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Dr Igle Gledhill is a South African physicist. She obtained her BSc (Honours) in Physics with distinction at Rhodes University in 1977. and her PhD in Plasma Physics at the University of Natal in 1983.She was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California and Stanford University in the US. Currently she is a Fellow in the Defense Technology business unit (Defencetek) of the CSIR. She is President of the SA Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Chairs the SA National Committee for International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. She also holds membership of the Advisory Panel on Control Systems in Competitive Industry for National Research Foundation (NRF) and of the International Panel on Shaping the future of physics in South Africa, a process for review and foresight developed by the SA Institute of Physics (SAIP), the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and NRF. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

Early in her career she modelled plasma behavior at the temperatures of the stars, and plasma fusion, and why galaxies are galaxy-shaped. Now Dr Gledhill spends half her time specialising in transonic aerodynamics at Defencetek’s Aeronautics Programme, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to gain insight. As a Defencetek Fellow, her primary responsibilities are technical, but she also has a role in some of Defencetek’s strategic initiatives, including technology for peace support, and humanitarian de-mining in regions infested with land mines.

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Kabir Shahani is an American business executive and technology entrepreneur. Shahani has been a senior executive with experience at many stages of the life-cycle: start-up/bootstrap, venture funding, M&A, and IPO experience. Prior to Amperity, Shanani was a leader at Appature.

Early life
Shahani attended the University of Washington and obtained his Bachelor of Science in Informatics and a Certificate from Kellogg School of Management’s Advanced Management Program (AMP). He was part of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity (Alumni Member) and Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Fraternity. Currently, he lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and two daughters.

Career
Currently, Kabir is CEO and co-founder of Amperity, a customer data management platform software company working to address the most pervasive challenge facing consumer brands today. Previous to Amperity, he served as CEO of Appature, a leading SaaS company he co-founded in 2007 and was acquired by IMS Health in 2013. Amperity, 2019 Best Company to Work For, raised $50 million in Series C funding in July 2019.

Amperity was founded because Kabir and his co-founder, Derek Slager, saw that consumer brands were only using a fraction of their customer data. After looking for vendors to help brands identify their customers across fragmented systems, and then make it data actionable, they realized there wasn’t a platform that did that. When Shahani and Derek, realized that, they built their own.

More than just a mind for data, Kabir is a visionary and with Amperity’s team behind him, Amperity can take their customer’s data to the next level.

Awards
He was named one of BusinessWeek’s “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009” and was also named a 2011 Puget Sound Business Journal “40 Under 40” honoree. In 2012, he was named U.S. SBA “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” award, and also recognized by PharmaVoice Magazine as one of the “100 Most Inspiring People in the Life Sciences Industry”.