Speakers

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  Eric Schmidt

  Alphabet Inc.

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  Dave McClure

  500 Startups

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  Megan Quinn

  Spark Capital

  General Partner

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  Niklas Zennstrom

  Skype, Atomico

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  Julia Hartz

  Eventbrite

  Co-Founder, CEO

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  Miguel McKelvey

  WeWork

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  Scott Harrison

  charity: water

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  Luciana Lixandru

  Accel Partners

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  William Shu

  Deliveroo

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  Frederic Mazzella

  BlaBlaCar

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  Peter Halacsy

  Prezi

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  Reshma Sohoni

  Seedcamp

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  Leela Srinivasan

  Lever

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  Nigel Barker

  America's Next Top Model

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  Rachel Delacour

  BIME Analytics

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  Eileen Burbidge

  Passion Capital

  See Bio
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  Eoghan McCabe

  Intercom

  See Bio
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  Suzy Roo

  Atom Factory

  See Bio
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  Dhiraj Mukherjee

  Shazam

  Co-founder

  See Bio
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  Sarah Drinkwater

  Google For Entrepreneurs

  See Bio
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  Graham Cooke

  Qubit

  See Bio
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  Marco Veremis

  Upstream

  See Bio
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  Havana Marking

  Documentary Director

  See Bio
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  Jeremy Kahn

  Bloomberg News

  See Bio
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  Jared Smith

  Qualtrics

  See Bio
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  Craig Donaldson

  Metro Bank

  See Bio
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  Derek Andersen

  Startup Grind

  Founder + CEO

  See Bio
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  Alex Kayyal

  Salesforce Ventures

  See Bio

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Eric Schmidt

Alphabet Inc.

Eric Schmidt is the executive chairman of Alphabet, responsible for the external matters of all of the holding company's businesses, including Google Inc., advising their CEOs and leadership on business and policy issues. Eric joined Google in 2001 and helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. He served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer from 2001-2011, overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation.

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Dave McClure

500 Startups

Dave uses his uncanny ability to function without sleep and frequent flyer miles to uncover geeks around the world. His ominous past includes work at Founders Fund, Facebook fbFund, PayPal, Mint.com, & Simply Hired. Dave blogs & rants @ 500hats.com.

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Megan Quinn

Spark Capital

Megan is a General Partner at Spark Capital, where she invests in growth-stage companies, including Slack, Glossier, and Niantic. She was formerly a partner at Kleiner Perkins. Prior to becoming an investor, Megan led the product development organization at Square and spent seven years at Google building Google Maps.

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Niklas Zennstrom

Skype, Atomico

Niklas Zennström created Atomico in 2006 to help entrepreneurs primarily outside Silicon Valley to scale their businesses domestically and globally. Atomico has invested in more than 50 companies on four continents. Before starting Atomico, Mr. Zennström co-founded Skype, where he held the position of CEO from its inception until September 2007. In 2005, Skype was sold to eBay Inc for $3.1bn, the largest European venture capital exit to date. He also co-founded Kazaa, Joost and Joltid. In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies, to combat climate change, improve the state of the Baltic Sea and encourage social entrepreneurship. Mr. Zennström holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

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Julia Hartz

Eventbrite

In 2006, Julia left her responsible career as a television development executive to start Eventbrite. With a focus on strategy and growth for the company that has processed $2 billion in gross ticket sales for organizers in 179 countries, Julia is responsible for building, evolving and sustaining the global ticketing company’s growing team of 300 “Britelings” and award-winning company culture (voted “Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area” four years running). She was a TechCrunch annual “Founder of the Year” finalist and made Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs list in 2013. 

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Miguel McKelvey

WeWork

Miguel McKelvey is the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of WeWork, where he directs all architecture, design, and construction activities. Miguel is a multi-disciplinary designer and entrepreneur with diverse experience in architectural design, construction management, and web development. Prior to WeWork, Miguel created the design framework and led the national retail roll-out for American Apparel (170 stores), and was involved in the early-stage development of several companies, including Green Desk, Barre3, Versation, and English, Baby! Miguel earned his BA (Architecture) from the University of Oregon.

