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Yoni Assia

eToro

Yoni is the CEO of eToro, the world's leading social investment network. Yoni showed great interest in finance and computer science since his youth, and so decided to merge his passions. In 2007, he founded eToro with the vision of opening up the global markets so that everyone can trade and invest in a simple and transparent way. Today, he oversees a multi-asset platform that enables a 20 million strong community to connect, share, trade and invest in the global financial markets. Yoni is a member of the YPO, and was included by Financial News in its prestigious Fintech 40 ranking and by City A.M. as a Fintech 100 top influencer. He was named as one of Fortune's 40 under 40 in 2020.

Jessica Schultz

Northzone

Jessica is a General Partner at Northzone, where her main focus is DTC and consumer internet. Her portfolio includes Red Points, Na-Kd, Matsmart, Klarna, Outfittery, Flink and Fyndiq.Prior to joining Northzone, Jessica co-founded and was CMO of market-leading meal-kit service HelloFresh, spearheading the global marketing operations. She started her career in consulting at LEK, and holds an MSc, Economics & Business from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Eilon Reshef

Gong

Eilon Reshef is a co-founder and a Chief Product Officer at Gong, the leading revenue intelligence platform. Gong modernizes revenue organizations by collecting all first-hand interactions with their customers and guiding team members towards the best actions. As a CPO, Eilon is responsible for Gong's product strategy and execution.

Sacha Michaud

Glovo

"Sacha Michaud is the co-founder and Vice-President of Public Affairs at Glovo, one of the world’s fastest-growing on-demand delivery players. After launching his first company at 25, LatinRed, which went on to become the world’s largest Spanish-speaking internet services provider, he then joined Betfair. He spent nine years leading the Iberia team for the online gambling giant and helping their global expansion. In late 2014, he decided to launch an ‘everything-on-demand’ service and began talking to investors. Soon after he was introduced to Oscar Pierre, who was about to launch a similar project, and he decided to join him. Together they founded Glovo."

Geraldine MacCarthy

Personio

At Personio, Geraldine MacCarthy is tasked with driving the tech company's European expansion.She brings almost twenty years of sales and technology experience in executive roles at category leading companies like Dropbox and Google. As Head of Dropbox Business EMEA she was instrumental in building up the European business. Prior to that, she spent over seven years at Google in multiple leadership positions, supporting their European expansion and establishing several new offices.

Julia Hawkins

LocalGlobe

Julia Hawkins is a Partner at LocalGlobe. Previously, Julia worked at Goldman Sachs, Last.fm, BBC Worldwide and most recently Universal Music where she set up their Corporate Venture arm. Julia enjoys working with mission driven founders and has a keen interest in entertainment, media and digital health from wellness to genomics. Companies within her portfolio include sexual wellness app, Ferly, the messaging platform for doctors and patients Accurx and deep-tech startup, Apheris. She is also a Kauffman Fellow and Board Trustee of Shwachman Diamond Syndrome UK, a charity dedicated to finding a cure for SDS, a rare genetic disease.

Fredrik Hjelm

Voi Technology

Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars. Prior to Voi, Fredrik founded Guestit, the Nordics’ most successful Airbnb management company, and worked in business development for Avito.ru, Russia’s leading - and the world’s third largest – classified advertising site. Fredrik’s entrepreneurial career began at 12 years of age when he ran a number of commercial projects including forestry work (he grew up in rural Sweden), events and website sales. After graduating from high school, he attended the Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, within the intelligence branch of Sweden’s special forces, where he studied Russian and linguistics. He went on to study business and economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

theBoardlist/ Choose Possibility

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a leading technology executive and entrepreneur, board member, and investor with 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon, Yodlee, and StubHub. She is the founder and chairman of theBoardlist and has been profiled in Fortune, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Sukhinder has been named one of Elle’s Power Women, one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company, and one of the Top 100 People in the Valley by Business Insider. Her forthcoming book is entitled Choose Possibility (on sale: August 17th).

Bridget Perry

Contentful

Bridget Perry spent the past 20 years leading marketing at established and early-stage technology companies. She led Adobe’s commercial marketing through its transition to SaaS and launch of a digital experience platform. Most recently, Bridget led Adobe’s marketing across EMEA. Bridget also held leadership roles at Microsoft across enterprise marketing, partnerships and sales. She got her start in technology at a digital agency, incubating early-stage ventures and helping established brands adopt digital. Bridget holds a BA from Boston College and an MBA from Yale School of Management. Outside of work, Bridget loves spending time with her family and outdoors.

Ben Marrel

Breega

Ben's experience as a founder and his passion for entrepreneurship led him to co-found Breega, a founder-friendly European VC specialised in financing early-stage tech startups from PreSeed to Series B stage. Prior to that, Ben debuted his entrepreneurial journey by launching FiftyFour, the first financial rating platform for SME’s in Africa, and then Rugby Division, a disruptive rugbywear brand. He began his career in corporate finance, working on large cross-border M&A deals and Series D+ in tech for Macquarie Bank in London and Sydney.Today, Ben & Breega advise and finance highly promising startups such as Curve, Cuvva, Exotec, Ibanfirst, udelv or NinetyNine with the aim of propelling them to global success. #entrepreneur / #VC / #techlover / #sportaddict For more info : www.breega.com

Ira Krachanovskaya

Launchpad

Results driven, growth focused marketing leader with 7 years of experience across B2C, B2B and D2C sectors at start-up and scale-up levels. Having worked as Head of Growth Marketing at Badoo/Bumble, Ira currently leads marketing for Launchpad and it’s portfolio of 5 technology-focused start-ups.

