Advisors & Partners

Philippe Alexandre-Paris-Design Thinking

Philippe-Alexandre is an Engineer from the Ecole des Mines de Douai, graduated from the Executive Master Trajectoires Dirigeants from Sciences Po Paris and from the LEAD Corporate Innovation program from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Is an Executive Change Leader, C-Level Consultant and Interim manager specializing in Strategy, Operations, Innovation and Design Thinking. He leads transformations, restructurings, redeployments for strategic projects. Is a course facilitator and mentor at the Stanford GSB, is a Strategic Leadership at IDEO U team and is an Alumni Coach in the Design Thinking courses at Stanford GSB

Chris Finning-Communications

Chris is the founder and CEO of Chris Finning, inc, a unique communications company. He is the author of two books including the multi-award-winning "The First Minute", a book about clear & concise communication at work. He is a communications expert and advisor who is on a mission to improve alignment between business and IT teams. He has helped individuals and teams around the world in organizations from start-ups to Fortune 50 and FTSE 100 companies. He works closely with Stanford GSB founders & leaders to transform communication at work and is a cohort trainer, facilitator, and digital host that scales communication training to IT departments for banks, hospitals, manufacturers, governments, and private equity.

Winner of the 2021 Axiom Business Book Bronze Medal for business communication and The Feathered Quill Bronze award for best Informational Business book.

Chad Tongco- M&A Stratagist

Chad is the President & Chief Operating Officer at The Elevare Club, is the Founder & CEO of Primaris Market Development LLC., a full-service business development advisory firm specializing in guiding middle-market business stakeholders to propel their brands to the forefront of consumer relevancy and demand through consulting and implementation.

He has over 13 years of experience in operations, M&A, business development and executive-level management. He advises firms with annual revenues ranging from $1 million to $100 million a year, from a variety of sectors such as Healthcare, Construction, Professional Services, Agriculture, and REITs. Additionally, he served as Campus and Market President at Unitek College, as well as serving in director roles for local and regional nonprofit

Chad has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and holds a certificate in Strategic Digital Marketing from Yale University School of Management Executive Education program and Business Strategy Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies from Harvard Business School.

Wojcieh Majewski

Meet Wojcieh Majewski

Wojciech is a passionate business transformation strategist who specializes in supply chain and logistics.

He helps empower corporate leadership and investors to actualize their business goals through innovative solutions. He has over 15 years of extensive expertise across multiple industries including retail, manufacturing, logistics and IT consulting. He worked for multiple organizations including Amazon, Neonet, Softserve and leads his own global startup-sojo.consulting

He is known for working with organizations to transform from low performing to state of the art, customer centric.

He received his MA in European Studies from Maastricht University in The Netherlands and his MBA degree from the University of Quebec at Montreal. He also completed his Stanford LEAD program in Corporate Innovation where he was trained in Design Thinking, Design for Disruption and Business Model Analysis and Design

Meet Ray Sikka

I'm Mohinder Ray Sikka, a founder, and CEO at Sensitel. We help manufacturing, retail, and logistics companies improve on-time delivery and uptime using AI & IoT. I am also a Serial Entrepreneur and a graduate of Stanford GSB/Lead and Boston University. I work as an "Innovational Technology Leader" aimed at helping executives and their teams solve complex problems. I've worked with large firms like Tesla, critical drone manufacturers, semiconductors, biopharma, food processing, and many others. Recently, I completed the Stanford LISA program with the winning pitch. I enjoy improving the human condition by using technology and advising the startup communities both in the USA and Asia on practical methods to win their share of the market.  I am an innovator by heart and have been recognized for bringing these solutions to market.