The Shobeir Show

Amit Monheit is the CEO and Co-Founder of Odeeo, the global leader in in-game audio advertising solutions. Monheit and his co-founder Elad Stern started Odeeo in 2020 with a vision of connecting mobile games to the evolving digital audio ad ecosystem, building on their decades of success in digital advertising. Prior to starting Odeeo, Monheit served as Head of Growth and Monetization at Audioburst after leading several global business units in senior roles at ironSource for over seven years. Since launching Odeeo, the company has expanded across the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, and has already established partnerships with some of the top global mobile publishers.

Nick Gross is the founder of Gross Labs, his family office, incubation, and investment firm founded in 2019. He is also the active CEO and founder of Find Your Grind, a student-led learning and self discovery software in K12.The Gross Labs ecosystem includes the K12 learning technology company Find Your Grind; an investment portfolio of over 50 companies, including X Games, 100 Thieves, Breakaway Music Festival, Beatbox Beverages, and more; a music division with John "Feldy" Feldmann with artists including Mod Sun, The Used, and The Veronicas; and minority stakes in DC Pickleball Club and Liga MX Club Necaxa. Gross also built the Los Angeles recording studio and content facility The Noise Nest.Gross has had an extensive music career as the drummer for Sony Epic and MTV recording artist Open Air Stereo, and more recently, girlfriends, a pop-punk duo with Apple Music & MTV host Travis Mills. Girlfriends has recently toured in 2023 with Avril Lavingne and Machine Gun Kelly. He has parlayed this experience in the music industry into a career as an entrepreneur within both the music and entertainment industries.In 2018, Gross launched Find Your Grind- a software in schools that helps students discover who they are and where they want to go. Find Your Grind started hosting nation-wide speaking tours in high schools and major college campuses w/ partners Amazon Prime Student, TikTok, Twitch and more. In addition to his business ventures, Gross is the Executive Director of the Find Your Grind Foundation- a non profit focused on enriching the lives of the next generation through sports, education and music. In addition to the Find Your Grind Foundation, Gross sits on the board of The Gross Family Foundation. Nick has a board observer seat with Breakaway Music Festival.

Bryan Talebi is the CEO and Co‐Founder of Ahura AI, an innovative AI leader who hasdeveloped a powerful platform that fosters true learning and skills knowledge,to positively impact the lives of companies and their workforces worldwide.He was born in the southeastern desert of Iran in a home with no running water orelectricity. His family fled to Turkey where they lived in a refugee camp for several years andeventually made their way to the United States.Gifted beyond his years, he proceeded to teach himself quantum mechanics and quantumphysics at the age of 12 and became one of the youngest engineers working for the NASAGoddard Space Center at the age of 16.After college, a trip back to his childhood village in Iran reconnecting with childhood friendsand observing that they had become illiterate sheepherders, he wondered, “How manypeople have been robbed of their potential to impact the world because they hadnot had access to education? Further, how do we make investments that create massiveimpact and affect billions of people to rapidly prepare for careers in the labor market of thefuture? We can start with innovation and machine learning.”His leadership roles in startup endeavors including Southwestern, Zocdoc, Sols, Bizzabo, andVestorly has equipped him to lead Ahura AI’s pioneering way to advance learning 3 x 5times faster, recognizing that everyone learns at a different cadence and at their best withdifferent formats of education.Ahura AI’s vision is to embolden human purpose by creating technology to educate andposition 10 times more of the world’s population to take on the most critical challenges in the4th industrial revolution.Bryan has spoken on many stages around the world as a keynote speaker, hosted eventsalongside change makers at Davos, and won awards for innovation in education.Bryan is the founder of the Future of Humanity Summit, which brings together a communityof high impact CEO’s, investors, global experts, ultra high net worth individuals,

Kayvan Baroumand is Founder and President of SignalRank. He previously Founded and ran Innowise Inc. a technology innovation center. Kayvan has been a leader with international business experience in the technology, venture capital, manufacturing, healthcare, professional services and distribution sectors. As a founder or top executive of multiple top incubators and accelerators in Silicon Valley (GSV Labs, Plug and Play Tech Center, AlwaysOn), Kayvan has significant experience, deep connections and a robust network in corporate and business development, venture capital, entrepreneurs and startups.

