Eric Benhamou

Yashwanth Hemaraj

Marc Peterzens

Simeon Williams

Eric Benhamou

Eric is the founder of Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), a VC firm with offices in Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, Paris and Bangalore. He also co-founded the Israel Venture Network. He was CEO of 3Com and during his tenure, the company grew 20-fold and joined the Fortune 500. He pioneered the development of the Palm Pilot, a sales blockbuster and early breakthrough in handheld technology. He is a recipient of the Medal of Honor of Ellis Island and has served on the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Council.

Yashwanth Hemaraj

Yashwanth is a partner at BGV and a founding partner of Arka Venture Labs. His focus as an investor is on enterprise startups at the seed and Series A stage. Previously, he was a product manager at SpiderCloud, a startup in the wireless telecommunication space. They raised more than $100 million and were ranked in the in the top five venture-backed companies by The Wall Street Journal. He is named on four patents, which form an integral part of the company's IP portfolio. He is also a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program of Silicon Valley.

Marc Peterzens

Marc is the chief executive of Blue Titan Capital, where he advises and partners with family offices. After two decades of working for others, including the largest buyside firms in the world, Marc founded BTC in 2019. Marc has cross asset experience with a passionate focus on impact investing.

Simeon Williams

Simeon is a highly experienced Investment advisor to Ultra High Net Worth clients based predominantly in the UK and Western Europe managing €700m of AUM and €500m of AUA on behalf of a number of SFOs. Simeon has worked for over 18 years in the areas of Investment Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, including over five years in the Government sector. Simeon founded Verta post Covid after having held senior positions at both Deutsche Bank and the ING Group. Simeon's vision for Verta is to create a 3.0, smoothly integrated, values-driven Wealth ecosystem group built upon people and sustainability.

Simeon holds an MSc in Grant Making, Philanthropy and Social Investment from CASS Business School in London, and a BA Honours degree in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) from the University of York. Spear's Magazine featured Simeon in their Top 10 UK UHNW Managers Index for 2016, 2017 and 2018 while CityWealth Magazine picked him for their Leaders List as Top Private Banker and Investment Manager for 2016 and 2017.