Pierre holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied Chinese and Japanese for Masters at INALCO, the French institute for oriental languages and cultures. He is a chevalier in the French order of the Legion d’honneur.

Business roles have included Auditor, Controller, Chief Finance Officer, and Chief Audit Executive in companies from start-ups to law firms to Fortune 50 conglomerates. These include International roles, primarily in Australia and Asia, plus domestic business experience auditing and evaluating internal controls, systems and procedures for diverse businesses. Roles as Controller, VP Finance and Chief Audit Executive coupled with an expertise in fraud prevention and detection provides a valuable insight for his capability to oversee and evaluate management’s fiduciary oversight role. Before his retirement, Peter served 13 years as the Chief Audit Executive at the Law Firm of Perkins Coie LLP.

Ms. Soni, Chief Compliance Officer, has over 25 years of experience in operations management, human resources management and project administration. She excels in setting up and managing back office and project management structures, focusing on delivering cost control and operational efficiencies. She manages investor relations, ensures good governance, and meets compliance requirements in multiple global markets. She has led negotiations to develop innovative legal structures and business models that have resulted in public-private partnerships with the government of India. She had previously held similar positions at other leading Indian and multinational corporations including Colgate-Palmolive, Wockhardt, Shaw Wallace Company and AGS Infotech. She has completed Post Graduation in Management from Mumbai University, India, Diploma in Software Programming from Aptech, Diploma in Business Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and Masters in Business Administration from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.

Adam Fiore brings a wealth of experience in leading the revenue growth/sales functions in a variety of organizations ranging from management consulting, executive search and pharma. Adam’s career has focused on bringing value to Life Sciences organizations and that continues with his key role at Zasti. Leading Zasti’s growth, Mr. Fiore evangelizes the opportunity for healthcare, pharmaceutical and agricultural businesses to do well by doing good as clients chart and execute their path toward a lowered carbon footprint.

Adam has travelled extensively, is passionate about health and wellness and seeks to help others on their personal path to wellness. Adam’s passion and enthusiasm are infectious and a key ingredient to his success with clients.

Adam has served in the US Navy in the Persian Gulf after which he attended and was awarded his degree by Rutgers University.

Amanda Synott serves as project analyst in Zasti Agritech leverages a strong background in the healthcare diagnostics arena to work on nuanced measurement and low carbon technology solutions such as biochar production, floating solar PVs and other Agrivoltaics.

Ashish enjoys helping growth stage companies & corporate divisions create and capture new value within Healthcare & Sustainability. He is an experienced Product Leader of 12+ years sitting in the middle of Business, Design, and Technology. He is focused on aligning everyone with a strong vision to create a great product, using his creativity to uncover tremendous value along the way. Ashish has helped over 20 startups & Fortune 500 with business & product strategy, product design, and product delivery. He is focused helping make companies and the world more sustainable and meaningful for people to live on.

Specialties include:

• General Management, Team Building, Leadership, Hiring
• New Business Development
• Procurement, Sales, and Marketing
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Inventory Management and Financing
• Physical and Financial Trading
• Renewable Energy

Chris Cresswell is the founder and managing partner of New Enterprise Ventures. Over the past 25+ years, he has built healthcare companies, new business models, partnerships, and joint ventures horizontally across the healthcare industry. He has supported a number of high-profile clients including Walmart Health & Wellness, Quest Diagnostics, Johnson & Johnson, and Verizon. Mr. Cresswell also has several patents in the area of EMR decision support and medication adherence.

In addition to Chris, our talent includes a global network of industry experts and professionals. Based on the specific parameters of each client engagement, we assemble a team with the appropriate mix of skills, relationships and expertise to drive success.

Sean Slovenski, is recognized as a healthcare industry innovator with a 30-year history of success. Slovenski is a proven senior executive and entrepreneur with an established track record in small, medium, and large-scale businesses. Sean now serves as the CEO of BioIQ.

Slovenski started his career by helping to build and then lead one of the nation’s first large-scale wellness efforts for Fortune 500 clientele. Envisioning the widespread usage of the Internet, Sean pioneered the development and delivery of wellness coaching online by inventing the first-of-its kind personal coaching product, MyHealthCoach.com. This effort led to being a co-founder and the CEO of the industry leading coaching company Hummingbird Coaching Services. Hummingbird was acquired by Humana, Inc. in July 2010.

Most recently Slovenski served as the SVP and president of Walmart Health and Wellness. This business serves nearly half of all Americans each year through its 4,700 pharmacies, 2,800 optical centers, and the newly launched multidisciplinary healthcare clinics known as the “Supercenters for Healthcare.”

In addition to Chris, our talent includes a global network of industry experts and professionals. Based on the specific parameters of each client engagement, we assemble a team with the appropriate mix of skills, relationships and expertise to drive success.

Mr. O’Grady is an experienced corporate lawyer with significant transactional and international experience. Mr. O’Grady was a partner at the law firm of McGuire Woods LLP, where he practiced for 27 years. Before that, he practiced law in Johannesburg, South Africa with Bowman Gilfillan, one of Africa’s largest law firms, and with Shearman & Sterling, in New York.

His corporate and business law experience includes debt and equity capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and forming and structuring business organizations, strategic alliances and joint ventures. His experience in projects and international transactions includes experience in steel mills and downstream oil and petroleum products businesses, and in representing foreign investors in the United States. Mr. O’Grady has an undergraduate degree in business and a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and an LLM from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Mr. O’Grady is admitted to practice in New York, Virginia and the District of Columbia, and in South Africa (currently with inactive status).

Velumani Pillai now serves as the Head of Data, Digital and Commercial IT at Immunomedics, Inc., a company advancing anti-body drug conjugates to treat complex cancers.

As the founder & CEO of Ulivmo, LLC., he advised, built and scaled digital businesses focused on smart, connected health services.

He has over 20 years in the healthcare and life sciences industries, and has delivered impactful solutions at the intersection of technology, innovation and healthcare in the areas of autoimmune, cardiovascular, chronic pain and metabolic diseases along the care continuum.

Feroze is currently the Director of Jefferson Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center (JIMRC), and Professor of Radiology of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is also an adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University. Over the last 25 years he has been working on Neuroimaging methods based on Magnetic Resonance imaging techniques such as functional MRI, structural MRI and Diffusion Imaging to study brain and spine functions non-invasively.