PROGRAM

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9.00 am – Welcome note

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Marco Jo Rodzynek, Founder NOAH Advisors Ltd. and NOAH Conference

Marco is the founder of NOAH Advisors, a London based corporate finance boutique focusing on M&A and capital raisings for Internet and Technology companies. He also initiated the NOAH Conference to bring together leaders, innovators and investors from the Internet industry to a one-day annual event.
Prior to NOAH, Marco was an Executive Director at Lehman Brothers (acquired by Nomura in end 2008) in their Media Investment Banking Group. He has been an investment banking advisor to Internet and media companies for over 12 years in Europe. Since early 1998, he has been involved in 30 announced M&A deals with a total transaction value of over $95 billion, including many high profile transactions such as the leveraged buyout of PagesJaunes, and 10 capital market transactions which raised $16 billion, including the IPOs of TomTom, Xing, Delticom and Moneysupermarket.
Marco Rodzynek graduated with a dual Masters degree in European Business from the University of Portsmouth and the Fachhochschule Münster.

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9.15 am – The Cross Border Champions

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J.R. Smith, CEO AVG Technologies

J.R. Smith joined AVG as CEO in early 2007 after three years at the helm of a UK based Mobile Network Operator (MVNO) he co-founded that partnered with Vodafone to provide mobile services. J.R.’s first European venture was TSG, a pan-European network deployment and telecommunications software development company he founded in 1997 whose clients included Vodafone, Nextel, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Nokia, and Ericsson. J.R. began his career as a serial entrepreneur in Seattle, WA with PNC, later VoiceStream; after six years, the company was sold to T-Mobile.

AVG is a global security software maker protecting more than 80 million consumers and small businesses in 167 countries from the ever-growing incidence of web threats, viruses, spam, cyber-scams and hackers on the Internet. AVG has nearly two decades of experience in combating cyber crime and one of the most advanced laboratories for detecting, pre-empting and combating Web-borne threats from around the world. Its free, downloadable software allows novice users to have basic anti-virus protection and then easily upgrade to greater levels of safety and defense when they are ready. AVG has nearly 6,000 resellers, partners and distributors globally including Amazon.com, CNET, Cisco, Ingram Micro, Play.com, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo!

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David Yu, CEO betfair

David Yu, formerly CTO and then COO, is Betfair’s Chief Executive. David was previously Vice President, Engineering for Alta Vista’s e-Commerce and International divisions. He has spent over 10 years working for internet-based businesses, and holds an MS Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Director since January 2006.

Betfair is the world’s biggest online betting community and pioneered the first successful betting exchange in 2000. Driven by cutting-edge technology, Betfair enables customers to choose their own odds and bet even after the event has started. The company now processes over six million transactions a day from its two million registered customers around the world. In addition to sports betting, Betfair offers a portfolio of innovative products including casino, exchange games and poker.
Betfair has twice been named the UK’s ‘Company of the Year’ by the Confederation of British Industry and remains one of the only betting companies to win a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, being recognised for Innovation in 2003 and most recently for International Trade in 2008.
Betfair currently employs over 1,500 people, principally in London, Malta and Tasmania. The company is a licensed betting operator in the UK, and holds licenses in Australia, Germany, Austria, Italy and Malta.

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Adam Boyden, President Conduit

Adam Boyden is president of Conduit and responsible for the company’s strategic direction, marketing, business development, and U.S. operations. Previously, Adam was the Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, and then General Manager of Xfire, a provider of communications and tools to more than 11.5 million gamers worldwide, which was acquired by MTV Networks for $110 million in 2006. Prior to Xfire, he was the cofounder and CEO of Autodaq (now OpenLane), the leading online automotive marketing company. Additionally, Adam was the founder and General Manager of the China Consultancy, an advisory firm to companies entering the Chinese market. Adam is a highly accomplished speaker and author whose work can be found in publications such Electronic Retailer, iMedia Connection, Marketing Profs, Media Post, Small Biz Technology, and SMBCEO. He holds a 1st Class Honors B.Sc. in Engineering Science from Exeter University, and an M.B.A from Stanford University.

Conduit offers a complete hosted marketing platform that provides website syndication tools for increasing site traffic, brandy loyalty, and revenue. The Conduit Open™ standard represents the company’s approach to simplifying the sharing of content and applications via community toolbars across the World Wide Web. The Conduit platform enables web publishers of all sizes to put anything from their website on a community toolbar, which can then be deployed across all three major browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. The Conduit platform includes two modules for sharing toolbar components among toolbar publishers and users, called the Conduit Marketplace and 2go syndication tool. The Conduit platform has earned the prestigious TRUSTe Trusted Download certification. More than 200,000 web publishers and 60,000,000 users constitute the Conduit Network worldwide, including major brands such as Daily Motion, Habbo, iVillage, iWin, Liverpool Football Club, Oxfam, and TechCrunch, as well as thousands of small and medium-sized organizations in 180 countries around the globe.

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Frank Schuhardt, CFO Delticom

Frank Schuhardt was a member of Delticom AG’s Supervisory Board from 2000 to 2005, and has been employed by the company since January 2007. He graduated in business administration from the European Business School (EBS). Before joining Delticom he was a partner with DVC Deutsche Venture Capital Gesellschaft, Munich where he was responsible for investments in software and the Internet. Previously, Mr. Schuhardt held various positions in HSBC Trinkaus’ Capital Markets department in Düsseldorf and London.

Delticom, Europe’s leading online tyre retailer, was founded in Hanover in 1999. With 102 online shops in 35 countries, the company offers its private and business customers an unequalled assortment of excellently priced car tyres, motorcycle tyres, truck tyres, bus tyres, special tyres, rims, complete wheels (pre-mounted tyres on rims), selected replacement car parts and accessories, motor oil and batteries. The independent website reifentest.com contains impartial information about tyre tests and helps the customers choose from more than 100 tyre brands and more than 25,000 tyre models. Delticom delivers either directly to the customer’s home address, or to one of more than 20,000 service partners – affiliated garages which take delivery of tyres and then install these on the customer’s vehicle. Delticom’s Wholesale division also sells tyres to wholesalers domestically and abroad.

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Martin Ott, Co-CEO Moneybookers

Martin Ott is responsible for sales, consumer business, marketing, product and service operations. Previously, Ott played a pivotal role as COO at Jamster / Jamba (a News Corp./ Verisign company), in growing the company to the leading international provider of digital entertainment which offers a variety of content services for mobile phones. In his role at Jamster, Ott developed and led the worldwide country operations in almost 40 countries as well as the marketing, production, content and licensing divisions. Ott studied business administration at the WHU – Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz, Germany, as well as in Tokyo and Moscow. Before his role at Jamba, Ott was CEO for Tokyo based web portal Eken K.K.

