Lisbeth Kaufman
is the North America Lead for Accelerators and Incubators at Amazon Web Services where she leads a team of superstar former founders and supports startups going through the top accelerators and incubators, with a particular focus on Climate Tech. She is also the cofounder of KitSplit, the gear rental marketplace called “The Airbnb of Cameras” by Forbes. Under her leadership, KitSplit acquired a competitor and built a profitable business serving 60k creators, with a virtual inventory of $250m worth of gear. Prior to KitSplit, Lisbeth was focused on climate change as an energy/environment/agriculture policy advisor in the United States Senate. There she built a first-of-it’s-kind energy efficiency retrofit program and wrote a clean energy bill for farmers that got passed into law. Lisbeth has a BA from Yale and an MBA from NYU Stern where she was a Dean’s Scholar.
aving worked in micromobility internationally for half a decade, Georgia has worked in partnership with cities across Europe, North America, Latin America, South East Asia and wider, in reaching their active and sustainable transport goals. A firm believer that collaboration and partnership underpin sustainable services, Georgia is responsible for driving the strategic growth projects, and team, behind Beryl’s leading UK services. Alongside, as Chair of Women@Beryl and an active member of multiple Gender, Diversity, Mobility and Tech networks – Georgia is active in raising the volume of women of color in tech and mobility.
Crissy Ditmore is a mobility evangelist, urban farmer, and policy wonk. She is a knowledge builder for Mobility as a Service to ensure the public good is maximized through the application of technology to enable policy. Additionally, she is a relationship builder creating mobility solutions for public and private partners and passionate about projects that develop sustainable futures for all regardless of the economic situation, location, or ability. You can usually find her at an industry event speaking on MaaS, Smart Cities, modern payment solutions, connected and autonomous vehicles, and at times urban farming and beekeeping. She was recognized ad a 2019 Mass Transit Magazine Top 40 Under 40.
a is an Award Winning Product Manager, Educator, Speaker, and Entrepreneur. Fueled by her passion to create new ideas (and perhaps a bit too much Cold Brew), Maya enjoys helping fellow entrepreneurs & tech enthusiasts reach their full potential. She is currently a Sr. Product Manager & Startup Coach at IFundWomen, the go-to funding marketplace for women-owned businesses and all the people who want to support them with access to capital, coaching, and connections. IFundWomen provides online fundraising services, expert business coaching on all the topics entrepreneurs need to know about, and a network of women business owners. Maya has coached over 100 early stage entrepreneurs on how to build revenue generating MVPs.
Simran is an Analyst at Equal Ventures. Prior to joining Equal, Simran was introduced to venture through internships at Greenspring Associates, SoGal Ventures, and VC-backed startup Predata. Simran also worked as Managing Partner of JHU’s student-run fund, A-Level Capital. At A-Level, Simran led numerous investments in early-stage companies founded by Hopkins students, alumni and faculty.
Rick is Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures. Prior to co-founding Equal Ventures, Rick was an investor at Lightbank, an early-stage venture fund based in Chicago, where he led investments in companies like Riskmatch (acquired by Vertafore), Vettery (acquired by Adecco), Neumob (acquired by CloudFlare), Expel and Catalytic amongst others. In addition to those investments, Rick served on the boards of Snapsheet and Benchprep and angel invested in several industry-leading companies like Rigup. 
My name is Michael and I am an impact-focused startup founder and, having just sold my company, am now doing some angel investing and advising. 
Christian Okoye is a Director of Venture Investments at Emerson Collective. He focuses on managing venture and growth equity investments in energy and environmental solutions. He sits on the boards of MycoTechnology – a food-tech company, Nithio – a fin-tech company focused on enabling consumer credit in emerging markets, and PosiGen – developer of solar and energy efficiency solutions for LMI homeowners. Prior to joining Emerson Collective, Christian worked for Denham Capital’s Energy infrastructure platform investing in infrastructure development in emerging markets. He started his career in Goldman Sachs’ Natural Resources group. Christian holds an MBA and MS in Energy Resources from Stanford University and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.
