The UnCognito Team

Gautham Sastri is a seasoned technology entrepreneur with over 25 years of diversified experience spanning Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). His career is distinguished by a robust track record of innovation, leadership, and value creation, including delivering 8X ROI across three successful startup ventures.

As a recognized thought leader, Gautham has published 47 technical papers in the field of acoustics and passive sonar and is known for his comprehensive work on signal sound processing techniques. His technical expertise is matched by strategic vision, demonstrated by his instrumental roles in founding and scaling ventures at the intersection of advanced computing and data intelligence.

Select Clientele
Gautham has advised and provided technological solutions to a distinguished list of clients, including:

• Technology & Media: Sony, Bloomberg, Nasdaq
• Energy: Shell, Conoco
• Finance: JPMorgan, Citadel, Nasdaq, SocGen, D.E. Shaw, Millennium, WorldQuant
• Defense & Intelligence: Raytheon, DIA, NSA, USJFCOM, NNSA

Career Highlights

• Founder & CEO, Maximum Throughput – Pioneered HPC solutions
• Founder & CEO, Terrascale Technologies – Innovator in data storage and throughput
• COO, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) – Leadership in scalable systems and visualization
• Founder & CEO, iSentium – Real-time sentiment analytics from social media
• Previous roles with NEC, Houston Advanced Research Center, and the Canadian Meteorological Centre

Patents
Gautham is credited with four granted U.S. patents, including:

Cloud Technologies (2):

• US 7,324,995 B2 – Data element retrieval/modification on shared media
• US 7,529,967 B2 – Network storage device failure protection and recovery

Artificial Intelligence (2):

• US 9,940,672 B2 – Social media-derived data for real-time market evaluation
• US 8,856,056 B2 – Sentiment calculus for event-driven trading systems

Dusty Shultz is a highly accomplished senior military leader, renowned for her expertise in Army Cyber, Intelligence, and Space operations both in the U.S. and Latin America. Throughout her distinguished career, she has been hand-picked for key leadership roles supporting the Department of Defense. In these roles, Dusty has developed strategic solutions to complex challenges, drawing on her extensive experience in international collaboration to achieve equitable outcomes. Her deep understanding of U.S. representation in Latin America, working with foreign dignitaries, and cultivating trust-based relationships has been a cornerstone of her success. This expertise earned her a permanent membership on the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. Dusty’s ability to think at scale allows her to develop multinational strategies, with clear vision and executable milestones.

A natural leader, Dusty excels in interpersonal and communication skills in both English and Spanish. Guided by a strong sense of values and ethics, she possesses an internal compass that drives her decision-making. She is exceptional at building cohesive, high-performing teams and understands the critical importance of mentoring future leaders. Dusty is a change agent, skilled at resolving complex strategic alignment issues with innovative solutions.

After years of dedicated government service, Dusty retired from her final role as Director of Intelligence at U.S. Southern Command. There, she oversaw global operations focused on countering malign state actor activities in Latin America. She played a pivotal role in integrating AI and machine learning, enhancing multinational collaboration and creating a unified intelligence platform that bridged public and private sector data, streamlining decision-making for governments, the private sector, and NGOs. Dusty also significantly shaped Army Cyberspace Operations, Electronic Warfare, and Information Operations as the Army Director of Strategic Operations, advising the Chief of Staff of the Army.

As a crisis response leader and disaster management expert, Dusty led response efforts during Hurricanes Irma and Maria as Commanding General of the 1st Mission Support Command in Puerto Rico. Her command was critical in orchestrating initial operations across multiple strategic areas, where her fluency in Spanish and outstanding collaboration with various services, local government, and the community proved invaluable.

Dusty holds multiple degrees in strategy and is committed to lifelong learning.

30+ year career as a results-driven technical leader with expertise in developing and scaling disruptive technologies within agile, high-growth environments. Proven track record of leading large engineering teams and building high-performance platform products and nfrastructure for cloud-native, AI, and SaaS products.

