Ankur is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Kairos, which he launched in 2008 as a talent incubator. Before rejoining Kairos in May 2017, Jain was the VP of Product at Tinder, the world’s largest social network for meeting people. He joined Tinder after it acquired his previous company, Humin, where he served as Founder & CEO. Over the years, Jain has been recognized for a variety of achievements including the Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2017).

Previously, he was named a Leader del Futuro by the Ambrosetti Forum and as a Young Leader by both the World Foresight Forum and the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. In 2011, Inc. magazine named Ankur Jain the “Best Connected 21-Year-Old in the World” and awarded Jain “30 Under 30.” In 2012, Jain was named “30 under 30: Solution Broker” by the Christian Science Monitor.

In 2013, Jain was elected to the Innovation Board for the X-Prize Foundation and in 2015, Forbes named Jain to their “30 under 30” list. Ankur graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 and grew up in Seattle.

Alex is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Kairos. He has been leading Kairos since 2013, building out the K50 program and leading the company from its roots as a student-run organization into its current focus on building a family of brands designed to make life more affordable.

Prior to Kairos Alex worked at Activision helping launch record-breaking IP including Call of Duty and Skylanders.

Alex graduated from University of Southern California in 2010 and grew up in Los Angeles.

Zoe is the Chief Marketing Officer at Kairos. She leads brand and marketing strategy as well as new product development. She previously developed & led the Kairos Fellowship, a community of the brightest young entrepreneurs around the world.

Prior to joining Kairos, Zoe held positions in various medical research labs, including the cardiovascular division at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where she conducted analyses on the effects of sleep deprivation on young medical professionals. She then went on to work in fashion design & brand development at companies like Theory and Helmut lang. She graduated from Harvard University with High Honors, where she studied medicine and art.

Andrew Wang is the independent Chair of Kairos’ Investment Committee. He is also the Co-Founder & CEO of Valon, the leading FinTech mortgage servicer. Prior to Valon, Andrew was a Principal at Soros Fund Management, focusing on the intersection of private credit and venture capital. Andrew began his career at Goldman Sachs in the aviation finance group. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA and MA in Computer Science

Dan serves on Kairos’s Investment Committee as an Investing Partner. He also serves as COO of Bilt.

Dan joined Kairos from Stone Point Capital, where he served as a VP investing across private equity, venture capital and real estate. He specialized in financial services and real estate investments. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions group.

He graduated from Brown University with a BA in Economics and History.

Michael was previously a Principal at The Social Entrepreneurs’ Fund (TSEF), an early stage venture capital firm that invests in software and services that support everyday Americans and the organizations that serve them. Prior to TSEF, Michael was a Consultant at Altman Vilandrie & Company, a boutique strategy consultancy serving the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors, where he focused on due diligence of technology and telecom assets. Michael holds a B.S. from Brown University where he studied electrical engineering.

Sarah is passionate about Kairos’s mission of building innovative companies can play in solving the toughest public policy challenges. She leads on growth, strategy, fundraising, and investor relations to support this.

Sarah joined Kairos in 2020 from Andela where she was Chief of Staff. Prior to that, she led strategic engagement across North America for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), working with companies ahead of IPO and driving growth. As a regular public speaker on transatlantic capital markets issues, she was appointed Chair of the UK Department of International Trade’s Working Group on US/UK Capital Markets in 2019.

Before moving to the US, Sarah headed up LSEG’s International Government Relations, working on ground breaking initiatives including the launch of the UK-China Stock Connect programme – the first ever program enabling western companies to be traded in China and vice versa, and partnered with the UK Government to grow domestic capital markets in key African countries. She also led government relations on LSEG’s M&A transactions.

Prior to her move to financial services, Sarah spent two years as Head of Briefing for the UK Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron MP. Between 2007 and 2008, she was a Senior Researcher to the Rt Hon Theresa May MP. She also worked as a Parliamentary Select Committee reporter, and for Independent Diplomat – a foreign policy focused NGO.

