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Nicola Garelli
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioNicola Garelli is a curious entrepreneur and executive, currently Deputy CEO and Chief Strategy & Product Officer of Rasan, where he leads the portfolio of the first publicly listed Fintech and Insurtech in the Middle East.
Nicola has a deeply rooted engineering background and managerial experience mainly in high-tech industries, developed through years of corporate/management consulting work and leadership roles in multiple entrepreneurial ventures.
Prior to Rasan Nicola was CEO and Director of two businesses of the Emirates National Oil Company (Beema Insurance and Enoc Link), built by BCG Digital Ventures and Enoc to extend Enoc's retail capabilities and leverage data and distribution synergies across its operating entities.
Earlier, Nicola was Partner & Director in The Boston Consulting Group in London, and before that he worked for 18 years with leading corporations, including The Boston Consulting Group in Milan, Booz Allen Hamilton/Booz & Company and EY. He was also the co-founder and Chairman of iStarter, early stage investment company, and of different ventures including Iccom, telecom provider focused on microwave transmitters and Integrated Solutions, software player focused on industrial automation.
Nicola completed almost all his academic education while working full time. He holds a PhD in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, a MSc in Financial Engineering and a BSc in Telecommunication Engineering. In his research he has been an active contributor to policy topics.
Nicola is a Chartered Engineer, Member of The Council for the United States and Italy in its Young Leader Program and Junior Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was also the trustee of BCG's The Future Makers program. -
Meredith Gee
MBA, expected graduation 2027
Other Tech - Graduate, Hoover InstitutionBioMeredith Gee is an MBA Candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a technology leader with nearly a decade of experience developing and leading early-stage ventures.
Most recently, she led product design at Akido Labs, where she created and deployed clinical AI systems that expanded care capacity across diverse operational settings. With experience spanning technology, strategy, and organizational leadership, her work focuses on the intersection of AI, policy, and global markets and innovation.
Meredith received her BA with honors in Emergent Digital Practices from the University of Denver. -
Michele Gelfand
John H. Scully Professor of International Business Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychology
BioMichele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy. She was formerly a Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. Her work has been published in outlets such as Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Nature Human behavior, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, among others. Gelfand is the founding co-editor of the Advances in Culture and Psychology series (Oxford University Press). Her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World was published by Scribner in 2018. She is the Past President of the International Association for Conflict Management and co-founder of the Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution. She received the 2016 Diener award from SPSP, the 2017 Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association, the 2019 Outstanding Cultural Psychology Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the 2020 Rubin Theory-to-Practice award from the International Association of Conflict Management, the 2021 Contributions to Society award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, and the Annaliese Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation. Gelfand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