Moneybookers is one of Europe’s largest online payments systems and among the world’s leading eWallet providers, with over nine million account holders. The simple eWallet enables any customer to conveniently and securely pay online without revealing personal financial data, as well as to send and receive money transfers cost-effectively by simply using an email address. Moneybookers’ worldwide payment network offers businesses access to over 80 payment options in over 200 countries with just one integration. Already more than 50,000 merchants use Moneybookers’ payments service, including global partners such as eBay, Skype and Thomas Cook.
Moneybookers was founded in 2001 in London and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom.

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Josh Silverman, President Skype

He oversees the company’s direction and strategy and is ultimately responsible for its performance.
An experienced entrepreneur, Josh has helped build several startups to become world-class brands and companies. He joined Skype from Shopping.com, where he served as CEO following eBay’s acquisition of the recently-listed company. Prior to that, he launched eBay’s European online classifieds business, and built it into the pan-European leader through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. Under his direct management, Marktplaats.nl (the leading Dutch eCommerce business) grew traffic, revenues and profits more than five-fold in a period of three years.
Josh was co-founder and CEO of Evite, the leading social event planning site on the Web, which he led until its sale to Ticketmaster/Citysearch (now IAC) in 2001. He has also held management positions at ADAC Labs, was a Senior Consultant at Booz* Allen & Hamilton and started his career on the staff of U.S. Senator Bill Bradley.
He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and holds a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and elected Co-President of his class.

Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Every day, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles.

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Javier Pérez Dolset, Founder, Chairman and CEO ZED WORLDWIDE

Javier Pérez Dolset, aged 40, founder, chairman and CEO of Zed Worldwide, is an entrepreneur with a wealth of experience developing products and services for new technologies. Javier got a Degree in Economics by Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and European Business Studies by Humberside University in the UK. In 1992, Javier and his brother, Ignacio, took over Proein, a videogame distributor. A year later, they started Teleline (now Terra) the first Internet service providers in Spain, and in 1996, they set up LaNetro, which offered interactive content accessible from any Internet-ready device. That same year, they also founded Pyro Studios, the main developer of digital entertainment in Spain. LaNetro was rebranded to Zed in 2007. The acquisitions of Monstermob, Player X, Latin American NetPeople and Temafon in Russia plus joint venture with Indian Tanla Solutions have consolidated global leadership of Zed. Javier, together with his brother, set up Ilion Animation Studios in 2002 to create state-of-the-art animated movies. The first film, Planet 51 (release Nov, 20th) will be distributed in 5 continents, including more than 3,800 theatres just in the USA.

Zed Worldwide, the multiplatform digital entertainment company, develops and markets entertainment and community products and services for all platforms. The company is the leading mobile value-added services (MVAS) player in the world in terms of revenue and geographical footprint. Zed operates in 60 countries, including Europe’s largest markets, USA, India and China and holds agreements with 130 wireless operators all over the world.

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11.15 am – Customer Focused Winners

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Patrick Meininger, Vice President Adconion

Patrick Meininger is the Vice President of Corporate Development at Adconion Media Group. He heads corporate and business development for Adconion globally, which includes strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions as well as growth and efficiency initiatives.

Patrick gained more than 12 years experience in the media and high tech space in different corporate strategy and corporate finance functions. He started his career in 1996 as a management consultant with Accenture (NYSE: ACN). From 2000 – 2004, he served as Principal at Wellington Partners, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms, where he led and co-led numerous investment transactions in European IT, telecommunication and media companies. Prior to joining Adconion in 2007, Patrick was the Vice President of Strategy & Planning at T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom, NYSE: DT) where he oversaw strategic planning and accompanied several M&A initiatives at the company’s headquarters.

Patrick graduated with a Masters degree in Information Systems from the University of Muenster, Germany and holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley

Adconion Media Group is the largest independent global audience and content network. Dedicated to true partnerships with agencies and marketers, Adconion arms agencies with customised technology and products designed in-house, while delivering massive global reach across multiple platforms through a single network.
Adconion reaches nearly 300 million unique users worldwide – 1/3 of the total global Internet population – and is ranked number two in the global comScore ratings. Adconion is also an international leader in evolving the ad network model to create, distribute and monetise video content.
The company completed a record £40.9 million (US$80 million) Series C round of funding led by Index Ventures in February 2008, and won the Investor AllStars award for 2008 “Deal Envy of the Year,” in addition to being named in the Library House list of the hottest 100 private mediatech companies in Europe.
Adconion has 16 offices in 7 countries around the world, including London, Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne, Detroit, San Francisco and Brisbane. Adconion is a member of the International Advertising Bureau (IAB) and a founding member of IASH Europe.

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Christian Heitmeyer, Founding CEO Brands4Friends

Christian Heitmeyer is founder and CEO of brands4friends.de, Berlin, Germany’s biggest shopping-club, since July 2007.
Christian Heitmeyer finished his “Bankdiplom” successfully at the Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt and at the “Bankakademie Frankfurt School of Finance & Management”.
He started his career as a managing director and CEO of the Goldkrone-Gruppe, Offenbach, where he was responsible for the business development and strategy. He contributed significantly to the turnaround, internationalization and acquisition of the competitor Le Combi B.A.
Afterwards he became vice-president and COO of the Delsey Group, Paris. There he was in charge of worldwide marketing, sales, product development, sourcing, logistics and branding.
Christian Heitmeyer, born in 1966, commutes between Berlin and Paris, is married and proud father of 4 sons.

brands4friends.de is Germany’s largest online shopping-club. After just 2 years, the market leader boasts 2.5 million members in Germany alone.
brands4friends.de is one of the fastest growing e-commerce communities worldwide, with up to 10,000 new members a day. brands4friends.de sells original goods from renowned lifestyle and fashion labels at drastically reduced prices exclusively to members. In limited special offers that change daily, brands4friends.de offers articles from more than 400 manufacturers, including many up-to-date collections from overstocks as well as “off-season” styles and special collections. brands4friends.de was launched online in September 2007, and has currently over 200 employees at its company headquarters in Berlin-Mitte.
The founders of brands4friends.de were awarded the German Entrepreneur Prize in November 2008, offered by the Harvard Business School Association of Germany e.V. and the Harvard Club Rhein-Main e.V. brands4friends.de was awarded the “Innovation prize 2008 of the Jury Online-Shop” in October 2008 as part of the 12th German Mail Order Conference in Wiesbaden.
brands4friends.de won the “VisionAwards_08” at the “Visions: People. Media. Marketing.” convention, thus prevailing over competitors as a driving force of innovation within the industry, as well. This annual award for media innovation recognizes companies and entrepreneurs who have set trends with new business ideas. brands4friends.de was also elected “Start-up of the Year 2007” in the category “Economic Success” by the web log “Gruenderszene.de”.

