As the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and board member at Elastacloud, Mitch brings over 30 years of expertise in finance and business leadership to drive the company’s mission of transforming data into actionable insights. His role involves comprehensive financial analysis, strategic planning, and the integration of market and business intelligence with Gen AI solutions.

Mitch specializes in corporate finance, market intelligence, investment banking, and Gen AI engineering. This diverse skill set enables him to uncover new business opportunities, optimize resource allocation, and effectively manage risks. Mitch’s strategic initiatives have consistently delivered over 30% business growth, aligning financial strategies with his organizational goals.

Beyond his corporate responsibilities, Mitch is dedicated to thought leadership. Mitch frequently publishes and presents on macroeconomics, market intelligence, and the impact of Gen AI on financial markets and valuations.

Harry Edelson, CFA, CCP, CDP, is an advisor to Optima. Edelson is a renowned venture capitalist and general partner of Edelson Technology Partners. He brings considerable experience to the Optima team, having served on the boards of directors of more than 150 companies and is published on corporate governance. Edelson has played a role in numerous mergers and acquisitions during his venture capital career. He is not an energy investor but became interested in Optima and its IMO 2020 pursuit and provides valuable business advice based on his impressive career. You can read more on Edelson at Edelson Technology Partners.

Peter Veillon is an advisor to Optima. Veillon currently serves as Managing Director at Realcap Strategies, LLC, a private investment firm charged with the oversight of operating companies and real asset investments of a multi-generational, single family office. Prior to joining the group, he spent a number of years in private equity, investing in energy and power and prior to this in manufacturing and business services. He began his post-graduate career investment banking at Bank of America Securities in the Natural Resources Group. Prior to his career in finance, Veillon worked for multinational companies in the energy and natural resource sectors.

Veillon is a graduate of Queen’s University at Kingston where he received his BSc in engineering and received his MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.

Tyson Halsey, CFA, is an entrepreneur with 35 years of investment industry experience. Halsey has owned and operated investment advisories and hedge funds with a focus on technology and markets. His greatest successes have grown out of groups of technology experts in growth sectors like when he won the USA Today/CNBC Investment Challenge or forming Helsinki Advisors, LLC in 1999. Halsey studies market trends, valuations, behavioral economics, and technology, and been a shareholder rights advocate and activist investor whose work and accomplishments cited in Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal, on CNBC and chronicled on Seeking Alpha.