Gro Intelligence CEO and leadership

Sara Menker is an Entrepreneur and the CEO of [https://gro-intelligence.com/ Gro Intelligence]. She is a trustee of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies and was elected one of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders.

Prior to joining Gro Intelligence, Sewit was a Vice President at Helios Investment Partners, an Africa-focused private investment fund with more than $4bn in capital under management. She joined Helios after working with IPS, an investment arm of the Aga Khan Development Network focused on food and agro processing as well as infrastructure development. Prior to that, Sewit was a VP at Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in NY where she worked in the leveraged finance and global portfolio management teams. Sewit holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Nemo is CTO of Gro Intelligence. He joined Gro after 8.5 years at Google as a Software Engineer. At Google, he first worked for several years in web search, where he developed ranking algorithms. He was then Tech Lead on Google’s Ad Exchange from its inception through its growth into the kernel connecting all of Google’s advertiser and publisher products (adwords, adsense, dfp). He led the engineering team responsible for auction algorithms and mathematical optimization. Most recently, he was Tech Lead for Contributor by Google, a new product that he invented and led from a “20%” research project to a full product launch. Contributor is a high profile, revolutionary new product that enables market-based micropayment for content, letting users pay instead of seeing ads, while giving publishers the same revenue, and thus creating a potential post-ads business model for the web. Previously, Nemo was co-founder of Invisible Hand Networks, Inc. a software startup that developed real-time auction-based bandwidth exchanges for content providers and ISPs, which grew out of his pioneering academic research on game theoretic mechanisms in communication networks. Nemo was also co-founder of a VOIP startup, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Nemo is the author of dozens of highly cited research publications, and inventor on 7 US patents, with several more pending. He obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where his thesis won the Eliahu I. Jury award for his dissertation. He also holds a Masters in engineering from McGill, where he specialized in control theory applied to biomechanical robots, and a B. Eng (Honors) in Honors Electrical Engineering and Math, where he graduated with distinction and a university scholar award.

Sara Menker is an Entrepreneur and the CEO of [https://gro-intelligence.com/ Gro Intelligence]. She is a trustee of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies and was elected one of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders.

Prior to joining Gro Intelligence, Sewit was a Vice President at Helios Investment Partners, an Africa-focused private investment fund with more than $4bn in capital under management. She joined Helios after working with IPS, an investment arm of the Aga Khan Development Network focused on food and agro processing as well as infrastructure development. Prior to that, Sewit was a VP at Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in NY where she worked in the leveraged finance and global portfolio management teams. Sewit holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Nemo is CTO of Gro Intelligence. He joined Gro after 8.5 years at Google as a Software Engineer. At Google, he first worked for several years in web search, where he developed ranking algorithms. He was then Tech Lead on Google’s Ad Exchange from its inception through its growth into the kernel connecting all of Google’s advertiser and publisher products (adwords, adsense, dfp). He led the engineering team responsible for auction algorithms and mathematical optimization. Most recently, he was Tech Lead for Contributor by Google, a new product that he invented and led from a “20%” research project to a full product launch. Contributor is a high profile, revolutionary new product that enables market-based micropayment for content, letting users pay instead of seeing ads, while giving publishers the same revenue, and thus creating a potential post-ads business model for the web. Previously, Nemo was co-founder of Invisible Hand Networks, Inc. a software startup that developed real-time auction-based bandwidth exchanges for content providers and ISPs, which grew out of his pioneering academic research on game theoretic mechanisms in communication networks. Nemo was also co-founder of a VOIP startup, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Nemo is the author of dozens of highly cited research publications, and inventor on 7 US patents, with several more pending. He obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where his thesis won the Eliahu I. Jury award for his dissertation. He also holds a Masters in engineering from McGill, where he specialized in control theory applied to biomechanical robots, and a B. Eng (Honors) in Honors Electrical Engineering and Math, where he graduated with distinction and a university scholar award.