Mr Rob (Sohrab) Vakil is a Technical Manager of New York Institute and Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (NYILAI) in the United States. Mr Vakil has been involved in the global capital markets for the past 29 years during which he has been involved in numerous financings and investments across various industry sectors. He has worked on three continents for several leading investment banks as well as asset management firms. He is also involved in the advisory and trading of physical commodities. He holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a MBA from the University of Chicago.