Romi Kadri

Romi Kadri is Managing Partner at Capella Partners - venture finance firm focused on strategic investments from global family offices into advanced technology companies. Romi is a Senior Advisor to Capella's portfolio company TAE Technologies - a fusion energy developer - and serves on the boards of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast, and Illinois-based TADA Cognitive Solutions. He is a graduate of MIT with a BS in Engineering, having interned at Interscope Records and Alsop-Louie Partners. Before university, he worked in manufacturing automation in the aerospace division of Rolls-Royce and built & exited a series of companies in sports retail and aquaculture. Romi holds 30 granted patents for his inventions, and previously led innovation at Sonos - which the USPTO reports having developed over 1500 patents. He serves as a volunteer mission pilot with the Civil Air Patrol, and in 2018, he was awarded the Banyan Tree Award for "exemplary contributions toward global economic prosperity, strategic innovation in global markets, cross-cultural collaboration and international goodwill."