Orit Kopel

Founder at Wikitribune

Orit Kopel is the Co-Founder & VP of Business Development of WikiTribune, an inventive Wiki-based news platform which brings together a community of volunteers with hired professional journalists in an effort to create a collaborative news space. With a background as a qualified Human Rights Lawyer, Kopel is CEO of the Jimmy Wales Foundation for Freedom of Expression, advocating for bloggers and social media users who are persecuted for speaking out online. She previously acted as Jimmy Wales’ Special Adviser for Google’s Expert Advisory Council on the ‘Right To Be Forgotten’, defending Internet freedom.

Ryan Bubinski

Founder at Codecademy

Ryan is an entrepreneur, educator and software developer. He has over 10 years of experience in the education technology space, and over 15 years of experience building software companies. Ryan has been recognized on Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30 list, and selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is the Co-Founder and former CPO of Codecademy, an online startup-up company that has taught over 45 million learners around the globe write to their first lines of code.

Alexis Bonte

Partner at Atomico

Entrepreneur. co-founder and angel investor with a strong general management background and a 19 years 360 degrees experience in all types of start ups from early stage to post IPO (lastminute.com, eRepublik Labs etc.) Recognized by the World Economic Forum (Davos) as a Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2012. Passionate about building successful organizations and management teams in fast growing environments, to deliver maximum results by offering the best service to customers. Building great companies is hard its also an incredibly interesting adventure.

Chad West

CMO at Revolut

CMO @ Revolut

Dhiraj Mukherjee

Co-founder at 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.

Clancy Childs

CTO at Dow Jones

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Dow Jones Professional Information.

Sofía Benjumea

Google - Head of Campus Madrid

Sofia is the Head of Campus Madrid, creating a vibrant, transformative and collaborative community where entrepreneurs and tech startups can flourish and grow through meaningful connections, knowledge and unique opportunities. Before joining Google, she was the founding partner and CEO of Spain Startup, organizing what has become the leading startup conference in Southern Europe, The South Summit. She holds a BA in International Business Administration, an MA in journalism from El Pais and an MBA from IE Business School and UCLA's Anderson School of Business. Sofia is a passionate community builder, a tireless doer and creative thinker. Previously a journalist, she pivoted and returned to Spain with a desire to help build and rebuild by fostering a strong startup ecosystem.

Lorenz Jüngling

CPO at N26

Lorenz joined N26 in November 2016 after working for many years as a strategic management consultant and partner for McKinsey & Company in Europe and Africa. He holds a diploma in Mathematical Physics and a PhD. Lorenz focuses on building products that enable people to deal with the challenges of everyday life in an intuitive way. Together with the product, design, and tech teams at N26, Lorenz is changing commercial banking by putting its users' true interests first. Without N26, Lorenz would be a fashion photographer and amateur blues guitar player.

Javier Suárez

CPO & Co-Founder at TravelPerk

Javier Suarez is the CPO and Co-Founder of TravelPerk, named Europe’s fastest-growing tech startup by SaaS1000. TravelPerk is modernizing the business travel sector by offering companies of any size, a tool for booking and managing all their travel in one place. TravelPerk has raised $75m to date by some of the world’s leading investors including Spark Capital, famous for Twitter, Trello and Slack. Prior to founding TravelPerk, Javier worked in several strategic roles within Booking.com’s HQ. Mostly recently, leading the company's #1 priority as a founding member of the the global innovation team. Javier started writing business plans at 14 and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He’s lived in six countries and speaks Spanish, English and German, fluently.

Asha Jadeja

Venture Capitalist and Angel Investor

Asha Jadeja is a mom, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist based in Palo Alto, California. In her career as a venture capitalist, Asha has invested in over a 100 startups some of which have gone on to become public companies. She initiated the spread of the maker movement and maker hubs in Africa in 2010 and later in India, Pakistan, and Brazil. Makerfest, a three day event that brings local makers together for a week of collaboration and co-inventing happens in various cities around the world now. Asha is also creating a network of Fablabs around the world, to help spark off distributed manufacturing using just in time creation, tinkering and deliveries. Through Rajeev Circle Fellowships, Asha is developing a dynamic corridor of entrepreneurship, collaboration and community between Silicon Valley and South Asia.

