Derek Andersen is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a community of over 500 Chapters in 135 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Startup Grind's values of giving, helping others, and making friends have spread across the world. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted thousands of events for more than 2,000,000 entrepreneurs. In 2009 Derek founded Vaporware Labs, incubating many products including Startup Grind and professional social network Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. Now, he's spun off a separate company to manage online communities called Bevy.

Prior to joining Target Team, Malin was the CEO of Tele2 Netherlands. For more than 15 years she has been working in the Technology/Telecommunications industry across Europe. At Tele2, Malin drove significant profitability increase via digitalization, customer experience and operational efficiency in Croatia, Central Europe and the Netherlands.

Before that, Malin worked with technology innovation at Tele2 in Stockholm and Vodafone in London, driving innovation through developing new products such as voice solutions, mobile money and IoT, and acquiring tech startups. Previous experience includes over ten years Strategy M&A/ Due Diligence in Technology at Marakon Associates, ATKearney and Morgan Stanley – mainly based in London. Malin holds an MBA from INSEAD in France/Singapore and a Master of Science in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden.

Highly passionate engineering leader with 15+ years of industry and research experience, focused on improving people's lives through technology

Led the creation of several successful products with MM+ users from zero to one, including: identifying first-of-kind opportunities, defining sound and scalable technical architectures, gaining buy-in from senior leadership and external key partners, and ultimately building strong engineering teams to design, build, launch and drive growth

Deeply and proudly involved in people growth initiatives including hiring, promoting and mentoring top engineering talent as well as building strong engineering teams

CORE SKILLS

• Leadership: Built multiple strategic business relationships. Own prioritization, road map and vision for multiple multi-million user products. Consistent record in driving products from idea to successful commercial launch. Recruited and led high performing teams.

• Project Management: Led multiple projects involving 50+ people working across geographies, Orgs and functions.

• People Growth: Manager and mentor to engineers and teams. Interviewer, member of hiring committee and core contributor at recruiting events to acquire top talent

• Research: Distinguished Computer Science researcher with extensive experience in Computer Security and System Verification

• Technical: Extensive experience designing, building and maintaining highly scalable and reliable systems -- have built systems serving 50K+ queries per second at 99.9+% availability. 15+ years of programming experience

Resume available at: www.visualcv.com/gueles 

Lina joined Target Global in 2018 after having worked in product and monetization at ResearchGate, a company aiming to connect the world of science. Prior to ResearchGate, she was an investor at Hasso Plattner Ventures, a fund backed by the Chairman of SAP. Lina began her career as an entrepreneur operating two startups, one of which was acquired by Living Social.

Lina received her Masters in Law and Business from Bucerius Law School and WHU School of Management in Germany, and a B.A. in Philosophy/ Law and Society from the University of California, Riverside.

CEO @ Draper Esprit

Venezuelan living in Madrid. Daniela holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas-Venezuela and a Masters degree in Strategic Design from IED Master in Madrid-Spain. She jumpstarted Goiko Grill with her brother and parents in 2013. Since then and until 2019 has served as its CMO, and has been able to create along with her marketing team, a Spanish Love Brand and a social media movement that catapulted Goiko’s growth. She proudly earned a National Marketing Award for the company -within other recognitions- and became a keynote speaker that inspired on the matter among entrepreneurs, mainly struggling with her same challenges at first stages. Goiko currently owns 80 restaurants nationwide and employs more than 1300 people, while being a success case for the industry. in 2019 Daniela decided it was time to close the burger chapter and recently started her own marketing consultancy firm. She calls herself a Love-Storyteller, and she strongly believes in the power of purpose. In addition, Daniela is a mother of one, and loves country music and peanut butter.

Caroline Chayot is a Partner at Atomico where she helps companies hire, develop and retain the best talent in Europe. Previously she led the EMEA HR team at Twitter, where she supported the leadership team in scaling the business from two to six markets and grew the team from 80 based in London to 500 across the region. Prior to that she worked at Google in HR for 9 years.

