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SUMMIT Marbella 2018 Welcome!
We are thrilled to welcome you to Marbella for the 8th edition of the GP Bullhound Summit. It is a pleasure to host the inspirational founders and pioneering leaders who are fuelling the growing pace of innovation and transformation of our society.
The Summit provides our guests with an Beyond these insightful discussions, we invite exclusive forum for sharing experiences you to enjoy Marbella’s hospitality and great and ideas. This year, we will tackle head-on cuisine, as well as tennis, padel, golf and beach the technologies redefining the global activities – from Kitesurfing in Tarifa to fishing in economy. From neuroscientists considering the Mediterranean’s crystal-clear waters. the complexities of the brain and machine True to our mission to support and advise the learning to founders at the forefront of leading entrepreneurs and CEO’s, we have our AI and Blockchain , we will get under the full senior team in attendance available to you skin of the most complex, challenging and for anything ranging from industry advice to compelling innovations. match-making and logistics. Entrepreneurs sit at the heart of transformation, Finally, a huge thanks to our partners for and through working with these pioneers, it their unwavering support: Barclays, KKR, has become clear to us that the ambition Nasdaq, Gómez-Acebo&Pombo and Heads! and talent required to build technology titans International – you have been essential to has never been so strong. Manish Madhvani making this not-for-profit event possible. will share more on our thesis that Europe is set to create its first $50bn tech company and Enjoy! stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Asian and American titans. Cecilia, Per, Manish and the In the private setting that defines the Summit, GP Bullhound team we will hear from founders and leaders at every stage of an ambitious growth trajectory – from the four competitors for the prestigious Summit Superstar Award to listed success stories, sharing their experience and cover every step of the journey.
1 OUR MISSION To advise the most passionate technology entrepreneurs
PROFILES A – A
Attendee profiles
Adam Kostyal Alec Dafferner Director Partner Nasdaq GP Bullhound Stockholm, Sweden San Francisco, USA
Company bio: Nasdaq is the leading Company bio: GP Bullhound is an technology and information services independent investment bank serving provider to the capital markets. our clients in the technology sector Personal bio: Adam is Senior Vice worldwide. President and Head of Listings and Personal bio: Alec is head of GP Corporate Services for EMEA. Bullhound’s San Francisco office. With over 20 years of technology investment banking experience, Alec has executed over 90 transactions for emerging growth companies around the world. Secret talent: Alec used to play American Football in University.
4 PROFILES A – A
Alessandro Casartelli Alex Capurro Director CEO & Founder GP Bullhound Easy Payment Gateway London, UK Gibraltar
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Online one stop solution independent investment bank serving payment gateway. our clients in the technology sector Personal bio: Alex is passionate about worldwide. technology and payments! Personal bio: Alessandro is focusing on Secret talent: Ability to turn any the digital media, internet and software business request into a technical sectors. Prior to joining GP Bullhound, solution on the spot. Alessandro was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, working on a number of M&A and financing transactions in the consumer, retail and technology sectors. Secret talent: With someone directing him, Alessandro can ski blindfolded.
Alex Connock Alexander Artopé Managing Director CEO & Co-founder Missile Digital Marketing Smava Manchester, UK Berlin, Germany
Company bio: Missile digital is optimising Company bio: Germany’s leading video for e-commerce. marketplace lender connects private Personal bio: Alex is a digital video borrowers with a broad selection entrepreneur and academic. of banks and private investors on its marketplace. Secret talent: Photography. Personal bio: Alexander is an Entrepreneur with management experience in marketing, sales and finance (especially acquiring investors in venture capital).
5 PROFILES A – A
Alexis Scorer Alon Kuperman Executive Director Director GP Bullhound GP Bullhound London, UK London, UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: GP Bullhound is an independent investment bank serving independent investment bank serving our clients in the technology sector our clients in the technology sector worldwide. worldwide. Personal bio: Alexis has a broad Personal bio: Alon has over 11 years experience across the technology of experience in tech investments and industry and has led successful M&A advisory. Prior to GP Bullhound, Alon and fundraising transactions in sectors worked at Atomico, a London based including software, technology services, Venture Capital firm, and prior to that at internet and digital media. Silver Lake Partners, a global technology Secret talent: Alexis is an expert in buyout fund. card tricks. Secret talent: Alon is really good in Stencil Graffitti.
Álvaro Mateo Sixto Ann Grevelius Partner Co-founder Gómez, Acebo & Pombo Optise Madrid, Spain Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Company bio: At Optise they make is an international law firm that has sure that everyone can get good provided legal advisory services in all long-term savings. areas of company law since 1971. Personal bio: Ann is a several time Personal bio: Álvaro is an M&A lawyer, award-winning fund manager with specialized in PE and VC international almost 20 years of experience within transactions. In Madrid he represents Asset Management. She was previously both foreign and local clients mostly with CIO and Global Head of Investment a tech com. Strategy at SEB. Secret talent: Álvaro hopes he has one but is not sure what it is yet…
6 PROFILES A – B
Antonio Rami Arbia Smiti Co-founder CEO & Founder Kantox Carnet De Mode Barcelona, Spain Paris, France
Company bio: Kantox is a multinational Company bio: Carnet De Mode is fintech company building FX the 1st international marketplace for management solutions for businesses. emerging designers in Fashion and Personal bio: One of Antonio´s passions Lifestyle (managing more than 1500 is helping businesses to simplify day-to- exclusive emerging brands for more day challenges like FX risk management than 60 countries). so that they can focus on what they are Personal bio: Arbia is a Serial Tech good at. The other two are Barça and Entrepreneur, she founded Carnet de good cuisine. Mode in 2011 and sold it end of 2017 to a Secret talent: Focusing on what french industrial group. Now launching a really matters. new startup in Fintech and Blockchain. Secret talent: Determination and learning quickly from failures and mistakes.
Arnd Benninghoff Ben Davies CEO CEO & Founder MTGx VYPR Munich, Germany Manchester, UK
Company bio: MTGx is a digital Company bio: VYPR is a data science entertainment company focused on the platform that helps consumer goods interactive entertainment universe with companies transform how they develop esports, digital video and online gaming & launch innovation. businesses. Personal bio: Ben is the Founder & CEO Personal bio: Arnd´s job is to keep the in the midst of a massive learning curve entrepreneurs happy, to serve as their on how to scale an enterprise software Sherpa while they build a leading digital business. Husband, father of twins, skier entertainment business. & mountain biker (when not working). Secret talent: Any kind of sports from Secret talent: Perseverance. And Kitesurfing, Triathlon, Tennis to Horse picking great mentors... back riding and Fencing, nothing 100% perfect, but can do any sport with 70% perfection.
7 To think outside the boundaries, we operate inside the tech sector
You know what’s best for your business, such as a bank that understands your sector inside out. As a Barclays client, we can offer your business a dedicated, sector-specific Relationship Director with in-depth knowledge of your market.
Contact Sean Duffy, Head of Technology, Media and Telecoms, on 07775 548 118* or [email protected], or visit barclayscorporate.com
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Ben Pedersen Ben Prade Technology Investor Director KKR GP Bullhound London, UK London, UK
Company bio: KKR is a leading global Company bio: GP Bullhound is an investment firm that manages multiple independent investment bank serving alternative asset classes, including our clients in the technology sector private equity, energy, infrastructure, worldwide. real estate, credit and, through its Personal bio: Ben has 20 years of strategic partners, hedge funds. investment banking experience, most Personal bio: Ben is a Technology recently as CEO of a London based Investor at KKR and current portfolio broker/dealer. He now leads GP company responsibilities include: Ivalua, Bullhound’s fund raising efforts for the Darktrace, GetYourGuide and Clicktale. investment management team, he also brings his experience to bear on Fintech M&A situations and debt mandates. Secret talent: His hair!
Bernhard Luthi Bonnie Roupé Co-founder CEO Seventy Bonzun Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: Seventy works with some Company bio: Bonzun is an artificial of the most influential companies, all midwife that has helped 1.8 million focusing on building and branding new Chinese women and is now used in digital services in the market. 79 countries. Personal bio: Before joining Seventy Personal bio: Serial entrepreneur, in 2013, Bernhard worked for several worked in mobile since 1999. Founder years in strategy, brand and business of Red Tee and Bonzun. Awarded as development. He holds a Master in most Powerful Female Founder, Most Business Administration with a major in Powerful Business Woman in Sweden, international business from Stockholm Top European Woman in tech. University and an MBA (almost) from Henley University. Secret talent: Bonnie has sailed across the Greenland Sea, Labrador Sea and Secret talent: Bernhard knows North Atlantic Ocean. everything there is to know about shearing.
9 PROFILES C – C
Carl Wessberg Chris Lee Executive Director CFO GP Bullhound Jellyfish Stockholm, Sweden London, UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Jellyfish is the world’s independent investment bank serving biggest boutique agency, delivering our clients in the technology sector perfect digital journeys for global worldwide. brands. Personal bio: Carl is a technology Personal bio: Chris has been part of investment banker focused on cross- the team since 2006, he upholds high border M&A and capital transactions for accountability across all departments high-growth businesses. and has helped the agency grow to Secret talent: Carl is secretly obsessed over 450 people. about task management ideas and Secret talent: If Chris had a secret talent, procedures. Ask him about GTD! it wouldn’t be a secret!
Chris Graves Christian Faes Executive Director CEO & Co-founder GP Bullhound LendInvest London, UK UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: LendInvest is a independent investment bank serving marketplace platform for property our clients in the technology sector finance in the UK - we are reinventing worldwide. the mortgage, using technology. Personal bio: Chris has broad Personal bio: Christian manages over experience across digital media, $1B & one of the UK’s fastest growing content and IP and B2B media FinTech companies. Ex-lawyer. London- and has advised on a range of based Australian. public and private M&A and Secret talent: Delegating, and making it fundraising transactions. look like his work.
10 PROFILES C – D
Claudio Alvarez Daniel Somos Partner CFO GP Bullhound Quixel London, UK Uppsala, Sweden
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Quixel is the world’s independent investment bank serving premier 3D scan library and tools our clients in the technology sector provider. worldwide. Personal bio: Daniel is the fund Personal bio: Claudio is a technology manager of EME European Best Ideas advisor focused on SaaS, Fintech and UCITS fund. Partner investor in EME Digital Media. He was born in the Partners, Quixel, MIBI Games and Dominican Republic, grew up in NYC Avionero. and lives in London. You can catch him Secret talent: Pivot-tables. supporting his NY Giants from October onwards and staying up watching the Super Bowl. Secret talent: Trying to dust off his trumpet!
David González David Levine Partner & Head NYC CEO Gómez-Acebo & Pombo DigitalBridge New York, USA Manchester, UK
Company bio: Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Company bio: DigitalBridge is a is a leading Iberian full-service law firm Bathroom and Kitchen Design/ advising on Spanish and Portuguese law. Visualisation Company. Personal bio: After working in Madrid, Personal bio: David’s skills as an Geneva and Sao Paulo, David is entrepreneur lie in ordering the right currently based in New York. Specialized coffee and getting out of the way of the in M&A, representing high-growth amazing talent he’s somehow managed companies, PEs and VCs in a variety of to hire! cross border transactions. Secret talent: Deciphering ancient Secret talent: David is still looking for his aramaic texts. And goalkeeping. Not at secret talent. Help is welcome. the same time.
11 PROFILES D – E
Delphine Villuendas Dominic Joseph General Partner CEO & Co-founder Korelya Capital Captify Paris, France London, UK
Company bio: At Korelya Capital, we Company bio: Captify power decisions believe digital investment opportunities globally for brands through Search can trigger growth and social progress Intelligence. in Europe. Personal bio: Dominic has lead the Personal bio: Delphine is the Partner in business through 100% annual growth charge of the investments in VC funds. rate since inception. Delphine also serves as General Counsel Secret talent: Dominic used to be a of France Digitale, the leading French professional drummer and had a record Tech association. deal with Polydor, Universal.
Dusan Omercevic Elsa Hu CEO Director Cleanshelf GP Bullhound San Mateo, California Hong Kong
Company bio: Cleanshelf is an All- Company bio: GP Bullhound is an in-one solution to track, optimize, independent investment bank serving and benchmark your cloud software our clients in the technology sector subscriptions. worldwide. Personal bio: After building great Personal bio: Elsa has more than 11 products and technology at startups years of cross-border and cross-market such as Zemanta and Najdi.si, Dusan M&A and capital market experience, is now helping companies prepare for Elsa is expanding the firm’s Asia and the future where services will become especially China outreach. software delivered as a service. Secret talent: Elsa learns new languages Secret talent: Patience. very quickly!
12 PROFILES E – F
Erik Fjellborg Esther Wong CEO & Founder Managing Director QUINYX SenseTime Stockholm & London, Shanghai, China Sweden/UK
Company bio: QUINYX i the leading Company bio: SenseTime is one of Workforce Management solution. China’s largest AI start ups. Personal bio: Erik is a hands-on Personal bio: Esther is the Managing entrepreneur very passionate about director for SenseTime and also in growth and building awesome charge of Strategic investments. products. Loves adventures such as ski-touring, climbing, hiking, cycling and traveling. Secret talent: CS 1.6.