Pepe Agell

CSO & Founder at Chartboost

Pepe Agell leads Chartboost’s strategic planning, marketing and corporate development efforts. In this role, he oversees the company’s strategic partnerships, key future product developments, m&a activities, external communications and thought leadership. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the UPC Barcelona and the ETH Zurich. Prior to joining Chartboost, Agell led product management and operations teams in both multinational (Hilti AG) and startups (3scale and Innovalley).

Svetlana Velikanova

CEO & Founder at Harbour.Space

Svetlana Velikanova is the co-founder and CEO of Harbour.Space - Europe’s state of the art university for technology, design and tech entrepreneurship. She is driven to create a space of learning where the most gifted young people in technology and design from all over the world can evolve and emerge as the most ground-breaking graduates in their field. With the Harbour.Space board, she shares a highly innovative vision for university education: to connect the best professionals of today with extraordinary young people through immersive and progressive learning, which will revolutionise our technology-led future.

Toni Raurich

CBO at Wallapop

Internet professional since 2003, focused on transactional sites, specialized in hyper-growth marketing, operations, product and financing. Academically investigating the problems generated on employees with artificial intelligence, low labor and high capital intensive technologies and what we as society will do to mitigate its effects on the labor market.

Laura González

HR Manager at Schibsted

Laura is an experienced international Recruiter and HR Manager, specialist in Talent Acquisition, HR Processes and Policies, Payroll and Compensation management, with experience ranging from top corporate environments to start-ups worldwide. Talent is everywhere. Why search for the best engineers only in your city? Laura has been working in recruitment, creating remote environments and establishing processes and operations for full remote startups. Building an engineering culture, improving communication amongst teams and dealing with cultural differences is her day to day life. Her passion is people, she’s an advocate for company culture and loves creating a strong talent landscape wherever she goes. After leading the HR teams for retail companies such as Bershka or Deichmann, and managing Recruitment and HR Processes for Couchsurfing, Sovolve and Divescover, she moved to manage the Talent Acquisition and HR for the international hub of Schibsted in Barcelona. She’s also the mother of two girls and a dive instructor.

Vicenç Martí

Chairman at elrow & Tangelo Games

Vicenç Marti is half entrepreneur, half executive. A full time leader who loves getting involved in exciting projects, with more than 17 years of experience focused on strategy, business development and relations with investors. He is currently President of Tangelo Games (ex-Akamon), the biggest Gaming Community Platform, and of Billy Mobile, a 100% mobile Ad Exchange focused on performance. Also involved as a strategic advisor in elrowFamily, a music entertainment company, and as an investor and advisor in Ubiqum, a code academy, and Finizens, a Fintech startup, among others. In the past he had various other roles including the CEO of Akamon Entertainment, CCO of the low cost airline Vueling and a part of the team behind its successful IPO, and CEO of the Interactive Division over a five-year tenure at Spain's largest gaming company Cirsa. He holds a BA from Saint Louis University an MBA from IESE Business School and has completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Julia Barrett

Program Offering Manager at e-Residency

Julia Barrett recently joined e-Residency to help transform the program. Previously the Global Program Director of Startup Relations at Salesforce, Julia initially joined Salesforce to assist acquisition Heroku on corporate alignment, strategic partnerships and go-to-market strategy. Prior to Salesforce, Julia drove early-stage marketing for Wealthfront, the fastest growing fintech startup in the United States. Julia has also managed several global e-commerce partnership programs, including the eBay Partner Network, after time on Wall Street.

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Founder & CEO at MarsBased

Founder & CEO at MarsBased & Southwestern Europe Regional Director at Startup Grind. Developer that transitioned to the dark side: business development through his years at big consultancies like Deloitte & VASS and volunteering for over 5 years at ESN. In 2014, Àlex co-founded MarsBased with his two best friends. MarsBased is a 100% remote development consultancy that specialises in Ruby on Rails and Javascript. In less than 3 years, MarsBased has become a leading company in the startup scene of Barcelona, thanks to big contributions like the development of the Barcelona Startup Map, the management of a Slack community for over 1000 entrepreneurs and startups from Barcelona and curating Startup Digest, among others.

Xavier Noria

Ruby on Rails Core Team Member

Xavier Noria has been doing software professionally for the last eighteen years, twelve of which remotely. An independent consultant from Barcelona with a math background, Xavier has taught dynamic languages at the University of Barcelona, and has been an active member of the open source community for many years. Most notably, he was into Perl in the 2000s, he's been in the Ruby on Rails core team since 2011, and he's also personally interest in Erlang and Elixir, projects he has contributed a bit too.

