Meet the geeks

Dave McClure
Founding Partner, 500 Startups
Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn
● Dave is the founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program based in Mountain View, CA.
● Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Founders Fund,
Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired, O’Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft.
● Dave is also founder of Startup2Startup, a monthly dinner series for Silicon Valley startup entrepreneurs & investors. He has been a
conference organizer for many tech & startup events including Warm Gun: Designing Happiness, the SMASH summit, Inbox Love, The
Lean Startup SXSW, MamaBear, STARTonomics, Graphing Social Patterns, & Web 2.0 Expo (SF).
● Dave has been a guest lecturer on social network platforms & applications at Stanford University.
● Dave is a board member for microfinance accelerator Unitus, advisor to microfinance lender Kiva.org, and co-founder of the Silicon
Valley Microfinance Network.

Christen O’Brien
Managing Partner, 500 Startups
● @ 500, Christen leads business development, heads up corporate partnerships, and oversees 500’s empire of tech conferences & GOAP
tours.. She is part of the founding team @ 500, back when Dave wanted to call the firm “Sandworm Ventures”.
● Before 500 Startups, Christen founded reWired, a company specializing in content & audience development for tech industry
conferences.And before that, she worked for a mid-market investment bank filled with stuffy bankers, an employment law firm filled
with stuffy lawyers, and a huge non-profit organization filled with peace-loving hippies.
● She graduated from USC where she studied business & communications, attended Loyola Law School for a year, and then dropped out to
join the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, where she learned how to brave freezing-cold winters without modern luxuries like...heating.
● In her free time she loves hanging out with her spoiled rotten blue Great Dane, Virginia Woof (pun intended)

Khailee Ng
Venture Partner, 500 Startups
● Khailee Ng is a venture partner at 500 Startups, overseeing the Southeast Asia micro-fund, informally known as 500 Durians.
● He is also the co-founder of Groupsmore (acquired by Groupon.) and SAYS.com (acquired by Catcha Group)

Chris Pearson
Associate, 500 Startups
● Chris works with the 500 events team and is responsible for organizing this Geeks on a Plane tour, as well as other 500
conferences and Demo Days, so if you have complaints about the trip, he’s the guy to yell at.
● Prior to joining 500 Startups, Chris spent 5 years in the finance industry, working in quality control management for
Colorado Federal Savings Bank.

Vitaly Golomb
Founder & CEO, Keen Systems
● Vitaly M. Golomb is Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is an award-winning designer and startup veteran since
the age of 13. Having immigrated from the Soviet Union to Silicon Valley as a child; he was fortunate to get an early start in the center of
the technology universe first as a startup intern and then as the youngest employee in the history of Kinko’s.
● During the Dot Com peak, Vitaly ran the User Interface design team at a fast-growing enterprise startup while studying for his
undergrad. He went on to serve as the CEO of a printing company through its subsequent acquisition. He then founded a full service
interactive design firm that quickly grew to three offices, won several awards, and landed projects with numerous large brands.
● Vitaly founded and serves as the CEO of Keen Systems, a leading ecommerce platform connecting providers and customers in the $640B
printing industry. He is also a General Partner at CEED Valley Ventures, a seed stage venture fund focused on emerging European
startups.

Elaine Wherry
Co-Founder, Meebo.com
● Elaine grew up in Southwest Missouri on a small goat farm, her mother was a goat judge and her father sold wood stoves, while she
played the violin.
● It was the violin that led her to Stanford but within a few weeks, she realized that all of her friends were geeks who knew a lot about
computers, so she started coding and didn't look back.
● She graduated just after the first tech bust, led a usability & design team for four years, and then started working on Meebo, an online
chat IM service, which was acquired by Google in 2012. Her last title at Meebo was co-founder & CXO (Chief Experience Officer).
● She likes details and tends to be involved in anything with pixels, products, and people. Since the acquisition, she’s helped her husband
start Dandelion Chocolate, written articles for the WSJ, continued advising and speaking, and her primary project has been a graphic
novel about the mistakes made at different levels of the organization, the first draft of which she hopes will be complete soon so that she
can jump back into the startup saddle again.