Fabian Hielte Fleur Pellerin Chairman CEO Ernström & C:o Korelya Capital Gothenburg and London Paris, France Sweden/UK
Company bio: Ernström & C:o is a family Company bio: At Korelya Capital, we owned investment company based in believe digital investment opportunities Gothenburg, Sweden. can trigger growth and social progress Personal bio: Fabian is an active in Europe. Swedish startup and growth investor with Personal bio: Fleur is a former civil background in finance and real estate. servant and member of the French Secret talent: Possibly something to do government, now venture capitalist. with art and poetry. Secret talent: Agility
13 PROFILES F – G
Frederic Chesnais Frederik Smits CEO & Chairman Managing Director Atari CareerTeam New York, USA Amsterdam, Netherlands
Company bio: Atari is a multi-platform, Company bio: CareerTeam is a Data- global interactive entertainment driven headhunting for digital executives and licensing company. The original and specialized IT professionals. innovator of video gaming, founded Personal bio: Frederik is a seasoned in 1972. entrepreneur with a background Personal bio: Under Mr. Chesnais’s in various fast-growing technology leadership, Atari continues to publish companies. interactive games and expand the Atari Secret talent: Loves working with teams brand into different business verticals. of great people, and bringing them Secret talent: Identifying new & unique closer together as their leader. opportunities.
Fredrik Tilander George Davies CEO Partner Backstage Invest Hambro Perks Stockholm, Sweden London, UK
Company bio: Backstage Invest is a Company bio: Hambro Perks is a family office investor. venture firm based in London that Personal bio: Fredrik loves entrepreneurs backs, builds, and scales global and their spirit. In fact, it’s a passion. And companies. he loves to invest in digitalization. Still, Personal bio: George is a gregarious, privacy is the gold of the future. So he ambitious soul. He loves music, travel, big doesn’t post, he doesn’t blog. Never has, ideas, challenging debate, awesome never will. free-thinking people, his wife, and Secret talent: Excellent sous-chef. croquetas. He also loves his job. Secret talent: It´s a secret!
14 PROFILES G – G
George Coelho Giles Palmer Co-founder CEO Astanor Ventures Brandwatch London, UK Brighton, UK
Company bio: George is co-founder of Company bio: Brandwatch is the Astanor Ventures, focused on foodtech. world’s leading social intelligence group Before, he was with Good Energies, offering marketers a portfolio of social Balderton and Intel. and content marketing technologies. Personal bio: George has been an Personal bio: Giles started Brandwatch investor in every major tech market in after leaving BSkyB in late 2005. the world, including the US, Asia and Secret talent: Table tennis whizz. Europe, covering semiconductors, software, ecommerce, fintech, telco and Cleantech. The market value of companies he invested in is close to $500 Billion today. Secret talent: Private Pilot.
Greg Isbister Greg Smith CEO Partner Blis GP Bullhound London, UK New York, USA
Company bio: Blis-understanding real Company bio: GP Bullhound is an world consumer behaviour. independent investment bank serving Personal bio: Greg loves playing with our clients in the technology sector new technology and developing ideas worldwide. into products. CEO and founder of Blis. Personal bio: Greg is Head of the Father of three young kids. firm’s New York office. Greg has over Secret talent: Ability to keep secrets. 30 years of extensive digital marketing and technology M&A experience. During his investment banking career, Greg has completed more than 200 M&A transactions and 75 equity public offerings.
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PROFILES G – H
Gustaf Hagman Guillaume Bonneton CEO Partner LeoVegas Mobile GP Bullhound Gaming Group Paris, France Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: LeoVegas was independent investment bank serving founded based on the realisation our clients in the technology sector that smartphones would revolutionise worldwide. the world and have since incessantly Personal bio: Guillaume is an expert worked on creating the greatest gaming in M&A and private placements for experience on mobile devices. technology businesses in Europe. Personal bio: Gustaf works with the Before GP Bullhound he worked company’s strategy and planning. for Deutsche Bank, LongAcre and Secret talent: If he tells it, it wouldn´t be Jefferies International and graduated a secret anymore. from ESCP in Paris Secret talent: Guilaume can bake bread and fresh croissants.
Henrik Persson Ekdahl Hugh Campbell Interim CEO Managing Partner Catena Media GP Bullhound Marbella, Spain Manchester, UK
Company bio: Catena Media is Company bio: GP Bullhound is an a performance marketing company independent investment bank serving based in Ta’ Xbiex, Malta. The company our clients in the technology sector was founded in 2012 and employs worldwide. 190 people in Malta, the United Personal bio: Hugh is passionate Kingdom and Serbia. about technology innovation and Personal bio: Henrik is a serial entrepreneurs with 18 years’ experience entrepreneur in the gaming industry. advising and investing in Europe’s current and future Unicorns.
17 PROFILES I – J
Isabella Löwengrip Ivan Tintore CEO & Founder CEO Löwengrip iContainers Stockholm, Sweden Barcelona, Spain
Company bio: Löwengrip, Nordic Tech Company bio: iContainers is a digital House, Flattered & Löwengrip Invest. platform that’s fueling the future of Personal bio: Entrepreneur and freight services, on a mission to make Influencer since she was 14 years old. the international trade industry more Awarded as the most Powerful woman transparent and turnkey. in Business in Sweden 2018. Personal bio: Ivan holds an MBA Secret talent: Speed reading. from ESADE Business School, Ivan is specialised in Marketing, with experience in logistics and supply chain.
Jacob Fant James Freedman Chairman CEO & Founder Seventy Zone Stockholm, Sweden London, UK
Company bio: Seventy works with some Company bio: Zone is a leading digital of the most influential companies, all agency recently acquired by Cognizant. focusing on building and branding new Personal bio: James is an experienced digital services in the market. entrepeneur. Personal bio: Jacob is Managing Secret talent: No secrets. Partner and Co-founder of Seventy, one of the fastest growing Business Design agencies in the Nordics. Secret talent: Jacob knows almost all there is to know about trimming and handling Excavators.
18 PROFILES J – J
Jari Raappana Jason Santiago EVP Principal Sofigate Group Stripes Group Espoo, Finland New York, USA
Company bio: We turn digital Company bio: Stripes Group is a innovations into well managed Technology and Consumer Growth Business Technology! Equity Investor. Personal bio: Jari is an entrepreneur with Personal bio: Jason hails from Puerto a passion to dare the market, care the Rico and now lives in New York City. people and grow the business. He enjoys Jazz, all things Internet, Secret talent: Jari can cook excellent and finding that perfect slope to Italian food. snowboard down. Secret talent: Trumpet.