Xavier Redó

Founder & CTO at MarsBased

Xavier is a founding member and CTO at MarsBased, an all-remote Ruby on Rails & Javascript development agency. He's responsible for architecture and development and an expert in managing teams of remote developers. Xavier started his career freelancing before joining the corporate world, working for companies like ATOS Origin and Gnuine, where he discovered the wonders of Ruby on Rails, which inspired him to create a specialised company just a few years after.

Josh Feldberg

Founder at Rentify

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.

Miguel Valls

Founder at Alta Life Sciences

Mr. Miguel Valls is an established serial entrepreneur and investor in Spain and Silicon Valley and a former investment banker with several successful investments in life science and tech companies. Mr. Valls is Founding General Partner of Alta life sciences, a multi stage life sciences investment firm based in Silicon valley and Barcelona. Mr. Valls is co-Founder and Chairman of Dadata Capital and has been the co- founder, investor and advisor to biotech companies like Genotesta, Clear Labs, Base Health and tech companies like Spirit Films and Nektria and vLex. Miguel is also the co-founder and co-chair of the San Francisco-Barcelona Sister City Committee and Technology Advisor to the Barcelona and Spain Chambers of Commerce.

Jaime Novoa

Investor at K Fund

Former journalist turned investor. He started his career working as a journalist covering technology, He then went on to create his own publication (Novobrief.com) which he later sold. He now works at K Fund, looking to back the best and brightest Spanish startups.

Josep Mitjà

COO & Co-founder at Rakuten TV

COO & Co-founder at Rakuten TV.

Montse Guàrdia Güell

Digital Challenge & Emerging Technologies Director, Banc Sabadell

Senior Telecommunications Engineer, has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology & Operations, leading transformation projects and launching new businesses. Montse has spent the last 7 years building bridges between Start-Ups and Multinationals, working very close to multidisciplinary and multicultural teams with high experience in cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneurial skills. Prior to her current position at Banco Sabadell, where she leads a team specialized to identify the business challenges where emerging technologies could provide a competitive advantage. Montse worked in France at an Oil & Gas Services multinational from 2008 to 2016, managing globally the technology portfolio and the international software engineering team. Her work with multicultural teams in different countries has allowed her to live, adapt and adopt the cultural richness of several countries in Europe, South America, the United States, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, India, Malaysia, and of the Arab Emirates. She has been COO of a Information Technology multinational in South America and responsible for the implementation and delivery of Information Technology services of 4 Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and several World Championships and UN Summit. Montse is a regular contributor to social innovation programs. She is Vice-President of the Alastria Consortium and President of the Quantum Blockchain Alliance.

Costanza Vannutelli

Innovation Manager at Utopicus

Born in Rome, living in Madrid | Innovation Manager at Utopicus | Startup Grind Madrid Co-Director | Supporting social entrepreneurs @MakeSense

Quirze Salomó

CEO at Nostrum

CEO at Nostrum.

Scott Mackin

Founder at Barcinno

Scott Mackin is the Chief Commercial Officer for OneCoWork, a premium workspace platform from Barcelona. Prior to joining OneCoWork, Scott founded Barcinno Media, the international resource for Barcelona tech, startups and innovation, which he later sold. Originally from Boston, Scott holds a Bachelors in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and earned his MBA from the University of San Diego in 2013. Outside of work, Scott is an associate professor of entrepreneurship and digital strategy for the Master's and MBA programs at EADA Business School. He is married with two children and currently lives in Barcelona.

Sunil Bhardwaj

CEO and Co-Founder of Globatalent

Sports marketing professional and co-founder plus CEO of Globatalent, Sunil Bhardwaj, leads a team of expert individuals dedicated to giving talented sports men and women a fairer route into their professional careers, without financial burden. Globatalent is a decentralised blockchain-based tool where clubs and players can fund themselves by selling their future revenue rights to fans and investors. Sunil Bhardwaj, aged 41, graduated in 1999 with a diploma in sports management from the University of Greenwich, London and has since enjoyed an accomplished 18-year career in the sports industry. He has worked in many territories including Germany, Holland as well as his native Spain.

