Serial entrepreneur and innovator with a decade’s founder and executive experience bringing technology innovation to life from earliest idea to commercial execution and scale. Having graduated from Wadham College, University of Oxford in 2013, reading Literae Humaniores, he spent the first 5 years of his career as CEO of two IP-rich deeptech university spinouts at the same time, raising VC finance and UK government grants while building scientific research teams from scratch to execute and complete complex commercial-ready technology projects in laser optics, microscopy, molecular diagnostics and 3D printing. He then joined Entrepreneurs First as an EiR and co-founded a medical diagnostics company focused on a novel immunoassay platform, running an international multidisciplinary team, raising capital and bringing a medical device from patent to regulatory approval in just 9 months (4x faster than market rate). Driven to deliver global-scale transformation through technology, taking raw ideas from purest inception to delivery to improve lives, educate, heal and fuel new discoveries.

Physics PhD from the University of Cambridge and then a Post Doctoral researcher at Oxford, before spending 5 years at Sutter Hill Ventures where he went from Associate to General Partner in 19 months. While there, he recruited some of the best talent in the world to form best in class engineering teams, supporting hundreds of millions in venture fundraising. He has a keen fascination in understanding complex systems, then building things that convert research ideas into products that benefit the world.

Jessica Pepp is a Burman Fellow in philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden. She researches and publishes widely in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, and social philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.Phil. in philosophy from University College London, and an A.B. in Government from Harvard University. She has previously held academic appointments at McGill University (Canada), the University of Oslo (Norway), and Umeå University (Sweden), and she worked for several years in the financial sector before entering academia, including at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Spencer Trask and Co., and Numeric Investors LP.

Joona has completed his M. Sc. degree from Aalto University in 2013, where he majored in Cognitive Technology and product development. Joona is currently finalizing his Ph.D. in Computer Science on proliferating innovations from fundamental research and has also been working on related projects for the past decade, with for example CERN, IBM, Nokia and Elisa. Joona joined Emmy Network in 2017.