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Meet the Mentors
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Eya ABID – Meet the Mentor
Eya Abid is an AI researcher, mentor, and innovation consultant helping students and professionals navigate careers in artificial intelligence, data science, and technology. Combining research expertise with practical industry experience, she focuses on turning complex concepts into actionable skills, impactful projects, and clear career strategies.
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Yanyi Li – Meet the Mentor
I'm Yanyi Li, founder of Nuwa Marketing and a two-time Forbes-recognized entrepreneur. For the past nine years, I've helped global brands bridge opportunities between China and North America through strategic marketing, PR, influencer partnerships, …
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Meet the Mentors
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Daniel Proctor – Meet the Mentor
Hey, I'm Daniel Proctor born in England, grew up running around the streets of Spain until I was 10, and now living the dream in Australia. I've spent the last 9 years building businesses online, travelling to 47 countries, and helping over 9,000 pe…
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Hamza Arif – Meet the Mentor
Process excellence practitioner at the intersection of operational excellence, process intelligence, and AI adoption. I work at the architecture layer — designing frameworks that make operations actually flow, not just implementing tools on top of b…
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Meet the Mentors
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Amine Chafai – Meet the Mentor
I work as Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and I accumulated 15+ years of experience in Data, Analytics, and AI. Throughout these years I had the chance to work with 300+ companies, across 35+ countries and 5 continents, to help them turn raw data into strategic decisions.
Amine Chafai
Amine Chafai
May 18th, 2026
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Bakhrom Kholmatov – Meet the Mentor
In Web3 since 2017. Currently working as a DeFi strategist: building risk frameworks for protocols, launching DeFi agents, and setting up DeFi operations from scratch. Deployed $10M+ into strategies across multiple engagements. I help investors and protocols navigate DeFi with a clear, repeatable approach to risk
Bakhrom Kholmatov
Bakhrom Kholmatov
May 7th, 2026
Meet the Mentors
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Otavio Lessa – Meet the Mentor
I’m Otavio M. Lessa, founder of Fandom Builder and a strategist with more than 25 years of experience across games, entertainment, content, community, and brand systems. I help creators, founders, and businesses turn audience attention into real belonging, then turn that belonging into stronger retention, trust, and more durable revenue.
Otavio Lessa
Otavio Lessa
April 20th, 2026
Meet the Mentors
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Marco Ferra – Meet the Mentor
I am a senior technology leader with more than 18 years of experience in driving digital transformation and continuous improvement across the media, biopharmaceutical, automotive, and aerospace sectors. Currently, I lead initiatives focused on streamlining business processes to maximise customer value.
Marco Ferra
Marco Ferra
April 20th, 2026
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Dilyana Radulova – Meet the Mentor
I’m a UK based Solution Engineer working with Microsoft stack technologies (like Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot and enterprise automation). I help people turn messy, frustrating work into solutions that actually make their day easier—and I’m deeply passionate about mentoring people who don’t always see themselves represented in tech.
Dilyana Radulova
Dilyana Radulova
April 6th, 2026
Meet the Mentors
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Audrey Muller – Meet the Mentor
I specialize in career transitions that require more than a resume update: PMs moving into AI roles, technical PMs shifting into commercial work, and non-PMs breaking into product. The common thread is the same - you have more capability than your title reflects, and you need a clear path to close that gap.
Audrey Muller
Audrey Muller
March 30th, 2026
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Boyan Angelov – Meet the Mentor
I am a management consultant and a fractional CTO, focusing on data and AI strategy, and bridging that difficult gap between sky-high expectation of the amazing technology we have, and the software and organisational complexity that we face in reality. Beyond consulting, I am also an author, with books so far on programming languages and strategy.
Boyan Angelov
Boyan Angelov
March 9th, 2026
Meet the Mentors
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Auws Al-Gaboury – Meet the Mentor
I’m Auws Al-Gaboury, a creative producer and founder of Hyper Film, a London-based studio that helps brands turn content into real business results. Over the past decade I’ve worked with startups and global brands, focusing on strategy, storytelling, and performance driven creative. I mentor founders and marketers on how to use content and branding to grow their businesses.
Auws Al-Gaboury
Auws Al-Gaboury
March 9th, 2026
From the Community: Mentor Contributions
Meet the Mentors
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David Garwin – Meet the Mentor
Hello, I'm David, a dedicated coach and mentor since 2016. I have a profound passion for providing one-on-one assistance to individuals in realizing their goals.
David Garwin
David Garwin
June 26th, 2023
Meet the Mentors
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Federico Maffini – Meet the Mentor
I am Head of Business Management within the Customer Optimization & Enablement organization at Amazon Web Services, where I lead a large team of Business Analysts and Program Managers. For the past 8+ years, I worked within several teams across Amazon and covered various roles in Finance, Program Management and Sales Operations
Federico Maffini
Federico Maffini
June 26th, 2023
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Alessandro Romano – Meet the Mentor
Hello! I'm a seasoned data scientist, carrying over six years of industry experience and backed by a solid software engineering foundation. In addition to my technical prowess, I actively engage in public speaking events, fostering a robust exchange of ideas within the data science community.
