TEAM

Tanner KHANDAKER. (General PARTNER)

Tanner , Previously he served as the Managing Director independent RESEARCH FIRM (2004-2012) Khandaker Partners Inc., a Contrarian Value BASED Independent research practice. Tanner has over 25 years of Investment Banking experience. TANNER IS A SERIAL entrepreneur and co-founded EEMU , HUEGo.ai ,BUMBLEBEE (bee3.Ai), NEUHU and CRSPRGEN, Part of FRONTIER.AI FUNd PORFOLIO, 2019-2024. PREVIOUSLY Tanner COFOUNDED TUIINGLE IN 2013 and introduced recyclable android phone from ocean plastics as well launch video streaming app under the same brand , prior to his 12 years startup CAREER , he PLAYED varios ADVISORY ROLEs in number pfojects in BOUTQUE AND BULGE BRACKET investment banks and financial firms shortly after leaving academic research at Harvard Medical School affiliated Brigham & Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals in 1998-2002. From 1999 to 2001, TANNER was an Adjunct Faculty at Fisher College, Boston. From 1997 to 1998, TANNER had firsthand exposure to the blockbuster Statin Clinical Trials at Mount Sinai Hospital, N.Y., WHILE AT KHANDAKER PARTNERS, TANNER served as a Member of the Advisory Board of Apella Resources Inc., a clean energy resources company. AS THE Director of Nutra Pharma Corporation( BIOTECH SPECILIZING IN CURE FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) from 2005 to 2007 and BioTech Medics Inc.a medical device COMPANY from 2006 to 2007. AT Khandaker Partners as a Small-cap ANALYST, TANNER researcheD a few thousand small-cap public and late-stage private companies in MULTIPLE sectors. TANNER WAS a practicing physician in PRIMARY CARE Medicine before joining academic RESEARCH, later on WALLSTREET.

Tanner a National Board scholar and received his M.D. (Diploma in Medicine) with distinction in 1995 ,from Mitford Medical College,established in 1875( CURRENTLY SIR SALIMULLAH MEDICAL COLLEGE ) Dhaka, affiliated with Royal College of London. He is an entrepreneur and DISRUPTOR at heart , an AVID CRICKETER (ALL ROUNDER) , AND as THE captain of the medical school soccer team, TANNER led his team to victory on numerous occasions.

DAN SIMS (GENERAL PARTNER& COo)

Dan Sims brings over 35 years of global automotive and product design and leadership experience to his role as Chief Creative Officer at Hydra Design Labs. Widely recognized throughout the industry as an experienced creative strategist and designer, Dan offers an innovative approach to the development of a broad range of consumer products and automotive vehicles. As a champion of human-centered design, Dan leverages ‘Design Thinking’ to uncover deep consumer insights and translates these findings into boundary-pushing solutions for Hydra Design Labs. This innovative approach helps Hydra deliver functional design solutions that are created with the end-user in mind, improving the development process for Hydra’s clients and producing better vehicles that perfectly blend form and function. Prior to joining Hydra Design Labs in 2018, Dan held senior design roles IN several automotive OEMs including Chrysler, where he worked on high-profile concept designs including the 1989 Chrysler Millennium, 1987 Lamborghini Portofino (IDEA Gold Award), 1991 Dodge Stealth and many others. Dan’s distinguished career also includes more than 15 years as the General Manager of Mitsubishi Research and Design of America (MRDA), where he led and directed the comprehensive design activities for all Mitsubishi concept and production vehicles during his tenure, including the IDEA GOLD award winning Eclipse E-Boost, and the Concept SST and many other award-winning designs. Dan also spent more than a decade in Design Leadership roles for Procter & Gamble, where he extended his desigN expertise through his work building the design organization for Asia, while based in Singapore. His team provided the design capability for 8 core business units, fueling Asia as the growth engine for P&G. He also led the brand design work for The Art of Shaving, MACH 3, global shave prep and disposables while working at Gillette in Boston. Dan serves as a member of the Board of Advisors for Design Thinking Department at the University of California, Riverside, where he plays a role in fostering the growth of the next generation of creative product designers. He holds a Master of Project Management degree from Keller/DeVry Graduate school of management and a BS ID from the University of Cincinnati.

JON HULL (VENTURE PARTNER)

or over 25 years, Jon Hull has shaped the automotive landscape with award-winning vehicle designs that push the creativeboundary of what’s possible. As the founder and CEO of Hydra Design Labs, Jon leads a team of experienced designers,engineers, fabricators and automotive visionaries focused on shaping the future through functional design – solving major challenges and delivering groundbreaking designs for some of the world’s top OEMs. Leveraging decades of in-house OEM design experience prior to founding Hydra Design Labs in 2010, Jon served as a key member of the design team a Mitsubishi Motors, where he worked on many award-winning vehicles, including the MMR25, SSS, and SSU concept cars as well as the Eclipse, Endeavor, and Galant. At Mitsubishi, Jon worked extensively on the exterior and interior designs for both production and concept cars – and used his expertise as a CAD specialist to take projects from the ideation phase through design to final surface data. In addition to his expertise in automotive design, Jon has an extensive background in plastics engineering, which helps lead vehicle development products from the design phase through to final manufacturing. Under Jon’s leadership, Hydra Design Labs introduced an innovative approach to vehicle development that incorporates engineering and technology early in the design process. This unique concept allows for greater efficiency in the development of new models and improves the translation of design intent into the final production vehicle. Hydra Design Labs has developed vehicles for many of the biggest names in the automotive industry, including Nissan, Infiniti, Lordstown Motors, Saleen Automotive, Monarch Tractors, Autocar and Northrop Grumman.