Noor is passionate about enabling disruptive technology companies and their emerging market founders to solve real problems while changing the world with measurable impact. Noor is a founder, investor, and operator.

Identified by Forbes magazine as one of the “World’s Top 50 Women in Tech”, Noor's previous roles include CIO at The Dubai Future Foundation, and founder of ZenYoga studio chain (acquired by Cedarbridge). Furthermore, Noor was the first Arab woman to scale, IPO and operate a public company in the MENA region, listing Depa on the NASDAQ Dubai and the London Stock Exchange (DEPA:DU) for US$1.1. billion in April 2008.

In addition to board roles on Global Ventures’ portfolio companies, Noor is Chairperson of the Middle East Venture Capital Association and Director for MIT Sloan and TechWadi. Noor is also the independent Chairperson of the board for Clue Health.

Noor holds a bachelors’ degrees in Finance and Economics from Boston College, an MBA from MIT Sloan, and began her career as a Biotechnology and pharmaceutical strategy consultant in the US. She is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and is recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

JP Gan is a Founding Partner of INCE Capital. With over 25 years of experience in venture capital, Mr. Gan has been ranked a top venture capitalist worldwide by the Forbes Midas List for seven consecutive years and was No.5 on the global list in 2019. He has been named a top venture capitalist in Asia and China by multiple media and institutions including CB Insights / New York Times, Fortune Magazine, AVCJ, Zero2IPO, ChinaVenture, and 36Kr.

Focusing on Internet, consumer and intelligent technologies sectors, Mr. Gan’s successful investments include Trip.com Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: TCOM, HKEX: 9961, a director since 2002), Bilibili Inc. (NASDAQ: BILI, HKEX: 9626, a director since 2015), Dianping.com (merged with Meituan, HKEX: 3690), Musical.ly (acquired by ByteDance and became TikTok), Meitu Inc. (HKEX: 1357), Jiayuan.com, PPS Inc and ATL.

Prior to founding INCE Capital, Mr. Gan had been a Managing Partner and member of the investment committee of Qiming Venture Partners for 13 years. He started his venture capital career at the Carlyle Group in 2000 and was a Director and founding member of its Asian venture fund. He also worked at KongZhong Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Gan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBA from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the Chicago Booth Council and Polsky Center Council. He is also a board member of GPCA.

Michael’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2000 when he co-founded an IT managed services startup in Europe that was acquired by a large data and telecom company six years later. In 2007, Michael founded a venture fund focused on Dutch small- and medium-sized enterprises to help them with capital financing, business development, and strategy. During the same period, he was invited to join the Economic Development Board Rotterdam as Vice Chairman. In that role, he launched the Young Economic Development Board where he brought together a highly influential Dutch network to develop a sustainable framework for public-private relationships that increased local business investment while leveraging the public infrastructure.

Michael is currently leading growth venture efforts, which include LP fundraising and portfolio management for Golden Gate Venture's investments at Series B and beyond. Since joining in 2013, he has raised over USD $60M for Golden Gate Ventures and its portfolio companies, including helping to raise later stage rounds from external investors as well as leading two early strategic acquisitions.

Outside of work, sport is an essential part of Michael’s life. He is a former member of the Dutch karate team and the former ambassador for Treknology (Trek bikes distributor in Singapore). Michael actively participates in Ironman 70.3 races and marathons. He is also passionate about social justice and uses sport as a vehicle to raise awareness for important issues such as civil rights, economic opportunity, and education. Besides sport, Michael is an active advocate for racial and social equality through his work with Our Broken Chains - a documentary exploring the modern-day challenges of racial injustice.

Having been a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for 22 years, Vani now works with entrepreneurs to build high-value enterprises.

Her founders describe her as a highly available, accessible and trusted advisor and board member and as someone who always sets high standards of expectation in organizational building. Her investment philosophy includes recognizing and mentoring young, ambitious first-time entrepreneurs and helping them scale up. Through these years, she has demonstrated significant returns to her investors and enabled new paradigms for Indian consumers.

