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I co-founded of Movile, one of Brazil’s major startup success cases and a global leader in mobile commerce with important investments in content distribution platforms and Online-To-Offline (O2O) applications in the segments of children's education and other mobile content, food delivery, ticketing and cloud logistics. In the Silicon Valley, I learned about the Lean Startup and Customer Discovery methodology from its creator and serial entrepreneur, Steve Blank. I was first a student, then an entrepreneur in residence, and finally a certified educator. Upon returning to Brazil, I led the Market Intelligence and Strategy unit at Promon’s telco arm, Tropico, and was invited to be a visiting professor at the Unicamp's Institute of Computing. I led the very first Lean Startup and Entrepreneurship course within the Computer Science and Engineering curricula. I have also shared my angel investing practice and lessons in an Angel Investing course aimed at educating high net worth professionals on how to analyze, engage, add value to, invest in and profit from early stage opportunities. Since selling my stake at Movile in 2014, I have been an active venture capital investor, with a smart money approach by infusing money, strategic advice, hands-on experience, networking, and growth traction experiments into the brains of the handpicked and most promising Brazilian entrepreneurs. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613dbe2c483c68085a9e9/1555440328874/Olga+Finkel.jpg Welcome - Olga Finkel Olga Finkel is a computer scientist turned business lawyer, entrepreneur and early stage investor. Olga set up her law firm WH Partners in 2006, focusing on advising on matters relating to the digital and knowledge economy, and has grown it to be one of the leading firms in the field. As a lawyer, she provides strategy, legal and regulatory advice to online and mobile gaming, data analytics, digital assets creation, fintech, regtech, smart transport industries, amongst others, focusing on intellectual property issues, regulatory frameworks for emerging technologies (AI & blockchain), transactions (M&A, private placements, ICOs) and privacy matters. As an entrepreneur, Olga was part of the founding team in a few projects with successful exits, and is currently involved in an AI-focused venture. As an early stage business angel investor, Olga has invested in a variety of companies in consumer digital entertainment, digital advertising, intelligent transportation systems, smart home systems, big data, fintech and crowdfunding platforms amongst others. Olga sits on the board of several companies, lectures gaming law at the University of Malta and is currently a member of the Legal and Ethical Committee within the Government of Malta’s AI National Strategy Task Force. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613dc71c10b3294a0e525/1555610566748/Peter+and+Aslan+on+Manitoulin+Island.jpg Welcome - Peter Cowley Peter Cowley, a Cambridge university technology graduate, founded and ran over a dozen businesses in technology and property over the last 38 years. He has built up a portfolio of 67 angel investments with five good exits and ten failures. He is the President of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), chair of the Cambridge Business Angels and was UK Angel of the Year 2014/15. He has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and is on the board of nine startups. In 2011, he founded and has since run Martlet: a Corporate Angel, investing (currently £7M) from the balance sheet of Marshall, a £2.5bn revenue Cambridge engineering company. He is a fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Judge Management School in Cambridge, and is a non-executive director of the UK Business Angel Association and on the investment committee of the UK Angel Co-fund. He has also had 16 years’ experience as chair, treasurer and trustee of the boards of seven charities. With his son, Alan, Peter is sharing his and others’ experience and anecdotes in order to educate angels and entrepreneurs via The Invested Investor which publishes both a book and 50+ podcasts. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613ad4785d3472009617d/1555439454187/Candace+Johnson+Picture+-+Square.png Welcome - Candace Johnson https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613e8ec212d9b4b8f63e3/1555440203410/Jose+Miguel+Herrero+cropped.jpg Welcome - José Miguel Herrero José Miguel Herrero is co-founder of Big Sur Ventures. Knowledgeable of European and US Markets, he has extensive international experience in starting and running businesses of diverse sizes including managing a US Nasdaq listed company ($3.5B). He has founded, co-founded and otherwise led numerous technology-enabled products and services companies including LaNetro. In addition, he has M&A experience and founded and sold an M&A firm focused on technology and innovation. José Miguel is keenly aware of the challenges facing early stage companies having been there himself on numerous occasions, and is passionate about helping them achieve success. José Miguel received his BSEECS and MSEE degrees from Santa Clara University in California and his MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613eac830255e67b3f0f5/1555593459947/27.