Full Agenda
FOA STOCKHOLM SYMPOSIUM JUNE 2025 SPEAKER PROFILES
Join us for an exclusive gathering of global thought leaders, innovators, and industry pioneers at the Family Office Alliance Stockholm Symposium.
The AI Dilemma - How do we navigate humanity/society in this "Oppenheimer" moment?
Chris Rynning
Managing Partner AMYP Ventures (part of a Piech/Porsche FO)
SWITZERLAND
Based in Zurich, Chris leads a global team investing in funds, directs and tokens for AMYP Ventures. Part of the portfolio includes Turo.com, Tipalti and Umanitek.ai where Chris is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Chris is a graduate of ESSEC and University of Chicago, a father of 2 adult children, and as a runner, he would like to invite you for a "run & talk" in any city across the world".
How you can use Frontier Technologies to Unlock a more Resilient and Hopeful Future
Chris Bruce - Moderator
Chair, Cambridge Tech Week
UNITED KINGDOM
Chris has a portfolio career as a Business Consultant, Board Advisor and Non-Executive Director for innovative companies in the wireless, IOT and innovation space. He joined the Board of Cambridge Wireless and was asked to lead the creation and delivery of the first Cambridge Tech Week (CTW) as Chairman in 2023 and again in 2024. CTW brings a global community of Deep Tech innovation and entrepreneurship to Cambridge, which itself has a rich Deep Tech ecosystem, based around two leading universities, strong early-stage angel and VC early-stage investor communities and the location for leading development centres for global tech companies.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg
Co-Founder and Partner, EdenBase
UNITED KINGDOM
Daniel invests in the convergence of AI, Quantum Computing, Blockchain & Immersive Tech that are rapidly becoming general purpose. He has specialised in disruptive tech & change agencies for 30 years, and has built disruptive tech startups, managed large-scale corporate change & advised governments & supranational organisations on policy & regulation. His book, Unsupervised (Wiley, September 2023), a Bloomberg Book of the Year focusses on the Cognitive Revolution that AI, Quantum Computing & other frontier technologies are triggering, their impacts on society & everything we know, who controls them & the need for everyone to get involved now.
Human Performance & AI
Hamet Watt
CEO & Managing Partner, Share Ventures
USA
Hamet is a futurist, entrepreneur, and investor who explores the intersection of neuroscience, wellness, and design to shape tomorrow's human experience. At Share Ventures, he operates a venture studio and venture fund model that creates and funds companies around human performance optimization, backed by Google, Amazon, leading venture capital firms, founders, and family offices. With three successful venture-backed exits including MoviePass, NextMedium, and bLife, Hamet has demonstrated his ability to anticipate and reimagine how industries and human behaviors will evolve. His investment background spans from Partner at the New Africa Opportunity Fund to Board Partner at Upfront Ventures, and he has served as Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group, where he helped corporate leaders envision and build the entrepreneurial ventures that will define their industries' futures.
AGBO: Technology Empowering the Future of Media & Storytelling
Chris Brearton - Moderator
Partner at AGBO
USA
Chris recently joined AGBO, teaming with co-founders Anthony and Joe Russo, the highest-grossing film directors of the past decade. In recent years, AGBO has achieved record-breaking success in both box office and streaming, setting new standards in global entertainment. The Russo Brothers and AGBO have had 11 number one global openings with over seven billion in box office including Marvel's highest grossing film of all time; "Avengers: Endgame". "EverythingEverywhereAllatOnce" broke records for A24 by winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture in 2023.
Donald Mustard
Partner at AGBO / Ex-Chief Creative Officer at Epic Games
USA
Director, producer, writer, and game designer Donald Mustard is the creative visionary behind some of the most profitable and groundbreaking entertainment franchises in history. He is best known for creating Fortnite (2017-Present), the Infinity Blade trilogy (2010-2014), and Shadow Complex (2009). During his previous tenure as Chief Creative Officer of Epic Games, Donald's direction and guidance built Fortnite into a cultural phenomenon that currently boasts over 650 million players with over 20 billion dollars in revenue.
Dominic Hughes
Founder of Swell & AI Leader at Apple USA
Dominic is Chief Scientific Officer at AGBO and a leader in AI, algorithms, and machine learning. He co-founded Swell, acquired by Apple, where he led AI for Apple apps including news. A Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, he holds degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, with past research roles at Stanford.