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Scott Harrison

charity: water

Scott spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, West Africa as a volunteer photojournalist. Returning home to New York City two years later, he founded the non-profit organisation charity: water in 2006.

Turning his full attention to the global water crisis and the world’s 663 million people without clean water to drink, he created public installations and innovative online fundraising platforms to spread international awareness of the issue.

In ten years, with the help of more than one million donors worldwide, charity: water has raised over $225 million and funded over 21,000 water projects in 24 countries. When completed, those projects will provide over 6.4 million people with clean, safe drinking water.

Scott was recently recognized in Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 list, the Forbes Magazine Impact 30 list and was recently #10 in Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business issue. He is currently a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

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Luciana Lixandru

Accel Partners

Luciana Lixandru focuses on consumer internet, software and marketplace businesses. She helped lead Accel’s investments and ongoing work in Avito, Catawiki, Wallapop, Deliveroo, Algolia, Doctolib and Vinted, and was previously an investor at Summit Partners. Luciana is from Romania and graduated from Georgetown University.

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William Shu

Deliveroo

Will Shu, co-founder and CEO of Deliveroo. Will is on a mission to transform the way the world thinks about takeaway. He founded Deliveroo in August 2013 after becoming fed up with London's poor quality and slow food delivery options. Prior to starting the company, he worked in banking at Morgan Stanley, ESO Capital and SAC Capita. Deliveroo is now in over 50 cities across the world and has attracted $200m worth of investment from some of the world's leading investors, including Index Ventures, Accel and DST Global.

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Frederic Mazzella

BlaBlaCar

Frédéric Mazzella, Founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar Since pioneering the idea in 2004, Frédéric continues to lead BlaBlaCar’s vision of creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers. He focuses on the excellence of the product, establishing trust within the ridesharing community and drives the overall communication of the brand. With a data-driven mindset and a believer in the power of laughing to learn, Frédéric is also a strong advocate of sustainable development, entrepreneurship, transforming the global marketplace and building trust in online communities. Prior to founding BlaBlaCar, Frédéric held the role of scientific researcher at NASA (USA) and NTT (Japan). He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford and a Masters in Physics from Ecole Normale Supérieure. Frédéric is also an accomplished classical pianist and plays the violin, guitar and drums. Tweet him @mazaic.

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Peter Halacsy

Prezi

Peter Halacsy is the co-founder and technology leader of Prezi. To be able to build a huge, cloud-based, platform-agnostic document authoring service, Prezi has to influence the future of programming. This means that Peter has strong and provocative opinions like how (F)RP and declarative programming are changing the way we build interactive applications, and how microservice models bring real agility to app development. He is big fan of extreme tooling infrastructure to really speed up development cycles. All delivered in his unique, dry style. As an executive manager and co-founder of Prezi, HP believes that organizations should be designed parallel with product, and that super-agile organizations are decentralized and aligned to a higher purpose. A manager’s job is to distribute information and push decision making down the tree of command–making themselves more irrelevant. For that we have to change how people think and act within an organisation and make everybody a leader. HP also co-founded several social organizations. Bridge Budapest aims at boosting the startup community as well as shaping the IT scene in Hungary by showcasing great examples for building global, successful companies. The Hero’s Square initiative strives to eliminate indifference in Hungary by encouraging everyone to stand up and act for others every day. Last but not least, HP co-founded We Are Open, with the goal of improving diversity in the Hungarian workplace, something that was severely lacking but is now beginning to change with over 800 companies signed up and committed to the cause.