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Nils-Holger Henning, CCO Bigpoint GmbH

After graduating with “Diplom-Kaufmann”, “Master of Laws” (LL.M.) and working in companies like AOL Time Warner and Whirlpool Nils-Holger joined Bigpoint in 2005. Since then Bigpoint became the leading developer and publisher of browser-based multiplayer games, and grew from 20 to more than 290 employees in 2009. Combining deep internet distribution with games industry knowledge, Nils-Holger has successfully built up a commercial department as Bigpoint’s CCO with a strategy focussing on media partnerships and internationalisation. He co-initiated the financial buyout by NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) Peacock Equity Fund together with GMT Communications Partners. In Bigpoint he established co-operations with media partners including NBC Universal, Viacom (MTV Europe), Pro7/ SBS, Bertelsmann (RTL, M6), Orange, Telefonica, etc.

Founded in 2002, Bigpoint is Europe’s dominant developer and publisher of multiplayer, browser-based online games. The Company has developed and deployed 26 games, which are available on its own portal at www.bigpoint.com, as well as globally through partners, including AOL, Yahoo, MTV, WildTangent, and others. The company is offering the games in more than 20 languages around the world. Bigpoint has more than 290 employees globally and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Based in New York City, Bigpoint, Inc., is the North American subsidiary of Bigpoint GmbH.

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Oliver Slipper, Co-CEO Perform

Oliver Slipper is the joint CEO (CEO) of Perform, a world leader in monetising sport and entertainment rights in digital media.

Oliver joined Perform in 2001 when it was known as Premium TV, and in 2006 was promoted from Commercial Director to CEO. As CEO Oliver oversaw Premium TV’s international and entertainment growth strategy and secured its place as the number one provider of digital services for the sporting industry. In July 2007 Oliver negotiated the buyout of Premium TV by Access Industries, a privately held US-based industrial group with long-term holdings worldwide, and in September the merger with digital rights specialist, Inform Group.

In January 2008 Premium TV and Inform Group rebranded to create Perform and as joint CEO, Oliver oversaw the structural and strategic direction of the company and is currently responsible for the Sales and Services divisions of Perform.

Prior to Perform, Oliver worked in Accenture’s Media & Entertainment division, working on clients such as Sony Playstation, Cable & Wireless Communications and NTL.

Perform owns and distributes premium sports and entertainment content and through market-leading technical and commercial services, enables sports and entertainment rights holders to maximise the reach and value of their digital content across the internet, mobile and TV.

Perform is unique in the world of digital media because of the ability to provide rights holders, sports federations and publishers with an end-to-end range of digital services, including website design and build, content management, video production, data and editorial services, results-focused digital marketing and to compliment these, a wide range of commercialisation tools.

Perform provides live, on demand and bespoke content to leading media groups, bookmakers and publishers globally from a portfolio of leading sports rights, delivered by a cutting-edge technical platform.

Perform’s relationships with many leading publisher groups provides rights holders with an instantaneous route to showcase their content and brands and media agencies with online advertising and sponsorship opportunities to engage millions from the world of sport and entertainment.

Perform is unique in the world of digital media because of the ability to provide rights holders, sports federations and publishers with an end-to-end range of digital services, including website design and build, content management, video production, data and editorial services, results-focused digital marketing and to compliment these, a wide range of commercialisation tools.

Perform provides live, on demand and bespoke content to leading media groups, bookmakers and publishers globally from a portfolio of leading sports rights, delivered by a cutting-edge technical platform.

Perform’s relationships with many leading publisher groups provides rights holders with an instantaneous route to showcase their content and brands and media agencies with online advertising and sponsorship opportunities to engage millions from the world of sport and entertainment.

Peter Silverstone, Managing Director Kentaro

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with an honours degree in Law, Peter joined Morgan Stanley where he spent 3 years working in the Healthcare Corporate Finance division and general M&A department working on several executed transactions in various diverse industry areas. Since joining Kentaro in November 2004, Peter has been instrumental in the expansion and development of the Kentaro Group business, specifically the growth and running of Kentaro Limited in the UK which now employs 15 people.
Peter’s responsibility for Kentaro’s business activities in the United Kingdom and Eire has ensured he has close relationships with all broadcasters in this region.
Furthermore, Peter has been directly responsible for negotiation, acquisition and management of the following Kentaro federation and club contractual relationships. Peter was instrumental in the creation and project management of the UkrainevEngland.com project – the first live, England qualification match to be shown exclusively PPV on the internet.

Specializing in the global marketing of national soccer federations, leagues and clubs, Kentaro ́s core business is the international acquisition and distribution of premium broadcast rights. Kentaro markets the TV rights for over 250 matches in the build-up to the FIFA World Cup 2010, including 90% of the South American qualifiers. More than 20 federations rely on Kentaro’s unique network and management skills, as do countless top club sides such as Arsenal FC, Chelsea FC and Liverpool FC. Headquartered in Switzerland with branch offices in London, Hamburg, Stockholm and most recently Chicago, the world’s fastest-growing sports rights agency also exclusively organises all friendly matches of the Brazil national team.

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Kristian Segerstrale, CEO and Co-Founder Playfish

Kristian Segerstrale is CEO and co-founder of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social games companies in the world. As an experienced games entrepreneur, Kristian brings strategic vision and expertise in leadership of creative teams and corporate growth to the company.

Prior to founding Playfish in late 2007, Kristian was a co-founder and later managing director of Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) for Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), a leading global publisher of mobile games. During his 6-year tenure he successfully directed product development, sales, marketing and technology operations across Europe, and expanded Glu’s reach by opening regional offices in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Kristian also forged key licensor relationship across Europe with leading companies such as Konami, Celador and Codemasters among others.

Kristian holds a master’s of science degree in Economics from London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Cambridge University.

Playfish leads the social gaming industry in innovation and creativity with award-winning, category-defining games designed for friends to play together. The company has changed the way people play games by creating more social and connected experiences. To date, more than 150 million Playfish games have been installed and played by millions of people worldwide on platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Google, Bebo, iPhone and Android. The company’s games are amongst the most acclaimed and popular online, including Pet Society, Restaurant City, Country Story and Who Has The Biggest Brain? Playfish has development studios in London, San Francisco, Beijing and Tromso, Norway. Playfish is backed by Accel Partners, Index Ventures and Stanhope Capital.

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Shakil Khan, Spotify

Shakil is an Internet Entrepreneur with a number of UK based start ups since 2000. Today, Shakil is part of the Spotify team with a focus on the US expansion. Also, he recently founded CardSmart Ltd and was previously the
Managing Director and Founder at Buy.at Leads (now part of Advertising.com). He co-founded Freesearch.co.uk in 2004 and SMSboy.com in October 2000.

Spotify is an innovative digital music service offering music fans instant access to a world of music. Spotify enables on-demand streaming of audio content and aims to be a better alternative to music piracy by offering a superior user experience, while monetising licensed content with both an ad-supported, free-to-the-user model and a premium, paid model. Spotify brings fans closer to the music and artists they love, and provides a marketplace for additional products such as live events, music downloads and more.

