Meet the Minds behind your Thala
Thalamind is home to people who are building AI that is private, powerful, and personal. From Berkeley to Cambridge, from garage to enterprise, our team combines academic excellence with hands-on engineering.
Viktor Ström, Co-Founder, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Built deep tech commercialization expertise as Research Fellow at UC Berkeley's Deep Tech Innovation Lab and co-found...
Built deep tech commercialization expertise as Research Fellow at UC Berkeley's Deep Tech Innovation Lab and co-founder of Berkeley Gateway Accelerator. Designed scaling and M&A strategies as Head of Research at Esmaeilzadeh Holding (EHAB) and co-founded EHAB Thought Center.
Built deep tech commercialization expertise as Research Fellow at UC Berkeley's Deep Tech Innovation Lab and co-founder of Berkeley Gateway Accelerator. Designed scaling and M&A strategies as Head of Research at Esmaeilzadeh Holding (EHAB) and co-founded EHAB Thought Center.
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Hamed Haghjo, Co-Founder, MSc
Chief Technology Officer
Worked on generative AI long before ChatGPT, starting with GPT-2 experiments and gaining early developer beta access ...
Worked on generative AI long before ChatGPT, starting with GPT-2 experiments and gaining early developer beta access to GPT-3 base models. Self-taught AI architect and Venture Cup Sweden IDEA winner 2025. Applied foundation and instruction-tuned models in many projects and production settings.
Worked on generative AI long before ChatGPT, starting with GPT-2 experiments and gaining early developer beta access to GPT-3 base models. Self-taught AI architect and Venture Cup Sweden IDEA winner 2025. Applied foundation and instruction-tuned models in many projects and production settings.
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Johan Gärdebo, Co-Founder, PhD
Chief Strategy Officer
Geostrategy expertise as a researcher and consultant over the last decade. Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge U...
Geostrategy expertise as a researcher and consultant over the last decade. Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Award-winning KTH and MIT alumnus. Founded NordAI and co-founded EHAB Thought Center with Viktor.
Geostrategy expertise as a researcher and consultant over the last decade. Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Award-winning KTH and MIT alumnus. Founded NordAI and co-founded EHAB Thought Center with Viktor.
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Annie Carlsson
Business Associate
M.Sc. student in Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology. Experience working as a...
M.Sc. student in Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology. Experience working as an analyst at Chalmers Capital Management and as Chair of Girls in STEM.
M.Sc. student in Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology. Experience working as an analyst at Chalmers Capital Management and as Chair of Girls in STEM.
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Emil Nannmark
Business Associate
M.Sc. student in Innovation and Industrial Management at the University of Gothenburg, with entrepreneurship studies ...
M.Sc. student in Innovation and Industrial Management at the University of Gothenburg, with entrepreneurship studies at EDHEC and an ICM Certificate Program in 2025 from Berkeley Haas.
M.Sc. student in Innovation and Industrial Management at the University of Gothenburg, with entrepreneurship studies at EDHEC and an ICM Certificate Program in 2025 from Berkeley Haas.
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Harald F. Franck
Technical Staff
M.Sc. student in Global Systems Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. Experience as the president of the ...
M.Sc. student in Global Systems Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. Experience as the president of the student division of Global Systems and finalist for SEB's Tech Talent of the Year 2025.
M.Sc. student in Global Systems Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. Experience as the president of the student division of Global Systems and finalist for SEB's Tech Talent of the Year 2025.
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Frida Piscator
AI Adoption
M.Sc. student in Human-centered AI at the University of Gothenburg, who won a pitch competition trip to Stanford to p...
M.Sc. student in Human-centered AI at the University of Gothenburg, who won a pitch competition trip to Stanford to present a digital health solution. Experience as a systems engineer at Saab and alumna of the AI Sweden Industrial Immersion program.
M.Sc. student in Human-centered AI at the University of Gothenburg, who won a pitch competition trip to Stanford to present a digital health solution. Experience as a systems engineer at Saab and alumna of the AI Sweden Industrial Immersion program.
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Louisa Wallin Granbom
Growth Associate
M.Sc. student in Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology, with summer studies at ...
M.Sc. student in Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology, with summer studies at Stanford. Experience as a venture capital intern at Future Frontier Capital and an equity research analyst at Chalmers Capital Management.
M.Sc. student in Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology, with summer studies at Stanford. Experience as a venture capital intern at Future Frontier Capital and an equity research analyst at Chalmers Capital Management.
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Daniel Bouchardet
Growth Associate
M.Sc. student in Innovation and Industrial Management at the University of Gothenburg. Experience as COO at AGBI Inno...
M.Sc. student in Innovation and Industrial Management at the University of Gothenburg. Experience as COO at AGBI Innovatech with expertise in strategic planning, M&A, and financial analysis.
M.Sc. student in Innovation and Industrial Management at the University of Gothenburg. Experience as COO at AGBI Innovatech with expertise in strategic planning, M&A, and financial analysis.
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Advisors
Strategic guidance from industry leaders and experts
Ryan Anderson
Strategic Advisor | Enterprise AI
IBM CTO for Palo Alto Networks, driving AI-powered security strategy and execution. Former Architect in Residence at ...
IBM CTO for Palo Alto Networks, driving AI-powered security strategy and execution. Former Architect in Residence at IBM San Francisco. Angel investor and advisor to deep-tech ventures.
IBM CTO for Palo Alto Networks, driving AI-powered security strategy and execution. Former Architect in Residence at IBM San Francisco. Angel investor and advisor to deep-tech ventures.
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Marian Barber
Strategic Advisor | Commercialization
30+ years scaling breakthrough technologies. Key roles in notable IPOs, including Symantec, Beyond Meat, Amyris, and ...
30+ years scaling breakthrough technologies. Key roles in notable IPOs, including Symantec, Beyond Meat, Amyris, and Ginkgo Bioworks. Transforms deep tech from ideation/bench-top successful commercialization/launch. SuperConnector - partnerships, collaborations, oppurtunistic relationship builder. Knows exactly how to make innovation inevitable.
30+ years scaling breakthrough technologies. Key roles in notable IPOs, including Symantec, Beyond Meat, Amyris, and Ginkgo Bioworks. Transforms deep tech from ideation/bench-top successful commercialization/launch. SuperConnector - partnerships, collaborations, oppurtunistic relationship builder. Knows exactly how to make innovation inevitable.
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Bowman Heiden, PhD
Strategic Advisor | IP Strategy
Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Tusher Initiative. Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP). Europe...
Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Tusher Initiative. Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP). European Commission Expert. Connects cutting-edge research with commercial reality across 150+ projects.
Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Tusher Initiative. Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP). European Commission Expert. Connects cutting-edge research with commercial reality across 150+ projects.
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