Eddie Mandhry is the founder of Prometheus X, a Schmidt Futures spin-out dedicated to advancing AI-driven solutions by supporting underrepresented social impact venture founders. Under Eddie’s leadership, Prometheus X fosters a diverse ecosystem where talents converge to tackle critical issues at the frontiers of science and society.

Before founding Prometheus X, Eddie served as Senior Fellow and Director at Schmidt Futures, where he launched and led the Virtual Center for Advanced Potential. In this role, he spearheaded efforts to catalyze innovation in the science of talent establishing partnerships with leading universities and researchers around the world.

Eddie also held key leadership roles in global strategy and operations at Yale University, where he spearheaded the university president, Peter Salovey's Africa Initiative, and served as Director for Africa & the Middle East in Yale's Office for International Affairs, significantly expanding the university’s global engagement and presence. He also supported economic development initiatives at NYU Africa House and the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Technology & Economic Development.

Earlier in his career, Eddie was the Managing Director at Global Kids, where he successfully launched and expanded youth development programs that empowered thousands of students through international education and human rights initiatives.

In addition to his roles in academia and philanthropy, Eddie serves as an advisor for multiple global initiatives, including Emergent Ventures’ Fast Grants for STEM Talent, where he supports the identification and development of diverse global talent ecosystems, and the Queen’s Elizabeth Jubilee Trust's Young Leaders Initiative, where he mentored outstanding young changemakers from across Africa.

Eddie is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. His academic background includes degrees from the London School of Economics and Hampshire College, as well as executive education in Artificial Intelligence and Social Enterprise Management from MIT and Columbia Business School.

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Tyrique King is a Special Advisor and Venture Fellow at Prometheus X and the Founder and CEO of Velocity Labs, where he is building an AI tutor to deliver personalised workforce training in AI at scale.

Previously, Tyrique played a pivotal role as #2 in building and fundraising for the Virtual Centre of Advanced Potential at Schmidt Futures, which has since evolved into Prometheus X.

He has also worked at Google, University of Cambridge Psychometric Institute and other startups, working at the intersection of AI, Psychology of motivation and learning, and marketing. Tyrique's academic achievements include being the sole MSc Google-DeepMind Scholar at the University of Oxford in his year. He also graduated with First Class honors and received a departmental prize from the University of Warwick, where he designed an entirely new degree structure.

Rupert Tawiah-Quashie is currently a NeuroAI research associate at Harvard University working under Dr. Colin Conwell at the Harvard Vision Lab and Prof Tomer Ullman at the Computation Cognition and Development lab where he is contributing to groundbreaking research aimed at enhancing symbolic reasoning capabilities in generative AI models. His work involves designing and implementing experiments to test state-of-the-art text-to-image AI models on complex logical operations, including relations, negations, and numerical reasoning. Rupert develops advanced image processing techniques, such as object segmentation using YOLO and SAM, and expands the DeepJuice package with diverse image processing methods. His research aims to create more transparent, reliable, and accessible AI systems.

Passionate about democratizing AI and making technology accessible, Rupert co-founded Code_gh, an initiative that teaches coding and machine learning to high school and college students in Ghana. His technical expertise spans machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and image processing, with proficiency in various AI frameworks.

A recent graduate of Hampshire College with a B.A. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Rupert has earned numerous accolades, including the Davis Project for Peace Grant and Emergent Ventures Grant. As a Ghanaian international student, he has demonstrated exceptional academic prowess and leadership throughout his academic journey.

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