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.

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.

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.