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Paul Charles is the Founder and CEO of Full Stack Data Centers Inc., which is delivering integrated offshore and land-based AI data center solutions through its Power-to-Compute™ platform.

Offshore, Full Stack is repurposing decommissioned oil and gas platforms into AI data centers using containerized infrastructure. On land, the company delivers rapid-deployment modular AI data center structures and is also developing containerized solutions.

Full Stack offers an à la carte or full turnkey delivery, from site preparation and grid integration through power generation, energy storage, AI data centers, commissioning, and ongoing operations.

Paul works with developers, investors, governments, and technology partners on AI infrastructure, energy strategy, and economic development. He serves as Co-Chair of the NAATBatt ESS & Data Center Community and previously co-founded and served as the first CEO and President of American Battery Factory, where he secured approximately $250 million in state and utility incentive commitments for U.S. battery manufacturing.

A frequent international keynote speaker, conference chair, and moderator, Paul was named one of the Top 25 Battery Technology Influencers to Follow in 2025 by Battery Technology.

Richard Serbin — Chief Strategy Officer at Vascarta Inc.

Richard Serbin is a healthcare executive with more than five decades of experience across the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. In June 2026 he was appointed Chief Strategy Officer of Vascarta Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing transdermal therapies for inflammatory conditions such as sickle cell disease and osteoarthritis. In this new role, he works with CEO Richard Prince, Ph.D., to identify strategic partnerships, evaluate acquisitions and drive long-term business development.

Trained as a regulatory attorney, patent attorney and pharmacist, Serbin bridges science, law and commerce. He began his career at Schering-Plough as counsel and patent attorney, then served as Chief FDA Counsel at Revlon. At Johnson & Johnson, he rose from FDA Counsel to Vice President of Corporate Development and served on the boards of 16 U.S. and international J&J subsidiaries.

Serbin is also an accomplished entrepreneur. He founded several medical communications companies in the U.S. and abroad, many later acquired by larger firms, and co-founded Bio-Imaging Technologies, which applied NASA's LANDSAT technology to clinical research.

His expertise spans regulatory affairs, intellectual property, licensing, acquisitions and strategic planning. At Vascarta, he is helping expand the company's pipeline and position its transdermal platform for its next phase of growth.

MMag. Florian Huemer - Founder at PropX

For years, I operated at the highest levels of urban policy, serving as a senior cabinet member for the Austrian Vice Chancellor and as an attorney specialising in real estate and development law. I was in the engine room, navigating the complex machinery of how our cities are planned, approved, and built.

What I saw was radical: We are currently planning 21st-century cities with 20th-century tools, and the cost of that misalignment is irreversible.

I saw the recurring pattern: data silos, decision-making clouded by uncertainty, and costly mistakes set in concrete.

I founded PropX to change that trajectory.

PropX is building 'SimCity for the real world.' We develop realistic, data-driven digital twins - not just static 3D models, but breathing virtual environments. We enable city officials and developers to test, plan, and innovate before a single shovel hits the ground.

Whether it’s optimizing district-level energy consumption or stress-testing a complex real estate project, we bridge the gap between virtual planning and physical reality.

If you are looking to build a more sustainable, efficient, and intelligent future for your city, let’s connect. I would love to discuss how a digital twin can transform your next project.

Philip Seifert is a real estate entrepreneur whose work spans custom manufacturing, brokerage and international property investment, built on an academic background in history and diplomacy.

He read History at the Université du Luxembourg, with study periods in Prague and Yerevan, graduating in 2012. He went on to complete a Master's degree in Sustainable Peace with a diplomacy focus at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica.

Philip entered business in 2012 with Armadi Closets, managing client relationships for a manufacturer of custom furniture. In 2016 he moved into real estate in Miami, Florida, working under the eXp brokerage, where he built his practice advising buyers and investors.

In 2024, he founded World Key International Realty, a Florida-based brokerage serving investors entering the UAE real estate market. Today, he works with international clients navigating cross-border property investments, bringing a global perspective shaped by his experience across different markets and his academic interest in how people, institutions, and markets connect across borders.

