Next-Gen Fellows
Summer 2020
C5’s Next-Generation Fellowship Program is designed to produce future leaders and to inspire the innovations of tomorrow.
This summer, C5 Accelerate and C5 Capital launched their Next-Generation fellowship program. Six spectacular fellows from across the United Kingdom and the United States joined the team to support the accelerator, investments, partnerships, investor relations, advisory, communications, and research teams at the firm. Each fellow learned about the fundamentals of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Our fellows attended Next-Gen Leadership seminars by leaders across the firm with decades of public and private sector experience to inspire their passions at the intersection of technology and business.
We’ve asked each fellow, “Where do you see the greatest opportunity and challenge for technology in the next 10 years?”
Learn about each fellow below and about the world they envision for the future.
Andrew Gula
George Mason University
Major: Computer Science
Year: Incoming Freshman
Favorite Hobby / Pastime: Jazz Guitar
“The greatest opportunity and challenge I can see in the next decade is cybersecurity. As data and computing technologies develop, data security will be a huge challenge posed to new innovators, and may reduce the ability of new technologies to stay secure. Cybersecurity will be needed to counter these new challenges, but also provides innovators more opportunities to discover the best way of going about protecting data.”
David Greenberg
University of Maryland College Park
Major: Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Business
Year: Incoming Freshman
Favorite Hobby / Pastime: Exploring technology, finance, learning about large engineering projects, and sports especially basketball, lacrosse, and boating
“By 2030, new technologies will create cheap high-speed internet for the world’s population giving equal access to education elevating families, communities, and connecting countries as never before. The challenge will fall on governments to have the political will to see it through.”
Giacomo Grasso
CASS Business School
Major: Master’s Investment Management
Year: Incoming Graduate Student
Favorite Hobby / Pastime: Travelling and reading. My favorite country I have journeyed to is India and my favorite genre of literature is medieval history novels.
“Tech catalyzed by Coronavirus and the shift to remote working, I believe that a huge opportunity lies in developing Virtual Reality for the corporate office space. Being able to connect employees via an AR/VR office environment will not only revolutionize the way people work but also the manner in which citizens go about their daily lives. I personally see huge potential in such a development and view it as the pinnacle of the corporate digital transformation that is taking place.”
Lukas Troost
Vanderbilt University
Major: Economics
Year: Incoming Freshman
Favorite Hobby / Pastime: Basketball
“Quantum. The age of Quantum Technology is already beginning to occur and once we see a breakthrough in its commercial use, incredible opportunities and potentially devastating threats will emerge. Cybersecurity providers will need to rapidly adapt to help ensure a secure digital future.”
Madeleine Agnew
Swansea University
Major: Chemical Engineering
Year: Graduated 2017
Favorite Hobby / Pastime: Ultimate Frisbee
“I see the greatest opportunity in quantum computing, maybe putting Q computers in space where there's much lower interference. The challenge lies in security, how to protect data whilst working collaboratively to solve other global problems.”
Michael Fedeli
John Carroll University
Major: Finance and Financial Planning and Wealth Management
Year: Junior
Favorite Hobby / Pastime: reading, writing, watching sports and film, trying new restaurants, and traveling
“The greatest opportunity for tech is to continue to improve the human experience socially, financially, educationally, medically, and much more, without disrupting what is natural and necessary in our human nature. Tech will be here to aid us in future success, not replace us.”