Five founders. Five domains. One Berlin base.
Get to know the operators behind G5 — their careers, their expertise, and the markets they know natively.
Shant Nokhoudian
Founding Partner, Construction, Infrastructure & MEA Markets
Electrical engineer turned owner-side project lead, with more than $150M of electrical, construction and infrastructure work delivered across five countries — including a $152M aviation accommodation complex in Doha.
Previously Ameriabank and Seepacs Engineering. Works on design management, BIM coordination, value engineering and claims strategy.
Adriano Pitoni
Founding Partner, Energy Systems, Innovation & Southern European Markets
Nanotechnology and physics engineer who led R&D programmes at Hologic in Paris before founding two ventures of his own in energy and diagnostics.
Founder of Zetis and Testblu. Works on regulated R&D, clinical validation strategy, renewable pipelines and process optimisation.
Pranshul Saxena
Founding Partner, AI, SaaS & Digital Transformation
CEO of Decrackle, an audio AI infrastructure company, and founder of Kuvaka Tech — a twenty-person studio that ships AI systems into production on fixed-scope sprints.
Works on AI opportunity mapping, agent orchestration, real-time data platforms and the engineering that makes pilots survive real users.
Mehmet Kiraz
Founding Partner, Automotive R&D, Autonomous Systems & DACH Markets
RWTH Aachen engineer, R&D engineer at IAV GmbH and research associate at TU Berlin, specialising in autonomous driving stacks, robotics and applied AI research.
Works on ADAS/AD integration and validation, sensor systems, simulation programmes and technical due diligence for investors.
Taewon Hwang
Founding Partner, Corporate Finance, Strategy & APAC Market Corridors
Finance project manager at Hyundai Motor, product planning at LG Electronics and mobility analyst at EY — the same market-entry question seen from inside three very different organisations.
Works on market entry strategy, investment cases, joint-venture structuring, FX and treasury frameworks and diligence support.