Executive Advisory Committee

Prem Tadipatri

CTO / CINO / Director — New York, USA

Prem is a Wall Street executive with over 25 years of banking experience, including financial services, investment banking, private banking, finance and risk and shared services. Currently, he serves as a Director at Credit Suisse of New York, Driving Innovation, Efficiency and Productivity. In this role, Prem leads an active portfolio for the bank in the realm of innovation & transformation. He is considered a subject matter expert in artificial intelligence, machine learning, new banking, fintech investing, and risk and data analytics across the Industry.

Separately, Prem has launched entrepreneurial programs at Credit Suisse. He successfully led incubator exits and actively supports their private equity funds as an advisor on investing, deal flow, evaluation and valuation. He is also pursuing several patent pending ideas and remains an active advisor, board member and mentor to several startups.

Prem holds an M.B.A in Finance & Entrepreneurship with Honors from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering with a gold medal from Pune University.

On a personal note, Prem is self-taught guitarist and songwriter. He has travelled extensively, has lived in six countries and speaks five languages and he is currently authoring a book on his collection of daily quotes.

Rafael A. Chaves

President / CEO / Promoter — Virginia, USA

Rafael has been working in the entertainment industry since high school when he worked for various music promoters in his native Puerto Rico as a stagehand. Following his graduation from the Inter-American University in Puerto Rico with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing, he worked for many years in the financial sector. After Rafael relocated to the U.S. mainland, he chose to follow his passion which was both the business and creative facets of music production.

Rafael began Nadja’s Entertainment in Fall 2004 and produced his first event in March 2005. His first music production was Venezuelan singer Ricardo Montaner U.S. multi city tour as part of the 2005 music tour.

Over the next few years, Rafael produced various events featuring artists including the likes of Reggaeton superstars Daddy Yankee, Wisin & Yandel, American Bachata band, Aventura, Luis Fonsi, Pablo Montero & DJ Flex). On May 23rd, 2015, Rafael produced the largest Latin Urban Music Festival in the Washington DC area named “Latin Explosion 2015”, Ricardo Arjona’s performance on October 6, 2017 at the Santander Arena and Performing Arts Center in Reading, PA and most recently, Christian Nodal on April 25th, 2019 at Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax, VA.

Syeda Saadia Fatim Ali

Creative Mentor / Lecturer — Pakistan

Saadia is a creative mentor and lecturer for the undergraduates Allied Health Sciences program in Pakistan.  She is titled an Emotional Well-Being Free Spirit Influencer who nurtures young minds and equip them with life skills, and a seasoned molecular biologist/medical lab technologist with published research. Saadia has been an event organizer for the Business Excellence Summit 2021 in Dubai. She is a volunteer for Dubai Offshore Sailing Club (DOSC), Gulf for Good and for Expo2020 UAE.

Saadia founded “S.O.U.L,” a training and development organization that helps bring experiences, knowledge and minds together for intellectual well being. The organization focuses on helping its participants to begin the journey of self recognition and realization from outwards to inwards. It targets youth, women, people of determination and retired/rewired old hags!

Adel Farooq

Singer, Actor, Entrepreneur — Dubai, U.A.E.

Jamel Haouas

MBA | Director, PR & Partnerships — Tunisia

Over the past 13 years, Jamel has worked as a Partnership Director, Senior Communication Officer, Innovation Director, Outreach Professional, Head of Corporate Affairs, and Marketing Manager for global firms and international organizations, including United Nations, The World Bank, Petrofac, Esprit University, as well as governmental agencies such as the Republic Presidency to the USA Embassy. Having worked across many cities —in NYC, London and Paris, Tunis, Cairo.  He specializes in pulling valuable partners and clients, fostering engagement and creating a heightened level of awareness about business transformation, growth, industry trends and future-forward innovation across technology, sustainability, higher education, startups, energy, politics, healthcare, and the pivotal nexus where all of these things intersect.

Saurabh Gupta

Chairman, Neutrino Group — Dubai, U.A.E.

Saurabh is an award winning entrepreneur, digital transformation specialist, startup evangelist, investor and a Congo maestro. He is well known for his business acumen, research oriented approach and leadership skills within his professional circle. Currently, he is leading (along with his team) one of the Middle East’s biggest digital transformation projects for the Abu Dhabi Government, in UAE.

Saurabh is a founder of Neutrino Group (headquartered in Dubai, UAE) and has been recognized by various National & International organization for his work across the globe including IEEE ISI (Taiwan), SiliconIndia (USA), CIOReview (USA) and National Entrepreneur Network (India), All India Achievers Foundation (India), and Global Achievers Foundation (India).

Saurabh completed his Executive Management Program (Stanford Ignite) at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, USA & holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Communication & Computer Engineering from The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India. He also pursued the Executive Management Program (IPM) at Harvard University in 2020.

He has invested previously in Europe’s largest crowdfunding platform Symbid (which was listed in NASDAQ), as well as other tech ventures including edTech, blockchain ventures and music tech ventures based in UAE and USA. He is well networked globally with investors, technologists, musical artists and is a  contributor of venture capital funds based in the USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia. He is on the board of various startups advising entrepreneurs on technology, fundraising and strategy.

Notably, Saurabh lost a very dear friend to cancer during his college days, and more recently a family member. This has impacted him deeply and given him impetus to support efforts in the war on cancer.