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Mattias Miksche, CEO Stardoll

Mattias Miksche is the CEO and co-founder of Stardoll, an international fashion & entertainment community for teen and tween girls that attracts over 7 million unique users every month.
Prior to Stardoll, he founded online DVD rental company Boxman and merged it 2005 with U.K-based Lovefilm to form Europe’s largest DVD rental & movie download company.
Prior to Boxman.com, Miksche was one of the original European founders of E*TRADE Financial from 1998 to 2002, leaving as the CEO of E*TRADE Germany.
Miksche holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and attended The Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Stardoll is a virtual entertainment destination that blends childlike play with social networking to deliver a fun-filled approach to fashion, celebrity and dress-up. Drawing a core worldwide audience of girls aged 9-17, the site enables members to build “MeDolls” and offers an extensive collection of garments, accessories and makeup from a variety of real world and virtual brands. With Stardoll’s innovative StarDesign application, users hone their fashion sense by creating their own virtual apparel. The site is updated weekly with new dolls as well as hand-crafted fashions to fulfill the overwhelming demand and interests of the more than 12 million unique monthly visitors. Between 30,000 and 40,000 new fans join daily, adding to the more than 27 million registered users in over 200 countries. Stardoll manages the Stardoll Network of sites, which also includes Paperdollheaven.com and Piczo.com. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in Los Angeles, California and London, U.K, and is backed by two of the world’s top venture capital firms: Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.

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1.45 pm – Strategic Exits: Founders and Entrepreneurs Perspective

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Anil Hansjee, Head of Corporate Development Google EMEA

Professor Anil Hansjee BSc (Hons.) MSc FBCS CITP, joined Google in September 2006 as Head of Corporate Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. He is responsible for Google’s acquisitions and investments in the region as well as relationships with the early
stage technology community and their backers and advisers.

Prior to joining, Anil was a Principal with the venture capital firm IDG Ventures, where he was board director of one of their portfolio companies, the mobile music company, Shazam Entertainment. Between mid 2000 and end of 2001, Anil was a Vice President for corporate finance with Bear Stearns International in London. Between mid 1997 and mid 2000, Anil was a member of Chase Manhattan Bank’s corporate finance group both in New York and London. Anil joined Chase’s corporate finance team after spending the first 7 years of his professional career as a software engineer first with UBS then Chase. Anil has a BSc.(Hons.) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University and has an MSc. in Finance at London Business School. He is a Visiting Professor at Kingston University Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Anil is a board observer with Google’s investments – FON (Spain), mTLD Top Level Domain/dotmobi (Eire) and Mobile Planet (Kenya). Anil is also a member of the British Computer Society’s External Relations Board, an advisory board member of Seedcamp, the European Leadership Programme and Twitter Partners (a Twitter advertising agency), as well as a member of Sport England’s Technology Advisory Board.

Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top Web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall Web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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Martin Weber, Partner Holtzbrinck Ventures

With more than 14 years of experience in the private equity industry Martin Weber is one of the most experienced investors in the digital media sector. He has invested in more than 80 companies, built several category leading businesses in consumer internet and worked on and implemented various national and international exits. Martin Weber maintains a broad network in the entrepreneur and business angel community as well as the private equity and media industry. In his actual role as managing director of Holtzbrinck Ventures he is managing one of the largest portfolios of digital media companies in Europe. Holtzbrinck Ventures is a multi stage venture capitalist focussed on digital businesses only, backing entrepreneurs already at an early stage. Most prominent investmets include Brands4Friends, Parship, Experteer,Gameduell, My-Hammer and Mindmatics.

Since 1998, Holtzbrinck Ventures has invested, with risk capital, in young companies within the new media sector and has been involved with over 60 companies making it one of the largest start-up investors with a focus on internet, mobile and broadband companies.
We seek investments in media-oriented business models in the digital media sector. As an established early stage investor, we will gladly participate even at the company’s foundation. Having built up many companies, either independently or in collaboration with business entrepreneurs, we have extensive know-how at our disposal, regarding both operational and growth matters.
Active supervision and long-term support of the investments, as well as the utilisation of established brands and media services from the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, enables us to offer optimal value management right up until we exit.

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Klaus Hommels, Managing Director Klaus Hommels Capital

Klaus is based out of Switzerland has been an angel in the some of the biggest exits in Europe including Skype (he was one of the first angel investors in Skype), QXL (eBay competitor sold for over almost $2 billion), and XING (Web 2.0’s first IPO). He has also invested in several US companies including King.com (largest casual gaming network based in London and LA), Stardoll (based in Stockholm, LA), WooMe (based in the Bay Area), Kyte (based in SF), and others.
Klaus is highly respected in Europe as a savvy angel investor. He is known to personally get involved in the companies he funds and focuses his ventures on how the internet can foster new markets, linking millions
of consumers. He was named “Most successful European angel investor” in June 2006. The award is given by a group comprised of IESE, INSEAD and the University of St Gallen (three leading European business schools). Klaus was recently a venture partner with Balderton (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe) – before and after he operated as an angel. Earlier in his career, Klaus joined AOL in 1995 and spent several years on the Management Board where he was
responsible for business development, content and advertising sales. He was also involved in the establishment
of Freenet.de AG and served on its Supervisory Board. After AOL, Klaus was at Apax Partners in Munich and Zurich. Klaus started his career at Deutsche Bank. He obtained his PHD in Finance from Fribourg University (Switzerland).

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Marc Samwer, Partner European Founders

Marc Samwer holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Cologne where he graduated among the top of his class. After his studies, Marc worked in marketing for Visto Corporation in Mountain View, U.S.A., a Silicon-Valley start-up for communication services.
In January 1999, he and his two brothers founded Alando.de which became the market leader of internet auctions in Germany. After the successful sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., Marc was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Together with his brothers, he turned eBay Germany into the most profitable international site of eBay worldwide.

In 2000, Marc and his brothers founded Jamba! AG which became the market leader for wireless content such as music, pictures, games and videos for mobile phones in Europe and the US. In 2004 Verisign Inc. acquired Jamba! AG. In 2006 News Corp. acquired 51% of Jamba. In 2003, Marc received the distinguished Eisenhower Fellowship Award.

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Rich Riley, Senior Vice President Yahoo! Europe

Rich Riley is Senior Vice President of Yahoo! Europe. In this role, he oversees all go-to-market activities and operations for consumers, advertisers and partners.
Riley joined Yahoo! in January 1999 when Yahoo! acquired Log-Me-On.com, the start-up company he co-founded, which developed and patented what is today the Yahoo! Toolbar. In his nearly ten years with Yahoo!, Riley has held a variety of roles including corporate and business development, leading the Small & Medium Business division in the U.S. and most recently as SVP of the Advertiser & Publisher Group in Europe where he was responsible for Yahoo!’s European advertising business.
Riley has extensive experience in operating Internet businesses, having co-invented the Yahoo! Toolbar, working on Yahoo!’s communications and small business products, leading numerous partnerships, as well as having served as a leader of Yahoo!’s search and display businesses.
Prior to joining Yahoo! and starting Log-Me-On.com, Riley worked as a financial analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York.
Riley graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics with Majors in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management and serves on the Wharton Entrepreneurial Advisory Board. He lives in Switzerland with his wife and four children.