Jeremy Gidlow Jaume Portell CEO & Co-founder CEO Intechnica & Beabloo TrafficDefender Barcelona, Spain Manchester & London, UK
Company bio: Beabloo is a technology Company bio: Technical transformation company specializing in a combination experts and creators of the AI driven bot of multi-channel digital marketing and control platform TrafficDefender. big data for retail environments and Personal bio: Jeremy is passionate establishments working directly with about creating business value through the public. the effective use of technology and Personal bio: Jaume is particularly changing the way we understand and interested on business strategy issues manage website visitors using AI. and on building a strong culture that Secret talent: An encyclopedic can bring a much better product or knowledge of cars. service to end customer, that can really make a difference.
19 PROFILES J – J
Johan Kampe Joakim Dal Senior Managing Director Partner Harbert European GP Bullhound Growth Capital Stockholm, Sweden London, UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Harbert Management independent investment bank serving Corporation (“HMC”) is an investment our clients in the technology sector management firm focusing on worldwide. alternative assets. Personal bio: Joakim Dal is a Partner Personal bio: Johan is passionate in GP Bullhound Asset Management, about supporting entrepreneurs and advising the GP Bullhound Funds on growth businesses, He has over 20 years investments in technology companies. experience in technology lending Secret talent: Joakim likes fishing and and financing. will be joining Johan Attby´s fishing trip Secret talent: Very good at keeping a on Friday. secret.
Johan Leven Johan Attby Private Investor and CEO Founding Partner Fishbrain Quintus Partners Stockholm, Sweden Hong Kong
Company bio: Quintus Partners is an Company bio: Fishbrain is the Investment and merchant banking firm community for the world’s largest hobby based in Hong Kong, New York and Palo - sport fishing. Fishbrain is for people who Alto. Investments in Biotech/Healthcare, love fishing. Online Games/Education, Clean Tech, Personal bio: Johan is a serial Other. entrepreneur with a passion for building Personal bio: Johan is a keen sailor (J70), game changing businesses. golfer & hiker. Former Partner and Head Secret talent: Johan has been a of M&A Asia Ex-Japan @ Goldman competitive cyclist and he is still a Sachs, Former Head of Corporate decent sprinter! Finance Asia Pacific, Barclays. Secret talent: It´s a secret!
20 PROFILES J – J
John Doran Jonathan Cantwell General Partner Director TCV GP Bullhound London, UK San Francisco, USA
Company bio: TCV partners with CEOs Company bio: GP Bullhound is an and founders of public and private independent investment bank serving growth-stage technology companies as our clients in the technology sector they strive to achieve market leadership. worldwide. Personal bio: John focuses on Personal bio: Jon is focused on SaaS investments in the software, internet, and M&A and Advisory transactions. He has fintech sectors. over 12 years of technology investment Secret talent: An ability to eat his weight banking experience and has completed in chocolate on a monthly basis. over 50 transactions. Secret talent: Jon coaches kids sports teams!
Jose Manuel Peral Cortes Jorge Martínez Board Member Sports Director Easy Payment Gateway Madrid, Spain Marbella, Spain
Personal bio: Jorge is one of the most Company bio: Online one stop solution important padel coaches in history. He payment gateway. has coached 14 out of 20 players in the Personal bio: Jose Manuel is: World Padel Tour ranking. Jorge is also Entrepreneur, ambitious, perseverant, the founder of M3 and Mystica. hard working, creative, perfectionist, traveller, sporty and challenge seeker. Secret talent: Taking the right decision.
21 PROFILES J – J
Juan Dominguez Juan Urdiales CEO & Founder CEO & Co-founder Adglow Jobandtalent Madrid, Spain Madrid, Spain
Company bio: Adglow is a world-class Company bio: Jobandtalent- workforce paid social media advertising company. as a Service to fulfil on demand staffing Personal bio: Juan is curious, fun-loving needs of companies and help workers lateral thinker. to be permanently employed. Secret talent: Juan can read a mid sized Personal bio: Juan is a serial book in a couple of hours. entrepreneur who started his first business at Uni and sold it in 3 years. Solving global unemployment problem at Jobandtalent with a worldclass team. Motivated by big Missions and loves execution. Secret talent: Perseverance.
Juergen Jaron Julian Riedlbauer CEO Partner Bellevue Investment GP Bullhound Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany
Company bio: BELLEVUE Investments Company bio: GP Bullhound is an is a private investment company. We independent investment bank serving preferably invest in technology (high our clients in the technology sector gross margin / low capex), Adtech, worldwide. Fintech, AI, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Cyber Security, E-Health. Personal bio: Julian joined GP Bullhound as a Partner in 2012. Previously, he Personal bio: Juergen is a down to was managing director at Corporate earth person who stays on the ground Finance Partners and tech entrepreneur. and keeps his head together. A savvy He has advised on/executed more than character who although is slightly eccentric and a bit easy going, always 50 Technology transactions. keeps score and never lets down Secret talent: Boats, sailing and his guard. water skiing. Secret talent: Being a self-taught person and being a negotiator.
22 PROFILES J – K
Juliet Rogan Junaid Mohiuddin Head of High Growth SaaS & B2B & Entrepreneurs Practice Leader Barclays Fuel by McKinsey London, UK San Francisco, USA
Company bio: Barclays is a bank - Company bio: The Pre-IPO practice of aspiring to be a technology company McKinsey & Co. with a balance sheet. Personal bio: Junaid is a startup advisor Personal bio: Sunshine yellow. to Founders, CEOs and Investors with 2 Secret talent: Excellent with faces. decades of Silicon Valley experience initially at Sun, Symantec, Cisco and later at startups; 2 exits, 2 kids, blessed with ADD. Secret talent: Expert in avoiding bay area traffic.
Karim Chouikri Karen Dolva CEO CEO Emakina Group No Isolation Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Geneva, Antwerp, Vienna, Oslo, Norway Gent, Istanbul, Stockholm, New York, Singapore.
Company bio: No Isolation builds Company bio: Emakina Group is one communication tools to reduce of the top three independent networks loneliness and social isolation in of communication agencies in Europe. vulnerable groups in society. More than 800 experts in nine European Personal bio: Karen is very driven and countries. passionate, but also impatient and blunt. Personal bio: Karim has been a director She believes that there are so many of Emakina Group since March 2006 things we can do to better the world, and CEO since 2014. As a shareholder, and she wants to say that she did her director or consultant, he has helped part when she grows old. develop various companies. Secret talent: Whistling and rhyming. Secret talent: Curiosity.