Sarah holds a first class degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Manchester, and a Masters degree from King’s College London. In 2016, she was named as one of Management Today’s 35 Under 35 business women, and was also shortlisted for the UK’s Women of the Future Awards. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

Georges Clement is a product leader and operator serving as an Operating Partner with Kairos, working closely with Kairos portfolio companies on product and go-to-market strategy. Previously, he was was the Founder and Executive Director of JustFix, an affordable housing technology nonprofit based in NYC. He has also worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Human Ventures and in product management at General Assembly and Blue Ridge Labs. He brings extensive public policy experience, advising the US Treasury Department on the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, serving on the Eric Adams Mayoral Transition Team, and earning his Master's degree in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and Fellow with the Aspen Institute.

Tim was previously the Controller at Landis, a Series B real estate technology company, where he built, led, and managed the accounting and reporting for the company and all of its real estate holdings. He started his career in Public Accounting before holding multiple roles in private equity fund accounting and finance. Tim is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York.

Ciara O’Sullivan is Head of People Operations at Kairos. She’s responsible for all things employee experience & company culture, including hiring, office management, events, and onboarding processes across the Kairos family. Prior to Kairos, Ciara worked at Grovo Learning, a micro-learning company that was later acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand. While at Grovo, she was responsible for office management, employee experience, and corporate event planning. She was a critical member of the acquisition team, executing on various due diligence tasks leading up to deal execution, and later joined the Cornerstone OnDemand team to oversee the integration of Grovo employees as well as the employee experience of remote employees throughout the US. Ciara graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in English Education.

Cyrus is a Content Manager at Kairos, leading the strategy and execution of editorial and social media content. Having started his career in marketing and branding at early stage startups, and later honing his obsession with great content in the media space for brands like Domino, and GQ, helping Kairos develop its voice is a natural intersection of passions. Cyrus holds a BA in Art and Communication Studies from Davidson College. He grew up in Aurora, Colorado, and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke

Nick is a content strategist and consultant at Kairos, leveraging his extensive experience and storytelling ability to propel our portfolio companies towards impactful and resonant content initiatives through a variety of formats. Prior to Kairos, Nick was the Head of Content at the Emmy Award-winning creative studio, The Skin Deep. There, he produced, directed, and developed an array of projects ranging from interactive documentaries and mobile apps to purpose-driven card games and immersive theatrical live events. Nick holds a B.A. in Communication and Media Studies from Fordham University.

Angela started her career working in food-related television production, where she was involved in creative planning and execution. She decided to follow her passion into the world of organic food, founding a company that performed field marketing activities and grassroots activations for dozens of industry-leading brands. During this time, she managed a team of more than a hundred people in several regions across the country and gained valuable hands-on experience on the front lines of the food business.

Through this experience, Angela identified an opportunity to reinvent the baby food category, and soon began working on a solution. This solution would become Little Spoon, the first company to deliver fresh, nutritionally optimized baby food via a direct-to-consumer model.

As co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Angela directs branding and creative and meticulously oversees every consumer-facing touchpoint, ranging from physical product to digital experience. An avid chef and boutique fitness junkie, Angela is passionate about health, wellness, design and the future of food. Angela grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and received her BS in Marketing from St. Joseph’s University. She lives in New York City.

Anne Fulenwider is the co-founder of a women’s health company incubated by Kairos, where she also serves as an operating partner. From 2012-2019, she was the Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire, where she oversaw all content for the brand in the United States. She also appeared as a frequent judge on the Emmy-winning TV show Project Runway and the mentor on Project Runway All Stars. Fulenwider launched her journalism career at The Paris Review, spent a decade at Vanity Fair, and has served as a judge of the Pulitzer Prizes. In 2017 Fulenwider was named to the New York State Council on Women and Girls by Governor Andrew Cuomo, and is an advisor to the UN Foundation’s Girl Up. Fulenwider graduated from Harvard University in 1995. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Ben is the Co-Founder of Rhino, a company that enables consumers to rent deposit free. Prior to starting Rhino, Ben oversaw acquisitions, development and management for a private multifamily development business. Previously, Ben worked at Goldman Sachs raising capital, structuring debt, and repositioning consumer and real estate assets while executing over $10bn of related transactions. Ben received his S.B. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 and lives in Los Angeles.