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!’s vision is to be the center of people’s online lives by delivering personally relevant and meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal.

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2.45 pm – Private and Public Equity Market Environment

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Dom Vidal, Partner Index Ventures

Prior to joining the London office of Index Ventures as a Partner in September 2007, Dominique was the CEO of Yahoo! Europe from 2004 to 2007. He joined Yahoo! from Kelkoo, when Yahoo! acquired the company in March 2004. At Kelkoo, where he was Managing Director from 2000 to 2004, Dominique drove the company’s transformation from a small team with no revenues to Europe’s preferred shopping search engine with 400 employees and revenues of $100 million per year.
Prior to Kelkoo, Dominique was a partner at Banexi Ventures in Paris, where he led investments in a number of companies including Kelkoo, Algety and In Fusio. He began his career at Schlumberger where he worked for 10 years in product marketing and business development roles in the telecom and smart card industries in France, the United States and Asia.
Dominique currently sits on the boards of Adconion, Be2, Best of Media and Criteo. Dominique has an engineering degree from Supelec.

Index Ventures is a leading global venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology, Life Science and Clean Tech sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses on investments from seed through growth stage companies. Recent exits of note include MySQL (the world’s most popular open source database recently acquired by Sun) and Last.fm (the world’s largest social music platform, recently acquired by CBS).

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Eric H. Baker, Founder and CEO viagogo

Eric H. Baker is the Founder and CEO of viagogo.
Prior to viagogo, Eric founded StubHub.com, the leading U.S. online secondary ticketing company for live events. Eric originated the StubHub concept and took StubHub from an idea on a sheet of paper to a rapidly growing, profitable business that has revolutionised the way that fans buy tickets in the secondary market. As founder and President, Eric developed the concept and business plan and was primarily responsible for sales/business development, strategic planning, financing, and public relations.
Prior to StubHub, Eric was an associate with Bain Capital, a private equity firm based in Boston. At Bain Capital, Eric focused primarily on technology leveraged buyouts. Prior to that, Eric worked at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he focused primarily on the Internet and electronic commerce issues. Eric graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College (’95) and received his MBA at Stanford Business School (’01).
Eric has been quoted in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Business Week, and The Sports Business Journal. Eric has also appeared on broadcast outlets including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ESPN, Fox, and National Public Radio.

Viagogo, Ltd. operates as an online secondary ticketing company in Europe. The company allows people to buy and sell live event tickets. It offers tickets for events, such as concerts, sports, and arts and theaters. The company has strategic partnership with Mojo Concerts. Viagogo, Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

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Lars Hinrichs, Founder Cinco Capital

Lars Hinrichs is co-founder of Xing, formally known as OpenBC. Lars started his career as an entrepreneur in 1998 at the age of 22 after working as a consultant at different new media firms.
In 1998 Lars initiated “politics digital” a well received and award winning platform in the area of politics and new media. In 2000 Lars established Boettcher Hinrichs AG, a consulting company and development house for enterprise communication.
Since 2001 Lars has concentrated on being an investment and funding advisor as he has accomplished several successful financing rounds for various enterprises. Lars advises portfolio companies with business development and business building strategies.
With his broad spectrum of activities and high level memberships in various organizations, e.g. the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), Lars has an excellent network of contacts worldwide. The idea of enabling networking between his contacts has inspired him to build up openBC.

Cinco Capital is the private investment vehicle of Lars Hinrichs, serial Entrepreneur from Germany. Cinco Capital is building a portfolio of holdings in private & public companies. Currently Cinco Capital holds investments in Europe and the U.S. in different industries such as technology, Internet, financial services, telecommunications, wholesale, marketing, media and others. It is the current policy of Cinco Capital GmbH to invest its own capital in private equity situations only if the target company: Adds sustainable value in the market or is a disruptive play, has a genuine business with revenues and assets, has an unique competitive advantage within its niche and is an economies of scale business. Furthermore, Cinco Capital involvement must be able to enhance the market value of the company. At all times Cinco Capital is an active shareholder looking to increase the value of its investments.

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Jonathan W. Meeks, Partner TA Associates

John focuses on investments in growth companies in Europe, India and other emerging markets. He is a Director of AVG Technologies, Fotolia Holdings, Inc., GlobeOp Financial Services, OpenLink Financial and Radialpoint. John also served on the Boards of Creditex, eSecLending, Lava Trading, Monotype Imaging, Mythic Entertainment and SmartStream Technologies, and was actively involved in TA’s investments in Datek Online Holdings, Idea Cellular and The Island ECN. Prior to joining TA in 1997, he was a Financial Analyst in the Information Services Group at Robertson Stephens. John received a BS degree, with Distinction, in Mathematics, from Yale University (1995).

Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in the world. We invest in private companies in exciting industries, with the goal of helping management teams build their businesses into great companies. This mission has been at the heart of TA’s approach to investing, and our nearly 400 current and former portfolio companies illustrate our commitment to provide steady support through the cycles of the global economy.
Equipped with a $16 billion capital base and four decades of experience, we offer our portfolio companies financial support, strategic guidance, and a significant network of contacts. We help our portfolio companies navigate the complicated paths of public offerings, debt financings, and mergers and acquisitions, and since 1995 have helped them raise more than $15 billion.
With more than 60 investment professionals in Boston, Menlo Park, London and Mumbai, we possess the knowledge and the ability to act decisively in a wide array of industries. While we have deep expertise in technology, financial and business services, healthcare, and consumer industries, we will consider investments in other areas.
We are here to help you build a thriving business and create substantial value for the future.

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Oleg Tscheltzoff, Founding CEO Fotolia

As an entrepreneur, Oleg Tscheltzoff has leveraged a global vision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In November 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images in 10 languages, where photographers and designers of all levels can store, share and monetize their photographs and illustrations. As president, he led the company from inception to its rapid rise to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founding Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).
Oleg is an active angel investor. He graduated with an MS from ENSIEG in Grenoble, France and an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is fluent in French, English and Russian.

Over 1.4 million people prefer Fotolia, LLC for affordable, royalty-free images, graphics, and HD videos. With the introduction of the Infinite Collection, Fotolia became the first worldwide microstock organization to offer both crowd-sourced and professional images on one site. Founded in New York City in 2005, Fotolia spans the globe with websites in 10 languages and websites in 12 regions. With over 7,000,000 images to choose from.

