Kerry Baldwin is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at IQ Capital, a deeptech VC firm with $1bn AUM, investing £1-30m in teams within AI & Automation, Computing and Semiconductors, Advanced Engineering & Energy, Security, and Resilience. She is the Chair of the Pensions and Private Capital Expert Panel, unlocking £50bn in DC funding for unlisted equities. Kerry also serves as a Competitive Advisory Board Member at the City of London Corporation and was the Chair of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (2021/22). She is an Independent Investment Committee Member for British Patient Capital, overseeing co-investment programs and Future Fund: Breakthrough. Kerry is a member of the Board of Governors and Finance Committee at Plymouth University and serves on the Steering Committee for Scale-Ups at the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is a specialist in Reg-tech, Sup-tech, Cyber, Data, Defence, and Security investments and advises governments on VC, defence, and R&D ecosystems. She is also an Honorary Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Cambridge University.

Andy is a former Apple, Nest and Google executive, serial entrepreneur, and product design and innovation specialist. Central to the founding leadership team, he is architecting Tiberius as a next-generation defence technology company.

Rob Harper MBE is the founder and CEO of Rowden Technologies. A former UK Airborne Forces communications engineer, he later worked in defence acquisition before establishing Rowden in 2017. Under his leadership, Rowden has become one of the UK’s fastest-growing engineering companies, designing and delivering sensing and information-sharing systems for defence, intelligence, and national security in degraded and denied environments. As a trusted prime integrator, Rowden leads major UK programmes while expanding sovereign manufacturing and exportable product lines in sensor processing and communications. Rob’s focus is on reshoring critical capability and supporting the emergence of a resilient mid-market, rooted in UK engineering talent and capable of delivering assured systems to domestic and allied markets.

Mimi oversees our corporate development, focussed on how we grow Hadean exponentially through key strategic deals, partnerships, and funding opportunities. Mimi was instrumental in early proofs-of-concept for Hadean’s technology - publishing work on protein-protein interactions and COVID-19 pandemic modelling, as well running our world record breaking EVE Aether Wars demos with CCP Games. Before Hadean, Mimi worked in several early stage software startups and studied nanoscience at UCL and the University of Cambridge, working with Nokia on graphene-based flexible electronics for her research.

Lital Leshem is an American-Israeli entrepreneur and corporate advisor experienced in rapidly scaling startups. She is the Co-founder of Carbyne, a pioneering emergency communication technology startup, that raised $128 million and attracted notable investors like AT&T Ventures, Hanaco VC, and Founders Fund. Lital also spent five years as a Partner at Frontier Resource Group, focusing on strategic investments in defense, aviation, and cybersecurity across emerging markets. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 member and a founding member of the UAE Israel Business Council. With 11 years of military and intelligence service as a Major (Res.) in the Southern Command of the IDF, she has demonstrated leadership and strategic acumen, contributing to national security and operational excellence, and has served in the reserves since October 7th. In the wake of October 7th, Lital and her Co-founder, Lee Moser, started Protego Ventures, a $150M early growth fund fueling innovation in Israeli defense technologies.

Philip Lockwood leads strategy and international business for Stark, a new company reshaping the future of defence technology to give NATO a decisive edge. Before Stark, Philip was Head of the NATO Innovation Unit on the Secretary General's staff, where his team was responsible for NATO's overarching agenda on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies. In this role, Philip was the architect and founder of both DIANA--NATO's transatlantic innovation agency--and the 1B NATO Innovation Fund--the world's first multi-sovereign venture capital fund. Previously, he was a tech lawyer with an international law firm and served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 20 years.

Rob is a former soldier, NATO policy advisor, and professor at Johns Hopkins. He served as Chief Innovation Officer at Saab, where he turned strategy into capability. Today, he’s leading the creation of the Defence, Security & Resilience (DSR) Bank—because in a world of rolling crises, resilience needs more than rhetoric; it needs capital.

Mr. Salm is the CEO of Frankenburg Technologies, a producer of affordable, mass-manufacturable missile systems. He is also a member of the board of the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF). Previously, he served as Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defence, overseeing capability development, defence policy, acquisitions, and human resources. Before that, he was Director General of the Estonian Centre for Defence Investment, responsible for acquisitions and infrastructure for the Estonian Defence Forces. Internationally, he was the chief negotiator for the European Defence Fund in 2017.

Ragnar Sass is the Co-founder of Estonia’s fifth unicorn, Pipedrive CRM, which exited to Vista Equity in 2020. He is an active angel investor with a portfolio of 50+ companies. Ragnar is also the founder of Help99, an NGO that has delivered aid to over 200 Ukrainian military units. Currently, he is building the Defence Tech ecosystem with Darkstar, focusing on bringing combat-proven products from Ukraine to global markets.

Raj Shah is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Shield Capital, a venture capital firm focused on technologies at the convergence of commercial and defense markets. He is also the chairman of Resilience, a cybersecurity start-up he co-founded. Raj served as the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), reporting to the Secretary of Defense. Raj recently co-authored the book, Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War, which describes DIUx’s efforts to modernize the U.S. military and bridge cultural divides between the technology ecosystem and the Pentagon. Raj currently serves on the Board of Directors of the NATO Innovation Fund. He continues his reserve uniformed service as an F-16 pilot in the Air National Guard and is assigned as the Director of the Joint Reserve Detachment at DIU (DIU-JRD). He holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Oluseun revolutionized the sector with his 3D-printed rocket engines, becoming the first American to launch one in 2017 at Rocketlab USA as employee number 15. He spearheaded 3D-printing initiatives at Argonne National Lab, Virgin Orbit, and 3D Systems’. A true innovator, Oluseun was recognized as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 for his transformative contributions of consistently pushing the aerospace industry’s boundaries.