Team - Lily Innovation Advisors

Maury Shenk is managing director of Lily Innovation Advisors. He is an experienced lawyer, investor, consultant and director, with particular expertise in telecommunications, software, IT, e-commerce, digital media, information security, and green technologies.

Maury is a partner of private equity firm Solidus, and advisor to global law firm Steptoe & Johnson (where he has practiced since 1993 and was London managing partner from 2002-2006). He was a principal of strategy consultancy Marakon from 2007-2009. Maury is a director of:

Stratos Germany -- a subsidiary of global satellite services provider Inmarsat
Underdogs Entertainment -- Internet music start-up
Green Dot Resources -- UK subsidiary of leading German recycling company Duales System Deutschland

Maury is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He is a native speaker of English, is fluent in French and Russian, and has working knowledge of Spanish, German, Mandarin Chinese, Italian and Norwegian. Maury is also a regular author and speaker on technology and innovation, and an active member (and former Chair) of the Real Time Club (the world's oldest IT dining club) and a committee member at the Ranelagh Sailing Club.

Gohar Lputian is a consultant to Lily Innovation Advisors, and an experienced advisor on international finance transactions and regulatory matters. Gohar spent 8 years on the London banking and restructuring team at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and 3 years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She has handled numerous large, cross-border deals covering many areas of finance, with a particular focus on project finance, leveraged lending, restructurings and cross-border finance, and across a broad spectrum of industries and jurisdictions. She is currently a principal of GHLex Associates Ltd, a consulting company servicing established corporate clients and start-up companies on finance and commercial matters.

Yunhan Fang is a researcher at Lily Innovation Advisors. She has business experience in China at an Internet-based property portal and a hydropower engineering company. Yunhan has a bachelor's degree from Chengdu University of Information Technology and a master's degree from Leeds University. She is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese, is fluent in English, and has working knowledge of French.

Charlie Gregg is a principal of Lily Innovation Advisors US Inc., our US partner entity, providing consulting services and making investments in emerging technologies. Charlie has broad experience at the nexus of technical development, commercial viability and operations. Past start-ups include concentrated photovoltaic solar company GreenVolts, cross-media publishing solution NetPost, and targeted advertising company AllAdvantage. Early in his career, he worked for several years in the Corporate/M&A Group at Skadden as a paralegal. Charlie is a graduate of Harvard College, where he is Treasurer of his class, and is Board Chair of St. James Preschool.

Lily Innovation Advisors also cooperates with a global network of advisors as needed for assistance on projects.