-bb140-essential-angelo-dalli.jpg Welcome - Angelo Dalli Angelo Dalli is a serial entrepreneur with involvement in a number of companies in the Technology, Entertainment and Gaming industries. Since the late nineties he has distinguished himself for his ability to combine deep technical ability (he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science) with commercial acumen. Through his innovative disposition, ability to build and lead teams, he has secured over 21 investments into his ideas from EU funds, Private Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists, propelling his companies into the international domain. Angelo is a fully accredited member of EBAN, the European Business Angel Network. Angelo is also invested in the London based Seedrs, the leading European crowdfunding site with over 280 investments, and is regulated by the UK FCA. Angelo has been involved in four IPOs, one on NASDAQ in the US, two on NASDAQ OMX in Sweden, and the Oslo Borse with a total market capitalization totaling over €500 Million. In his role in Research & Development, he has authored over 23 conference papers in Europe and the US focusing on the application of AI, Natural Language Processing and Search Engine technology to a number of industry verticals and domains. Angelo has also represented Malta in various international events and one of his first international achievements was to win a bronze medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in 1995. Angelo’s profile is a realization of the mantra he works by ‘To create scaleable, repeatable technology businesses that lead by innovation’. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613eb9b747a6375c8cbce/1555441508995/40-Vitaly-Polekhin-96-dpi_ctn.jpg Welcome - Vitaly Polekhin Background: President of National Business Angels Association. Head of SKOLKOVO Investor club. Angel Investor of the Year 2015 by Russia Venture Awards. Shareholder and Supervisory Board Member of Addventure, Texdrive (Genezis Capital) and Venture Angels venture funds. EBAN Board member. Education: PhD in Philosophy. Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Executive MBA. Lomonosov Moscow State University MBA. MIT Sloan School of Management, UC Berkley Haas School of Business, Harvard Business School (Private Equity and Venture Capital programs). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613e06e9a7f20f93f463d/1555483358646/NACO_NAVARRO_yuri_085_WEB_5x7.jpg Welcome - Yuri Navarro Yuri Navarro CEO, Panache International Yuri Navarro is a strategy consultant with more than twelve years of experience working with both government and businesses in the Canadian startup and technology investment sector. In his role as CEO of Panache International, Yuri brings his unique mixture of public and private sector experience to help expand investment options for promising startups globally by launching and managing Angel and founder friendly Seed Funds in some of the world’s most rapidly developing markets. By building a global community of passionate investors and empowering ecosystems, Yuri is working to fund the world’s best startups, fueling their ambition to become the next global leaders. Previous to his role at Panache International, Yuri worked as CEO to the leading organization representing Canadian Angel Investors with industry and government. Over his seven year tenure at the National Angel Capital Organization, Yuri presided over the renewal and growth of the Canadian Angel investor community by focusing on the organization’s value to stakeholders and supporting the growth and professionalization of Canada’s Angel asset-class with resources, best practices and research. Yuri’s time in Government included working as Policy Advisor and then Chief of Staff to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade, and as a Policy Advisor to the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure. In these roles, Yuri was instrumental in supporting Canadian companies to overcome the challenges of working with government, and also took a leading role in developing the provincial strategy on energy conservation and smart grid for Ontario under the Green Energy and Green Economy Act of 2008. In 2009, Yuri founded NAVY Global Consulting where he has worked with technology clients, mainly operating in the energy sector, to commercialize their innovative solutions and bring products to market. As an advisor to Ryerson’s Centre for Urban Energy, Yuri also supported efforts to set up the CUE’s business accelerator program and help energy sector entrepreneurs to commercialize their urban energy innovations. Yuri is a graduate of Ryerson University’s Commerce program and George Brown College’s Financial Planning program and holds a number of designations with the Canadian Securities Institute. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb613eea4222f1e308243ee/1555483370104/MDS-KSTA-2018-02-21-71-129345984.jpg Welcome - Peter Jungen Peter Jungen, Chairman of Peter Jungen Holding GmbH, is investor in numerous start-ups in Europe, the US and Israel. Among others he is also Co-Founder of Idealo GmbH, the leading German comparison shopping platform. He is Founding President of Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland (BAND), Co-Founder and President (2001-2004) of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), a founding Board Member of the China Business Angels Network (CBAN), Beijing, and a member of the New York Angels. He is a partner in the early stage funds “Sinnovation Ventures”, Beijing. He is a member of the Advisory Council, Deutsche Bank AG, of the Board of the New York Philharmonic, the Leonard Bernstein Circle and of the International Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He is Honorary Chairman, “Center on Capitalism and