Ben Lewis is co-founder and CEO of Little Spoon. A serial entrepreneur, Ben’s experience lies at the intersection of brands, technology and food. He has worked extensively in the organic food industry, honing a well-rounded understanding of consumer facing brands and what it takes to build them. Prior to Little Spoon, Ben built a national distribution company that acted as an incubator to up-and-coming food and beverage brands. In several years, Ben grew the company to more than $25mm in revenue, building a nimble just-in-time perishable supply chain spanning 8 regions. Through this, Ben scaled the operations of dozens of emerging brands to a national footprint and helped to pioneer trends like cold-pressed juice and cold-brew coffee, taking them from obscure, emerging concepts to household buzzwords. Ben also co-founded and later sold The Epic Seed, a Greek yogurt brand with a national footprint and a cult-like following. Ben attended the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

Mahiben (Ben) Maruthappu is a British physician, academic researcher, health policy specialist and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cera, a tech-enabled homecare company, and was the first president of the United Kingdom Medical Students’ Association (UKMSA). He co-founded the National Health Service (NHS) Innovation Accelerator (NIA), a program that supports and accelerates the adoption of new healthcare treatments and technologies, and served as NHS England’s Innovation Adviser to the CEO on their $100 billion of annual health spending. He has published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Maruthappu led the 2016 study that linked the global economic crisis to 260,000 additional cancer deaths in a group of developed countries while demonstrating the protective effect of universal health coverage. The study, published in The Lancet, was ranked as one of the most influential research papers of 2016.

In November 2018, Maruthappu was named on the Financial Times’ list of the ‘Top 100 minority ethnic leaders in technology.

Bryan Woods is the Co-Founder & CTO of Rhino. Prior to starting Rhino, Bryan spent 14 years building and scaling software products and engineering teams. He previously held Lead Software Engineer roles at PS Dept., HowAboutWe, Drop.io, & Samsung Electronics.

Michelle Muller is Co-founder & Chief Experience Officer at Little Spoon, the modern parent’s go-to brand for keeping their child healthy. Prior to starting Little Spoon, Michelle found inspiration in the health & wellness world, studying at the IIN where she is a certified health coach. She then became a business associate at the Ian Schrager Company. When her first of three boys was born, there was no question that he would have the best baby food available and that happened to be straight from Michelle’s kitchen. Two children and thousands of hours of cooking and pureeing later, she left her corporate job in real estate to launch Little Spoon.

Michelle is often invited to speak across the US, join podcasts and further the conversation around women-led startups. Michelle graduated from The University of Texas with a BS in Communication and Government as well as a Business Foundation from The McCombs School of Business.

Monica Molenaar is an entrepreneur, currently co-founder of a women’s health company incubated by the Kairos, where she is also an operating partner. Previously, Molenaar founded the cult specialty foods brand Seed + Mill, introducing gourmet halva and tahini to the United States and tapping into the viral trend toward plant-based and gluten-free eating. Prior to graduating from Stanford Business School, Molenaar worked in management consulting and commercial real estate. (While at Tishman Speyer Properties, she participated in the redevelopment of Rockefeller Center and the sale of the Chrysler Building.) After receiving her MBA, she became a Director of Marketing at Knoll Furniture. At the age of 40, Monica tested positive for the BRCA gene and elected to remove her ovaries prophylactically, which sent her into early menopause overnight. She quickly realized there was a need for simple, trusted solutions to this largely ignored phase of a woman’s life, and the idea for her new company was born. She graduated from Brown in 1996 and currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and two sons