Co-Founder

Chief Executive Officer

Doru M. Angelo

Doru M. Angelo’s journey is a tale of resilience, ambition, and unwavering dedication. Born in Curtea de Argeș, Romania, his story took a pivotal turn at the age of three and a half when he was adopted and brought to Connecticut, USA.

Onyx Elite LLC’s impact extends beyond borders, collaborating with esteemed entities and organizations domestically and internationally. Renowned for his innovative approach and visionary leadership, Doru M. Angelo has led Onyx Elite to play a pivotal role in fostering sustainable growth for organizations. Onyx Elite’s expertise spans various domains, from business consulting and branding to private lending, where his firm currently facilitates funding for a portfolio of clients & prospects with a total cumulation of upwards of $12.5 billion.

With over a decade of experience in business consulting and in the hospitality industry, Doru Angelo stands at the helm of ONYX ELITE LLC, an award-winning consulting firm that he proudly leads as its Founder & CEO. Under his guidance, he and the firm have garnered widespread recognition and acclaim, earning accolades such as being featured as the 2024 Lifetime Presidential Achievement Award, Forbes Magazine, being listed among the top 100 Romanians worldwide, and is celebrated as one of the top Entrepreneurs 40 under 40, gracing the cover of Harold’s magazine.

Onyx Elite boasts a proven track record of crafting strategic solutions with precision and clarity. The core commitment revolves around elevating our client's operational efficiency and market positioning and transforming their vision into reality. He firmly believes that delving deep into understanding our client’s businesses, industries, and goals is imperative to fortifying and amplifying their brand message. Onyx Elite’s approach begins with active listening. By engaging in transparent communication and asking insightful questions, Onyx strives to gain a comprehensive understanding of our client’s unique business landscape.

Doru M. Angelo, an award-winning author, has dedicated several years to crafting his insightful book, "The Brilliance of Branding: How to Become the Brilliance of Your Brand." In this illuminating work, Doru delves into the essential strategies and creative approaches that empower individuals and businesses to elevate their brand identity. Drawing on his extensive experience in marketing and brand development, he offers readers practical tools and inspiration to shine in a competitive landscape. With a passion for helping others unlock their potential and discover the brilliance of their own brand, Doru M. Angelo's t book inspires a new wave of brand excellence and can be read and purchased on Amazon and Barned & Nobles. 

A captivating keynote speaker, Doru has captivated audiences at prestigious institutions, inspiring them to unlock the brilliance of their brands and embrace their full potential. Yet, amidst his professional achievements, Doru remains deeply committed to giving back to the community. His latest endeavor, Onyx Growth Alliance Inc., a 501(c)3 organization, underscores his dedication to supporting startup companies and serving nonprofits through pro bono services. His academic pursuits reflect his diverse interests and insatiable thirst for knowledge. Doru is trained in culinary arts, hotel and restaurant management, and business administration, which laid the foundation for his multifaceted career.

Doru M. Angelo’s journey is a testament to the transformative power of entrepreneurship and community service. His story serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration, igniting the aspirations of countless individuals across diverse fields.

Zenia Tata

Zenia Tata is an innovation strategist, a trained futurist, and a humanitarian who is passionate about tapping the vastness of human potential to tackle the planet's most vexing problems.

As an independent consultant, Zenia has been leading innovation projects and advising on sustainable impact initiatives for Kitty Hawk Ventures, MAKR Venture Fund, Pure Technologies, Breakthrough Victoria, a 2-billion-dollar impact investment fund for the Prime Minister’s Office of Australia; an affordable and sustainable housing design project for Emaar Properties through ExO Mesh; and sustainability related consulting projects globally forBCG.    

Zenia spent a decade as Chief Impact Officer at XPRIZE where she created a new prize development methodology and designed more than 25 different innovation challenges to incentivize development of moonshot technologies in areas such as hydrogen energy, carbon dioxide removal, zero-waste mining, alternate proteins, desalination, age-reversal, and water abundance. During this time, she trained as a futurist and launched XPRIZE’s future foresight practice, which produced deeply researched impact roadmaps that outlined the breakthroughs necessary to achieve preferred future states of housing, environmental conservation, human longevity, and global food systems. Her last large-scale effort at XPRIZE was the groundbreaking design of the $100 million Carbon Removal prize funded by Elon Musk that incentivized solutions for the capture and sequestration of atmospheric CO2.

Before XPRIZE, Zenia served as Executive Director of International Development Enterprises (iDE) USA, a nonprofit company that creates market-based approaches to help impoverished farmers in 20 developing countries generate income. Working in post-disaster zones and some of the poorest villages, she honed an approach to poverty alleviation that begins with a deep understanding of the local context and market dynamics to create lasting impact. Her proudest achievement was iDE’s ability to lift 24 million farm families out of the cycle of poverty.

Zenia's popularity as a public speaker reflects her talent for clear and inspiring communication around complex ideas. Her keynotes cover her methodology of creating audacious impact. This unique approach combines moonshot thinking with design principles drawing from biomimicry and science fiction. She is currently authoring a book on Audacious Impact, which is influenced by her 25 years of global field experience in implementing innovations to solve planetary-scale problems. 

Through her 25-year global career, Zenia has often been quoted as a breakthrough thinker and practical futurist in international technology publications like Wired magazine, and media outlets like the BBC. She is an experienced keynote speaker and facilitator who has created her own validated workshop methodology for foresight and breakthrough identification in sectors like energy, water, global food systems, waste, and human health and longevity.

A sense of adventure and an explorer’s mindset runs through Zenia’s life and work. Growing up in Bombay she dreamt of becoming an astronaut before becoming one of the few women in the ‘80s to become a pilot. Her love of the outdoors and extreme sports are reflected in her bold innovation designs which are influenced as much bybiomimicry as they are by the confluence of exponential technologies.

Zenia is bold, brimming with optimism, and determined to change the world.