Ms. Rabia Omar - Executive Director at ROSH-RA | International Advisory & Capital Strategy

With over eight years at ROSH Developments, Rabia leads the company as Executive Director, focusing on advisory, mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, and restructuring. Her core expertise lies in fostering valuable partnerships across private equity, private banking, asset management, and corporate training, aligning businesses, entrepreneurs, and industry experts to drive impactful results. 

As a Partner at Spencer West LLP UK from 2023 until July 2026, she contributed to business succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, arbitration, and family office advisory. Skilled in AI code reviewing, REITs, and private equity advisory, she is dedicated to building global alliances and delivering tailored solutions that empower organizations to succeed.

Her recent role as Executive Director for The Global Chambers US for Pakistan is to facilitate business between Pakistan and the US, expanding businesses and forging new strategic partnerships.

She is part of the Worldwide Independent Lawyers League, Pakistan.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Crescent Star Insurance, SBG RMC, and Blue Ex Pakistan; the Board of Governance for MIA Arbitration & Mediation; and the Board for the ESG Symposium for Pakistan.

Donald E.J. Jacobson Jr. - Founder and CEO  at Knight Eagle Consulting Services LLC (KECS)

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Donald E.J. Jacobson Jr. is the Founder and CEO of Knight Eagle Consulting Services LLC (KECS), a U.S.-based strategic advisory and business consulting firm supporting organizations navigating growth, operational complexity, international expansion, and cross-border execution.

Donald works with business leaders, professional advisors, project sponsors, and strategic partners across the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and other international markets. His work focuses on bringing structure to complex cross-border opportunities—helping organizations assess readiness, establish governance and accountability, align the right local and international partners, and move from introductions and relationships toward executable business outcomes.

His experience spans strategic advisory, operational improvement, project and program oversight, international market-entry planning, capital readiness, organizational development, and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams across jurisdictions and cultures.

A U.S. military veteran with international service experience, including assignments in Africa, Donald brings an execution-focused perspective to international collaboration and leadership. Through KECS, he emphasizes that successful cross-border business requires more than access to opportunities: it requires trusted relationships, clearly defined roles, disciplined qualification, local-market knowledge, accountability, and consistent execution.

Donald will lead the session “Leading the Consortium: Turning Cross-Border Relationships into Executable Partnerships.”

Jeremy Boss - Founder at Black Horizon LLC

Jeremy Boss is the founder of Black Horizon, an experiential leadership training company that puts senior decision-makers inside live, unscripted geopolitical crisis simulations. He spent 14 years at the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, including as a team lead and senior analyst managing some of the most consequential crises of the past decade — from grey-zone tensions in the South China Sea to the Yemen Houthi crisis during the Israel-Gaza war. That experience shaped the Orient–Map–Anchor framework, his method for helping organizations make sense of complexity under pressure. Jeremy holds a master’s degree in government and politics from the University of Maryland and now works with defense, corporate, and institutional partners to build decision-making capacity for the moments that matter most.

Daniel Azure - Founder at Azure Ventures Media Group (AVMG)

Daniel Azure is an executive whose career bridges entertainment, brand strategy, cloud technology, and real estate. Through AVMG, he has led high-impact B2B, B2C, and D2C campaigns generating significant revenue for major media companies including Sony Music, Warner Music, and Universal/Vivendi.

An AWS-certified Cloud Practitioner, Daniel has driven millions in annual recurring revenue by building strategic alliances for leading ISVs such as VMware, Dell Technologies, and Splunk — giving him a deep, firsthand understanding of the cloud infrastructure and data center ecosystem.

He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategic Alliances at Patland GmbH, alongside his consulting firm Stream Line IT EMEA, where he drives digital transformation and market expansion across global markets.

Daniel also holds an avid interest in real estate, and brings this lens — alongside his cloud and technology expertise — to the growing conversation around real estate and AI data centers as an emerging asset class.