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John Lindfors, Goldman Sachs

John is head of the Technology Group and Co-head of the Media Group in the Investment Banking Division in London. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1993 as a financial analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department in London. From 1998 to 2000, John worked in the M&A Department in New York and joined the European Technology, Media & Telcom Group on his return to London. He was named managing director in 2004 and partner in 2008. John earned an MSc in Financial Economics from the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland in 1993.

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4.15 pm – Emerging European Internet Players

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Roger Lienhard, Founder Astramedia

Roger founded Astramedia and is today as executive Chairman in charge of strategic and corporate development for the Company. As a Swiss serial entrepreneur, Roger also founded OI Ortsinformationen AG (1996), Qualiclick (1999) sold to Adlink – 50% Market Share in Switzerland of Online Advertising, MailProfiler (2002 – sold 2005).

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Yoram Granit, CEO and Founder beeTV

Yoram started his career at the hi-tech industry at Gizmoz (formally known as Zapa Digital Arts) where he managed the Japanese desk, leading fund raising activities and large scale projects for major Japanese content and technology companies such as: DoCoMo, Fujitsu, Dentsu, Hakohodo inc. and Shgokukan.
In 1997 he founded the Israeli Software Company MAX Interactive. He led a team of 60 experts in providing major technology companies with digital product design solutions with an expertise in packaging and distributing advanced software technologies.
In 2002 Yoram co-founded InLive, an international TV mass-participation company. He co-led a fund raising operation of 7M euros with leading VC funds in Europe and managed the company’s strategic accounts with leading Telcos, generating multi-million revenues.
In 2006 Yoram co-founds beeTV and currently serves as the Company’s CEO.
An Israeli citizen, Yoram is 41 years old and holds a degree in Industrial Design from the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, as well as International Business degree from the University of Tel Aviv.

Alongside being a jazz pianist after studying Music at the Rubin’s Academy for Music & Dance, Yoram is an active and proud Dad, the world’s expert in cooking the best spaghetti for his 2 beautiful daughters.

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Paul Tustain, CEO and Founder BullionVault

Paul Tustain BSc (Computer Science) CEO (47). Paul worked in equity and bond market systems for 9 years before founding SAM Systems in 1990. There he designed and supplied post-trade processing systems within UK equity and bond markets, which, starting 1995, linked European banks (Lloyds TSB, NatWest, ING, Deutsche Bank) and several stockbrokers to the UK’s central stock depository (CREST) and payments systems (SWIFT). SAM grew to £2.5m turnover business employing 24. Selling part of his holding he became non-executive in 2002, before resigning upon final sale in 2005.

He started planning the BullionVault service in 2002, provided the seed finance at incorporation in October 2003, and managed the development, later funding, and launch of the service in 2005. Since then he has overseen its expansion to the £250m turnover business it is today.

Galmarley Limited is headquartered in London with 15 employees, owns and operates the world’s leading online gold bullion market place, BullionVault.com (“BV”) launched in 2005. Galmarley was founded in 2003 by Paul Tustain to make main market, large bar gold bullion accessible to retail, for the 1st time. BullionVault now has more than 14,000 active customers from 85 countries holding $600 million or 18 tons of gold – much more than the gold reserves of most of the world’s central banks. In 2008, the company was elected a full member of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). In 2009 the scale and commercial success of BV’s innovation was recognised when the company won with the UK’s highest business award, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise (Innovation).

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Gerald R.W. Heydenreich, Co-Founder BuyVIP

Gerald received a cum laude degree in Business Administration from the European Business School and an MBA from the Thunderbird University in Phoenix (USA). In 1996 he joined Hoechst AG (now Aventis), working for the Board of Directors in Germany and Asia in sales and marketing, then moved to IBM Global Services leading the development of the first German Marketplace for Deutsche Post AG.

At the age of 25, he and two former colleagues founded PORTUM AG, the first European provider for b2b reverse online auction and sourcing events and grew trading volume to more than €10 billion. With offices in France, Spain, Germany, UK and the USA, Portum quickly became the leading european providers for internet-based sourcing and supplier management solutions with clients such as Siemens, EADS, Deutsche Telekom and TOTAL. The company was sold in 2006 to IBX, the leading european e-marketplace and Gerald created Omnis Mundi, a network of entrepreneurs, who invest in and support young companies to grow their business. One of the recent ventures which he co-founded includes BuyVIP, an exclusive eCommerce community for lifestyle and fashion products with more than 200 employees, 4 Mio. members and offices in Spain, Germany and Italy.

Wirtschaftswoche and Financial Times voted Gerald one of the Top 100 German masterminds on e-business. He was given the Budding Entrepreneur Award by GrowthPlus Top500 for demonstrating outstanding entrepreneurial skills at a young age and was twice finalist in the competition “Entrepreneur of the year”, sponsored by SAP, Deutsche Bank and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young. His industry focus includes software, on demand, eCommerce, Internet and innovative services. He also is a member of Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Germany.

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Holger Hengsteler, CEO Dress-for-Less

Holger Hengstler joined dress-for-less 2000 as Partner and Managing Director. His responsibilities include Marketing, Logistics, IT, Finance and Internationalisation. The continued growth from a 2-Man Company to over 120 Employees, making the Top 100 List of the German Mailorder Industry, is a clear sign of solid and sustainable Growth.
Holger Hengstler began his professional career 1995 when joining the Multimedia-Team at DMC Consulting followed by a short Intermezzo as Venture Scout for Deutsche Telekom and in M&A at T-Online. Bereits vor und während des Studium war er bei Firmengründungen aktiv.
Holger did his A-Levels in Tokyo, studied European Business Administration at the Middlesex University, London and at the European School of Business, Reutlingen.

Dress-for-Less GmbH is a leading German online apparel business founded in 1999, which is focused on operating online shops for brand manufacturers and selling end of season apparel to consumers. The Company covers the complete value chain from selection and sourcing of merchandise, logistics and online distribution. Dress-for-Less serves consumers in more than 40 countries worldwide and achieves annual growth rates above 30%.
Dress-for-Less operates in the highly attractive market of online apparel, which encompasses clothing, footwear and accessories as well as jewellery. The online apparel market is growing between 20% and 50% across different European countries and is forecasted to reach a European market volume of approximately €20 billion in 2007. Consumers’ desire to buy apparel online is driven by greater convenience, wide choice of products, generally competitive prices and ease of access to specific offers.

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Christian Göttsch, CEO and Founder Experteer

Christian Göttsch is CEO & Founder of Experteer, Europe’s leading online career service. Experteer offers the most jobs above €60.000/GBP50.000 and confidential access to a network of over 5.000 approved headhunters. The company operates across nine European markets with a rapidly growing member base of high end professionals and executives – currently at 1,3M. With its unique consumer subscription model Experteer is the game changer in the online jobs business.
Prior to Experteer, Christian Göttsch was a member of the executive team of MSN Germany, where he built and ran the business development, product management and marketing functions. During his tenure he build the first internal ad revenue organization and later restructured the entire portal business through a virtual joint venture with Burda / Tomorrow Focus. He developed strategy and market entry plans into the premium services business and lead the break-through market campaign for instant messager. Previously he worked in corporate development of Bertelsmann’s publishing unit (G&J) as well as various business development roles for CompuServe and AOL.
Christian graduated in business and obtained a Ph.D. in „Business Strategy in the Online Industry”. During this time he was a visiting scholar at the Berkeley round table on the international economy where he worked on the UC Berkeley e-conomy project and co-founded a company in Paris, which received significant funding from Europe@Web/LVMH and grew up to 50 employees.

