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Yair Goldfinger
Yair Goldfinger is an Israeli engineer and serial entrepreneur who, at 26, co-founded ICQ, the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, sold to AOL in 1998. He went on to co-found the online advertising company Dotomi (acquired by ValueClick) and is now Co-Founder and CEO of AppCard, a New York based loyalty and personalization platform that gives independent grocers the marketing firepower once reserved for national chains. A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a notoriously press-shy angel investor, he builds companies around a single idea: relevance beats noise.
Christina Lopes
Christina Lopes is the CEO and co-founder of The One Health Company, the maker of FidoCure, the first human-grade precision cancer treatment platform for dogs. A former managing director at the $30B private equity firm Cerberus Capital, she left high finance to build a company that sequences canine tumors, matches them with targeted therapies, and feeds the resulting clinico-genomic data back into the fight against human cancer. Born in Brazil and raised across the US and Ireland, she has been named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and an Inc. Top 100 Female Founder.
Yao Zhang
Yao Zhang is the founder and CEO of RoboTerra, a robotics-education company that teaches kids around the world to code and build robots. A Columbia-trained education economist who walked away from a finished PhD's worth of dissertation work to build hardware, she was named a 2016 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and one of RoboHub's Top 25 Women in Robotics. RoboTerra has reached 1,000+ institutions across more than 40 countries, splitting its life between Silicon Valley and China.