Breakthrough diagnostic therapeutic technologies that will impact our healthspan & lifespan
Dr Gus Vickery Chief Longevity Officer, Lumastem
Dr. Vickery is an internationally recognized physician in personalized longevity medicine and one of today's leading voices in the emerging field of regenerative therapeutics. With over two decades of clinical leadership, he has dedicated his career to reversing chronic disease, restoring biological systems, and guiding SPEAKERs toward enhanced vitality, resilience, and longevity.
In his current role as Chief Longevity Officer at Lumastem, Dr. Vickery leads clinical innovation at the forefront of regenerative medicine. Lumastem's platform integrates exosome therapy, stem cells, peptides, and advanced biologics to restore function at the cellular level—what he refers to as the "last frontier" in longevity medicine.
His work focuses on developing precision-driven, signal-based protocols that extend health span by reactivating the body's innate healing systems.
AI-augmented Human Resilience: Technology intervention in Brain-Body Science
Philip Wu
Secretariat, Family Office Alliance (FOA)
CEO & Founder, Grid Synergy
SINGAPORE
Philip is the Secretariat and Co-founder of the Family Office Alliance (FOA), a regional initiative connecting family offices. He is also the CEO and Founder of Grid Synergy, a Singapore company deploying AI solutions for government agencies.
Grid Synergy leads initiatives in Brain-Body Science, exploring how AI can enhance human cognition, wellness, and performance. Before founding, Philip built experience across trade, finance, and technology sectors in Singapore.
Dr. Serenella Tolomeo
Senior Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR
SINGAPORE
Dr Serenella is a Senior Scientist at A*STAR and Principal Investigator at the Brain-Body Initiative, leading multidisciplinary neuroscience and AI research. She is also Director of the Society for Neuroscience – Singapore Chapter, and on the Organising Committee of the NeuroAI Symposium 2025.
Her work focuses on the brain's mechanisms underlying psychiatric and addictive disorders, combining preclinical research with clinical psychiatry through advanced neuroimaging and computational modeling.
Jeremy Achin
Founder and Managing Partner, Cortical VC
USA
Jeremy is an AI expert, entrepreneur, and investor. He founded an enterprise AI company in 2012 and led the company until 2021, growing the business to 1300 employees and a peak valuation over $7b. He is now the Founder and CEO of two new AI companies, and GP of an AI-focused early stage venture fund.
New kids on the block - How Emerging Managers, Micro VCs and Solo-GPs are changing the Venture Market
Yannick Sonnenberg
Founding Partner, Emergence Ventures
GERMANY
Yannick is founding partner of Emergence Ventures, a fund-of-funds for Emerging Manager, Micro VCs and Solo-GPs in the US and Europe. Before this time he has built multiple CVCs and Digital Innovation Units at Mult-national corporations like Schwartz, Henkel, Daimler, Lufthansa and Munich RE as well as his own company that got him ranked a top global innovator by Forbes Magazine in 2013. Yannick is a seasoned Angel, LP and CVC Investor with more than 60 investments in recent years.
Jon Dishotsky
Founding Partner, Daft Capital
STOCKHOLM
Daft Capital is an early stage fund backing relentless entrepreneurs in Europe and the US, and Jon has invested in multiple unicorns, backed IPOs and 50 companies including: Lovable, Mercury, The Bot Company or Varda Space. Jon is also an LP in Immad Fund, Y Combinator, Alt Capital and Pioneer Fund as well as an Y Combinator alumni, and former CEO of Starcity.
Oliver Molander
Founding Partner, Inception Fund
STOCKHOLM
Inception was the first Nordic Micro Fund, backing breakthrough AI and B2B Software founders at the earliest stages. Previously Oliver has been a General Partner at Zenith and active Angel investor into companies like lovable, Pruna or StackOne, IntuiCell or Holori. Oliver started his career at Google, Peltarion and Validio, where he has held Sr. Management or Top-Management roles driving company growth and success.
Geopolitics, AI and Robotics - Considerations for Family Offices
Noam Perski
Executive Vice President, Palantir
STOCKHOLM
Noam spent over a decade building Palantir's International Public Sector business. His work has driven impactful partnerships across national security, law enforcement, and defense in 20 countries. Today, he leads Palantir's expansion into key growth markets, helping organizations harness AI-powered operations to tackle their most complex challenges. With a background spanning both the technology and non-profit sectors, Noam has worked on global health initiatives focused on HIV, TB, and Malaria, serving as Director of Development and Communications at the International AIDS Society and as a communications advisor to the Global Fund.
