Concave Summit 2025 - Speaker

​Illai Gescheit.

Venture Partner, Systemiq Capital

Illai is an entrepreneur, board advisor and investor. Illai is a Founding Partner of Gescheit & Partners, a multi-stage venture advisory firm and a Venture Partner at Systemiq Capital. He was a Venture Partner at Siemens Energy Ventures and previously served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at BP.  

Illai is an inventor of over 20 patents and his early entrepreneurial story was featured in the Harvard-MIT book publication Entrepreneurial Negotiation. He is a Top Voice on Linkedin, a member of the Ashoka Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur Network and a member of the Expert Network for the World Economic Forum. 

Illai is an Affiliate Lecturer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School and an Executive Affiliate, at the Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University. 

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