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Israel Pons

Israel Pons

Israel Pons is the CEO and Partner of Angels Nest LATAM, Angels Nest is an Angel Investment Network operating in Mexico and LATAM. It has been named “One of the most active Angel networks in Latin America” by XCALA.

Trevor Chung

Trevor Chung

Trevor Chung is a Product Leader with the majority of his 18-year career spent in FinTech (both FTSE100 and Series A startups) with notable detours into Social Media. He has worked at some of the best technology companies in the world such as Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Instagram, GoDaddy, and is currently the Head of Digital and Design at NCB Jamaica Limited.
Maryam Najafi

Maryam Najafi

Maryam Najafi is the head of the Global Mentorship Department at the WBAF Business School of the World Business Angels Investment Forum.

Harry ‘Tomi Davies (TD)

Harry ‘Tomi Davies (TD)

Harry ‘Tomi Davies (TD) is Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Greentec Capital Partners, Frankfurt, Germany, a venture building firm specializing in Africa.

Dwayne Samuels

Dwayne Samuels

Dwayne Samuels is a venture-backed founder focused on creating AI-powered, action-based in-product survey platforms. Skilled in user research, product development, and growth, Dwayne loves building innovative products that solve real problems. At Samelogic, he’s focused on agility, adaptability, and a customer-first mentality. They use advanced AI algorithms to shift how businesses understand and respond to user behavior – pure impact, zero frills.

Valerie Fox

Valerie Fox

Valerie Fox is best known for the co-founding and execution of The DMZ, launched in 2010, which by 2015 was named the number one University

Tanya Allgrove

Tanya Allgrove

Tanya has spent the last 28 years in the financial services field with the last 19 years in various senior and leadership roles within the Banking industry.

She started her journey with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she worked extensively in the areas of corporate finance, insolvency, business turnarounds, and the design, planning and implementation of strategy, subsequently transitioning into the area of venture capital and private equity where she held a senior management role for a multi-jurisdictional equity fund.Tanya entered the Banking field in 2004, where she held senior and leadership roles in the areas of corporate, commercial & retail lending, and credit risk, and led on the development and implementation of a range of business strategies and policy and process changes to drive business growth, profitability, efficiencies and improvements in service delivery.She joined NCB in 2020 to lead and transform the SME Business segment, with a mandate to conceptualize, develop, and drive implementation of a comprehensive set of strategies and solutions to effectively and seamlessly deliver value to SMEs and support their business aspirations for growth.She holds a BSc in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies, an MBA (Finance) from the City University Business School (London) and was successful in completing the CPA.

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