Experteer, the leading online executive jobs website in the UK and across Europe, features more than 50,000 job opportunities at salaries above £50,000 and a network of 4,500 approved headhunters. This premium service is aimed at experienced executives who are either planning their next career move, or simply wanting to monitor the job market and their own market value. Job opportunities available to subscribed members have been selected by a team of independent analysts, who constantly research the market, then classify each job and apply a salary benchmark. Experteer’s proprietary Career Matching System alerts each of the current 650,000 European members to positions that correspond to their qualifications, experience and career goals, including relevant opportunities in new industries, functions, or at new management levels. The online career service also provides free job advertising and valuable networking opportunities for headhunters.

Experteer was founded in July 2005 by Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH, a subsidiary of the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, and is headquartered in Munich. The UK office is based in London. Further information can be found at www.experteer.co.uk or at the service’s domain name for each country in which it operates: .de/.ch/.at/.fr/.it/.be/.com.

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Raphael Honigstein, Co-Founder footbo.com

1997 LLB (Hons) UCL
2001 MSc Media & Communications, LSE
2002 – present
Football journalist (Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung,Talksport, CNN) and consultant (media, sports betting, player agency)

Footbo is the leading online social community for football lovers worldwide. Fans and amateur players can connect and interact, receive customized information, share content/media and express their knowledge and emotions. Created by people who are truly passionate about the beautiful game, Footbo is based in London, UK.

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Nazar Yasin, CEO forticom.com

* Co-Head of European Internet Coverage, Goldman Sachs
* Founder & CEO, Kellogg Insight
* Venture Capital Analyst, SCIUS Capital
* Senior Associate Consultant, Mars & Company Consulting
Education
* MBA, Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management
* Juris Doctorate, Northwestern University School of Law
* Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech

Forticom is a Latvian based IT company. Joint owner of social networks (full List of social networking websites) Odnoklassniki, Nasza-klasa.pl, One.lv / One.lt / One.ee etc. The total amount of users is more than 60,000,000.

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Noam Perski, CEO and Founder JamesList

A pioneer in the Scandinavian internet space starting in 1996, Noam built a string of successful consulting firms that engineered ground-breaking e-commerce and community sites in Sweden. Noam advised leading venture capital firms on their internet investments and worked from a board level on several successful ventures including among others EURO909, a NASDAQ OTC listed Danish technology firm.
In 2002 Noam focused his skills on development and global health issues. He joined the International AIDS Society (IAS) and served as Director of Fundraising and Communications. He raised over 20 million USD and led PR & communications for the International AIDS Conferences in 2004 and 2006, which hosted over 20 000 participants and 3500 journalists each with participation by Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela and many others. In 2006 Noam left to join Ampersand Global and led communications and advocacy efforts including events with Bono and Jose-Manuel Barroso at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm and the Global Fund’s Replenishment Conference in Berlin with Kofi Annan and Angela Merkel.
Noam is founder and CEO of JamesList, the world’s largest online luxury marketplace, which launched in early 2009. JamesList now features more than 25,000 jets, yachts, cars and watches for sale along with state of the art tools for instant pricing of jet and yacht charter around the world.

JamesList was founded specifically to take advantage of the lack of a truly global marketplace for high-end goods. Operating without ties to traditional print media or industry groups, we can focus on offering our dealers and visitors the best possible service. We have a worldwide perspective that sets us apart, with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, offices in Marbella, Spain and representation in London, Frankfurt, Singapore and Miami. JamesList was founded by an experienced group of entrepreneurs with a proven track record of successful ventures, we are privately owned with strong financial backing.

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Sivan Metzger, General Manager Kenshoo LOCAL

Sivan Metzger, General Manager, Kenshoo LOCAL – Mr. Metzger has joined Kenshoo to lead the strategic efforts in starting and ramping up the new Kenshoo LOCAL business. Metzger comes to Kenshoo after spending a decade at Mercury Interactive (MERQ – later acquired by HP), serving in product, business development and in recent years, business leadership roles, in North America and in EMEA.

Kenshoo is a global innovator in search engine marketing technology with extensive industry knowledge. Kenshoo’s flagship product, KENSHOO™ Search, is an end-to-end SEM platform, which automates the process of building and optimizing cross channel search campaigns, automating most of the labor-intensive search marketing operations required ro manage large scale SEM campaigns.
Kenshoo recently embarked on an additional strategic direction by introducing KENSHOO Local – an end-to-end mass-management SEM platform designed from the ground up for organizations managing large volumes of Local or SMB/SME campaigns, such as Online Directories, Agencies and Small Business Service Providers.
Kenshoo is backed by Sequoia Capital and Arts Alliance, has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo and Beijing, and has corporate headquarters in Tel Aviv.

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Kate Hersov, Co-Founder and Director Medikidz

Dr Kate Hersov is the Co-Founder and Director of Medikidz, the world’s first multimedia medical education company for young people. Medikidz is building itself to become the global brand for Children’s Health, using superhero characters (’The Medikidz’) to explain medicine to young people in a way they can understand. Kate trained as a doctor in New Zealand, working in the specialties of Paediatrics and Oncology. She also worked as a Medical Research Fellow (Medical Research Institute of NZ) authoring a number of published journal articles.

Millions of children worldwide are diagnosed every day with conditions that even their parents may find difficult to comprehend. Most children don’t understand their medical conditions, or associated investigations, procedures and treatments, and are often scared by what is going on around them.
Traditionally, it was felt that children were too young to understand medical concepts, or even worse, were better off not knowing. Doctors often do not have the time or skills to explain medical issues, so that children and their families can understand them.
There are over 50 million children in 6 main English-speaking countries that are currently afflicted with illness and are without proper educational resources. To date, no effective solution exists to this overwhelming global problem. There is therefore a definite, substantial and unsatisfied need in the marketplace for an offering like Medikidz. The best way to communicate with children is often through other children.
The ‘Medikidz’ are a gang of 5 larger-than-life superheroes from outer space, which are each specialists in different parts of the body. The characters are designed to be fun and appealing to children in order to be able to entertain, as well as educate them about serious medical issues. They are destined to become characters with whom children can relate, and befriend.
The Medikidz characters live on ‘Mediland’ – a living, moving planet shaped just like the human body. The children are taught about their own body by going on a personal tour through Mediland. Medikidz is designed specifically for children: therefore we will speak their language, at their level, via comic books, games and an online virtual world.
Medikidz Limited was founded in New Zealand in 2006 and incorporated as a UK company in May 2008. Dr Kim Chilman-Blair is the Company Founder. She trained originally as a doctor, worked for some time in Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and has worked for over 8 years as an academic medical writer for Adis International (NZ), and Prous Science (Barcelona, Spain). Dr Kate James is the Co-Founder of Medikidz. She qualified as a doctor in 2004, working in the specialties of Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Oncology. She also worked as a Medical Research Fellow (Medical Research Institute of NZ) authoring a number of published journal articles.
Credibility is the cornerstone to the Medikidz offering – professional medical writers and doctors write all the content, which is subsequently peer-reviewed by leading consultants in each respective field. Medikidz is also working to gain endorsement of established and well-regarded medical institutions, foundations and spokespeople.