SleepScore Founder and CEO Colin Lawlor is a sleep and wellness veteran and a passionate believer in the power of technology to connect dots and drive better health outcomes. Lawlor's career has spanned over 30 years, having worked at ResMed, BiancaMed, and Bio-Medical Research Ltd., leading firms in the sleep science & wellness space. These opportunities have provided him with diverse experience in global consumer health and wellness, digital health, data science, and e-commerce. Colin leads SleepScore on its mission to leverage the most comprehensive Sleep AI platform to advance the science and develop unique solutions that help millions of people around the world to improve their sleep. SleepScore entered the Deloitte Fast 500 at position 105 in 2022 and also entered the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies in the United States. Originally from Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Colin started his working life at a certain global brewing company. He is keenly aware that while a pint of Guinness may be “good for you,” having one too many will definitely impact your sleep.

Sumit Rai is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Cancer Check Labs, where he has been instrumental in the development of its groundbreaking circulating tumor cell (CTC) capture technology since 2010. This innovation has opened new possibilities in cancer diagnostics and treatment, positioning Cancer Check Labs as a leader in oncology breakthroughs. Motivated by the loss of his younger sister to cancer, Mr. Rai has been dedicated to curing the disease, serving as the President of Cure Sonia, a nonprofit he founded in 2012. Cure Sonia funds cancer research at top institutions like Stanford, MD Anderson, and USC provides financial support to underserved cancer patients, and promotes bone marrow donor registration, having registered over 10,000 donors through more than 300 drives in 60 cities.Additionally, Mr. Rai is the President and founder of Save a Firefighter, a nonprofit that offers free cancer screenings to firefighters, a group that faces a cancer risk three times higher than the general population due to job-related hazards. His dedication to cancer-related causes earned him a nomination to the National Board of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in 2022.Mr. Rai previously founded Mobclix, a leading real-time bidding mobile advertising exchange that saw rapid growth to 15 billion monthly mobile ad impressions and $50 million in annual revenue, ultimately being acquired by Velti and Telefonica. With over 20 years of venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund experience, he has led acquisitions and investments in numerous companies across sectors, including LSTAT, a trauma support system acquired from Northrop Grumman, and Magma Design Automation, later acquired by Synopsys.Mr. Rai’s extensive experience as an angel investor includes board positions at startups like Fastbite, acquired by Square; Muzik, a smart wearable technology company; Braidio, an enterprise software platform; and OpenSense, a software firm enhancing branded email communications. He is a frequent mentor, judge, and lecturer for business competitions at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He has spoken at industry events hosted by Ernst & Young, Asian Venture Capital Journal, and TIE. Mr. Rai earned a Bachelor of Science and Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he graduated as a Regent Scholar.

Michael Perry is a proud father, uncle, brother, son and husband. He is the Founder and CEO of Maple, a family-tech startup looking to ease the burden of parenting, freeing up families to spend more quality time together. Michael was formerly the founder and CEO of Kit, an AI employee for small business owners, which was acquired by Shopify in 2016. At Shopify, he was a Senior Director of Product and oversaw Partnerships. He left his role at Shopify in 2020, after becoming a father, to develop a platform that would change the world of parenting through technology that already exists for nearly every other industry. Michael has been recognized by Forbes as a 30 under 30 for Marketing, Inc Magazine as a top influencer of the Bot space and highlighted by Business Insider as a top 30 Marketing executive globally.

Fabien-Pierre Nicolas is the co-founder and CEO of Titan AI. Previously, Fabien was responsible for SmartNews US growth to a $2 billion company as Vice-President, US Marketing. Previously he was Vice President of Marketing at App Annie, General Manager of Mobile at Perfect World, and has worked at DeNA West leading the marketing teams to scale mobile hits such as Rage of Bahamut and Marvel War of Heroes. He holds an M.B.A and B.A. from Grenoble School of Management in France.

Before co-founding OfferFit, George Khachatryan was Assoiate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led transformation of some of the world’s largest companies. Previously, George co-founded a technology company whose products are used today over 1 million users. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Cornell University.