Society”, Columbia University and Board Member of the Columbia Center for Global Economic Governance. He is a Member of the Board of the Friedrich von Hayek Institute, Vienna, respectively a member of the International Josef Schumpeter Society, of the Mont Pelerin Society and of the OECD Steering Group on SME and Entrepreneurship. He was Governing Board Member of the “Institute for New Economic Thinking” (INET) and a member of the Presidency of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). „Wirtschaftswoche“ named Peter Jungen one of the 100 most important personalities who shape the future of the „New Economy“. In 1999 Peter Jungen was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. The European Business Angels Network, EBAN, has bestowed its first ever Lifetime Achievement Award on Peter Jungen, President Emeritus of EBAN, for his decisive contribution to creating a Business Angel Culture in Europe. In addition he received the first “Presidential Award” of EBAN in 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb704ca71c10b6866238249/1555498237654/_MG_6517.jpeg Welcome - David Assia David Assia Executive Chairman, iAngels A pioneer of the Israeli high-tech industry, a serial entrepreneur and respected angel investor, David is most well known for transforming Israel from paper-and-pencil to digital in the fields of IT, database management and Fintech. David developed Software technologies to fill market needs in Europe, Japan, China and North America, growing them from startups addressing local market needs, to publicly-traded corporations on a global scale. David’s startups are icons of the Israeli high-tech industry. He was the first to link Israeli inventiveness with Indian programming, setting up the first Israeli high-tech center in India. His first startup, Mashov Computers, initiated the growth of leading Israeli technology companies including Magic Software, which became the first Israeli software company to go public on the NASDAQ. David is Chairman of iAngels and oversees the iAngels Investment Committee. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cb815278165f58e06843046/1556643607016/Mike-Cegelski-e1525727597627.jpg Welcome - Mike Cegelski Mike currently serves as managing partner at Panache Ventures and is the founding executive chairman at Panache International. Previously, he was managing partner at 500 Startups Canada. From successful entrepreneur to investor and mentor in the startup community, Mike gets involved where it counts and where he can bring value: • As an entrepreneur: Beltron from 1984 to 2000 and iBwave from 2003 to 2015; • As an angel investor and mentor: 60+ companies over the past 15 years; • As a fund manager: 70+ companies over the past 3 years. Mike is visibly involved in the startup investment community through Panache Ventures, Anges Québec, the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO), Creative Destruction Lab (fellow at CDL) and many other initiatives. Mike was also awarded NACO’s Canadian Angel Investor of the Year in 2015, Quebec’s Angel Investor of the Year in 2018 and Ambassador of the Year by the faculty of Science at Sherbrooke University in 2017. Nurturing entrepreneurship is his lifelong passion! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cbc67dd419202c35e74569d/1555851338147/Rein+face.png Welcome - Rein Lemberpuu Rein Lemberpuu has been active in connecting startup ecosystems in NewNordics by being in the board of NordicBAN, EstBAN, StartupLeadersClub, sTARTUpDay, Latitude59 and ArcticStartups. Has invested over 4m into 30+ startups and is now working on Founder Psychology De-Accelerator - .Cocoon. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cc1defefa0d60023bd7c5e5/1556209564089/Andreas_Mihalovits_full.JPG Welcome - Andreas Mihalovits Andreas Mihalovits is a German Angel Investor having invested in more than 60 international startups, most of them located in Spain, but also startups based in USA, UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Malta. Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on business models based on subscription services with more than 150 employees as of today. In 2012 Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 100 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b2a0e414cde7a6108aee066/5cb613ac1905f4c684dcdd44/5cc73380a08fe70001859748/1556558794439/ajs_speaking_profile.jpeg Welcome - Andrew J. Scott Andrew J. Scott is a British entrepreneur turned investor. Born in Cambridge now living in London by way of San Francisco, he's been angel investing since 2014 as “7percent Ventures”. Investments to-date include first money in to Magic Pony Technologies (sold to Twitter) and OculusVR (sold to Facebook). As of 2019 7percent Ventures is closing an early stage VC fund, to do more of the same. Andrew's projects as a startup founder included building the world’s first location based mobile social network (playtxt, 2001), first online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002) and a patented machine learning technology for personalised recommendations (Rummble, 2007). He’s run startups in the UK and US and sat on boards including UnLtd World (sold to Guardian Media Group), the Silicon Valley EU Policy Makers advisory group to the EU Commission and the Silicon Valley Bank early stage advisory board. In 2009 Andrew co-founded The ICE List, a not-for-profit group of tech founders and investors which has hundreds of members across 10 countries, which he remains on the board of. 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