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Reshma Sohoni

Seedcamp

Reshma is Partner and Co-Founder at Seedcamp, one of the oldest and most respected accelerators in Europe. Reshma has always brought a passion for both technology and business to her work from university through to today. Getting degrees in both Engineering and Business (UPenn M&T) meant that from an early age she was cultivating a path that would always bring business and technology together. Early on in her career during the height of the dot com boom, Reshma worked in M&A and venture capital across B2B Software and Internet services businesses in the US and India. She had a small helping hand in building MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ) in its formative days. Following on from this, Reshma went to INSEAD and earned her MBA, fell in love with Europe and stayed on to work in Commercial and Marketing Strategy at Vodafone. Starting Seedcamp in 2007 was a once in a lifetime opportunity and one that she jumped into with a strong desire to help the European founder realize global success. Reshma brings a good mix of tech, business, commercial drive, marketing and that American chutzpah to the Seedcamp team, and now to Anthemis as well.

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Leela Srinivasan

Lever

Leela Srinivasan is CMO of Lever, the collaborative recruiting platform that powers a fundamentally more human approach to hiring. Prior to joining Lever, Leela ran B2B Marketing and Product Marketing for OpenTable. She developed an obsession with all things talent during her four and a half years at LinkedIn, where she was Director of Marketing for the company's Talent Solutions business. In her prior life she was a management consultant at Bain and Company in San Francisco and London. Leela holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and an MA from Edinburgh University in her native Scotland.

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Nigel Barker

America's Next Top Model

The internationally renowned photographer, Nigel Barker is highly regarded for his 17 seasons as photographer and judge on the hit TV show, America’s Next Top Model, which airs in over 140 countries and has an audience of more than 100 million viewers each week. Barker also hosted Oxygen Network’s modeling competition series, The Face, starring alongside Naomi Campbell. Barker is now the host of SiriusXM’s Gentleman’s Code which airs live every Tuesday at 1pm ET on Radio Andy Channel 102. Drawing upon his 20+ years of experience in the fashion and beauty industries, Barker authored The Beauty Equation with publishing house Abrams, prior to releasing his latest book, New York Times Best Seller: Models of Influence with Harper Collins, February 2015. Barker’s entrepreneurial spirit has taken him and his business to unchartered territory for most photographers creating licensing deals with New York’s oldest skateboard company, four custom fragrances with the Demeter Fragrance library, the Nigel Barker Photo Booth, his own line of home accessories and endorsement deals with companies such as Marriott International for AC Hotels.

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Rachel Delacour

BIME Analytics

Rachel Delacour is the co-founder and CEO of We Are Cloud, the creator of the pioneering business intelligence (BI) application Bime, born in and built for the cloud. Rachel’s professional experiences in finance and controlling brought her to the realization that business intelligence was just too hard: too hard to use, too hard to manage, too hard to buy, and too hard to get right. Seeing a real business need for BI tools in the age of cloud computing led her to found We Are Cloud in 2009. Rachel began her career at FM Logistics in Moscow where she audited logistics hubs in Moscow, Kiev and Siberia. After returning to France, she worked as a controller for Carrefour, one of the world’s largest retailers. Rachel later set up the controlling department at Bata, a Czech shoe manufacturer with a global presence, establishing business processes for the buying department and implementing a BI solution from scratch. Her experience as a young, female controller who had to wrestle with an all-male IT department over unfettered access to fresh data led her to the decision to start her own business. Together with CTO and cofounder Nicolas Raspal, she developed the BI tool of her dreams: easy to use, affordable and scalable so even small and mid-size enterprises can harness the power of big data. Rachel holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the Euromed Business School in Marseilles. She resides in Montpellier, a city recognized as a leading R&D cluster in France.

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Eileen Burbidge

Passion Capital

Eileen Burbidge (@eileentso) is a Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage VC fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere. In addition to Passion Capital, Eileen is also Chair of Tech City UK, the government-backed organisation supporting digital business across the UK. She also serves on the Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group; as HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech, appointed by the Chancellor George Osborne; and Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. She was made an MBE for services to UK Business in June 2015 and holds a BSc Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Eoghan McCabe

Intercom

Eoghan runs intercom. He previously founded an award-winning software design consultancy called Contrast, and co-founded Exceptional, a developer tool startup acquired in 2011 and now a part of Rackspace. He moved from Ireland to San Francisco that year to start Intercom. Intercom is a fundamentally new way for internet businesses to communicate with customers, personally, at scale. The company has raised $66M and has over 8k paying customers around the world.