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Stefan A. Jenzowsky, CEO moreTV

Stefan is CEO of moreTV Broadcasting GmbH, the market leader for TV-based Services in Germany with more than 250,000 users to date. Before, Stefan worked as a scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, teaching media psychology, media and advertising effects, and entertainment research.  After this, Stefan was VP and Head of Business Innovation within Siemens Communications, heading a Business Innovation Think Tank for fixed and mobile communications. After leaving Siemens, Stefan became Partner at trommsdorff + drüner innovation + marketing consultants, consulting on strategies of business innovation, new product development and innovation marketing. Stefan has authored and edited various scientific publications and books circling about the effect of digital technologies on innovation and the future of media.

As the leading provider of New Television solutions, moreTV has been developing new business models for cable networks, set-top box manufacturers, Internet portals, TV channels and advertisers since 2003.
moreTV provides its partners with exciting value-added services, such as electronic programme guides (EPG), PVR services, interactive advertising and total IPTV/ITV solutions. The product range consists of exclusive, consumer-oriented flagship products as part of the “max by moreTV” product family.

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Stephen Taylor, CEO Qype GMBH

Stephen is CEO of Qype GMBH, Europe’s most successful user generated Local review site. With strong communities and market-leading positions in UK, Germany and France, Qype is also growing very quickly in 7 other markets.

Previously, Stephen was Regional Vice President and Managing Director for Yahoo! Europe, with responsibility for all aspects of the European Consumer business. This included Pan European P&L responsibility for all Media properties as well as Search, Mail & Messenger, Social Media.

Before Yahoo!, Stephen joined the early stages of Overture Inc, the global pioneer of sponsored search marketing. Under his leadership, Overture Europe evolved from a single to a multi-product organisation and went from loss to profit. Overture was successfully sold to Yahoo! for $1.7bn in 2003.

Founded in 2005, Qype is Europe’s largest community for user-generated reviews and recommendations covering places, events and experiences. Over 14 million unique users utilise the communication platform to find venues, businesses and services in their area and share opinions each month. With over 1 million public reviews covering more than 15,000 European towns and cities, and translated into seven different languages, Qype is now the only truly pan-European local review site able to offer its jet setting users a handy multi-lingual platform.

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Axel Schmiegelow, CEO sevenload!

As a serial entrepreneur and CEO of denkwerk Group, Axel Schmiegelow has been involved in marketing, media, the internet, and start-ups over the last 15 years. He has seen the New Economy come and go (and then come back again). His full service internet agency denkwerk always strives for creative innovation and attracts some of the brightest talents (and startups) in our industry. In 1999, he helped found the world’s first bookmarking and tagging start-ups, oneview, which he rolled out in 16 countries and 10 languages. Axel is an active Board Member of the company shaping the future of travel commerce, itravel, and a Board Member of the exciting local search and rating company, Qype. As an investor in armedangels, he is supporting an endeavor to make the world a better place.
Since September 2006, he has been CEO of the company that will shape the future of TV and internet media: sevenload! In 2000, Axel completed the EDP Program at MIT (a shareholder in denkwerk). Axel studied law with an emphasis on Business and International Law at Sorbonne (Paris) and the University of Cologne. During his studies he was awarded a scholarship from the elite German Scholarship Foundation (”Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”).

sevenload is one of Europe’s leading platforms for legal Web 2.0 content such as videos, photos and web TV. Every one of sevenload’s over 800 web TV show formats offers independent, intelligent and creative content from users that produce their own content, as well as professional production companies. sevenload is an ideal partner for companies looking for possibilities in cross-media marketing, video advertising and branded entertainment. sevenload currently has twelve country portals in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Poland, India, Australia, Singapore and Turkey.

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Tomas Diego, Founding CEO Softonic

Founder of Softonic.com, one of the most visited sites in Spain (Alexa ranking 277) without almost no advertising budget. It is now the leading software download portal in Europe and LatinAmerica, and 2nd in the world. We manage 2.2 millions downloads per day and 4 million searches per day in our own sites and partner sites.
Studied IT at Universitat UAB Sabadell and Universitat La Salle (Universitat Ramon Llull).

Established in 1997, Softonic is Europe’s leading software download site with more than 100,000 freeware, shareware and trial version software titles available with reviews written in Spanish, German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Polish. The English language portal was launched in November 2005.
Softonic International is committed to offering the latest software for all users, on all platforms, with reviews in the world’s most popular languages. For specific information about our pages in Spanish, German, English French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese or Polish please contact us.

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Geraldine Wilson, CEO truphone

Geraldine Wilson joined Truphone in October 2008 as CEO. She has 25 years experience in the mobile and telecoms industry.

She joined Truphone from Yahoo!, where she held the role of general manager of Yahoo! Mobile Europe and was responsible for managing the BT Yahoo! broadband relationship. Prior to Yahoo!, Geraldine worked at Vodafone, where she held roles including chief commercial officer of Vodafone Sweden; managing director of UK content services and director for Prepay at Vodafone UK; and managing director of Vizzavi UK. Geraldine was also global head of marketing and sales for Orbitel and, in her early career, spent five years working for Lake Communications, a leader in small PABX’s. Geraldine has an MBA from INSEAD.

Founded in 2006, Truphone is a global mobile communications provider in the business of innovating how people converse in our globally connected world. As the industry’s first mobile Internet operator, the company makes it easy and affordable for users all over the world to keep in touch with friends, family and business contacts overseas or whilst roaming. Frost & Sullivan has declared Truphone winner of the “2009 European Mobile VoIP Product Differentiation Innovation Award.”

According to Frost & Sullivan, “Truphone has been able to differentiate its products from those of its competitors due to the immense commitment it has made in research and development and by having strategic partnerships with major industry participants across the mobile ecosystem. As a result, it has successfully enabled the firm to address its customers’ needs and expectations, resulting in Truphone being a dominant player in the mVoIP market.” Truphone is the trading name of Software Cellular Network (SCN) Ltd. SCN is privately owned, funded by both venture capital investment and angel investors.