23 Nasdaq Nordic
The leading European ,32market PROFILES K – K
Karl Andersson Kate Burns CEO & Co-founder CEO Media Tech Matsmart Hambro Perks Stockholm, Sweden London, UK
Company bio: Matsmart was founded Company bio: Hambro Perks incubates in 2014. The idea was simple but and invests in fast growth companies. brilliant: selling products online with Helping great people to shape ideas, up to 90% discount that otherwise raise money and get to market. would have been discarded due to e.g Personal bio: Kate has worked in digital over-production, packing changes, for the past 20 years, and was part of the seasonal goods or an approaching best launch leadership for Yahoo, DCLK and before date. Google. She now helps start-ups and Personal bio: Karl is also co-founder young founders fulfil their goals. She is of GetOnBoard. He was previously also a keen horsewoman! sales director at Metro and Expressen- Secret talent: Plays the piano quite well nationwide newspapers in Sweden. after consuming wine. Secret talent: Junior World Championship in rugby!
Kavita Gupta Kenneth Roth Founding Executive Director Managing Partner Human Rights Watch ConsenSys New York, USA (temporarily transplanted San Francisco, USA to Geneva)
Company bio: ConsenSys is a Company bio: Human Rights Watch is blockchain venture production studio. one of the world’s leading independent Personal bio: Kavita invests in organizations dedicated to defending Blockchain focus technologies and protecting human rights globally, accelerating impact and solving giving voice to the oppressed and problems with more transparency holding oppressors accountable for their usingdecentralizationeconomy. crimes. Personal bio: Oddly enamored of traveling to the world’s least desirable places to get into fights with some of the world’s most despicable people. Kenneth likes the battle. And getting to work for what he believes in. Secret talent: Puppet shows.
25 PROFILES K – M
Kina Zeidler Lawrence Chu Journalist & Writer Partner Stockholm & Verbier, Goodwin Procter Sweden & Switzerland San Francisco, USA
Company bio: Kina is a journalist Company bio: We are a global 50 law and writer, focusing on the European firm increasingly focused to working with tech scene. clients in the financial, private equity, Personal bio: Kina is a happy go lucky real estate, technology and life sciences type who just released her first book: industries. “Det svenska techundret”, in English: Personal bio: Larry is a Partner in “The Swedish tech miracle.” Goodwin’s Technology and Life Secret talent: Spends three months a Sciences business unit and a member year as a full time ski bum. of the firm’s, M&A, Corporate Governance, Private Equity, FinTech and Crowdfunding practices.
Luke Smith Maex Ament CEO CEO & Co-founder Croud Centrifuge London & New York, Madrid, Spain UK & USA
Company bio: Croud is a digital Company bio: Centrifuge changes marketing agency with a difference, the rules of global trade through combining the best talent with tech and decentralization. tools to deliver game changing results. Personal bio: Maex is a FinTech geek Personal bio: Luke is an energetic, and startup lover with his family between driven business leader who cares about SF, Madrid and Berlin. his people first and clients second, Secret talent: Maex has been told his always thinking about what’s next. passion is contagious. Secret talent: Hustle.
26 PROFILES M – M
Magnus Gottås Manish Madhvani Director Managing Partner Bridgepoint Growth GP Bullhound Stockholm, Sweden London, UK
Company bio: Equity investor in Company bio: GP Bullhound is an high-growth businesses with focus on independent investment bank serving the Nordic region. our clients in the technology sector Personal bio: Magnus is a Director worldwide. at Bridgepoint Growth, with 12 years Personal bio: Manish has executed M&A investor experience. In addition to and capital raising transactions since instant online payments business Trustly, 1997, involving some of the best known he is currently on the board of Vitamin global internet, software and media Well (incl Nocco & Barebells). He is also a companies. He is recognised as one of shareholder in Vässla and Spotify. the leading Entrepreneurs in the UK by Secret talent: Will run for office one day. the Sunday Times / Maserati 100. Secret talent: Manish used to play chess with the Deepmind Founder.
Marc Antoni Macia Mark Flanagan COO CEO & Founder NoviCap Shield Safety Group Barcelona, Spain Manchester, UK
Company bio: NoviCap is an invoice Company bio: Shield Safety Group is finance platform which enables small a leading provider of Food, Fire and and medium sized businesses to sell Health & Safety software and services outstanding invoices (receivables) to a delivered by the UK’s largest team of third party at a discount and improve EHPs. their cash flow. Personal bio: Mark is a former Personal bio: Marc Antoni is born and Environmental Health Practitioner who raised in Barcelona. Lived in UK, Hong believes in making safety simple for Kong, US and Paris. Obsessed with every business, through award-winning solving the working capital needs of risk and safety Software as a Service SMEs with technology. Second-time (SaaS) and a skilled workforce. entrepreneur. Previously head of Secret talent: Apart from making safety BI@Westwing. simple, Mark can do the Rubik’s cube. Secret talent: Surfing and cooking.
27 PROFILES M – M
Mårten Vading Mark Sebba General Partner Non-Executive Director Kreos Capital GP Bullhound UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Kreos is the leading independent investment bank serving growth debt provider in Europe & Israel our clients in the technology sector with 20-year track record of c.500 worldwide. transactions. Personal bio: Mark Sebba is a Non- Personal bio: Mårten is the Co-founder Executive Director at GP Bullhound and of Kreos with more than 20 years of former Chief Executive of The Net-a- experience in growth investments. Porter Group between 2003 and 2014. Passionate about innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. Sports, travel, music and design/architecture. Secret talent: Surfing.
Martin Wattin Martin Thomsen CEO CEO & Founder Inbox Capital Conferize Stockholm, Sweden Copenhagen, Denmark
Company bio: Tech investor Company bio: Conferize is an online in Truecaller, Acast, Barnebys, platform reshaping events, it´s used by Fishbrain etc.. thousands of event organizers in more Personal bio: Martin has many years than 120 countries. of experience from online business as Personal bio: Martin is also a former Co- an entrepreneur & investor. He holds a Founder of the leading digital publishing Master of Finance from the University of service Issuu, a Time.com Best Website, Colorado and is Member of the Board serving billions of pages for 100 million of Betsson AB, Mostphotos, Barnebys, monthly users. Rabble, Smart Payments and Clearlii. Secret talent: Remembering registration plates on cars.
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Martin Falch Matthew Candy CEO Global Leader 360Leaders IBM iX London, UK London, UK
Company bio: 360Leaders is a global Company bio: IBM iX are Renegades executive search firm delivering Board, and Realists that work at the intersection C-Suite and VP level assignments to of progressive strategy, creative vision some of the fastest growing businesses in and transformational technology to the technology ecosystem. tackle the biggest business challenge: Personal bio: London-based tomorrow. headhunter from Norway with a passion Personal bio: Matthew loves helping for supporting entrepreneurs with a people and teams do their best work. positive and optimistic attitude to And making change happen - whether People challenges. that is driving change within IBM (a 107 Secret talent: Used to be a ski jumper year old startup) or helping our clients and a skateboarder. reinvent their businesses. Secret talent: Knowing Pi to 50 decimal places!
Michael Hayman Michel Tombroff Co-founder Chairman Seven Hills Jooki.rocks London, UK Belgium
Company bio: Seven Hills create Company bio: Jooki is a smart music campaigns that help businesses, people player for kids that uses figurines to and organisations to stand out, grow enable playlists. faster and make a difference. Personal bio: Michel is the Board Personal bio: Michael is an Entrepreneur, member at IoT (Thingstream.io), NoSQL Author & Campaigner for business. Co- (Hackolade.com) and Smart Cities founded the campaigns firm Seven Hills (cleverciti.com) startups. & co-authored Mission (Penguin). Secret talent: Loves art, mathematics, music and philosophy.
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Miguel Kindelán Mike Wardell Executive Director CEO GP Bullhound Giacom Madrid, Spain Hull, UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Giacom operates a independent investment bank serving Cloud Marketplace, a one stop shop for our clients in the technology sector ITC’s to satisfy their IT requirements. worldwide. Personal bio: Mike is down to earth Personal bio: Miguel oversees the firm’s and easy going. Outside of work he has activities in Spain and Portugal, as well been kept busy by his 3 young children as in Latin America. Previously, Miguel and when he gets chance, he attempts was a Director and Head of TMT for to play football. Iberia at Lazard, where he started his Secret talent: Enjoys cooking and has career in 1999. a knack of making up meals without a recipe using whatever ingredients are available.
Misha Lyalin Monica Kalia CEO Founder Zeptolab Neyber Barcelona, Spain London, UK
Company bio: ZeptoLab is a global Company bio: Neyber is an gaming company dedicated to the award-winning financial wellbeing science of fun. It all started back in 2010 provider that helps people to look with just two people and one monster after their money. – the cheerful green Om Nom, whose Personal bio: Monica is a highly biggest passion are candies. accomplished senior executive with over Personal bio: Misha is the CEO of 20 years’ experience within the financial ZeptoLab, one of top mobile game services sector. She is also a member of developers in the world, best known for StepChange’s Board of Trustees. Cut the Rope series and its star Om Nom. Secret talent: When I was a child I performed on TV hula-hooping!
30 PROFILES N – N
Natalia Nazarova Nick Giles CEO & Co-founder Co-founder Jagoona Seven Hills Munich - Zurich - Berlin London, UK
Company bio: Jagoona helps VCs & Company bio: Campaigning for companies with scarce online marketing change makers. resources to scale businesses quickly Personal bio: Nick is co-founder of Seven with flexible teams. Hills and co-author of Penguin bestseller Personal bio: Natalia has 15+ years MISSION: How the Best in Business Break of experience in online marketing, Through. He is chair of the advisory consulting and business development. board for One Young World 2019. Ran Marketing for various Rocket Internet Secret talent: Being a taxi driver to Companies. Author of Facebook case junior footballers. studies. MBA in ESMT Berlin. Secret talent: Likes to draw & play piano to relax.
Niclas Holmberg Nick Horrocks Managing Director Director Listing Sweden GP Bullhound Nasdaq Manchester, UK Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Nasdaq is recognized independent investment bank serving around the globe as a diversified our clients in the technology sector worldwide financial technology, trading worldwide. and information services provider to the capital markets, with more than Personal bio: Nick has spent nearly 20 3,500 colleagues serving businesses years in corporate finance principally and investors from over 50 offices in 26 advising private and growth companies. countries across six continents – and in Before joining GP Bullhound Nick every capital market. spent 9 years working for Clearwater Personal bio: Niclas is the first Swede International where he advised a range to study at the University of the West of clients in fund raising and M&A. Indies. Also the first one to become the Secret talent: Nick can butcher an National coach for Trinidad&Tobago entire pig. tabletennis team. Secret talent: Table tennis & Swedish junior champion in football.
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We are a firm of choice in Spain and Portugal for technology, life sciences and other growth enterprises, thanks to our business orientation, innovative solutions, multidisciplinary teams and in-depth understanding of these markets. ga-p.com PROFILES O – P
Omri Benayoun Ole Mensching General Partner CEO Partech CareerTeam San Francisco, Paris, Hamburg, Germany Berlin & Dakar
Company bio: CareerTeam is a Company bio: Partech is a global headhunting agency focusing on digital investment platform for tech and digital experts. With a headcount of over 100 companies, led by ex-entrepreneurs and employees and offices in Hamburg, operators of the industry spread across Berlin, Zurich, Paris and Amsterdam offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin CareerTeam helps medium-sized and Dakar. companies and corporates to built up Personal bio: Omri Benayoun is General digital teams. Partner of Partech, responsible for Personal bio: Ole studied economics at the Growth fund. He joined in May the University of Cologne, with emphasis 2014 and currently sits on the boards on business psychology and the strategic of Brandwatch, M-Files, EcoVadis, interaction of markets. He continued this SendinBlue and NA-KD. course by finishing his Ph.D.. Secret talent: Omri loves chess, Secret talent: Connecting the right jazz, Bordeaux wine and walking in people to make great things happen. the mountains.
Oskar Herdland Paul Walsh Director CEO GP Bullhound Infinity Stockholm, Sweden London, UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Infinity is a call independent investment bank serving intelligence company that analyse calls our clients in the technology sector to help grow revenue and reduce costs. worldwide. Personal bio: Over the last 20 years Personal bio: Oskar leads GP Bullhound’s Paul has founded a number of equity capital market activities. Internet based business in technology, Previously, he was CEO and Head of marketing and communications. He Equities at SEB Enskilda in New York. loves to solve commercial problems with Secret talent: Oskar is a PacMan technical solutions. champion. Secret talent: Finding bugs in software.