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Suzy Roo

Atom Factory

As a right hand woman to Troy Carter, Suzy Ryoo is responsible for all things technology and innovation at Atom Factory in Los Angeles, California. She is a co-founder of Atom Factory's annual 10-week accelerator SMASHD LABS, as well as a Venture Partner to the general partnership of Cross Culture Ventures. Suzy manages Atom Factory's investment portfolio (including Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Warby Parker & Spotify), as well as facilitates tech partnerships for Atom Factory artists such as Meghan Trainor, Charlie Puth & Kamasi Washington. Passionate about community, diversity & mentorship, Suzy is a regular speaker, mentor and advisor to organizations such as South LA non-profit Urban TXT (Teens Exploring Technology), the UCLA Riordan Programs, and the USC Marshall Career Advantage Program. While she was born in Seoul, S. Korea and immigrated to the US at age 5, Suzy is a proud (and basically) native of the Greater Los Angeles area for 24 years

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Dhiraj Mukherjee

Shazam

Dhiraj Mukherjee is one of the cofounders of the music identifying service, Shazam. He completed his Master's at Stanford University in 1997 and currently serves as the Head of Banking Innovation for Virgin Money in the United Kingdom. Prior to starting Shazam, Mukherjee worked in consulting for Bain & Company and as a Project Manager for Viant Corp.

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Sarah Drinkwater

Google For Entrepreneurs

Sarah heads up Campus London, Google’s first physical startup hub, providing early stage founders with work and event space, mentorship and educational programs as well as access to a vibrant startup community. Since launch in 2012, Campus has built a community of 50,000 and startups in the Campus network have raised over £115m in capital. Passionate about entrepreneurship and communities, Sarah’s previous role at Google was leading a global team of community managers around Google Maps, while also volunteering at Campus helping run Campus for Mums. Before Google, she worked in content and community for startups, advised brands on their social media, and was a journalist. Sarah’s on the board of Code First: Girls which provides classes and a support network for young women keen to work in tech and combines her enthusiasms for education and diversity. Outside of work, Sarah loves travelling, cycling, cities and stories, and lives in East London with her husband.

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Graham Cooke

Qubit

Graham Cooke is the Chief Executive Officer of Qubit, the pioneer in data-first customer experience. In 2010, Cooke left Google after five years and launched Qubit to help companies understand how to better use data to sell to customers. At the same time the nature of customers was evolving. Consumers were becoming more empowered and had started to expect best-in-class, personalized experiences from any company they dealt with. These consumers were happy to ditch any company or brand that failed to meet these expectations. An industry leader and an in-demand figure on the speaking circuit, Cooke is also seen as a strategic partner and counsel to some some of the world’s most sophisticated ecommerce businesses and governments too as they seek to understand customer experience and the future of commerce. Under Cooke, Qubit has more than doubled every year and is blazing a trail for companies large and small that win through a focus on delivering great customer experiences. Qubit serves almost 300 enterprise clients including more than 35% of the top 100 retailers in the UK and a growing number of the top ecommerce businesses in the US including Staples, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nine West and CafePress.

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Marco Veremis

Upstream

Marco is CEO and co-founder of Upstream, a mobile commerce company operating in 43 countries and more than 25 languages. Upstream covered 65 million paying subscribers converted and 10 billion consumer interactions handled per year. Marco is a mentor for Endeavor and Openfund, Vice President of the board of HAMAC and an angel investor and board advisor in Workable HR. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and International Studies from Warwick University and a Masters of Philosophy in European Studies from Oxford University.

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Havana Marking

Documentary Director

A British journalist and filmmaker, Marking specialises in documentary films that move, enlighten and reveal the bigger picture. Setting the bar for skill and fearlessness, her first feature, Afghan Star, told the story of the X-Factor in Afghanistan. It won both the Directing and Audience awards in Sundance 2009, The Grierson award for ‘best doc on a contemporary issue’ and the Prix Italia. She gained extraordinary access to the world's most successful diamond thieves for her BBC feature Smash & Grab: the Story of the Pink Panthers. She has made TV films for BBC, Channel 4, HBO, and VICE. Her articles and photographs have been published in the Guardian, The Observer and the Telegraph.