Agustín Tonna

VP at Ironhack

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Agustin always had a passion for technology. Having worked in startups since he was young, he had the chance to be in Chile as part of Startup Chile and later San Francisco. After moving to Europe, initially to Barcelona and later London, he helped Onfido scale significantly and later with Unidays expand their student verification capabilities. Now as VP Product at Ironhack he is bringing Product and Software development best practices in order to provide outcome focused education to thousands of students across 8 cities.

Georgina Smallwood

Director of Product at N26

Georgie is a highly experienced digital leader that has a knack for identifying, starting and delivering capability in teams, product ladders, business road maps and organisations. Across Australia, Asia and Europe she has worked in, with and coached, Product teams, Business Operations as well as Ad Tech talent and leaders, in environments where high growth rates (25%+yoy) and business change are the priority. Georgie has the ability to prioritise the most important work and keep a cool head in time critical situations all while building high quality deliverables and high performing teams. With over 12 years experience in global digital companies such as Xero, News Ltd, REA Group, Adconion Media Group, IAB, iCar Asia and Scout24, her leadership, strategic thinking and operational effectiveness has benefited from her breadth of experience and the leaders she’s had the opportunity to work with. Georgie’s style is open and direct, and she believes that change for growth is always successful when done with high levels of communication (verbal and non verbal) and respect throughout the organisation. She has led teams of 50+ over multiple locations and timezones.

Kamran Elahian

Global Catalyst & 500Startups

Chairman and Founder, Global Innovation Catalyst, LLC; Chairman, Advisory Board, Global Venture Alliance; Global Innovation Advisor, 500 Startups; Founding Mentor, Unreasonable Institute; Founding Board Advisor, Harbour.Space University; Advisory Member, Seedstars World; Advisory Member, UNICEF Innovation Fund. As an Innovation Catalyst, Kamran advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil based economies to sustainable innovation economies.Startups and Founding Advisory Board Member at Harbour.Space University.

David Okuniev

CEO at Typeform

Born in Belgium and educated in England, David Okuniev started his professional career as a musician. Expression through music soon turned to expression through product and brand design, which led to David founding the Barcelona-based design studio, Fat-Man-Collective. From working in the same co-working space, David later met Robert Muñoz, and the two went on to co-found Typeform. Today, David is joint CEO and heads the Design team at Typeform.

Peter Read

Partner at Vitruvian Partners

Peter is a Managing Director at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University). He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups. Previously, he was an angel/advisor at NevenVision, General Partner at Google Ventures; Board Director of GP Bullhound and Entertainment Insights; President of Nielsen Entertainment; Governor at Beaconsfield High School; Fellow of Wellington College; a film awards judge at BAFTA; and a digital advisor to Oxfam, Sport England, and The Roundhouse. He is an active supporter of Founders Forum, Founders4Schools, AppsForGood, Speakers4Schools, Cambridge Wellbeing, Mindfulness In Schools, Mind & Life, CSAP, and NFTS. He was an Associate Producer on Rabbit Fever and an (uncredited) actor in Flyin' Ryan which both received some of the worst reviews in movie history.

Anne Driscoll

CMO at Startup Genome

Anne Driscoll is a current CMO of Startup Genome; an international effort providing insight to entrepreneurs and partners alike in order to help foster success within global tech startup communities. Based in Silicon Valley, Anne’s experience in the Valley also stems from a background as a former Google Executive. Her passion for startups has led to a passion for global connections, and is also an advisor for multiple roles and companies at the CMO level. In March, Anne recently launched Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report for 2017 – providing data analysis and knowledge for startup ecosystems from around the world.

Michael Eckhardt

Crossing the Chasm 3.0

Michael Eckhardt is Managing Director at Chasm Institute in their Silicon Valley Office, where Michael has been a partner for over 15 years:

• a veteran of PwC, Harbridge Consulting, HP, and Pepsico.
• a Harvard MBA and Wall Street Journal Award winner, Michael is a recognized expert in new product launch success & go-to-market tools + best practices. He has lead over 500 client engagements in the US / Europe / Asia Pacific.
• Michael’s clients include: Adobe, Spotify, Citrix, Google / Nest, NetApp, RSI, HotChalk, Intel, Cisco, Xilinx, 3D printing ventures, Autodesk, SAP, Agilent Life Sciences, Jive, QAD, Micron, Philips Medical, Samsung, Logitech, and many other tech-based businesses, from large enterprises to mid-sized companies to venture-backed start-ups.
• his firm’s books include the newly-updated 'Crossing the Chasm 3.0' -- with 25 all-new tech company examples best practices, as well as the companion books 'Escape Velocity' and 'Zone to Win'.
• these best-sellers -- over 3,000,000 books sold -- continue to be proven playbooks for entrepreneurial success in B2B and B2C markets.
• its frameworks underpin the way tech companies around the world plan & fund their investments in disruptive innovations.
• Michael’s client focus, through 2-day strategy workshops and consulting services, drive three client outcomes:
  1. accelerating new product success in next 12 to 24 months
  2. best practices and tools for revenue growth
  3. launching profitable innovations
• Michael served as editor and contributor for both the updated for 2017 'Crossing the Chasm 3.0' and 'Escape Velocity' books, which have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.

Carina Szpilka

Partner at K FUND

Partner at K FUND.

Tom Studd

Partner at Vitruvian Partners

Investor focusing on high growth technology-enabled businesses. Invest in both late stage venture rounds where we take a minority stake and in growth buyouts. Slightly eclectic range of expertise ranging from online marketplaces, software, adtech/martech and fashion/luxury in the online world. Currently Board representative or observer at Carwow, Ebury, Farfetch and Vestiaire Collective. Other deals at Vitruvian include Just-Eat, Snaplogic, Trustpilot, Group IMD, Inenco, Inspired Gaming Group, Instinctif, JacTravel and OpenBet.

Casey Fenton

Founder of Couchsurfing

Casey Fenton is currently co-founder and CIO of CouchSurfing International, a network of welcoming people worldwide. The concept was born in 1999 after Casey traveled and had several experiences staying with locals. After attending college for computer science in 1997, he worked as a technology and Internet consultant before starting several technology companies. Nowadays, he's spearheading Mastly, his new startup. Mastly is a performance-based equity tool to help startups reach goals.

Derek Andersen

CEO at Startup Grind

Derek Andersen is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a community of over 200 Chapters in 80 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 4,000 events for more than 200,000 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. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and three children.

Chris Schultz

CEO at Launchpad

Chris Schultz is the founder and CEO of Launch Pad, on a mission to build the world's strongest community of entrepreneurs, creatives and professionals working together. He is an active angel investor through Voodoo Ventures investing in great founders around in rising markets around the globe.

Karlie Krieger

VP of Partnerships & Marketing

Karlie ​​is the VP of Partnerships + Marketing at Startup Grind​, based out of their Bay Area headquarters​. She​ programs and produces ​Startup Grind's two Global Conferences, taking place in Silicon Valley and London each year, bringing together over 10k entrepreneurs, investors, and startups combined. ​She also ​runs strategic partnerships and sponsorships for the brand​​. Previously, she ​ran national ​​conferences ​at Inc. Magazine in New York.

Carlos Kuchkovsky

CTO New Digital Business @ BBVA

CTO New Digital Business @ BBVA | Board Member Hyperledger.

Vincent Rosso

Co-founder at Consentio

Vincent Rosso, an Industrial Engineer from the ESME. - Paris, with an MS grade in SJSU (Silicon Valley) in 1994. Co-Founder & Country Manager-Spain of BlaBlaCar. With over 15 years of experience in the field of IT, he launched his first startup in 2006 after being selected by the NETI Program of the IE Business School. In 2009, two years later he launched BlaBlaCar in Spain. The (objectives) vision of this startup is to promote a more efficient use of the private car, and at the same time, fill a need for more economic and sustainable mobility. Business Angles and Advisor of multiples Startups of the Sharing Economy since 2015.

Mar Alarcón

CEO at SocialCar

Founder and CEO of SocialCar, the first platform in Spain for P2P car rental. Mar, is a benchmark in sharing economy, sustainable mobility and legality. Founding member of Sharing España and board member of ADigital. Mar supports Barcelona's tech ventures as a member of BCN Tech City's board of directors. She is also a promoter of innovation as part of the Creafutur advisory board. Graduated in Law and PDD by IESE, she began her professional career at Cuatrecasas Abogados and her social entrepreneurship interest began at Grameen Bank with Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Howard Love

