Our Team
2024 HBS VCPE Conference team:
John Dionne
HBS VCPE Conference Faculty Advisor (Professor at Harvard Business School)
Violeta Ivanovska
Co-President
Yousuf Akhlaq
Co-President
Ole Andreassen
Co-President
Chris Grimestad
Chief Technology Officer
Hunter van Adelsberg
Director of Programming
Tara Bozzini
Director of Programming
Alexander Payne
Chief Marketing Officer
Alisha Bhanji
Chief Marketing Officer
Irtaza Ali
Chief Operating Officer
Lynn Mchayleh
Panel Captain - State of PE
Thomas DeSouza
Panel Captain - Private Credit
Yoav Anaki
Panel Captain - AI
Xiling Chen
Panel Captain - First Fund
XY Chen
Panel Captain - Tech / B2B SaaS
Chris Patterson
Panel Captain - National Security
Seamus Bann
Director of Sponsorships
Tien Vo
Director of Panels
Nitya Hinduja
Panel Captain - Alternatives
Armin Aghaei
Panel Captain - Real Estate
Tian Fang
Panel Captain - First Fund
Giovanni Scarlatti
Panel Captain - Consumer
Laura Ahmetaj
Panel Captain - National Security
Grace Zhang
Panel Captain - PE Ops
Imtisal Qadir
Chief Financial Officer
Sima Shah
Director of Panels
Bo Roy
Panel Captain - Special Sits
Anna Serobyan
Panel Captain - PE Recruitment
Mark McGinley
Panel Captain - Climate
Will Chang
Panel Captain - VC Recruitment
Bonnie Yu
Panel Captain - Healthcare
Grant Hutchinson
Panel Captain - Sports Investing
Simon Cui
Chief Operating Officer
Joe Safdeye
Panel Captain - State of PE
Pedro Jimenez Alvarez
Panel Captain - Infrastructure
Secil Altintas
Panel Captain - AI
Abhiram Karuppur
Panel Captain - Climate
Martin Schimmel
Panel Captain - State of VC
Aditya Garg
Panel Captain - Insurance Capital