Riwa is a creative strategist who has spent her career helping entrepreneurs and organizations articulate what it is they are building and why, and deliver on just that. Riwa has held several senior executive roles in the last decade, most recently as Chief Strategy Officer at Woven Science - a company that builds and backs leading businesses in the psychedelics and mental wellbeing space. Previously, Riwa was Chief of Strategy and Partnerships at OSI (now OSE) , a £600m technology company backed by GV, Sequoia, Tencent, Temasek +++ focused exclusively on investing in and developing deep science and technology companies from Oxford. There, she built the OSI brand, developed, connected and convened an exceptional network of global co-investors, advisors and strategic partners, managed shareholder relations and led a number of fundraising and development initiatives for the company and its portfolio. Prior, she was Head of Growth Strategy at global Innovation and Foresight firm Idea Couture, before taking on the role of Managing Director for the MENA business. She was on the Global Executive Leadership team of the 200+ person company. In her 5+ years with the firm, she was dedicated to helping Fortune 500 organizations prepare for and shape the future, from defining the industries of tomorrow to designing strategies to capture disruptive growth.Riwa received her HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business with a minor in Media, Information and Technoculture. She also spent a semester at Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' in Milan, Italy specializing in Strategy, Innovation and, most importantly, Gelato.