Matthew McGrath
MD of Emissary Partners
UNITED KINGDOM
Matt is Founder and Managing Director of Emissary Partners, a global special situations firm for family offices and institutional investors. He is a trusted advisor to leading family offices across the United States, Europe and the Middle East, as well as financial sponsors investing in litigation funding and special situations. Over a five-year period, Matt has built Emissary into a respected global advisory firm helping family offices manage and exit their challenging legacy asset portfolios, typically comprising five percent of assets under management.
How to Put Out the Red Lights on the Global Order Dash Board
Pelin Afat - Member of the Management Board, IABG
GERMANY
Pelin began her professional career in 2008 as a self-employed simultaneous interpreter (for Turkish, German, Italian and English) and later shifted her focus towards consulting, price negotiations and deal-making. In 2017 she worked for Diehl Defence, a German Defense company, specializing in ground-based air defence systems, guided missiles and ammunition. Since 2020, Pelin has been working at IABG, where her responsibilities include overseeing the strategic direction of the defense and space technologies and stakeholder management with a focus on the customers.
RT Hon Tobias Ellwood - Former Foreign Minister - now Defence Consultant
UNITED KINGDOM
Tobias is a former British Army Officer, senior UK Parliamentarian and now writer and commentator on National Security & Foreign Policy issues. As a former Foreign Minister for the Middle East, Defence Minister and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Committee he's been at the forefront in helping shape & critique UK security and foreign policy - in ever increasing turbulent times. He was born in New York (due to father's posting with the UN), went to school in Vienna Austria and studied his first degree at Loughborough University. He completed a Masters at City University Business School and the Senior Executive Course in National and International Security Studies at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Join these global security and defense experts as they discuss strategies for addressing critical challenges facing the international order.
Reimagining Philanthropy: From Giving to Catalyzing Systems Change by Purposeful Investing
Sarah Chen-Spellings - USA (Moderator)
Co-Founder of Beyond The Billion
Co-Founder of Beyond The Billion, the world's first and largest global consortium of over 100 venture funds and limited partner investors that have pledged to invest and are actively deploying beyond $1B towards women-founded companies. In under two years, partner funds in the consortium have deployed $638M into close to 800 female-founded companies, of which to date, 15 have been recognized as unicorns: from Canva to Airwallex. Named Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Forbes Under 30 VC, Sarah is a recognized speaker, strategist, and commentator on venture capital, startups, and women in leadership, having been featured on Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, Der Spiegel and United Nations.
Therese von Blixen-Finecke - SWEDEN
Co-Founder, Catalyst Co-Labs
Therese is a Swedish social impact leader and systems change strategist with 20+ years at the forefront of global development. She is Co-Founder of Catalyst Co-Labs and a founding member of Catalyst NOW, driving same and cross-sector collaborations to accelerate the SDGs. Most recently, she led H.M. Queen Silvia's Foundation, impacting over one million children worldwide. As an advisor, speaker, and IVLP alumna, Therese has shaped transformative initiatives across philanthropy, tech, and humanitarian sectors.
Renata Fernández - MEXICO
Founder & CIO of FEGOSA Capital
Renata Fernández is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of FEGOSA Capital, based in Guadalajara, Mexico. Since founding the firm in May 2021, Renata has led strategic investments across diverse sectors—including wellness, pharmaceuticals, transportation, food, and technology—while establishing and nurturing innovative companies with a focus on sustainable growth and high-impact opportunities. With a background in International Politics and Environmental Studies, Renata's diverse international experience spans living and working in Hong Kong, Argentina, Madrid, Switzerland, California, and Mexico. Her global perspective and dedication to sustainable development make her a compelling speaker on innovative investment strategies and impactful entrepreneurship in Latin America.
Human Resilience & Space: Addressing Climate and Security Challenges
Wolfgang Neubert - AUSTRIA
General Partner, APEX Ventures
Wolfgang joined APEX Ventures in 2017, where he now leads the investment activities of its early stage and Deep Tech portfolios. He evaluates, selects and develops portfolio companies, structures financing rounds and manages transactions. He holds non-executive board and chairman positions at various APEX portfolio companies working, among others, on photonics, quantum technologies, autonomous systems & robotics, airborne & space technologies as well as AI and machine learning.