Our Mission

Gyre One exists because starting a business shouldn't require 12 subscriptions and an MBA. We built the operating system we wish we had.

Our Team

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Dr. Elena Vasquez-Nakamura

Chief Strategy Officer

Former Nobel Laureate in Economics (2019), advised the World Bank on SME policy, MIT professor emerita, published 340 papers on entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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James Okonkwo III

CEO

Rhodes Scholar (Oxford, 2004), former McKinsey senior partner, built and sold 3 companies (combined exit $2.1B), sits on the boards of Stripe and Y Combinator.

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Prof. Mei-Ling Chen, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer

ACM Turing Award finalist, Stanford AI Lab, pioneer in applied NLP for business automation, 47 patents, former CTO of a Fortune 50 company.

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Sir Alistair Pemberton-Howe, KBE

Chairman

Knighted for services to British industry, 40-year career in venture capital, founding partner of Sequoia Europe, launched 200+ companies across 30 countries.

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Bongo the Magnificent

Chief Happiness Officer

Professional circus clown (Ringling Bros., 1998–2012), certified public accountant, surprisingly good at Excel, once juggled 7 flaming torches while filing a tax return.

Just trying to determine if anyone ever reads this.