Panelists

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  Allie Burns

  Village Capital

  CEO

  See Bio
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  Borja Breña

  Nauta Capital

  Investment Manager

  See Bio
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  Farhan Lalji

  Anthemis

  Principal

  See Bio
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  Olivier Gemayel

  AWS

  Senior Business Development Manager

  See Bio

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Allie Burns

Village Capital

Allie brings nearly two decades of experience working with entrepreneurs and innovators at the intersection of tech and social change to her role as CEO of Village Capital. Prior to joining the organization in 2016, she served as a senior executive at Revolution and the Case Foundation, the venture capital firm and private family foundation created by former AOL executives Jean and Steve Case. In that role, she led the organizations’ communications and marketing teams, and was instrumental in the development of major initiatives including the Rise of the Rest, the Startup America Partnership and the Be Fearless campaign. 

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Borja Breña

Nauta Capital

Borja Breña is an investment manager at Nauta Capital’s Barcelona office focussed on Spanish and Portuguese opportunities.

Borja is recognised as a venture capital investor with international experience in finance, technology, and innovation. Prior to joining Nauta in 2018, he was a senior investment manager at Telefónica’s corporate venture capital fund. Previously, Borja worked at Kennet Partners, at Barclays Capital as an analyst in the credit trading desk, and as a business consultant at Deloitte UK and Deloitte Spain.

Borja holds an MBA from London Business School, graduated as a Telecommunications Engineer from Seville University (Spain) and is an Associate Chartered Accountant of the ICAEW (UK). He currently resides in Madrid.

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Farhan Lalji

Anthemis

Farhan is a Principal at Anthemis, where he leads the BBVA & Anthemis Venture Creation Partnership. He works with companies that are focused on evolving the digital finance and banking experience for consumers and companies. Previously, Farhan was a Partner at Rokk3r Labs, a global venture builder. He was also an executive at PeerIndex, a social media analytics platform that was acquired by Brandwatch in 2014, Yahoo! and various other startups and later-stage private companies. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at King’s College London and a part-time lecturer in managing digital organizations at London Business School.Farhan holds an undergraduate degree from McMaster University in Canada and an MBA from London Business School. When he is not geeking out on technology trends and their impact on society he’s listening to old school hip hop and watching or reading about NBA basketball.

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Olivier Gemayel

AWS

Olivier leads AWS business development activities for Game Tech in France & Southern Europe. This means he gets to spend most of his days helping creators, developers, studios and publishers make and distribute amazing games with AWS! Having been passionate about video games for all his life, this is a dream job for him.Prior to this role, he was in charge of Amazon Web Service’s relationship with Venture Capital firms in France and the startups they back, helping them to build great business. In his previous lives, he's also been a multiple-time startup Founder, CEO, Chief Business Development Officer, Business Angel, Hospitality Operator and Restaurant Owner.