David Milne - Project Finance & Impact Investment Advisor at Advance Consulting

David Milne is a project finance and impact investment advisor at Advance Consulting, where he works across transaction structuring, blended finance, and investment readiness for infrastructure and energy projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.

He has worked across Africa for the last 7 years and was previously based in Johannesburg and Nairobi. He is involved in the structuring of a sustainable real-estate investment in Lagos together with the Dutch architecture firm Studio Akeka. He holds an MSc in Energy Science and is based in The Netherlands.

Niyi Sanusi - Managing Partner at The Throne Legal Associates

Niyi Sanusi is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He has a first degree in Political Science and also a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Lagos.  He is Managing Partner of The Throne Legal Associates with practice areas in commercial and corporate law.

Niyi is Nigeria Representative of the African Continental Legal Alliance which is an informal alliance of law firms operating across the African continent.

He is Director of Zaki Mining Limited and Legal Adviser of several Nigerian entities. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Misrah Leadership Center and is a keen observer of international affairs and geo-politics.

He plays chess and watches football in his spare time.

Zazi Vaccalluzzo - Founder/CEO at ONEZSM

Zazi is the Founder and CEO of ONEZSM, a video-first global commerce platform building a Human Commerce Layer for cross-border business. ONEZSM helps enterprises, professionals and ecosystem partners become more visible, understandable and trade-ready across markets — using video-led profiles, structured capability data, human-centred trust signals and AI-enabled discovery to show not just what an organisation offers, but who is behind it and where collaboration is possible.

This addresses a gap in conventional digital trade systems: data alone rarely creates confidence across borders. Real trade decisions depend on context, credibility, relationships and the right introduction at the right moment. ONEZSM combines video storytelling, curated profiles, trusted networks and corridor-based partnerships to convert visibility into trust, trust into connection, and connection into trade.

Zazi works across Africa, the Baltics and wider international trade routes, focused on creating more equitable routes to visibility for growth-ready SMEs, women- and youth-led businesses, and founders with strong capability but limited access to international networks.

She also serves as Executive Director of Global Chamber® Estonia | Baltics, building corridor-based pathways between entrepreneurs, investors, diaspora leaders and market partners — including the Africa–Baltics Bridge and structured market-access programmes.

At The Delivery Network, Zazi brings perspective on how a curated, video-led directory can become a trusted discovery layer for built-environment professionals, firms and investors — enabling clearer capability, credibility and cross-border introductions across Nigeria, the diaspora and global markets, aligning with the Network's ambition to enable knowledge and technology transfer through a credibility-backed network.

Paula Macedo - Founder and Managing Director at PDA Portugal

Paula Macedo is the Founder and Managing Director of PDA Portugal, a buyer-only advisory firm representing purchasers exclusively across residential and commercial real estate in Portugal.

With a background in Sociology and Real Estate Management & Valuation, Paula has over twenty years of experience advising high-net-worth individuals, families, and institutional investors from across Europe, the US, and Africa, on property acquisition, relocation, and investment structuring in Portugal.  PDA Portugal provides a fully integrated service — from property procurement and investment analysis to financing, legal and tax advisory, and visa structuring — always placing the client's interest at the centre.  A member of Fiabci and the Global Chamber® Portugal Chapter, Paula is an active connector between international capital and Portuguese real estate opportunities, including emerging asset classes such as luxury hospitality and AI data centre infrastructure.

Dr Chukwu Emeke

Dr Chukwu Emeke is a highly accomplished Energy expert with an impressive career spanning over 20 years in the oil and gas industry, encompassing both offshore and onshore operations. Currently, he holds a pivotal role at Platform Petroleum Limited, a renowned player in the field of marginal oil production and one of the pioneers in achieving first oil in 2007.

Chukwu Emeke's career journey includes significant contributions to Nigeria's first deep offshore project, the Abo FPSO as part of the operations team. His deep understanding of the entire energy value chain, from crude oil production processes to evacuation models and oil well planning, sets him apart. He possesses exceptional leadership and man-management skills, allowing him to strategically deploy human resources to achieve corporate objectives effectively.