Moo Natavudh
Founder & CEO, Ookbee
● Moo Natavudh is a tech entrepreneur with over 12 years experience in founding, funding and managing tech companies in
Thailand and ASEAN countries.
● He is currently the founder and CEO of OOKBEE (www.ookbee.com), Thailand's biggest e-book store with market shares
over 85%. Since the launch, Ookbee apps have been in the top 10 Top Grossing iPad Apps in the Thai Apple AppStore
everyday for the past 30 months. OOKBEE now has over 5 million users across Asia.

Justin Johnson
Director of Developer Advocacy, Keen IO
● Justin is a California native who <3's SF. He runs Developer Advocacy for Keen IO, which basically means that he gets to help
creative people understand their data. He thinks its the best job in the world.
● When he's not at work you will find him immersed in music or riding around on a bike.

Hiro Mashita
Founder & Director, m&s partners Pte. Ltd.
Twitter
● Mr. Hiro Mashita is Founder and Director of m&s partners Pte. Ltd., incorporated in Singapore, providing advisory services for finance, IPO, M&A, operations, marketing,
business development, and global business expansion.
● He gives advices to newly-setup and growing-stage companies in Japan, China, Singapore, US, and other Asian countries. He invests in venture companies of any stage
under his investment vehicle.
● He was previouslywith Hikari Tsushin Inc., a leading IT/Mobile giant. He played different roles as Head of Startups, Business Development, Venture Capital, Internet
Businesses, Corporate Planning, Distribution Channel of big corporations in Japan, including overseas operations in NY. During that period, he also served as CEO for
bestcreate corp., smartphone media and the biggest Real Affiliate retail-shop network in Japan. He was also the CEO of e-machi town Co., Ltd., IT Media and mobile
advertisement agency business. After the IT bubble collapsed, he was appointed as CFO in 2000, and restructured Hikari Tsushin Group.
● Before joining Hikari Tsushin in 1999, Mr. Mashita worked as a VP at the Investment Banking Department of Nomura Securities NYC with responsibility for Securitization
and Private Equity. He served on the board of directors of several Hikari Tsushin and Hikari Private Equity portfolio companies, including Euglena, Fishing Vision, Beauty
Holdings, and SBI-HIKARI P.E. in Japan, as well as Yicha Online, and 56.com in China. He received an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a BA from
Keio University in Japan. He holds a CMA(Securities Analyst in Japan). In 2008, 2009 and 2010, he was invited to Harvard Business School Asia Conference as a panel guest
speaker.

Andrea Zurek
Founding Partner, XG Ventures
● Andrea Zurek, founding partner of XG Ventures, has been named one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek. She has also been
named one of the 25 Influential Business Women in SF/Silicon Valley and profiled in the 2009 Top 40 Under 40 in the Silicon Valley
Business Journal
● XG Ventures has invested in over 67 companies with 16 exits, including such companies as Facebook, Crocodoc, Tapulous and Posterous.
● Andrea worked at Google for over 7 years as one of the first ad sales executives.
● She has her BA/MBA from Santa Clara University.
● She is a Board member of JUMA, ASTIA Women Entrepreneurs Network and the Santa Clara University School of Business.
● She has a passion for Italian automobiles, kite surfing, running half marathons, dog training and competes in the Skip Barber, open-
wheel race car series.

Dave Gullo
Co-Founder & CTO, VideoAmp
● An entrepreneur-hacker that embarked in 1994 on his mission to build awesome experiences for the web. His early roots as an
entrepreneur started at age 10. While simultaneously running a paper route and lawn-mowing business he used the revenue to purchase
and collect rare coins.
● In 1998 he bootstrapped a specialty retail snowboard shop (link: http://blog.leanstartupcircle.com/falling-into-business-part-i/ ), and
solo-operated it for 11 seasons with a $0 marketing budget.
● Dave is passionate about right-sizing technology and process for early-stage startup companies, data in many forms, business process
optimization, and the worldwide startup community.
● Nowadays he curates "142-proof" talent in the Silicon Valley for the boutique hacker agency "Command Line Interactive". Additionally,
he has joined forces with Ross McCray as Co-Founder / CTO of VideoAmp :: " Amplifying your brand through video advertising".

Tommy Chia
CIO, Carita Investments Group
● Tommy is currently the Chief Investment Officer at Carita Investments Group.
● He has led investments in the mobile technology, e-commerce and real estate industries.
● Previously, he was the CFO and Company Secretary at Entersekt, a leading mobile security firm based in Cape Town, South
Africa.
● He graduated with a Bachelor's in Business Administration (cum laude) from University of Southern California.