Dorion Carroll is a 20-year veteran engineer with deep experience developing product and services in areas including search, email processing, e-commerce, personalization, ad targeting, CRM, data warehousing, order management and financial services. Prior to joining Technorati, Dorion was director of engineering at Postini, Vice President of Engineering and General Manager of Neomeo (which was acquired by Postini), Technologist-in-Residence at Softbank Venture Capital, and Senior Director of Engineering at [email protected], among other roles. Dorion has a Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College, with four years Mathematics / Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California.

He'd been working as CTO and CIO at Zynga, the mobile gaming company responsible for titles like Farmville, Clash of Titans, Words with Friends, Zynga Poker and many others, before joining Amazon as VP of Customer Engagement Technologies.

Chad is Director of Marketing & Comms at Revolut, a UK financial technology company that offers banking services.

He previously held the same position at Rocket Internet.

One can look at her career as a list of emerging technologies that went mainstream: a handheld PDA, a search engine, a streaming video platform, photo sharing, blog search, the first celebrity/UGC comedy video destination site, a streaming movie Netflix-competitor, streaming radio, and now, looking into the future to bring immersive video experiences to mobile users. During the dot-com crash, she opened San Francisco's first organic patisserie, Miette. Now, she's investing in the next group of world-changers.

New technologies excite Liz, uncharted territory is her favorite place to go. She excels at making technology accessible and delightful to the end user. General Magic's PDA could send wireless email in 1994. SpotLife was a pre-YouTube broadcasting platform that let anyone stream, cam, or post clips of their lives back in 2000. Kodak/Ofoto pioneered online photo sharing. Funny or Die broke the wall between professional and amateur entertainment with hilarious videos starring A-list celebrities. Pandora is the first, and best, personalized radio station that plays only the music you love. These are some of the places she's been privileged to work and change the way the world uses technology and entertains itself.

Building web platforms and teams since 2002, with a focus towards entrepreneurship, innovation and start-ups. I work as (a mix of): entrepreneur, tech lead, coach, system architect and software developer.

I like: technical challenges, growth, leadership, lean approaches

Specialties: tech strategy, team building, e-commerce, agile/lean, scaling teams and web platforms

Serious coding and system design done in: Python, Java, C++, PHP, ASP and BASH+CGI. Lately focused on Python but language-agnostic.

With more than 15 years in leadership positions, Jorge is well known in the Startup ecosystem for his experience running Product and Development teams. His background is in Software Engineering, but pretty soon found himself managing teams of developers and designers and obsessing about how teams should work, how to best develop software and successful products and how to optimise for happiness as well as for productivity.

He is most proud of BeBanjo, the company he co-founded in 2008 and later sold to the TDF group, as well as of his time in CARTO, where he led Technology and Product for the last 3 years as Chief Dev. Officer. He recently co-founded Tinybird.co, a startup focused on making data teams more productive through simple and highly scalable real-time APIs. He also teaches at Instituto Tramontana, where he co-directs the Program for Product Direction.

Adam Lasri is a Senior Associate in the investment team at Atomico where he works on sourcing and due diligence of investment opportunities and portfolio management for France, Spain and Portugal. Prior to joining Atomico, Adam was Head of Expansion for an on-demand logistics startup where he led the company’s launch across five cities in the UK and two in Spain. Before that, Adam spent three years at Barclays’ Investment Banking Division in London.

Josh in an entrepreneur and digital strategist who just last month exited Rentify, the startup he co-founded in his kitchen in London 7 years ago. He's also spent 15 years working with some of the world's leading brands including HP, Coca-Cola and McDonald's, as well as for leading global politicians, foundations and the British government. Amongst other things, he is currently head of digital for 89up.org and is working for the British government as an advisor to its enquiry into Fake News and the future of social media legislation.

Ander is a “natural-born doer”, whose passion, high standards and determination lead him and those around him to give their best and strive to achieve any goals.

13 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur and investment banker.

Lived and worked in Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom.