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John R. Selby (Jack) is a technology and finance entrepreneur. His primary role is as Managing Director at Peter Thiel’s family office, Thiel Capital, based in Los Angeles. Jack also founded and manages AZ-VC, the largest venture capital fund in Arizona. As a “PayPal Mafia” member, Jack co-founded, along with Peter, Clarium Capital Management, a macro hedge fund after selling PayPal to eBay in October 2002. At PayPal, Jack joined as an original employee and later served as a Corporate Officer/Senior Vice President, overseeing the company’s international and corporate operations. As an active technology investor and advisor, Jack’s involvements include notable companies such as SpaceX, Palantir, Affirm, Blend, Paradox, Myeloid Therapeutics, Kisbee Therapeutics, Convergence Bio, and many more. Jack also founded and manages High Frequency Entertainment, an independent film production company. His credits include The Summer Book (Glenn Close), Memory (Jessica Chastain), His Three Daughters (Natasha Lyonne), Windfall (Lily Collins), Silk Road (Jason Clarke), Freeheld (Julianne Moore), Bernie (Matthew McConaughey), Act of Valor (Navy SEALs) as well documentaries Fastball (Kevin Costner), Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope (Morgan Spurlock) and many more.

Dr. Wardah Inam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Overjet, the leading AI technology provider for the dental industry. Previously, she led product development at Q Bio, a healthcare startup focused on biomedical imaging. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, working on remote biomedical sensing with machine learning. Dr. Inam holds a PhD from MIT, where she developed AI-powered microgrid technology recognized by National Geographic. She has worked at GE and Apple and received the MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Award. She has been named one of the 32 most influential people in dentistry by Incisal Edge, one of the Top 100 Female Founders by Inc. Magazine, and received the Shils Innovator Award in 2022. Dr. Inam is also a member of the Santa Fe Group’s Strategic Advisory Council.

Jon is a Partner at Khosla Ventures passionate about machine learning and its impact on enterprise infrastructure, applications, and developer tools. Prior to KV, Jon built a career in technology as a founder, early employee, and organizational leader across a variety of engineering and product roles. He began his career as an early engineer at Palantir (PLTR), helping scale it from 200 to 1800 employees and founded and sold KoalityCode to Docker, where he created and led Docker’s enterprise division. At Opendoor (OPEN), Jon held roles as both Head of Product for Growth and Head of Engineering for Core Machine Learning helping scale the company to IPO. Most recently, Jon spent time at Facebook leading international engineering organizations in both VR & ML. Jon holds a B.S. in Computer Science with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.

Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital – an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups. Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world’s most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

For nearly two decades, Bilal has been investing in founders that want to solve big, important problems with technically ambitious solutions, across industries (enterprise software, deeptech, healthcare, national security, climate) and stages (from seed to growth). He wants to partner with good human beings who are driven to build responsible, ethical companies, and believes technology can not only help address some of the world’s largest problems, but also make humans lives significantly better. Bilal brings 20 years of experience to Board roles. Bilal led Lux’s investments in Applied Intuition, Ironclad, OpenSpace, Nozomi Networks, Commure, Tendo Health, DesktopMetal ($DM), Evolv ($EVLV), Aurora Solar, Kyra Health, Saildrone, Cloaked, Happiest Baby, Zededa, Fiddler, Copia Automation, Kinetic, Nominal, and others. Prior to joining Lux, Bilal was a VC at General Catalyst. Before that he was a technical founder/entrepreneur. Earlier in his career, Bilal was a strategy consultant at BCG. Bilal earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (under Prof. Mario Molina, Nobel laureate, 1995). He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Lemelson Foundation. He is an immigrant citizen in this country, and thankful every day for opportunities that he has been afforded here.