• Director of Infrastructure/Platform Engineering AppDynamics/Cisco leading 25+ engineers worldwide that reduced operational costs by 35% and decreased provisioning time from days to less than 15 mins.
• VP Engineering Opsani, scaled engineering team from 8 to 20 engineers, increased the reliability of the product from 85% to 99.99%, and was instrumental in Cisco acquiring Opsani.
• Director of Engineering Vicarios AI. Grew engineering from 3 to 35 and transitioned the company from R&D to a scalable Robot as a Service (RaaS) product. Vicarious AI was acquired by Google.
• Senior Director of Cloud Services, Swift Navigation. Built a nationwide GNSS correction service transitioning the company from a hardware to a cloud services company. Launched a global data service (DaaS) for GPS receivers on all the major cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Director Software Development,, Oracle. Lead the Load Balancer as a Service group. Joined when OCI was 200+ and helped it grow to 2000+, deploy 3 major data services and launch all of the initial OCI offerings in 20 months.
• VP Eng or Chief Architect role in numerous startups (Sistina, Terrascale, Exludus,)

Education:
BA, Computer Science | University of Texas at Austin

Patents:
US Patent 7,406,473: Distributed File System
US Patent 7,487,228: Metadata Structures for Cluster File Systems

Robin has over 30 years of technology sales experience, ranging from, Mini computers, (DEC), Unix systems, (Sun, Panasonic and Hyundai), HPC, software tools and several networking technologies. ability to sell new technologies, which is done by being able to quickly understand and then explain often complex technologies to both engineers and C-Level executives.

He was responsible for selling the 1st NetApp filers in EMEA, (GSK and Texaco), before developing and marketing a competitive product, MIMServer. Customers included: AstraZeneca, GCHQ, UK Met Office, GE Plastics and VW Group.

Mr Harker was instrumental in the development low cost High Performance Computing in the UK. 1997 saw the first x86 based Linux Cluster and the first redundant blade server was designed in 1999, for which UK and USA patents were awarded). A parallel version of BLAST, MPI-BLAST was developed, which was used by many of the world’s DNA sequence analysis laboratories.

Experience selling, HPC compute platforms as well as Parallel file systems, has taken him into many areas of HPC, including Financial Services, Oil&Gas, Automotive, defence/aerospace, BioTec & Pharma, EDA as well as government and academia. He also has strong connections with Tier 1 vendors such as, IBM, Dell, Intel and Fujitsu.

Most recently, with Dolphin Interconnect he successfully sold PCIe networking technologies into both automotive, aerospace and financial services sectors.

He has been involved in multiple high-tech start-ups, from the US, Canada, Israel and the continent, held several patents on resilient computing platforms and invented the blade server. (US Patent 6823475)

Of the new emerging technologies, he is particularly interested the further development of Quantum systems and which seeing which applications will be the main beneficiaries.

Hobbies include football, rugby, cricket, golf, the NBA, cooking and politics.

30+ years of diversified experience as a warfighter, tactical Naval Aviator. Advanced technology rapid Prototyper in Unmannned Systems, Electronic Warfare, Networked Weapon Systems and Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance, and most recently, Derivatives.

• Employment history: 20+ years in the United States Marines, General Atomics (Dir), Artemis (COO), SageGuild (Founder/CEO), SG Capital Management (Founder/CEO), The BWG Foundation (Founder/CEO).
• Has built solutions for: US Naval Air Systems Command, Headquarters Marine Corps Aviation, DARPA, US Army Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, Sierra Nevada Corporation, L3 CSW (now L3 Harris), Lockheed Martin Corporation, AeroVironment Inc., Alion Science and Technology (now Huntington Ingalls Industries), Aeryon Labs (now FLIR), KWESST Microsystems Inc.
• Holds 2 monetized patents in: Programmable Multi-waveform RF Generators for use as Battlefield Deception.

