Rana Gujral

Board Member, International Advisory Board - TNW (Financial Times)

2023 - Current

TNW (The Next Web) is a Financial Times company and a leading European Tech Festival focused on new technology and start-up companies. The Advisory board influences the conference agenda by curating a program that addresses the most pressing issues and exciting developments in technology.

Board of Advisors

2024

Focused on shaping a world where everyone has the opportunity to harness the transformative power of AI for the betterment of society. #AIforgood #GlobalAICouncil"

Board Member

2023

Cartica Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: CITE) is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that intends to capitalize on the transformative growth opportunities occurring in the technology sector and identify and execute superior, value-creating transactions by leveraging the significant investment, transaction, and operating experience of our highly successful and respected executives and board members.

Chairman of the Compensation and Corporate Governance Committee

2023

Chief Executive Officer & President

2019

Venture-backed (incl InQTel/CIA) Cognitive AI startup developing core technologies for AGI via acoustic-based deep learning. o Hacker Noon Innovative Company of the Year: AI o Gartner Cool Vendor o Gartner Maverick Research FinTech Use-Case Leader o Six-time Gold winner at INTERSPEECH for human interactions & computational paralinguistics o Gold at the ACM Audio-Visual Emotion Challenge

Executive Board Member

2018

Investor

2013

I focus on pre-A investments with the desired focus on AI, Fintech, AND syndicate deals at scale-stage and growth-stage (sector agnostic). 2022/2023 Investments: Scale AI, Groww, Wave, Boom. 2020/2021 Investments: ArsenalBio, Bedrock, USA Rare Earth, RobinHood, Rubrik, Ripple, Hackient, Dataminr, Stripe, SurfUp, Cerebras. If you’d like to pitch me, please email a brief of your company, with current and projected traction metrics outlined to KristinVarghas@gmail.com. I’m unable to respond to DMs on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Contributor

2016

Development of thought leadership articles on tech trends and their impact on the business/start-up world.

Contributor

2016

Development of thought leadership articles on tech trends and their impact on the business/start-up world.

Board Advisor

2018 - 2021

Token is building a modern banking platform that allows banks to capitalize on the worldwide move to open banking. The Token platform supports a new flexible paradigm for authorizations (smart tokens), worldwide instant payments, secure, nearly frictionless authorization, user-controlled information sharing, and more. Token is based out of San Francisco and London. Token has been recognized with lots of first place awards in fintech competitions and have signed several banks. Token is funded by top-tier VCs in US, Europe, and OP Bank (the largest bank in Finland).

Mentor

2016 - 2019

Hack Temple is a San Francisco-based startup embassy for entrepreneurial minds. Hack Temple picks best international startups and helps them find product-market fit, acquire first customers and partners, roll out local infrastructure, and get on the radar for top investors and accelerators.

Head of Smart Home / VP

2017 - 2019

Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI) — Global Leader in Personal Peripherals and Consumer Devices. Smart Home and Harmony business unit. Strategic Leadership: Orchestrated the strategy, development, and portfolio management for flagship products, including Harmony and voice-controlled smart home peripherals. Product Innovation and Launch: Pioneered the launch of groundbreaking voice-based entertainment control products, forging strategic partnerships with leading tech giants, including Amazon, Google, and Apple. Team Leadership and Transformation: Led and inspired a diverse global team of over 250 professionals across four sites, cultivating a culture of innovation and driving transformative change within the organization.