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Meet the TW Team​

WE HAVE AN EXPERIENCED AND UNIQUELY GLOBAL LEADERSHIP TEAM​

Managing Partner

Ricky Tejapaibul

Managing Partner

Ricky Tejapaibul

Ricky Tejapaibul is Managing Partner at Tech Wildcatters. With 20+ years of investment experience, Ricky is an entrepreneur, startup mentor, and early-stage investor. He has worked in management consulting, investment banking, and corporate finance for Fortune 500 companies including at General Motors as GM emerged from bankruptcy. Leveraging his own multi-cultural experience having grown up and worked in Asia and United States, Ricky aims to dismantle the ethnocentric mindset by encouraging entrepreneurs to think globally and push their boundaries.

Ricky is a computer engineering graduate of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and earned multiple Master’s degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ricky Tejapaibul

Managing Partner
Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus

Gabriella Draney Zielke

Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus

Gabriella Draney Zielke

Gabriella Draney Zielke is Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus at Tech Wildcatters. Gabriella started Tech Wildcatters in 2009 as one of the first few accelerators in the world and served as Managing Partner until 2017. Under her leadership, TW received national recognition including by Forbes and MIT as one of the top ranked accelerator programs including #1 for B2B startups. 

Gabriella is a graduate of University of North Texas and earned her MBA from Southern Methodist University.

Gabriella Draney Zielke

Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus
Global Advisor

Petr Stransky

Global Advisor

Petr Stransky

Petr Stransky is a Global Advisor at Tech Wildcatters. He is currently the CEO & Founder of iCEIBA – Dispute Recovery Platform for Commercial Contracts and Claims using AI & Blockchain to transform the $800 billion market to help small and medium businesses and international trade. He is a business leader and strategic advisor, who has built, grown & advised tech companies for over 20 years across several sectors. He has had several exits, international M&A projects and also led large digital innovation projects in the corporate sector, partnering with several technology vendors and in the last seven years, translating these experiences into the start-up ecosystems in Europe, USA and Asia.

Petr is a graduate of University of New York in Prague

Petr Stransky

Global Advisor
Global Advisor

Dr. Narandr Chevangkul

Global Advisor

Dr. Narandr Chevangkul

Dr. Narandr Chevangkul is a Global Advisor at Tech Wildcatters. He is an award-winning, Invisalign Certified orthodontist, who owns Denta-Joy’s 12 dental offices, 11 of them located in Thailand, 1 of them located in Cambodia. He is a member of the Thai Association of Orthodontists, American Association of Orthodontists, and American Board of Orthodontics. He is an advisor and keynote lecturer at Alignersity and keynote speaker at Japan Academy of Aligner Orthodontics (JAAO).

He is a graduate of Mahidol University and earned his masters from Temple University and his Doctor of Dental Surgery from Mahidol University.

Dr. Narandr Chevangkul

Global Advisor
Senior Associate

Grace Hawks

Senior Associate

Grace Hawks

Grace Hawks joined Tech Wildcatters in 2019, where she serves on the investment team as a Senior Associate. Her responsibilities include sourcing and evaluating early-stage startup investments, managing investor relations, and providing portfolio support. She directs the TW Training Camp accelerator and serves as Head of the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) office, leveraging international experience from living across the region and Southeast Asia. Her background includes experience in the oil and gas sector alongside founding a private group fitness business. Grace holds a Master of Science in Finance from The University of Texas at Dallas.

Grace Hawks

Senior Associate
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