One of his notable accomplishments has been his leadership of the Crude Oil evacuation team for an impressive 13 years, overseeing the safe evacuation of over Sixty Million (60,000,000) barrels of on-spec crude to both Brass and Forcados terminals. Furthermore, Chukwu Emeke was also part of the team that successfully designed and delivered an in-fill well for water disposal and several ongoing well projects expected to substantially increase asset holdings and production capacity.

Educationally, Chukwu Emeke earned his Higher National Diploma in Petroleum and Gas Processing Technology from the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in 2007, and subsequently obtained a follow-up degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Portharcourt.

He actively contributes to the Oil and Gas industry as a Board Member with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Lagos Section, served as the Student Chapter Liaison Chairperson, Section Secretary, the Special project chair and currently the Sponsorship chair. As a multiple award recipient, he won the 2024 SPE Africa regional production and operations award, the 2025 WAY award and the 2026 SPE Africa Region Service award.

As part of his national contributions, he serves as the current national Secretary of the Institution of Petroleum Engineers (NIPeteE) a division of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) where he contributes to nation building through Oil and Gas advocacy.  

Chukwu Emeke's unwavering commitment to knowledge acquisition is evident in his extensive post-graduate qualifications, which include an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Benin, an MBA from the same institution, and a Mini MBA from the Tekedia Institute in Boston, USA. He holds a PhD degree in Petroleum Economics, Management and Policy from the Emerald Energy Institute, University of Port Harcourt and has published over 30 papers in reputable local and international journals. He is a prolific speaker with over 40 speaking engagements across diverse subject areas in a calendar year.

Chukwu Emeke is happily married to Dr. Mrs. Victoria Chukwu, and they are blessed with two children.

Ademola Eleso  - Thought Leader: Telecoms, Infrastructure, Innovation

Ademola Eleso is one of the architects of Africa's mobile revolution. As founding Chief Technical Officer of MTN Nigeria, he was a key executive behind the company's GSM network rollout and fibre deployment, helping build what became one of the continent's largest mobile networks. That network reached its five-year targets within two years, an experience that shapes his conviction that African markets are routinely underestimated and that builders should design for scale from day one.

His career spans more than three decades and three continents. From 1988 to 1995 he worked in network engineering design and planning at BT Cellnet (now O2) in the UK. From 1995 to 2000 he served as Director of Technology at Airtel Móviles (now Vodafone Spain), on assignment from AirTouch International (now Verizon Wireless) in San Francisco. He later led technology at Vodafone Qatar, and as CEO of Multi-Links Telecommunications in Nigeria, led a turnaround and a strategic transaction aimed at launching a 4G/LTE mobile broadband operator.

Alongside his corporate roles, Eleso is an entrepreneur who turns technical depth into viable businesses. He co-founded mCentric, a Spanish telecoms software company, leads mCentric Nigeria, a systems integration and consulting firm, and founded Contact Solutions (ConSol), a leading Nigerian contact centre provider, where he serves as Chairman.

He is also a founding Director of Zap Mobility, a business focused on the EV transition in Africa, which is currently deploying an EV fleet for Bolt's ride-hailing service in Lagos.
Eleso speaks on building technology for billions, scaling infrastructure in emerging markets, and bridging engineering and commercial strategy. He holds a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Liverpool John Moores University and an MSc in Digital Communications Systems from Loughborough University.

Jacques M. Jean - Founder & CEO, TechFides

TechFides deploys private AI on hardware the client owns, configured for how that business actually runs. No cloud dependency, no per-seat rent, no data leaving the building. The firm works with small and mid-size businesses, enterprises and public institutions.

Jacques came to it after twenty-five years inside companies large enough to set their own terms. At Schneider Electric he was IT Business Stakeholder for the $4B IT division and led the IT engagement strategy for its $7B Industrial Automation division. Earlier he led IT for Honeywell's CPG business across Europe, Asia and Latin America, and served as Six Sigma Leader for Honeywell Corporate throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. He also worked at Invensys, and began his career as an IT Security Policy Business Analyst at AlliedSignal. Fifteen countries in all.

