Board of Directors

Finian Tan, Ph.D – Dr. Finian Tan is the Founder and Chairman of Vickers Capital Group, an international private equity and merchant banking house. He has served as the chairman and board member on numerous other boards and committees, including Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU). He served in the Singapore Government as Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and later as Deputy Chairman of the National Science and Technology Board. Dr. Tan has also worked at Credit Suisse First Boston as well as Draper Fisher Jurvetson Eplanet, Goldman Sachs, and Shell Eastern Ltd. Dr. Tan received his B.Sc. Degree in Engineering from the University of Glasgow, where he won all the academic prizes available for the examinations during his time there, including the top prize for his course, and the most distinguished graduate award. He received his Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy in Engineering from Cambridge University, UK.

Shaan Senthil Kumar, DBA –Shaan Senthil Kumar is the founder, co-chairman of California InterContinental University. He is the founder and chairman of iGlobal Inc, an international angel investment and technology incubation house. He has 15 years of global experience in business development, information technology, web based software services, corporate sales, and start-up venture management. He has won many awards and was recognized as a "renaissance entrepreneur of the 21st century" in 2010. He has secured investments for several high-tech companies and has launched successful Internet ventures in the past decade. He is currently involved in mentoring start-ups mainly high-tech Internet companies and few private colleges / Universities across Asia and USA. He has a Doctorate in Business Administration major in Entrepreneurship and Management, an MBA in Marketing with distinction in Quantitative Methods and a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and communications. He has authored several books that includes “Vision, Brilliance, Success”, “Learn2Earn”, “MBA360”, and “Born2Win” published by Amazon.

Jeffrey Chi, Ph.D – Dr. Jeffrey Chi is a Managing Director at Vickers Venture Partners and a member of the Investment Committee. Dr. Chi's experience covers a variety of industries including information technology, healthcare and media. Dr. Chi is active in promoting entrepreneurship and frequently speaks at public events including ones hosted by INSEAD, Fudan University and Zhejiang University. He is the co-founder of the MIT Enterprise Forum, Shanghai Chapter, a not-for-profit alumni organization promoting technology entrepreneurship. Dr. Chi is a CFA Charter holder and graduated from Cambridge University with 1st class Honours in Engineering. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in organizational knowledge and information technology. .

Elkhalil BineBine, M.D. – Dr. BineBine is the Vice Chairman of the Vickers Capital Group and oversees the Group's Investor Relations. Dr. BineBine was a consultant to Amroc investments which emphasized trading distressed debt with a turnover of US$6 billion dollars a year. At the same time, in 1993, Dr. BineBine founded Gibraltar Enterprises, Inc. with an emphasis on investment in real estate worldwide. In 1996, he began to represent investment funds such as Carlyle, Central Partners, and Castle Harbor, raising funds of over a billion dollars. Dr. BineBine is fluent in seven languages, French, English, Arabic, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew and some Chinese. He is a member of the Arab Banking Association of North America. Dr. BineBine attended the University of Bordeaux and graduated as an MD from La Sorbonne, France.

Y. Chakravarthy, MBA – Managing Director of CBS Group of Educational Institutions. Founder & CEO of Mercury Investment Group, Inc. with an emphasis on investment in high-tech start-ups, tech-parks real estate ventures, and education ventures worldwide in USA, Dubai, and India. Investment banker, financier for automobile and heavy vehicle financing, worked for GE Capital and Religare group. MBA in Marketing.