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Paul Manuel Paul Källenius Co-founder Chairman Dept Consortio Fashion Group Amsterdam, Netherlands Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: Dept is a digital agency Company bio: Online fashion of 750 thinkers and makers. company with the brands Bubbleroom Personal bio: Paul is a proud and Cellbes. entrepreneur, loves people and is crazy Personal bio: Paul is an opportunistic about skiing and sailing. entrepreneur and business angel. Secret talent: None!
Pedro Claveria Per Roman CEO Managing Partner Playtomic GP Bullhound Spain Madrid, Spain
Company bio: Playtomic is a “SaaS Company bio: GP Bullhound is an enabled Marketplace” for sport independent investment bank serving activities. We connect Players with our clients in the technology sector venues to enable a “super easy” worldwide. process to book a court and confirm the Personal bio: Per is one of Europe´s transaction in less than 30secs. best-known technology investment Personal bio: Pedro is a 31 years old bankers and experts in international entrepreneur who loves travelling and M&A and capital transactions for dreams with changing the world for the high-growth businesses. better. Easy going and positive mindset. Secret talent: Per has lived over two Secret talent: Pedro is really good years on a sailing boat. at excel!
34 PROFILES P – P
Per Lindtorp Peter Reid Director CEO GP Bullhound MSQ Partners Hong Kong London, UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: MSQ is a group of independent investment bank serving six creative agencies working for our clients in the technology sector many of the world’s leading and worldwide. emerging brands. Personal bio: Per has broad experience Personal bio: Peter Reid - ex-McKinsey across the technology sector, especially consultant; Founder & CEO of MSQ in Fintech, Communications software Partners - leading, international and infrastructure, and Autotech. marcomms group taking on established Secret talent: Per is a self-taught holding companies. 3 kids under 9; sous-vide chef. keeps fit by running and cycling. Secret talent: Was juggling - now completely out of practice - and 400m and 800m (3rd in SW of England)!
Philip Boyd Philip Hodari Managing Partner CEO Heads! International Pilot Group London, UK Manchester, UK
Company bio: Heads! International is a Company bio: Pilot Group develops leading global executive search firm in intelligent tech solutions to help the Digital and Technology space. businesses optimise performance across Personal bio: Philip is a Founder a wide range of sectors. and Managing Partner at Heads! Personal bio: Philip is an advocate International where he co-leads the of creative thinking,a motivated by Global Digital and Technology Practice. pioneering concepts & bold new perspectives on commercial issues. He enjoys working with ambitious & talented people! Secret talent: Connecting people, creating partnerships.
35 PROFILES P – P
Philip Marthinsen Pingis Ingegerd Hadenius Founder CEO & Chairwoman House of Radon Löwengrip/NTH/Flattered Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: House of Radon Company bio: Löwengrip: Swedish is a creative agency and startup beauty &innovation combined. accelerator. Nordic Tech House: Digital Personal bio: Philip is the father of two, accelerator&investment company, running a creative hub together with his Flattered: premium shoes three Co-founders for 13 years. In it for Personal bio: Investment banker turned the pleasure of taking on the thing that journalist and beauty entrepreneur! shouldn’t be possible, breaking it down Ms Hadenius began her career in a and getting it done. perfumery at the age of 15, working with top brands such as Estée Lauder, Lancôme and Chanel. Secret talent: Squash + her love for magniloquent language and words
Pong Yipp Non-Executive Pontus Lindwall Chairman CEO China Pacific Betsson Capital Limited Stockholm, Sweden Hong Kong
Company bio: China Pacific Capital Company bio: From a single slot (CPC) is a VC and private equity arm of machine in 1963 to being listed on the family office investing in early stage Nasdaq Stockholm and holding gaming companies. licenses in 11 jurisdictions. Personal bio: Yipp is Non-Executive Personal bio: Pontus started at Chairman of China Pacific Capital Cherryföretagen, founded NetEnt. (CPC), with more than three decades of Betsson and NetEnt split, He became entrepreneurial and direct investment CEO of Betsson and board member at experience in the US, UK and Asia. NetEnt. 2011 he became the executive Chairman at Betsson and now returned as CEO. Secret talent: Cooking!
36 PROFILES R – R
Ramon Sarda Richard Brennan Executive Vice President Managing Partner Pictet Group Heads! International Geneva, Switzerland Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: Pictet Group offers Company bio: Heads! International is a only wealth management, asset leading global executive search firm in management and related asset the Digital and Technology space. services. It was founded 1805. Personal bio: Richard is a Founder Personal bio: Ramon is an Executive and Managing Partner at Heads! Vice President at Pictet Group. International where he co-leads the Global Digital and Technology Practice.
Richard Brass Rob Pierre Head of Wealth & CEO Asset Management UK Jellyfish Berenberg London, UK London, UK
Company bio: Berenberg is a Company bio: Jellyfish is the private bank. world’s biggest boutique agency, Personal bio: Richard Brass is the head delivering perfect digital journeys for of Wealth and Asset Management UK global brands. at Berenberg. He is also the founder of Personal bio: Rob is an ambitious Impact Ventures UK, an award-winning entrepreneur and the CEO of global collaborative social impact fund digital agency Jellyfish. Armed with a focused on the UK. passion for all things digital, he is on a mission to grow Jellyfish into the world’s biggest boutique agency. Secret talent: Has a talent for using analogies! Rob can find one for any situation.
37 PROFILES R – S
Robert Wilde Robert Ahdlin CEO & Co-founder Partner Volcanic GP Bullhound Stockport, UK Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: Volcanic is a global Company bio: GP Bullhound is an supplier of recruitment technology independent investment bank serving in an easy-to-buy software as a our clients in the technology sector service model. worldwide. Personal bio: Rob is a technologist Personal bio: Robert Ahldin is a Partner and innovator with a passion for at GP Bullhound Asset Management, problem-solving, simplification and advising the GP Bullhound Funds on insight as a platform for business growth. investments in technology companies. Secret talent: Bringing order Secret talent: For six years Robert was through technology. the coach for a girls team that won 20 football cups. He is also a self taught portrait and nature photographer.
Robin Ramm-Ericson Sara Murray Co-founder CEO LeoVegas Mobile Gaming Group & LeoVentures Buddi Malta London, UK
Company bio: LeoVegas Mobile Gaming Company bio: Buddi uses the world’s Group, Nasdaq Sthlm large-cap. First most advanced technology to monitor founded in 2012 and becoming a Unicorn the health and whereabouts of people. in 2017. With our new investment arm Personal bio: Sara is a serial technology LeoVentures we are looking for the the entrepreneur, now in hardware as a best ideas, people and technologies to service (HAAS). grow and flourish in line with our passion Leading the way into the mobile future. Secret talent: Sara is a helicopter pilot. Personal bio: Robin is an entrepreneur and investor with a passion for technology and its drive of changes in consumer behaviour. Academic background from Stockholm School of Economics and Stanford University. Secret talent: Free diving 37m - no fins.
