Manuel Mark

Manuel Mark brings over 20 years of expertise in product design, digital transformation, and strategic leadership to his role as an advisor at InGen Dynamics. Currently leading Sixth Capital, Manuel integrates social capital within the venture ecosystem, fostering strategic relationships that drive innovation and business growth.

With experience at IBM and Blue Jeans Network, Manuel has led design initiatives that transformed user experiences, optimized product-market fit, and contributed to successful exits. His ability to bridge user-centric design with strong business strategy helped scale a Silicon Valley startup to $100M in annual recurring revenue. Specializing in Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies, product-led growth, and growth design, Manuel has a proven track record of aligning product capabilities with market demands, ensuring impactful product launches and sustainable growth.

As a strategic advisor, Manuel offers insights into AI, UX, customer experience, and business development, guiding both startups and enterprises through their growth phases. Having directed UX initiatives that supported over $4BN in revenue, his expertise in influencing high-stakes decisions and driving GTM execution makes him an invaluable asset to InGen Dynamics.

Safiul Karim Gazi

Safiul is in the business of driving transformative growth through people-focused leadership, innovative technology adoption, and a razor sharp focus on customer value proposition. Currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer at Gulf Marine Pte Ltd, Safiul is part of a team that has delivered an exceptional growth story by always finding solutions for the customer in complex, volatile and uncertain situations.

At the heart of Safiul’s leadership philosophy is a deep commitment to nurturing talent and building high-performing teams. He believes that empowering people and fostering a collaborative but growth-focused culture are essential to achieving sustainable success.

Safiul’s ability to leverage technology for growth has been a defining feature throughout his career. Be it designing a predictive algorithm to deliver a supply chain with 99% reliability for the shipping industry or optimising the chassis of a fully electric commercial vehicle to deliver the best range. His tech-driven approach has led to sustainable and scalable growth across industries.

He spent ten years in the automotive industry, where he led technology, sales, marketing, and M&A teams and his next ten years in the shipping industry leading operations, supply chain, business development and innovation teams. His diverse experience across industries and functions has given him a broad perspective on how technology and people can be brought together to deliver business transformation.

Safiul has lived and worked in Bangalore, London, Prague, Hong Kong and Singapore. He loves paddling ocean canoes and dragon boats. He was crazy enough to paddle with his team in a dragon boat for 47kms around Hong Kong island. When not working or paddling he is learning how to sail, ski and not be bad at golf.

Alfredo Duran

Alfredo Duran is a dynamic and highly accomplished executive with over 30 years of experience at leading high-tech companies, including Accenture, PeopleSoft, Portal Software, and Oracle. He has a proven track record of driving exceptional growth and profitability in both startup and established environments, consistently exceeding sales and growth targets.

As a founding leadership member of PeopleSoft Latin America, Alfredo played a pivotal role in scaling the business from its inception to $500 million in revenue over nine years. He also held key leadership positions at Oracle, where he helped grow the Oracle Communications business from $100 million to $1 billion following the acquisition of Portal Software. For the last seven years of his tenure at Oracle, he led global sales and go-to-market activities for the business unit.

Alfredo’s expertise spans building world-class teams, maximizing sales productivity, and delivering consultative, solution-based selling across global markets. With deep experience in M&A, strategic leadership, and cross-functional management, he brings a visionary approach to business transformation and is adept at steering organizations toward sustainable success.

In addition to his corporate achievements, Alfredo is passionate about working with early-stage technology startups. He serves as a key strategic advisor to several leading AI startups and is actively involved in mentoring founders as part of the Venture Mentoring Team. Through these roles, he continues to invest his.

Suhas N Anand

Strategy

Suhas Anand is a principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Dubai office and a member of Heidrick Consulting. He is an accomplished executive with 18+ years of consulting experience, specializing in strategy, organization, and operating model design. Suhas brings extensive expertise in the Industrial Sector and Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Middle East. He has an impressive track record, including board reviews and development for energy sector clients and Sovereign Wealth Funds, leadership strategy definition for oil sector players in the GCC, strategy and operating model design for multiple industrial clients across Middle East, Aisa, US and Europe. Suhas has also contributed to reorganizing energy sector holding companies and assisting industrial clients with talent development and post-merger integration. With deep knowledge of energy transition, hydrogen, and the Middle East energy sector's impact on economy, strategy, and organizational structures, Suhas is poised to drive success at inGen. Previously, he served as an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, refining his expertise in the Industrial Sector and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

Jen Greyson

Jen has been named among the Top 8 Women in Crypto and 10 Most Inspiring Women in Blockchain, bringing her unique ability to simplify complex ideas and make them accessible to all.