That history is why he reads AI demand differently. Large organisations have always controlled their own stack, because they had the leverage to insist on it. Everyone else rents. What changed is that capable models now run on hardware that fits under a desk, which puts ownership within reach of a four-person office, a clinic, or a ministry. Where power, connectivity and data sovereignty are real constraints rather than talking points, that shift decides where the workloads actually land.

As Co-Chair (Founding) of the American Business Council Gabon, Jacques works the commercial ground between U.S. companies and Gabonese institutions. In Texas he serves on the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a bipartisan group of more than 230 business, military, faith and civic leaders co-chaired by former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and serves on executive advisory boards for the Festival of the Diaspora, Casa Innovation, Neptune Chain and Tartan Advisory Partners.

Born in Haiti, he founded Universal Learning Centre, a 501(c)(3) that has built three public libraries in the north of the country, in Pilate, Ferrier and Ouanaminthe, serving a region of more than 500,000 people.

Melissa B. Mannino - Baker & Hostetler LLP

Melissa co-leads Baker Hostetler's International Trade and National Security Team and is a Chambers ranked export and sanction practitioner. She has significant experience working on export controls and semiconductor both working at the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security and in private practice. She regularly advises foreign and US companies on the ever-changing export controls on semiconductors and remote access issues. Her law firm has a practice area on Data Centres.

Amaia Celaya Álvarez - Architect · Urban planner · Climate adaptation and resilience expert

Amaia Celaya Álvarez is an architect and urban planner with over 25 years of experience in climate adaptation, urban resilience, disaster risk reduction and area-based approaches. She works at the meeting point of urban development and humanitarian action, helping cities, governments and international agencies turn resilience from a concept into practice.

From 2016 to 2023 she was Programme Normative and Operations Coordinator at UN-Habitat's City Resilience Global Programme in Barcelona. There she led a team of 32, designed resilience tools used across Latin America, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe, and coordinated resilience action reports for cities including Asunción, Dakar, Maputo, Port Vila and Tunis. She also led joint work with the WHO and the ISO urban resilience guidelines (ISO/TC 292).

Today she advises the European Commission and the UN system. Since 2023 she has advised DG ECHO on area-based approaches in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, including the triple nexus. She is a Just Transition Peers expert and Horizon Europe evaluator (around 40 projects reviewed), a validated transfer expert for the European Urban Initiative and URBACT, and an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC special report on cities due in March 2027. From 2024 to 2026 she served as Senior Migration and Climate Expert with UNOPS–Cities Alliance across nine intermediate cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, and she has reviewed climate and nature-based solutions work for IOM in Iraq, South Sudan and Ecuador.

Amaia holds a Master's in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Navarra and a Master's in Humanitarian Action (NOHA, Erasmus Mundus). She directs the Master in Design for Resilience (UCC/ELISAVA), has lectured at Columbia University and Newcastle University, and recently authored Resilience in Design (2025). She is also a trained classical guitarist.

Doug Bruhnke is CEO of Global Chamber®. Doug is a founder, entrepreneur and global connector focused on advancing Global Chamber® member businesses with new clients, and into new markets. He worked in corporate for decades, first the Dupont Company in Asia and globally, and later Phelps Dodge / Freeport McMoRan. Doug had two expatriate assignments, one in Tokyo and another in Singapore. He has 40 years of global trade experience working with clients in every market segment including automotive, aerospace, industrial, manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences, mining, retail and tech. 

Doug has 5 U.S. patents related to his work at Central Research in DuPont. His education includes a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah and an EMBA from Michigan State University. Doug's affiliations include the Global Chamber®, Arizona District Export Council, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Thunderbird Global Alumni Network (TGAN) Advisory Council and hundreds of groups in Global Chamber®. He is a German-Polish American born in New York and living in warm Arizona and sunny California. Doug is blessed with a wonderful wife of 44 years, a beautiful and talented daughter and a superstar grandson.