Vani believes India’s digital opportunity is still at a nascent stage with the Indian Venture Capital industry perfectly placed to capitalize from supporting an increasing number of entrepreneurs looking to build products and services for a growing, aspirational population.

Outside of work, Vani practices heartfulness meditation and yoga devotedly in addition to spending time with her family. She is actively involved in various organizations focused on fostering entrepreneurship and women leadership. Vani believes in the importance of building legacy institutions and is committed to growing Kalaari as a powerhouse venture firm in India.

Andy Tsao is the head of SVB’s Global Gateway, which assists innovation companies in the emerging markets with their US and international market expansion. He brings more than 20 years of experience banking dynamic companies in technology industries worldwide.

In his role, Tsao manages SVB’s relationships with venture capital and private equity firms outside the U.S. and also helps emerging market companies as they seek U.S. market entry and U.S. companies as they seek to expand abroad. In both capacities, Tsao provides these firms with strategic advice and banking services, including debt financing, based on a deep understanding of their needs.

Previously, Tsao led and helped found SVB’s U.K.-based operation, SVB Financial Group UK Ltd, which was established in 2004. For six years, he was responsible for building senior debt relationships with high-growth technology, life sciences and clean technology companies in the U.K. and Europe.

Tsao routinely speaks about technology and venture financing at conferences such as events held by the European Venture Capital Association, Super Return, BayBrazil, and Latin American Venture Capital Association. Tsao is a TiE Silicon Valley Charter Member and Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA) Silicon Valley Co-President and Charter Member and serves on the West Coast Advisory Board for Colgate University.

While based in London, Tsao founded and moderated SVB Financial Group UK’s Venture Capital Advisory Board, was a two-time European Tech Tour Selection Committee member, and served on Think London’s North American Task Force and the Advisory Board for Astia U.K.

Before endeavoring to open the U.K. office for SVB Financial Group, Tsao was a Senior Vice President in Silicon Valley Bank’s Boston office, where he served as a technology lender and senior relationship manager focused on New England’s technology industry.

Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank in 1997, Tsao was a technology lender at BankBoston, and BayBank in Burlington, Mass. He began his banking career with USTrust in Boston in 1988.

Tsao earned a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and an MBA from Boston University.

Carlos Ramos de la Vega is the Managing Director of VC & Tech at GPCA. In this role, he coordinates the organization’s relationships with venture and technology investors, publishes the Global Tech Brief, GPCA’s flagship newsletter on cross-border tech investment in global markets, and oversees the organization’s tech-related products and initiatives.

He is a regular speaker at meetings on tech investment in global markets and is frequently cited in the financial press including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Bloomberg.

Carlos also serves as the Director of Venture Capital at the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America (LAVCA), GPCA’s sister organization, since 2020, where he leads the organization’s relationships with venture investors, and oversees the production of Latin America-specific VC/Tech content, including the LatAm Venture Bulletin.

Prior to joining GPCA, Carlos was a member of the Mergers & Acquisition Group in UBS based in New York, where he was responsible for the analysis and due diligence of cross-border transactions between the United States, the United Kingdom, India and South Korea. 

He received his B.S. in Economics with honors distinction and Minors in Industrial Engineering and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Based in the Silicon Valley, Li Song is a managing director of Startup Banking at SVB, a division of First Citizens Bank. He leads the strategy, execution and growth of SVB’s banking mandates for venture capital/private equity (VC/PE) and innovation companies in Asia for the SVB Global Gateway team.

Since joining SVB in 2000, Li has had the privilege of personally working with over 1,000 dynamic and innovative startups on both sides of the Pacific. Some of his clients later grew to hundred-billion-dollar market cap companies, while some others never made it.

Li consistently takes detailed mental notes on the key ingredients that fueled successful clients’ growth as well as the common mistakes the failed ones made. He generously shares these insights with his clients, prospects and the greater Asian-American innovation community in the US.

In the early days of his career, Li was a global trade aide at the top of the Chinese government, where he travelled with Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng on more than 20 state visits overseas.