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Jeremy Kahn

Bloomberg News

Jeremy Kahn is a London-based senior reporter for Bloomberg News, where he covers technology companies and tech-related issues. He has written about cloud computing, music streaming, artificial intelligence and battle between droids and drones for last mile delivery. Prior to joining the technology reporting team in late 2015, Jeremy spent more than four years as a senior writer for Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits magazines, where he wrote about everything from the psychology of traders to counterfeit classic cars. Previously, he lived in New Delhi, India, where he was a frequent contributor to Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Smithsonian magazine and The Atlantic. From 2004 to 2006, he was the managing editor of U.S. political magazine The New Republic in Washington, DC. He started his career as a writer at Fortune magazine in New York, traveling widely to cover everything from accounting fraud to civil war in the Ivory Coast and the war in Iraq.

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Jared Smith

Qualtrics

Jared Smith is the co-founder and lead engineer for the cloud research company Qualtrics. He's been working in the industry for over twenty years, and in that time has become a superstar in the field of startup technology companies. Beginning his career in the early 90s, Smith held the position of consumer product manager at WordPerfect. Upon its acquisition by Novell in June 1994, he became the lead product manager for their Novell Directory Service (NDS) software. Smith would find himself leading product management and marketing for a start-up based in New York City, Juice Software, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Following his time at Juice, Smith decided to take a year off to travel South America and returned to Provo, Utah in 2004. He contributed to founding Qualtrics initially, though he wasn't immediately able to commit. Google had a place for him, and over the next six years Smith would find himself filling various roles for the tech behemoth. Between 2004 and 2006, he was in charge of online operations for the Google AdSense network. Soon he found himself leading a team of over 180 engineers and product managers, focused on not only supporting Google's software offerings but supporting the development community.

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Craig Donaldson

Metro Bank

As CEO of Metro Bank, Craig Donaldson is responsible for providing executive leadership to the bank’s rapidly expanding team. He is chartered with guiding the bank’s evolution from fresh, new entrant in retail banking to trusted financial services partner to millions of UK customers. From helping define Metro Bank’s brand values, to hiring its inaugural employees and ensuring that the bank’s staff deliver daily customer delight; Craig has been instrumental to Metro Bank from day one. Craig has more experience in the banking industry than he can remember. His prior roles included Managing Director of retail products at RBS, as well as senior roles with Barclays and HBOS. He has a degree in management and technology from the University of Bradford.

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Derek Andersen

Startup Grind

Derek Andersen ​is the Founder & CEO of Startup Grind, a 400,000 person entrepreneurial community with 200 chapters in 85 countries run by more than 1,000 volunteers. Startup Grind's mission is to help every entrepreneur in the world. It's core values are giving before you take, helping others first, and making friends. Derek Andersen spent four years in product management at Electronic Arts working on games like The Godfather, Burnout, The Sims 3, and Mirror’s Edge. He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator which mostly failed but built products including Commonred which was acquired by Income.com in 2012, and Startup Grind. After running Startup Grind as a side project for 2 years, Derek turned his full attention to scaling it from 3 chapters to 200 chapters today. In 2015 Startup Grind will host 1,200 events for 75,000 entrepreneurs. He currently lives in Palo Alto, California but has lived eight years outside the U.S. in France, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the Cook Islands.

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Alex Kayyal

Salesforce Ventures

Alex joined Salesforce Ventures in 2015 to lead their European investments. Salesforce Ventures—Salesforce’s corporate investment group—invests in the next generation of enterprise technology startups, with more than 160 companies in the portfolio globally. Alex brings over a decade of experience across technology and finance, having been both an investor and entrepreneur. Prior to Salesforce, he helped establish a venture growth firm and also founded his own startup. Alex began his career in investment banking with Merrill Lynch, where he advised on IPOs and M&A transactions. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics and International Relations from Boston University.