Cristina Fonseca

Indico Capital Partners

Cristina is a technology entrepreneur and investor. In 2011, she co-founded Talkdesk, one of the few Portuguese “unicorns”. Talkdesk is the leading global Cloud-Based Call Center Solution, having raised $267 million from top Silicon Valley investors and employing over 1000 people today.As a Partner at Indico Capital Partners, the first private institutional early-stage venture capital fund in Portugal, with 66 million euros under management and backed by institutional and individual investors from 16 countries, Cristina works closely with the portfolio of 21 global tech disruptors. Indico invested over 28 million euros since early 2019 in its companies, who in turn, raised a collective amount of more than 600 million Euros and created more than 1000 jobs.Cristina is also a non-executive Board Member and Member of the Sustainability Committee of Galp since 2019 and a co-founder at Cleverly.ai, a startup that automates customer service with Artificial Intelligence, eliminating manual and repetitive work and making customer service teams 30% more productive on average.

Harrison Rose

Paddle

Harrison Rose is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Paddle. Harrison first began working in software at the age of 16 while still in school, and at 18 co-founded Paddle. He leads Paddle's go-to-market and commercial efforts and has helped grow the business into a leading revenue delivery platform powering the growth of over 2000 software businesses in 245+ countries.

Matt Miller

Sequoia Capital

Matt Miller is a partner at Sequoia focused on early and growth stage investments in technology companies. A self-proclaimed nerd from an early age, Matt started building computers and writing code at 12 years old in his mother’s kitchen. He has worked as an entrepreneur, an advisor and now an investor. At Sequoia, Matt has worked closely with companies like Carbon Black, Confluent, Docker, Fishtown Analytics, Graphcore, n8n, Simplisafe, Tecton and Tessian. Prior to Sequoia, Matt worked at Goldman Sachs and graduated from Brigham Young University. In his spare time, Matt is wrangling three young kids with his wife and looking for people with whom he can practice his Swedish.

Erika Batista

On Deck

Erika Batista is the Head of International at On Deck. Before that, she was founding team member and director at the European accelerator The Family. She has been working with early stage founders for nearly a decade, and her specialties include fundraising, education, and community building.

Suzanne Ashman

LocalGlobe

Suzanne Ashman is a Partner at LocalGlobe, a London-based VC fund. LocalGlobe has been seeding companies for almost two decades, backing companies including Zoopla, Citymapper, Improbable, Robinhood and Transferwise. Suzanne enjoys working with entrepreneurs using technology to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, from healthcare to agriculture, and education to space. Previously, Suzanne spent five years at Social Finance, an impact investing firm seeking to generate both social change and a return on capital.

Christopher Herd

Fistbase

Chris Herd is the Founder & CEO of Firstbase. Firstbase is an all-in-one provisioning platform for remote teams. Their platform lets companies setup, supply, maintain, manage and retrieve all the physical equipment remote workers need to do great work at home as a monthly subscription.

Kate Afanasyeva

Google

Kate leads Growth Marketing for EMEA Google Store. She volunteers as Google for Startups Accelerator Mentor and Femtech Lab Marketing Advisor to mentor startups on go-to-market and marketing strategy. Kate is ex-Marketing Lead for Yandex Internal Incubator where she led marketing for new experimental products and has more than 5 years of experience with various marketing channels and tactics from paid media, to brand campaigns, to market research and positioning.

Jason Williamson

Oracle

Jason Williamson is vice president of the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem, Oracle’s startup program for entrepreneurs worldwide. In this capacity, he leads the business development initiatives and strategies across the program’s key audiences, including startups, customers, partners and Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Jason was at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he created and led several key initiatives within the investment and startup community. He has a background in both Fortune 500 firms and the startup world. Among his startup efforts, he co-founded the construction industry’s first CRM SaaS offering, an International NGO for Entrepreneurial Development, and is currently launching a company in the pediatric healthcare space. Jason also served as an assistant professor for five years at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and has authored three books. He served his country as a United States Marine and lives in Raleigh with his wife and four children, where he coaches high school girls’ basketball, drinks sweet tea and eats bbq as much as possible.

Sharon Lee Thony

Fiverr

Sharon Lee Thony is a brand and marketing executive, with nearly two decades of experience creating award-winning marketing campaigns for travel, beauty and luxury lifestyle brands. She is Director of Digital Marketing Agencies at Fiverr and is also CEO of SLT Consulting (acquired by Fiverr), a boutique digital marketing collective that partners with savvy businesses looking to scale their efforts in various integrated marketing channels for growth: social media, search marketing, website optimization, email marketing, digital performance and brand strategy. Notable clients include: Peloton, Warby Parker, sweetgreen and Facebook.In her spare time, Sharon is co-host of Top 50 Podcast Modern Minorities and a Distinguished Faculty member at General Assembly. She has earned a BA from New York University and an MBA from The Wharton School. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, their two adorable sons and their dog.