Alessandro Romano
Alessandro Romano
June 26th, 2023
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Salil K – Meet the Mentor
As a product management leader with over 15 years of experience, I got to work with startups, mid-sized companies, and large enterprises to bring new products to market. I have a passion for mentoring and coaching budding product managers, helping them navigate the complexities of the field and build successful careers.
Sal .
Sal .
March 6th, 2023
Meet the Mentors
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Maria Teresa Stella – Meet the Mentor
Maria Teresa is a Senior UX Designer with a background in Psychology and is based in northern Italy. Having worked most of her career so far in a design team of one, she believes in bringing forward design knowledge and working in multidisciplinary contexts. On the side, she enjoys mentoring young designers and is now also dabbling in public speaking.
Maria Teresa Stella
Maria Teresa Stella
February 27th, 2023
Meet the Mentors
2 min read
Chris Ellinas – Meet the Mentor
Chris Ellinas is a multi-talented professional with experience in Graphic Design, Video Production, Mentorship, and Solopreneurship. He solves business problems through design and has worked with clients like Ogilvy, Netflix, and Disney+. He is skilled in logo design and video editing.
Chris Ellinas
Chris Ellinas
February 13th, 2023
Meet the Mentors
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Won You – Meet the Mentor
Hi, I’m Won. I’m a seasoned design leader and digital craftsman with over 20 years of experience creating human-centered digital products. I’m passionate about using the power of design to turn business challenges into opportunities, and I am energized by educating and mentoring the next generation of designers and creative professionals.
Won You
Won You
January 30th, 2023
Meet the Mentors
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Andrea Hobby – Meet the Mentor
My name is Andrea and the Founder of Health Data Science Newsletter. Also, I work as a Data Scientist at Accenture.
Andrea Hobby
Andrea Hobby
January 9th, 2023
Meet the Mentors
4 min read
Patricia Pampanelli – Meet the Mentor
My name is Patricia and I’m a Deep Learning Solutions Architect at NVIDIA.
Patricia Pampanelli
Patricia Pampanelli
November 28th, 2022
Meet the Mentors
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Meet the Mentor - Ikram Guerd
👋 Hi there!! I am a B2B Marketing Leader in the Healthcare industry with 17 years of experience in MarCom and product management. I led different marketing teams both in Europe and in the USA and I’m happy to share my mentoring experience.
Ikram Guerd
Ikram Guerd
November 14th, 2022
Meet the Mentors
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Denis Salnikov – Meet the Mentor
Denis Salnikov is a Professional Scrum Master, LeSS & Agile Coach actively consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, companies management and Product startups.
Denis Salnikov
Denis Salnikov
November 14th, 2022
Meet the Mentors
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Div Manickam – Meet the Mentor
From the first rejection to the first negotiation, knowing and asking for my true worth to the first-time leader struggles with stress and anxiety to finding my true purpose, my ikigai in work and life. The one thing that I can do for the rest of my life and its not work for me - mentoring.
Div Manickam
Div Manickam
October 31st, 2022
Meet the Mentors
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Andrei Gavrila – Meet the Mentor
Hello, I'm Andrei! I am a CTO, Technical Advisor, Agile Coach, Mentor with 16+ years in the custom software development industry.
Andrei Gavrila
Andrei Gavrila
October 17th, 2022
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Nick Roberts – Meet the Mentor
My journey began back in 2008 when I built a website as part of a Media Studies course at Sixth Form college and dabbled with code during an IT course. This cemented my choice of career in Web Design & Development. I then completed a City & Guilds qualification in Web Design gaining a Distinction. This provided me with an excellent base for the next step in my career journey.
Nick Roberts
Nick Roberts
October 10th, 2022
Meet the Mentors
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Tanner Barlow – Meet the Mentor
I started my career with three internships, the last two at Microsoft while finishing my Bachelors Degree in Computer Science at the University of Utah.
Tanner Barlow
Tanner Barlow
September 19th, 2022
Meet the Mentors
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Juliette Weiss – Meet the Mentor
👋 Hello!! I am a Design Manager at Microsoft with a proven track record of bringing version-0 products to life. I currently lead the Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces and Mixed Reality design teams.
Juliette Weiss
Juliette Weiss
September 5th, 2022
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Darrin Johnson – Meet the Mentor
With 15+ years of experience in a variety of large and small companies, I have been influential in driving significant increases in cost savings, revenue, and efficiencies.
Darrin Johnson
Darrin Johnson
September 5th, 2022
Meet the Mentors
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Rui Bom – Meet the Mentor
Have been building startups since before ‘startup’ was a word. 5-star mentor with 🥇 accelerator (25+ unicorns) in the 🌎, for whom I’ve built and mentored several programs.
Rui Bom
Rui Bom
September 5th, 2022

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