CEO at LoveToKnow

Howard Love is a life-long entrepreneur who has founded, co-founded, funded and managed startups for over 30 years. He is the Founder & CEO of LoveToKnow, one of the largest US digital media companies, whose web properties include lovetoknow.com, yourdictionary.com, trails.com, and golflink.com. Love founded his first company, Inmark Development, while an undergraduate at Colgate University. Inmark Development was eventually sold as Rogue Wave and subsequently went public. Since then, Love has founded or co-founded over 15 businesses and invested in over 50 startups. Love speaks frequently on entrepreneurship for conferences, summits & events in North America and overseas, including Techtoberfest, Startup Grind, Start-Up Week, TechStars, Plug & Play, Capital Factory – as well as Slush Helsinki & the Government of Spain. Love recently published his first book, the Amazon bestseller The Start-Up J Curve. Recently, he's opened a development center in Barcelona.

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Founder & CEO at MarsBased

Founder & CEO at MarsBased & Southwestern Europe Regional Director at Startup Grind. Developer that transitioned to the dark side: business development through his years at big consultancies like Deloitte & VASS and volunteering for over 5 years at ESN. In 2014, Àlex co-founded MarsBased with his two best friends. MarsBased is a 100% remote development consultancy that specialises in Ruby on Rails and Javascript. In less than 3 years, MarsBased has become a leading company in the startup scene of Barcelona, thanks to big contributions like the development of the Barcelona Startup Map, the management of a Slack community for over 1000 entrepreneurs and startups from Barcelona and curating Startup Digest, among others.

Phin Mpofu

Global Symbiotic Partnerships

Phin Mpofu is globally connected entrepreneurship evangelist, inspired by how it can be used as a force for good. Phin is Founder & Chairman of Global Symbiotic Partnerships a venture firm founded to create strategic partnerships with various stakeholders across all sectors. Its portfolio of ventures and affiliations include HOMESPLACE, Tech Beach Retreat, Startup Grind, The Centre for Corporate & Startup Partnerships and The Centre for Government & Startup Partnerships. His commitment to helping entrepreneurs was recognised in 2016 by the Centre for Entrepreneurs. He was listed on The Maserati 100, the annual list which recognises entrepreneurs who are generously giving their time and resources to support the next generation of young entrepreneurs. Phin is a Fellow of the Centre for Entrepreneurs.

Marc Ros

Co-founder at AFTERSHARE

Marc Ros is a recognised expert in marketing and communication, founder and CEO of the companies AFTERSHARE.TV and 60dB ENTERTAINMENT, promoter of the BRANDUCERS forum and member of the first international jury for the Branded Content & Entertainment category at the Cannes Lions, as well as a speaker and media collaborator. He is also a guest lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University and the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication, Ramon Llull University, in Barcelona. In 2007, in the midst of a recession, he decided, along with Risto Mejide, to found AFTERSHARE.TV based on an idea: to sell ideas that help sell, to convert advertising into new ways of generating business for brands, that is, to generate, produce, market and distribute content and tools for brands and media. Five years later, AFTERSHARE.TV has worked, and works, for important brands such as Grupo Antena 3, BBVA, Trinidad Alfonso Foundation, Turismo de España, Poker Stars, TOUS, Grupo Danone, LFP, Euroleague, BUFF, El Corte Inglés, Panrico and PUIG, among others.

Victor Horcasitas

Managing Director at Trinity Advisers

Victor Horcasitas helps tech startups with cross border capital raising and go-to-market strategies for LatAm, US and Europe. Victor has over 20 years of experience spanning M&A, software engineering, import/export finance, international business development and project management. Sector coverage includes IoT, AR/VR, SaaS, medical devices, eHealth, AgTech, robotics, telecom, renewable energies and real estate. Victor currently volunteers as President of the American Society of Barcelona, VP of the Ronald McDonald House of Barcelona, Chairman of the Navy League of the United States and is a non-executive director in 7 early stage companies.

Jacinto Roca

CEO & Founder at RakutenTV

CEO and Founder.

Marek Fodor

Chairman at Kantox

With 15+ years of experience in managing tech companies and strategic consulting, Marek is also the Head of the Marketing at Kantox. Before joining Kantox, he co-founded Atrapalo. Additionally, he is an investor and acts as a mentor at Seedrocket.

