Het comes from an industrial city in India, growing up in a factory.

He has worked at some of Europe's fastest growing startups and unicorns as an early employee. His research at university focused on quantum computing and time series forecasting, which he sold to an insurance company.

Het studied CS and Statistics along with Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence in Munich. He was also a national level tennis and squash player.

Johann comes from a German merchant family and has experienced the sourcing problem firsthand.

He is a mechanical engineer who has done research at Cambridge and won a prize at NASA. Johann worked at Airbus on autonomous flight and led strategy at an early stage startup building electric aircraft.

At McKinsey he worked in the airline and aerospace industry. Johann is a licensed pilot and loves aircraft.