Michael Lints
Venture Partner, Golden Gate Ventures
● Michael Lints is Venture Partner at Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Southeast Asia with over 17 investments to date.
● Michael studied Management and Control of information science.
● After his graduation, he worked briefly as a consultant and project manager at one of the largest insurance companies in the
Netherlands, after which he started his own IT business, an IT System Maintenance Company.
● In 2007, Michael founded his own venture fund focused on Dutch SME’s.
● Michael has had various positions on a societal and administrative level as a result of which he has been able to build an extensive
international network.
● Michael is a former vice chairman of the Economic Development Board Rotterdam and studied Financial Analysis for Business Valuation
at Harvard Business School. Michael is a specialist in IT startups and venture management.

Ari Korhonen
Owner & CEO, Lagoon Capital
● Ari is an angel investor and venture capitalist. He is the the founder of Lagoon Capital investment company. Ari has been a successful technology
entrepreneur 20 years and a business angel for 10 years. He developed his company Komartek into an international success story. Komartek was
bought in 2004 by WM-data (presently CGI). His position in WM-data was Vice President.
● As an angel investor Ari has made 77 investments to 22 companies during the last 10 years – these include SkySQL, DealDash, Paytrail, WOT,
SafelyLocked, Miradore, In4mo, The Switch, 360Cities and Citysocializer. Among these companies was also Severa from which he made a very good
exit.
● Ari is also an investor in venture capital funds which include Seedcamp, 500 Startups and Spintop Ventures. In Spintop Ventures fund II he is also Senior
Advisor and Investment Committee member. He is also a member of Seedcamp fund II investment commitee. Ari is an Investment Council member in
Finnish Industry Investments.
● Ari was nominated by EBAN as European Business Angel of the Year in 2009. He is a co-founder of FiBAN and Vice Chairman of the Board during 2010-
2012. Ari has been EBAN board member and Vice-President since 2012. He is also a member of EstBAN. Ari has been featured in several business
magazines and blogs. He holds a Master of Science degree in engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Chok Ooi
CEO, Agility
Facebook; LinkedIn
● Chok is CEO of Agility, a software development company that designs and develops for startups.
● Chok has advised over 46 startups and assisted these startups in developing their MVPs and scaling their applications.
● Chok is also a startup scout for Sandbox Innovation Partners, and an angel investor.
● In a prior life, Chok used to build trading systems and managed Agile teams for investment banks such as Goldman Sachs
and Bank of America. Chok was also developer at Loopt, and CTO at Azap Mobile.

Stefan Jung
Partner, Monk’s Hill Ventures
● Stefan is a Partner at Monk's Hill Ventures. Previously he co-founded and built several of Southeast Asia’s largest e-
commerce companies, including Zalora and Lazada, as Co-Founder and Managing Director of Rocket Internet SEA. He was
also a Venture Partner at Global Founders Capital, a US$200M early stage fund.

Samer Karam
Co-Founder & CEO, alice.
● Samer Karam is an emerging markets serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He has been creating, investing in, and
accelerating Mediterranean startups since 2007, with a 40% success track record (4/10 startups).
● In 2010, Samer founded Lebanon's 1st startup accelerator Seeqnce, which went on to be ranked in the Top 3 accelerators of
the Arab World. His efforts in the accelerator space inspired the Central Bank of Lebanon to create a $400 Million startup
fund, which he now advises on all matters relating to early stage startup investment.
● Most recently, Samer founded alice. (www.alice.li), the Startup Index™ investment platform that helps startups bridge the
'Valley of Death' funding gap.

Charlie Schluting
Site Reliability Manager, Google
● Charlie has run technical operations (DevOps) at three startups, and is currently a Site Reliability Manager at Google.
● Infrastructure design, application architecture, monitoring, and automation are his main passions, but you'll also find
Charlie passionately discussing various topics ranging from startup business models to round-the-world motorcycling.