Vicenç Martí

Chairman at Billy Mobile

Vicenç Marti is half entrepreneur, half executive. A full time leader who loves getting involved in exciting projects, with more than 17 years of experience focused on strategy, business development and relations with investors. He is currently President of Tangelo Games (ex-Akamon), the biggest Gaming Community Platform, and of Billy Mobile, a 100% mobile Ad Exchange focused on performance. Also involved as a strategic advisor in elrowFamily, a music entertainment company, and as an investor and advisor in Ubiqum, a Code Academy, and Finizens, a Fintech startup, among others. In the past he had various other roles including the CEO of Akamon Entertainment, CCO of the low cost airline Vueling and a part of the team behind its successful IPO, and CEO of the Interactive Division over a five-year tenure at Spain's largest gaming company Cirsa.

Jussi Lystimaki

VP Europe at Schibsted Media Group

Jussi Lystimaki is a Finnish serial entrepreneur who joined Schibsted 8 years ago after 15 years of building start-ups successfully in Helsinki and London. First he founded and built the market leading classified site in Finland for Schibsted, and then joined Schibsted’s senior leaders’ team to build Schibsted’s global vision forward. Deep down he gets his fire from agile and entrepreneurial approach to making things happen with teams. Today, Schibsted has become one of the leading global players taking online classifieds forward in more than 20 markets, by building on its strengths by being close to local markets while leveraging the global capacity. Barcelona has become the home of the global senior management team and a big part of the global product and tech development teams. In addition to Barcelona, the 4000-people Marketplaces business division has major product and tech locations in London, Paris, Oslo and Stockholm. In Spain, Schibsted operates thru well known brands such as Infojobs, Vibbo, Coches.net, Fotocasa, Habitaclia and Milanuncios.

Juan Galiardo

Head of Spain at Uber

Juan Galiardo (Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1988) is BA in Management and MSc in Finance by ESADE Business School. He started his career as a consultant at Cairneagle Associates and then moved to Delta Partners as Senior Consultant, where he implemented telecommunications projects in Middle East and Africa. In 2015 he founds Noisy, an app for internal comms and project management. In 2014 he joined Uber as member of the Operations team and he is currently Head of Uber in Spain.

Claus Rosenberg

CEO at Book'n'Bloom

Claus Rosenberg Gotthard is a Danish serial-entrepreneur who has build companies since his late teenage years. His latest venture - Book'n'Bloom - is a business management tool that just raised $11.5M from a London VC. It allows small businesses or freelancers to manage their business from their Facebook page and Mobile. Book'n'Bloom is already available in 3 languages (English, Spanish & Greek), has a team of 21 people (16 of which are based in Thessaloniki) and they have an active sales force in Athens, Madrid & Bogota (Colombia) and this year they are planning to expand to min. 5 new markets.

Oscar García-Pañella

Partner at Cookiebox

Dr. Oscar García Pañella holds a PostDoc in Entertainment Technology by the ETC @ Carnegie Mellon University. He's currently directing The Videogame Degree (ENTI-UB) besides the Gamification & Transmedia Storytelling Master Program (IEBS) while he partners as the Gamification Manager at Cookie Box, Oscar has advised the design and creation of 'Serious Games' and 'Gamification' campaigns for interesting companies such as Konic THTR, Coperfield, HP, Digital Legends Entertainment, Roland, Telefonica I+D, Infojobs, The Saint Jude Hospital, KPMG, SEAT, Agbar, Cyklum, Aqualogy, Agrupació, Sanitas, Lander, Accenture ... among many others. His research keywords include Gamification, Serious Games, Game Design, Virtual Entities and Realities and Multimedia Apps plus Videogames, Location-based Entertainment, Alternate Reality Games, Edutainment, Games 4 Health, Exergaming, Advergaming, Newsgaming, Theme Parks and anything that includes the 'fun' and 'serious' components.

Natalia Moreno

Manager Start Up's Barcelona

Manager Start Up's Barcelona @ CaixaBank.

Ignasi Costas

Partner at RCD

Ignasi is a founding member of the law firm and leads the Innovation and Entrepreneurship department, which includes the practice of entrepreneurial initiative, Venture Capital and the internationalization of companies. Ignasi counts on a long and profound experience in advising entrepreneurs and investors in the process of negotiations and strategic alliances. He has also collaborated with various public research centers and in the creation of knowledge-based companies (spin-offs). He is a member of the Board of Directors of several technology-based companies and the author of different academic articles related to his areas of practice and knowledge. He also regularly speaks at a wide-range of Spanish universities.