Ching Hu
Kurt Shuler
Alexandre Palus
Aravind Ratnam
Lip-Bu Tan
Lip-Bu Tan is chief executive officer of Intel Corporation and serves on the company’s board of directors. He was appointed to his position in March 2025.
Tan is an accomplished executive with more than two decades of semiconductor and software experience and deep relationships across the technology ecosystem. He has received several accolades for his significant contributions to the industry, including the 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor, and was named one of Forbes’ Top 50 Venture Capitalists.
Tan previously served as chief executive officer of Cadence Design Systems Inc. and was also a member of its board of directors. During his 12 years as Cadence’s chief executive officer, he led a reinvention of the company and drove a cultural transformation centered on customer-centric innovation that enabled Cadence to more than double its revenue, expand operating margins and significantly outperform the market.
Tan is a founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures and chairman of Walden International, a leading venture capital firm. He has also served on the boards of public companies Credo Technology Group and Schneider Electric.
Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Master of Science in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.
John L. Hennessy
John L. Hennessy is the Chairman of Alphabet Inc., Board Member of Cisco Systems, the former President of Stanford University, a co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems & Atheros, and a recent Turing Award laureate for his pioneering development of RISC architecture, alongside David Patterson. Dr. Hennessy was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2012 and was appointed a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2007, among a multitude of accolades for his leadership in the field of computer science, architecture & engineering.
In 2016, he co-founded the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, which has a $750 million endowment to fully fund graduate students at Stanford for up to three years.
Charlotte Semler
Laure Bouguen
Laure has known since childhood the benefits of hemp, as her grand-parents grew it in Bretagne (France), from legal cannabis sativa variety.
In 2016 - while she was still a business school student - she created a range of unique men skincare products made with hemp seeds oil recognised by the barbers for its impressive soothing effect.
She quickly realized that the exceptional properties of the hemp seeds but also the flowers had the power to solve wellness issues beyond the gender, type of skin or age.
She surrounded herself with agronomy and pharmacy researchers to launch HO KARAN.
Peony Li
Peony runs the investment team at Founders Factory, investing and supporting 250 start-ups across 7 sectors with the backing of 7 corporates (L’Oreal, M&S, Easyjet, Aviva, Guardian, Holtzbrinck and CSC). Having observed pain points these corporates are experiencing from a bottom up view, she is passionate in identifying product-market fit and help speeding up sales cycle for start-ups with corporates and facilitating.
Prior to that, she advised start-ups in Africa, London and Hong Kong and assisted early stage start-ups to raise in total £10m and started her own company in the retail space, changing the way millennial parents consume products and knowledge.
Champion for female founders and a big believer in hardwork, hustle and perseverance.
