Board of Directors

Jörg Swoboda

Following his graduation in 1994, Jörg Swoboda worked for KPMG Germany in financial advisory services as well as in the audit department. He specialized in preparing expert business opinions in the fields of business evaluation, financial planning, budgeting and due diligence. He also worked as a KPMG IPO consultant. In 2000, he was appointed as the CFO of German-based IVC Venture Capital AG, a leading Venture Capital Funds focusing on high-tech, IT and media sector. IVC has been providing financing to 50+ innovative business concepts in high-growth areas. Jörg has been managing the company as CEO since 2003. He was a member of various supervisory and management boards including 360 Treasury Systems, Webfair, Step Ahead, Hurra and Autoscout24. IVC’s strong deal making experience has led to some remarkable exits.

Joerg M. Eberhart

Director

Joerg M. Eberhart

Joerg M. Eberhart is the Chief Executive Officer of ITA Airways and an accomplished aviation executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across the Lufthansa Group and global airline ventures. He previously served as Executive Vice President – Strategy, Organizational Development and M&A at Lufthansa Group, and as CEO of Air Dolomiti and Lufthansa CityLine. Earlier in his career, he led Aerologic GmbH and held senior management roles in investment and network operations at Deutsche Lufthansa AG. Renowned for steering large-scale transformation, innovation, and cultural change initiatives, Joerg Eberhart has been honoured with the Italian Order of Merit (Cavaliere della Stella d’Italia).

Frits Baron van Dedem

Director

Frits Baron van Dedem

Baron van Dedem is the Executive Board Member of several companies including Gerlin NV, Hermes Mineralol GmbH, Angela Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH etc. He also served as Senior Industry Adviser to Kepler Cheuvreux SA. He has been acting as the Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer of ‘UNION TANK Eckstein GmbH & Co. KG (UTA) for over 15 years. Baron van Dedem has worked in several positions at ABN Amro Bank, in South America, the USA and the Netherlands for a period of 10 years. Baron van Dedem holds several other industry and no-profit positions.

Dr. Vinod Vasudevan

CEO & Director

Dr. Vinod Vasudevan

With roles spanning from research to commercialization and alternating between small ventures and large multinational corporations, Vinod’s career is characterised by one constant – developing and translating intellectual property to innovative products and scalable business models. Prior to Flytxt, he co-founded a mobile content repurposing business and later went on to become an early hire at a ten billion $ telecom venture, where he was responsible for a 1400 city mobile Internet service and one of the earliest app stores in the mobile industry globally. He has also actively participated in defining international standards on multimedia and mobile communication.

At Flytxt, Vinod focuses on building a unique, intellectual property driven technology business that delivers measurable value to customers and stake holders. Always connected to customers he constantly strives to support employees to innovate and grow both personally and professionally.

He holds a Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT-Kharagpur, where he specialized in artificial intelligence and neural networks.

Having done business in 60 countries across 6 continents and lived and worked in Japanese and Indian villages, in the Bay Area as well as the silicon valley of India, and metros such as Singapore, Mumbai, Dubai and London, Vinod brings a rare global and multi-cultural perspective in all his dealings. A casual observer of geopolitics, hobby farmer and a parent, he enjoys a good open debate on any of these topics.

Dr. Prateek Kapadia

CTO & Director

Dr. Prateek Kapadia

Prateek is an expert on lab-to-cash commercialization of innovations in AI, networks, and cryptography. His diverse experience spans across standards development, data network management, and cryptography applications. The hardest lessons he has learned on technology leadership are about fostering collaborations between extremely talented engineers and extremely demanding users.

Prateek is the Chief Technology Officer of Flytxt, where he focuses on building practical AI, and taking it from incubation to scale. Previously he held technology lead positions for packet data services at Reliance Communications and implemented cryptography algorithms at Algorithmic Research (now DocuSign) in Israel. Prateek was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay.

Prateek thinks the world is going the wrong way in eating, exercising, and teaching math and machine learning; he invites vigorous, and often futile, debates on these topics. He also follows meteor showers, comet trajectories and other visible cosmic events. He is an expert on predicting the time, position, and clarity of rainbows in the sky. He likes nature walks, sounds of guitars, and practicing Hebrew on unwilling Israelis. Prateek donates to charities for the girl child.

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