Mary McKenna is an exited serial tech entrepreneur and angel investor based in Donegal in Ireland.  She co-founded and subsequently sold successful Irish online learning business Learning Pool.  Since selling her company, Mary has worked extensively with early stage and scaling ventures and has personally invested in 35 or so early stage tech startups to date and in September 2023 she co-founded Ireland’s first and only women-led angel syndicate, AwakenAngels. Mary was recently appointed as one of 2025’s 15 Royal Society EIRs after a competitive process.

Mary is a distinguished visiting Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Oxford and she was both the European Female Business Angel of the Year and the UK Business Angels Association UK Angel of the Year in 2023/24.  Mary is an Innovation Expert for the European Union on their flagship €9bn EIC Accelerator and she has recently joined the Investment Committee of Lithuanian VC Fund CoInvest.  She is a visible role model, commentator and speaker and she was proud to feature on Computer Weekly’s 2024 List as one of the top 10 women in IT in the UK.

Mary was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty the Queen in the 2014 New Year’s Honours for services to digital technology, innovation and learning. 

Robert is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Information Venture Partners. Robert has spent his career in numerous progressive roles in capital markets and the past 25 years leading investments in enterprise software and FinTech. Robert has broad industry experience, including roles in equity research, institutional sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. Robert is a frequent speaker and panelist on topics related to innovation and entrepreneurship. Robert has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute and a Certified Investment Manager.

Haley is a pre-seed investor at Hustle Fund, investing in great founders that look like anyone and come from anywhere across b2b SaaS, digital consumer health, fintech, and web3. Haley broke into VC as an after scaling Animalz, a b2b SaaS content marketing agency, in a COO role and angel investing in 50 companies. Haley serves as the co-lead for the BLCK VC DMV chapter and is an active member of the All Raise and VC in DC community. She is a proud alum of the University of Virginia.

Baheejah Crumbley is a Senior Investor at Collab Capital, where she backs early-stage startups advancing economic mobility, healthcare access, and community infrastructure. She brings expertise at the intersection of finance and technology, having previously been an Investor at Vestigo Ventures and a Corporate/Revenue Finance Regional Lead at Twitter. Her career commenced in Commercial / Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan within their Financial Institutions Group. A magna cum laude graduate of Spelman College with a B.A. in Economics, Baheejah is also deeply involved in fostering a diverse community in venture capital and entrepreneurship. She is the Founding Co-Lead of BLCK VC’s Boston Chapter and Co -Lead of the BLCK VC Atlanta Chapter. Additionally, she mentors and advises startups through organizations like Techstars, Microsoft for Startups, Google for Startups and The Wharton School.

Tony Cusato, Manager, IBM Global Cyber Security Risk Management, Cyber Security Support; PS27 Ventures Director of IT, Technology and Security Advisor, has nearly 41 years of experience as a Technologist working with IBM’s Fortune 500 enterprise clients in the Information Technology field, specializing in Cloud and IT Datacenters, and Cybersecurity. Tony has worked with the PS27 Venture companies by bringing this experience to accelerate decisions in IT Strategy and Security, as these companies grow in size and IT needs.

Tony is passionate about the development of people in their Leadership and Technology roles. He is a social eminence, personal and career coach for IBMers and IBM Executives, and loves to also bring that experience to the PS27 entrepreneurs and their companies. Tony is a frequent speaker and presenter at universities, IBM Flagship events, as well as nonprofit STEM organizations such as the “FIRST Tech Challenge”, “P-TECH” and other global IT events.

Nikhil Goel is an investor at Norwest, where he backs early-stage companies with a focus on AI, infra, and applications. He is especially interested in the applications layer of AI and the platforms that enable its adoption across industries, particularly within the CFO stack.

Sharjeel is Chairman and President of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York, one of the largest angel networks in the U.S. The group has invested in more than 150 companies spanning financial services, healthcare, and business services. He works with founders and investors to evaluate and scale early-stage ventures, connecting capital to purpose and technology to profitability.

Current investor at Techstars. Previously invested at Ardent Venture Partners, Revolution, and Dalus Capital.

Rachel ten Brink is General Partner and co-founder of Red Bike Capital, an early stage Venture Capital fund based in New York that invests AI, SAAS, Fintech and Health & Wellness.

She is the co-founder of Scentibrd, a Y-Combinator backed ecommerce subscription that raised $29 million in venture funding. Rachel was CMO/CRO leading Growth and Revenue, scaling the company to $200+ million in revenue and signing over 74 enterprise partnerships. Rachel has been a board member and senior advisor for various companies and serves on the Board of Directors of Dyper. Before this, she spent 15 years as an operator building billion-brands at Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder, L’Oreal, and Procter & Gamble.

Alex is the co-founder of Seguin Ventures, new VC firm focused on investing in AI-native accounting and enterprise startups. He’s also known as TheAccounting.VC, where you can find details on his investments and views on the future of accounting and CFO technology.