As an author of over 80 books, Jen understands the importance of a message tailored to a certain audience. Whether heads of state, executives, sales teams, or entrepreneurs, Jen's unique blend of business acumen, innovative thinking, and storytelling expertise piques the imaginations of her listeners, leaving them driven to find custom solutions without feeling overwhelmed about new technologies. Her one-on-one consulting work positions brands and thought leaders at the forefront of their respective fields while also generating new revenue streams.

Her international work as a board member of the prestigious Kerala Blockchain Academy and a recognized voice in the crypto space drives female participation in digital currencies, AI, and blockchain. Further solidifying her global commitment to underserved communities, her AI work garnered a $200M MOU with the country of Antigua and Barbuda to leverage AI and nascent technologies to rebuild after the devastation of Hurricane Irma, initiating the Silicone Sands project still underway.

Jen co-hosts the CryptocurrenSHE podcast, writes the Crypto Purse Strings newsletter, and balances her public appearances with writing kid's books (and finishing up her sci-fi series)

Srikanth Sastry

Srikanth has been building systems at scale for over 14 years. His journey is notably supported by a decade of academic research on distributed systems, significantly contributing to his expertise and enabling him to address complex challenges, especially in the intersection of Big Data and Privacy. His leadership roles include leading cross-organizational innovation and development in building infrastructure that was instrumental in Meta's compliance with multiple privacy commitments within its data lake/warehouse. His work is strongly motivated by the desire to honor user consent of their data use on planet-scale distributed systems for Big Data and AI.

Prior to Meta, Srikanth spent time at Google building infrastructure for its Flight Search and their traffic engineering platform, and before that, he spent nearly a decade in academia. His academic work at MIT and Texas A&M University focused on open problems in fault tolerant distributed systems, which provided a solid theoretical foundation that has been a cornerstone throughout his career.

Adnan Iftekhar

Adnan brings over 25 years of experience in education, technology, and entrepreneurship, with a passion for empowering young people and transforming education systems. His innovative approach to integrating technology, including AI and digital tools, has made a lasting impact in classrooms and beyond, from founding a boarding school in Vermont to leading educational transformations in Mongolia.

Adnan Iftekhar has taught dance, biology, math, computer science, design, social innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, yoga and acrobatics to students ranging from 2-82 years old.

With 25 years of experience in school systems, he has devoted his time to both work and play. He has been a featured speaker at various events in the US and abroad, including a keynote address on emerging economies and an entrepreneurial mindset for Alibaba in Xiamen, China. He also developed a program called "Teaching with Purpose: The Intentional Use of Technology" for educators in Pakistan, resulting in a group of tech-savvy and pedagogically motivated instructors proficient in Google for Education tools. He delivered a keynote address to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) on why “The World Needs More Coaches”. He also worked with the Michigan State Police on facilitating a training titled “Communication with Empathy”.

In 2023, he worked with the Mongolian government on an educational transformational program to bring about 1:1 chromebooks for K12 students, admin and teachers for the entire country. He trained the first 600 of 35,000 educators in the country. His work in Mongolia and beyond was featured prominently globally. He is currently serving as an advisor to two GenAI EdTech Startups and continuing his work as an international speaker and consultant.

Adnan’s expertise extends to roles at Google, where he served as a Program Manager and Learning Platform Strategist, as well as his work with international organizations and governments to drive educational innovation. His workshops on the ethical use of AI and fostering productivity have inspired educators, leaders, and institutions around the world.

Mark Wesson

Mark Wesson brings over 25 years of expertise in healthcare innovation, strategic planning, and venture building to InGen Dynamics as a valued advisor. With a distinguished career spanning major healthcare institutions such as Kaiser Permanente and Stanford Health Care, Mark has led transformative initiatives across health services, clinical technology adoption, and healthcare delivery systems.

Mark is a seasoned Venture Partner at VitaX Ventures and serves as CEO of SCI Americas, where he specializes in accelerating health tech innovation from concept to commercialization. His deep experience in health economics, strategic operations, and product development allows him to provide critical insights to early-stage companies, helping them grow and scale effectively. In addition, Mark has been a trusted advisor for multiple startups through his work with prestigious accelerators such as the Founder Institute and Alchemist Accelerator.

A passionate advocate for leveraging AI, Big Data, and Machine Learning in healthcare, Mark has contributed his expertise to numerous boards and advisory roles, guiding companies toward impactful solutions that improve the human condition. His strategic leadership and dedication to healthcare innovation align perfectly with InGen Dynamics’ mission to revolutionize AI and robotics across sectors.