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TEAM

We bring together exceptional science, business, startup and finance experience, as well as an extensive international longevity network.

Petr Sramek, MBA
Co-founder, Chairman and Managing/General Partner
Petr has been a serial tech entrepreneur for more than 33 years and believes that science and technology can help humanity reach a new, better level of being. He is building science, funding, and business infrastructure to support faster adoption of health-span improving technologies. He is a founder of Longevitytech.fund, former Entrepreneur in Residence at Singularity University, co-founder of the Longevityforum.eu, board member at Animal Biosciences (US), AgeCurve (UK), iamYiam (UK) and other longevity startups. He helps innovative teams in the Longevity sector grow into confident companies with global ambitions. He provides advice on fundraising, strategy, and product management. He advises companies as a mentor at Foresight Institute and On Deck Longevity Biotech.
Dr. Ana Baroni, MD. Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer
Dr Ana Baroni holds degrees in Medicine and Journalism, as well as a doctorate in Molecular Diagnosis. With 20+ years of experience in consulting for longevity, regenerative, functional, integrative, and precision medicine, she is well-equipped to consider the whole picture and stay updated on innovative technology related to health. She is a Professor at Barcelona University in its Master in Longevity program. She sits on scientific advisory boards for longevity and biotech companies in the US, EU, and Middle East. She has completed a postdoctoral program in Family Medicine, as well as a four-year residency in Occupational Medicine. Dr. Baroni has undergone executive education programs such as Business Strategy and Financial Performance from INSEAD, Competitive Advantage from Wharton, and Disruptive Innovation from Harvard. She is also the Chief Medical Officer of HealthyLongevity.clinic.

General Partners

Petr Novotny
Co-founder and Board Member
Founder and Editor in Chief of Investicniweb.cz (from 2009) - the leading investment news platform in Czech. 12 year of experience as licensed SE trader at Eastbrokers, Merrill Lynch, Citibank a HVB Bank. He also manages investment fairs like Investment forum and Trading Expo and TV shows O2 TV a Byznys index. He successfully managed his previous real estate fund to more than 200% ROI. He graduated on American Institute of Arts and Science with a specialization on portfolio management (MBA).
Vladislav Severa, PhD
Partner
Vladislav Severa has spent almost two decades in the field of Corporate Finance, having worked on a number of premiere deals in the CEE region and leading the regional Transaction Advisory team of a Big Four firm, before establishing and leading also its CE Advanced Analytics practice. More recently, Vladislav has been active as a founder or sponsor of AI-aided start-ups in education technology. Vladislav graduated in Physics from Charles University in Prague, where he also earned Ph.D. in Mathematics, and is joining Longevitytech.fund as a co-founder.
Jan Kleindienst, PhD
Fund Strategy
Head of IBM Watson AI R&D Lab, Prague. Skilled in managing international research and engineering around AI, natural language processing, speech and conversational technologies. Strong and seasoned professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Mathematics and Computer Science from Charles University in Prague. Jan has 40+ international patents and many scientific publications around AI.

Team

Raghav Sehgal
Principal Scientist
A PhD student at Yale University with a cumulative experience of 7 years embedding Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to the Biomedical space, Raghav is an expert in understanding and evaluating Computational Biomedical technologies. Over the last few years Raghav has been using his skills to build the next generation of Epigenetic based Aging Biomarkers that explain heterogeneity in Aging and Ageotypes for which he has received multiple grants and fellowships such as the Gruber fellowship, Impetus Aging grant and more. Raghav has also been closely involved in building and managing multiple Biomedical Data Science startups from Series A to pre-seed funding stage. Raghav is also deeply involved in the entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem at Yale as a fellow at Yale’s tech-transfer and investments office. His ultimate goal through his work is to identify and build the next generation of technologies that will transform human health.
Bolek Kerous
Associate
A generalist interested in building a better future. Co-founder & CEO of Animi, the first app for alexithymia. Co-founder of Longevityforum.eu, discussion platform aiming to bring the longevity topic into the mainstream starting in Czechia. He's written articles on topics including longevity and biohacking for Eccentric Club blog. He helped to steward the Foresight Institute Biotech & Health Extension world-class working group and was involved in the European Longevity Initiative. He has years of experience working in startups and attended the well-known 500 Startups accelerator in Silicon Valley. He is actively using his insight to build a personal portfolio of promising startups including Revolut,  Hypersciences, Viridian Space, or LifeLength.

Advisors

Prof. Mgr. Jiri Damborsky, Dr.
Academic Board Member
Josef Loschmidt Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and a group leader at the International Centre for Clinical Research. Research of his group focuses on protein engineering. His group develops new concepts and software tools for protein engineering (CAVER, CAVERDOCK, HOTSPOT WIZARD, PREDICTSNP, FIREPROT, CALFITTER), and uses them for the computational design of enzymes. He has published >200 original articles, 18 book chapters and filed 7 international patents. He is a co-founder of the first biotechnology spin-off from Masaryk University - Enantis Ltd. Among the awards and distinctions, he has received the award EMBO/HHMI Scientist of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
MUDr. Frantisek Zamola
Academic Board Member
A doctor with 30 years of experience in elite sports, especially in the field of fitness and bodybuilding. A specialist in athlete supplementation, a certified consultant and the head of an outpatient clinic in nutrition genetics, pharmacogenetics, sports and lifestyle genetics. Has worked for several international pharmaceutical companies (Glaxo, Yamanouchi, Krewel Meuselbach) and for the Czech Genetic Laboratory (Vemodia, KitGen), cooperating partner of several renowned European and American companies dealing with DNA analysis and telomere biology (DNA Plus, Novogenia, Life Length, T.A. Science). Physician of the Center for Medical Provision of Sports Representation in ÚVN Prague. A member of A4M (American Academy of Anti aging Medicine).