The visionary founder of Spiraldot, Talha Basit is a serial entrepreneur who began programming at 7 years old. Since then, he democratized filmmaking at Apple, brought technology to students in one of the nation’s largest school districts, and created the software that resulted in one of his companies being sold to a Fortune 5 firm. When he isn’t helping other entrepreneurs as the founder of Spiraldot Ventures or as an LP at Tau Ventures, Talha is the founder and CEO of Spiraldot Health where he leads an all-star team of software architects, data scientists and machine learning experts in their mission to defeat disease with data.

With an early advisory and board seat at SauntiSoft, Talha Basit, CEO and at least 10 other such appointments, Jim is a skilled serial entrepreneur and senior manager with approximately 15 exits between tech and film. Jim is a lawyer with almost 30 years of practice in Intellectual Property, Corporate Law and Securities. He is a founder and executive specializing in high-growth startups including healthcare, investor, advisor, and mentor. Air Force Veteran (Top Secret Clearance), BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley, JD from Golden Gate University San Francisco.

Q McCallum is a researcher and machine learning expert with more than two decades’ industry experience in several verticals.

Through his work he has served as fractional head of AI, where he guided product, hiring, and technology decisions; built and executed on roadmaps that dramatically increased business value; and took clients’ AI/ML ideas from ideation all the way to production. He is also often asked to perform due diligence and evaluate other organizations in startups ranging from edtech, to security, to media.

Q has spoken at leading industry events and holds multiple bylines through O’Reilly Media including Business Models for the Data Economy and Understanding Patterns of Disruption.

His subject matter expertise includes AI-based automation, N-sided marketplaces, and operational risk.

Q holds a BS from the University of Chicago.

Soibi Andrew-Jaja enjoys helping startups and rapid-growth businesses innovate and succeed. A mission-driven leader, she has 16+ years of strategy and operations leadership experience globally, in operations, strategy, e-commerce, real estate, healthcare, and services organizations. She attributes her operational expertise and data driven approach to her experience and success at Schlumberger and Amazon. She has enabled companies, ranging from startups to Fortune 5 to operationalize and integrate new ideas and initiatives that drive meaningful customer value. Recently Soibi led operations from an early phase through exit to United Healthcare where she worked alongside Talha. Now wants to share that experience and knowledge with other founders. In her spare time, she plays tennis and mentors founders and small businesses in developing nations.

Currently, she is working in the Office of the CTO focused on products and analytics at Microsoft.

Jacinta is the director and co-founder of Brandia, a Mexico city and Los Angeles based creative branding studio founded in 2011. Jacinta enjoys helping entrepreneurs and company executives transform their business by giving them a strong brand voice and vision. She strives to work and align with mission-oriented brands, both professionally and personally. She has launched and co-created multiple personal projects around sustainability, community and women’s rights. Jacinta also leads meditation classes and workshops in Mexico and USA.

Josh Greenbaum of CFO Minded is a seasoned financial consultant who helps small businesses achieve market impact while staying true to their mission. After working for a Big Four accounting firm, Josh founded his company with the belief that all businesses should benefit from the financial sophistication that large corporations do without shouldering the burden.

He isn’t driven by the goal of getting more CEOs into the billionaire’s club. Rather, he’s passionate about supporting real people—from celebrities to companies of one—with really promising ideas to become better leaders through business planning and oversight. 

Josh is a graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He recently published his first book, Numbers Scare Me & Other Excuses: A business owner’s guide to lead like a CFO.