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HV Board 2025
Sahar Maisha
Co-President
Sahar is a junior in Dunster House studying Computer Science. She’s deeply interested in entrepreneurship and has built AI-powered tools to streamline sustainable ingredient transparency. She’s active in Harvard’s startup community and co-leads Women in Entrepreneurship. Outside of startups, she enjoys visiting new restaurants and writing and performing comedy skits.
Moniola Odunsi
Co-President
Moniola is a junior at Harvard from North Potomac, Maryland, studying economics with a secondary in computer science. She is passionate about entrepreneurship, particularly in driving innovation within the apparel, beauty, and retail industries. Her experience includes a past internship at McKinsey, an upcoming one at J.P. Morgan, and her current work on a venture connecting college students with local service providers. Outside of startups, she enjoys creative writing, playing tennis, and traveling.
Julia Montgomery
Senior Advisor
Ari Kaufman
Co-Director of VentureWorks
Sophia Rascoff
Co-Director of VentureWorks
Sophia is a sophomore in Adams concentrating in Government with a secondary in sociology. She is from Los Angeles and founded a social media app in high school. Outside of Ventures she serves on the board of Women in Entrepreneurship, illustrates for the Harvard Independent, produces theatrical productions, and is an intern on the a16z Tech Week team.
Matteo Cagliero
Director of Events
Matteo is a Sophomore at Harvard studying Applied Math to CS. Originally from Milan, Italy, he’s passionate about Space, AI, and anything in the consumer space. He’s always looking for new people to learn from so do reach out!
Vennela Jonnala
Co-Director of VentureWorks
Olivia Zhang
Director of Marketing
Arhan Chhabra
Director of Partnerships
Originally class of 2026 studying CS and economics, I left Harvard on a leave of absence to pursue my startup Rove (rovemiles.com) full-time after doing the Y Combinator accelerator. We're now based in New York City working on our 'universal airline mile', helping the average consumer access travel-hacked rates and earn miles on their everyday spend.
Nataly Decid
Co-Director of Alumni & Advisor Relations
Perhaps concentrating in cs, gov, and/or mechE. I'm interested in technologies that enhance human creativity and autonomy — particularly through machine learning, robotics, and/or blockchain. Big fan of mountains, water, and caffeine.
Merhawi Ghebrelul
Co-Director of Alumni & Advisor Relations
Rumi Nagpal
Director of Pdcasts
Arav Bhargava
Co-Director of Podcast
Arav is a first-year student from Mclean, Virginia. He is interested in music production and his favorite startup is Interlune.
Brian Zhou
Director of Finance
Hey, I'm Brian. I'm a rising sophomore in Adams House concentrating in computer science and statistics. My interests are fairly disparate between computer science and the social sciences, and I tend to branch out. I'm currently working on applied37, writing scout checks, and I would love to hear about what you're working on! Please reach out at brianzhou.org
Hanming Ye
Director of Communications
I’m a rising sophomore in Quincy studying math and neuroscience. I work on biologically-plausible learning algorithms that perform better than their counterparts in conventional ML. Within the venture space, I’m interested about robotics and BCI. Feel free to reach out!