• Education:
• The George Washington University - Specialist of Education (Human and Organizational Learning)
• The George Washington University - Master of Business Administration (Honors - Beta Gamma Sigma)Marine Corps University - Master of Military Studies
• Georgetown University - Leadership Coach Certification
• Florida State University - Bachelor of Science in Criminology

Mary Ann Bartels is Sanctuary Wealth’s Chief Investment Strategist responsible for providing market perspective and investment guidance to the firm’s more than 120 Partner Firms and the Sanctuary Asset Management Investment Council. In this role, Mary Ann provides Sanctuary’s Partner Firms with investment strategy and market analysis through her regular commentary, presentations, media appearances and speaking engagements which incorporate her more than four decades of experience at financial institutions. As a member of Sanctuary’s Investment Council, she also identifies themes and determines market asset allocation working closely with the firm’s Capital Markets, Alternative Investments and Sanctuary Asset Management Investment Solutions teams.

Widely recognized for her investment guidance and research, Mary Ann was recipient of the 2024 Wealth Management Industry Award Wealthie for RIA Thought Leader of the Year, was featured in Business Insider’s Oracles of Wall Street as one of 2024’s top trendsetters and also was named one of the Top Platform Investment Solutions Platform Leaders by the 2024 Wealth Solutions Report. She had spent more than 40 years on Wall Street, analyzing and communicating trends in the economy as well as in equities, bonds, commodities and ETFs, and served in various executive capacities during her illustrious career at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. For many years, Mary Ann was responsible for contributing to the thought leadership for investment guidance and portfolio solutions for Merrill Lynch advisors and clients. Her name became synonymous with high-quality portfolio strategy and research, earning her the respect of clients and industry peers alike. Previously, she held portfolio manager roles at Zweig-Avatar in New York and at Batterymarch in Boston.

She was an Institutional Investor All-American Research ranked analyst for six consecutive years for her work in Technical Analysis. She was also highly regarded for developing proprietary models for equity pairs trading and for her stock, sector and industry selections, as well as her extensive work on hedge funds. More recently, Mary Ann pivoted her career to focusing on the innovative technology underpinning Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Metaverse. Mary Ann has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg and FOX Business and has been often quoted in various publications including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Barron’s. Mary Ann earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts in Business and Economics from Fordham University. She is a graduate of the London Real DeFi Academy Accelerator program. She serves on several advisory boards including her alma mater Fordham University and We4C. Mary Ann was invited into Marquis Who’s Who in 1998 as a Global Portfolio Manager and in 2019 as an Investment Strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She is also a member of the London Real DeFi Academy Investment Club.

Dominika joined UnCognito in May 2025 as our dedicated Agent for Europe, bringing extensive experience in European affairs, inter-institutional relations, and strategic communication. Dominika previously served as the Permanent Representative of the Slovak Parliament to the EU institutions in Brussels, where she played a critical role in enhancing inter-parliamentary collaboration, monitoring EU legislative compliance, and facilitating relationships between national parliaments and EU bodies.

Dominika also held the position of Chief Adviser for Media and Public Communication at Slovakia's National Council, where she was responsible for managing high-level communications and public relations.

A fluent speaker of Slovak, English, Italian, and French, Dominika holds a Master's in Marketing Management and Business Communication from Bocconi University in Milan, and a Bachelor's in International Relations and European Studies from Metropolitan University Prague. Passionate about bridging UnCognito's innovative solutions with European stakeholders, Dominika leads our strategic outreach and partnership development across Europe.

John Anagnostopoulos is a Montreal-based Creative Director with over 20 years of experience building high-performing brands. As Co-Founder of T-Lab Bikes, he led the creative strategy that fueled a 56% increase in sales, tripled social media engagement, and reduced the sales-to-payment cycle by 30% through digital innovation and e-commerce development.

Through his consultancy, BrandKraft Inc., John collaborates with companies to elevate brand identity, optimize creative systems, and drive market growth. His design leadership has contributed to increased brand equity and has played a role in several successful private equity acquisitions.

John believes that design should be both strategic and impactful—serving as a catalyst for business performance. Fluent in English and French, he brings clarity, consistency, and long-term vision to every project he leads.