38 PROFILES S – S
Sean Lee Sean Duffy Chief Corporate MD, Head of TMT Development Officer Barclays Wargaming London, UK Nicosia, Cyprus
Company bio: Wargaming delivers Company bio: Corporate Banking for legendary games. Globally. With Tech & Media clients. passion. Personal bio: Sean leads the TMT Personal bio: Sean is a passionate and High Growth Group for Barclays gamer, who happen to make a living as Corporate Banking. a strategic investor in the global video Secret talent: Physics and Cycling. gaming space. All things food related take up the remainder of personal time, after family of course. Secret talent: Certified Korean chef.
Simon Martin Sebastian Markowsky Chief Executive Director OLIVER and Inside GP Bullhound Ideas Group Berlin, Germany London, UK
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Oliver and Inside Ideas independent investment bank serving Group is the only company to focus our clients in the technology sector exclusively on running in-house agencies worldwide. for global brands. Personal bio: Prior to joining GP Personal bio: Simon is the Corporate Bullhound, Sebastian worked for general manager turned business Deutsche Banks general M&A founder who loves disruption, change, practice, where he advised corporate creativity, and action. clients, financial investors, HNWIs and Secret talent: Improving and changing entrepreneurs on Corporate Finance business models. and M&A topics. Secret talent: Sebastian is the best chess player he personally knows.
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Simon Nicholls Staffan Truvé Partner Co-founder GP Bullhound Recorded Future London, UK Gothenburg, Sweden
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Recorded Future independent investment bank serving provides the most comprehensive our clients in the technology sector threat intelligence solution in the world worldwide. by harvesting and analyzing the open, Personal bio: Simon is an experienced deep and dark web. corporate finance advisor focused on Personal bio: Staffan has spent the last high growth business in technology, 25 years in the borderland between digital media & internet. research and high tech start-ups. He holds a PhD in computer science from Chalmers University and an MBA from Göteborg University. Secret talent: Cooking!
Staffan Hillberg Staffan Ingeborn CEO Non-Executive Director Wood & Hill GP Bullhound Gothenburg, Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden
Company bio: Wood & Hill are real Company bio: GP Bullhound is an estate developers and investors in high independent investment bank serving tech companies. our clients in the technology sector Personal bio: In depth practical worldwide experience with international VC Personal bio: Staffan is Managing financed companies. Raising, setting Director of InnovationsKapital, an up and managing VC funds. Buy-outs, independent Nordic early stage venture Corporate finance, M&A and turn- firm which he founded in 1994. He is also arounds. Chairman of Ernström & Co, a Swedish Secret talent: Pretty good at Familly Office. Ashtanga Yoga.
40 PROFILES S – T
Surjo Soekadar Stephen Shanley Head of Research Lab Director University of Tübingen, KKR Applied Neurotechnology Laboratory London, UK Tübingen, Germany
Company bio: KKR is a leading global Company bio: The Applied investment firm - our growth equity fund Neurotechnology Lab is a word-wide focuses on $25-150M investments across leading institution in the development of technology verticals. brain-machine interfaces. Personal bio: Stephen is a Director Personal bio: The Big Five Model says leading KKR’s Growth Equity team Surjo is an inventive, curious, sociable in London. His investments include: and compassionate person. What GetYourGuide, Darktrace, Ivalua, interests him most is what defines us Travelopia, Trainline, ClickTale, and as humans and how this is changed Optimal+. through technological advancements. Secret talent: His wife says he is good in cooking - but Surjo thinks there is a hidden agenda...
Sven Raeymaekers Teddy Bergsman Lind Partner CEO GP Bullhound Quixel Helsinki, Finland Uppsala, Sweden
Company bio: GP Bullhound is an Company bio: Quixel creates 3D independent investment bank serving graphics softwares and services our clients in the technology sector for the film, game, automotive and worldwide. archViz industries. Personal bio: Partner at GP Bullhound, Personal bio: Teddy is a passionate focusing on cross-border M&A and artist, programmer and leader with capital transactions for high-growth a special interest for innovation and businesses. Broad experience in Digital photorealistic computer graphics. & IT Services, Automotive, Enterprise Secret talent: Plays most instruments, Software, AR/VR, and Media. having grown up in his dad’s Secret talent: 6-time IronMan finisher. recording studio.
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Tiff Pike Tim Bjelkstam CFO CEO & Co-founder Cubic Motion Tiptapp Manchester, UK Stockholm, Sweden
Company bio: World-leading computer Company bio: Tiptapp is a magic vision technology for a wide range of marketplace app where people challenging problems. instantly get help with moving things in Personal bio: Chartered accountant and out of their homes. with over twenty years experience Personal bio: Tim is obsessed with in fast-growing SMEs. Past CFO roles innovation in both big and small. include digital music retailer OD2 and Background in digital business product and service design agency development within banking, telecom Great Fridays . and media. Secret talent: Created the original sounds used in Skype.
Timo Soininen Tom Easterby CEO & Co-founder Head of VC Coverage Small Giant Games Barclays Helsinki, Finland London, UK
Company bio: Small giant games Company bio: Banking for U.K. is a mobile games company from Companies. Helsinki, Finland - makers of Empires & Personal bio: Tom leads a team Puzzles and one of the fastest growing providing dedicated relationship companies in Europe. support to VCs, including assisting Personal bio: Timo is also Angel investor portfolio companies with their and board member in several startups operational banking needs, disrupting large global business areas. venture debt & support from wider He lives in Helsinki and is a passionate banking colleagues. sports enthusiast. Secret talent: Tom can sleep Secret talent: Inspirational leader who anywhere, anytime. can spot top talent.
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Tuomas Syrjänen Valérie Patthey Board member, Head Marketing PWM Co-founder, AI Advisor Pictet Group Futurice Geneva, Switzerland Helsinki, Finland
Company bio: Futurice is a new breed Company bio: Pictet Group offers of digital innovation consultancy only wealth management, asset featuring builders, innovators and management and related asset change agents. There are 500 of us services. It was founded 1805. in Finland, Germany, UK, Sweden Personal bio: Valérie has a and Norway. great international experience Personal bio: Tuomas is one of the in communication and brand founders of Futurice, he was the CEO for management. 10 years 2008-2018 and now focuses on Secret talent: Cooking and Interior AI driven business renewal. Decoration. Secret talent: Tuomas major in University was computational science(=AI) inthe90s.
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