Vikram Bhaskaran

Chargebee

Vikram has been with Chargebee since 2018, during which time the company has grown rapidly. Chargebee’s leading marketing metrics in this time have grown a whopping 20X. He is one of the most experienced SaaS marketers in India, with more than 15 years of SaaS marketing experience. He has handled marketing at some of the most successful SaaS startups in India like Zoho in 2006 (when Zoho was known as AdventNet) and Freshworks (then known as Freshdesk) in 2012, when they had just raised their first round of funding. An ex-founder himself, he has been involved in the SaaS space during these formative years and has contributed to the evolution of SaaS marketing in India.

Ann Hiatt

Ann Hiatt received her initial business training during 15 years as the Executive Business Partner to Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon) and Chief-of-Staff to Eric Schmidt (CEO and Executive Chairman at Google/Alphabet). Ann now consults with executives and companies across the globe to reverse engineer their moonshot goals and get results. Ann is a sought-after international speaker, angel investor and sits on several boards in the UK. Ann has recently relocated from Silicon Valley to Europe and brings with her a unique perspective on what it takes to succeed in business today. Ann is also the author of Bet On Yourself, published by HarperCollins in 2021.

Saira Gill

Antler

Saira is the Global Head of Portfolio Management for Antler, investing in and supporting a portfolio of over 280 investments across 10 countries. She has led the strategies across Antler to help support founders to have maximal impact, fundraise and grow. This includes creating content, events and workshops for founders, building up an international community of VCs and doing fundraising sprints with founders particularly from pre-seed to Series A. Previously, she founded two companies, one focussed on reducing food waste, the other on improving mental health using sound. She scaled two companies internationally, MyCitydeal (later bought by Groupon) and Antler, and worked in Venture Capital at Balderton Capital. Saira holds a Masters Degree in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, where she specialised in Neuroscience and Psychology. Her hobbies include kitesurfing, raw food cooking, yoga and breathwork.

Derek Andersen

Startup Grind/Bevy

For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the Co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. He co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people. Since 2012, Startup Grind has hosted 15,000 events for more than 500,000 people. In 2010, he co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek also previously worked as a product manager at Electronic Arts. He currently lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife and four children.

2021 Startup Grind Europe

Jos
Jun 29 - 30, 10:00 AM (WAT)

About this event

Speakers

Yoni Assia

Jessica Schultz

Eilon Reshef

Sacha Michaud

Geraldine MacCarthy

Julia Hawkins

Fredrik Hjelm

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Bridget Perry

Ben Marrel

Ira Krachanovskaya

Cristina Fonseca

Harrison Rose

Matt Miller

Erika Batista

Suzanne Ashman

Christopher Herd

Kate Afanasyeva

Jason Williamson

Sharon Lee Thony

Vikram Bhaskaran

Ann Hiatt

Saira Gill

Derek Andersen

Brought to you by

Mayokun Adeoti

Mohammed Ibrahim Jega

Nasiru A Ahmad

Yusuf Ahmed

Onyedikachi Chiedozi

Joy Okwori

Shaaibu Suleiman

Tracy Yekaghe

Local Sponsors

Partners

2021 Startup Grind Europe

Jos Jun 29 - 30, 10:00 AM (WAT)

About this event

Speakers

Yoni Assia

Jessica Schultz

Eilon Reshef

Sacha Michaud

Geraldine MacCarthy

Julia Hawkins

Fredrik Hjelm

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Bridget Perry

Ben Marrel

Ira Krachanovskaya

Cristina Fonseca

Harrison Rose

Matt Miller

Erika Batista

Suzanne Ashman

Christopher Herd

Kate Afanasyeva

Jason Williamson

Sharon Lee Thony

Vikram Bhaskaran

Ann Hiatt

Saira Gill

Derek Andersen

Yoni Assia

eToro

Jessica Schultz

Northzone

Eilon Reshef

Gong

Sacha Michaud

Glovo

Geraldine MacCarthy

Personio

Julia Hawkins

LocalGlobe

Fredrik Hjelm

Voi Technology

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

theBoardlist/ Choose Possibility

Bridget Perry

Contentful

Ben Marrel

Breega

Ira Krachanovskaya

Launchpad

Cristina Fonseca

Indico Capital Partners

Harrison Rose

Paddle

Matt Miller

Sequoia Capital

Erika Batista

On Deck

Suzanne Ashman

LocalGlobe

Christopher Herd

Fistbase

Kate Afanasyeva

Google

Jason Williamson

Oracle

Sharon Lee Thony

Fiverr

Vikram Bhaskaran

Chargebee

Ann Hiatt

Saira Gill

Antler

Derek Andersen

Startup Grind/Bevy

Brought to you by

Mayokun Adeoti

Mohammed Ibrahim Jega

Nasiru A Ahmad

Yusuf Ahmed

Jos
Jun 29 - 30, 10:00 AM (WAT)