leader in enabling precision medicine in oncology, where he previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance. Mr. Roberts also served as Chief Financial Officer for VirMedica, Inc.; as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for InfoLogix, Inc., a publicly-traded healthcare-centric mobile software and solutions provider acquired by Stanley Healthcare with Mr. Roberts leading the transaction; and as Chairman of the Board of Directors for AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions Private Limited. He formerly held senior executive roles with MEDecision, Inc., HealthOnline, Inc., and the Center for Health Information.

Michael Rosenblatt, MD, Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering, has advanced academic and biopharmaceutical research and development throughout his career. He was previously Chief Medical Officer for Merck, after serving as Dean of Tufts Medical School. Formerly, he was Ebert Professor of Molecular Medicine and Minot Professor at Harvard. He served as President of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and as Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology. He is on the board of several life sciences companies, and on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows and research advisory committees of the Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s, and Boston Children’s Hospitals. He earned his MD from Harvard Medical School.

Bob Tepper is a co-founder and Partner of Third Rock Ventures and a distinguished physician-scientist with more than 30 years of experience building and operating leading research and development organizations in the biotech industry. Bob focuses on the formation, development, and scientific strategy of new Third Rock companies. He also assumes active leadership roles in portfolio companies.

Dr. Neil Thomas joined Ventac Partners in March 2012 and has worked in the protection and commercial exploitation of academic and industrial intellectual property in the biotechnology sector since 1997, within both legal and business environments. Neil brings extensive experience in company formation, patent drafting, patent portfolio management, business development, licensing and technology exploitation.

Dr. Verst is president, Design and Delivery Innovation, Research & Development Solutions at IQVIA. She is responsible for driving innovation and transformation throughout the trial lifecycle. Having previously served as president of both clinical operations and real world and late phase research for IQVIA, Dr. Verst brings a holistic and comprehensive view of clinical research, and champions the advanced use of real-world data, analytics and technology to advance therapies for patients. Recognized by Fierce Biotech as a top woman in biotech, and as a PharmaVoice 100 leader, she currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Association of Clinical Research Organizations and is the Chair of the DIA Board of Directors.