Mike Prasad
Co-Founder, Supermassive Holdings
● Mike Prasad is a technologist and product/marketing strategist with a focus on niche audiences, UI/UX, and platform development. With
a consistent track record on applying new technologies and marketing initiatives to disrupt verticals, Mike is able to jump in from macro-
level strategy down to on-the-ground or code-level.
● He has spoken around the world and worked with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, startups, and incubators alike. His work has
garnered much exposure, especially his use of Twitter and digital culture for Kogi BBQ, the first twittering food truck which launched a
worldwide trend in the food industry.
● More recently, Mike has developed extensive hands-on experience in incubation and rapid efficient early stage growth, stemming from
his involvement with startup ecosystems and programs in Singapore, Honolulu, Sydney, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
● Currently, Mike is running a objective-driven, digital-focused, collaborative consultancy, aptly named The Collaborative, and is a co-
founder at Supermassive.io, a Raptor Group-backed hacker foundry.
● In his arguably limited free time, Mike is an avid photographer, foodie, and cocktail enthusiast.

Nick Sullivan
Founder, ChangeCoin
● Nick Sullivan is a creator, technologist, and computer programmer who builds software and develops technology that
simplifies people’s lives. His goal is to enlighten computers with the knowledge of how the human brain works: The more
they learn about us, the easier our lives will be.
● Over the years, Nick has focused on web-based product development, spanning the full range of initiatives from concept
creation to large-scale rollout. He’s led development, user interface, and systems administration teams, and has been a team
member of PandaWhale, Wikia, Krux Digital, Yahoo, and Wikinvest. He has also served as an advisor to 500 Startups,
Hackers / Founders, and VAULT29, and as a mentor to Plug and Play Bitcoin and 500 Mexico City.
● Nick is the founder of ChangeCoin, Kickstorming, and, most recently, ChangeTip, a love button for the internet.

Fabiola Addamo
Founder & President, Fabi Art
● A native of Italy, Fabiola Addamo ® is an artistic entrepreneur, tech woman and human rights activist based in San Francisco.
● She created a brand out of a dream inspired by her father. She makes fine art work and commercial design products. Her art has been
featured in exhibitions across the USA and Canada; it is also available for sale in her online stores. She is a visual storyteller that makes
immortal mentorship programs, entrepreneurial concepts, human rights, neuroscience concepts, emotions, spiritual wisdom, and the
tech world. She adds a written story to each design. In 2014 she started integrating her work into technology companies; she utilizes
them as gallery space.
● She works full time at IMVU, a social entertainment company connecting users through 3D avatar-based experiences. She has previously
spent five years at Yahoo!; she has expertise in mobile, search and customer support.
● She is currently the artist in residence at Stumbleupon in San Francisco, California and Calvin Charles Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. She
also curates The Voice of Modern Global Women, a Facebook group to connect, mentor and empower women around the world using
technology.
● What’s next? Dreams have no limits.

Rosa Li
Consultant, Pomelo Fashion
● Rosa currently serves as consultant to Pomelo Fashion, a Bangkok-based fast-fashion start-up. She helped to take Pomelo Fashion from
idea to launch and worked on a number of projects such as merchandising, marketing and product design over the past year.
● Rosa graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and is passionate about digital commerce, brand building and
entrepreneurship.
● Over the past 2 years, she has worked with a number of start-ups (True & Co, Citrus Lane, Pomelo Fashion) in a variety of functions such
as merchandising, marketing, analytics, and strategy.
● Prior to getting her MBA, she worked as a private equity and venture capital investor at Warburg Pincus and invested in companies in
both the U.S. and China.
● She also acquired M&A and finance skills by working as an investment banker.
● Rosa graduated from Northwestern University with a triple major in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Economics and
German.
● She was also a Fulbright Fellow to China from 2007-2008, during which time she conducted and published microfinance research.

Arnaud Bonzom
Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Technology & Social Impact, INSEAD
● Arnaud is part of the Career Development Center at INSEAD. In this role he is responsible to develop interactions between
students/alumni and the Entrepreneurship community (Entrepreneurs / SMEs / Corporate Innovation Centers / Incubators / Family
Businesses / VCs) as well as the Social Impact and Tech eco-system across the Asia-Pacific region.
● Prior to INSEAD, Arnaud was a trade advisor in New Technologies, Innovation & Services in the Singapore office of UBIFRANCE (French
Trade Commission). He was dedicated to accompanying French Companies on their professional project, providing them with essential
keys to success in the Singaporean market.
● Arnaud has an MSc in International Marketing and Business Development from SKEMA Business School, France and a Bachelor Degree in
Applied Mathematics and Social Sciences from University of Versailles, France.

Justin Hall
Associate, Golden Gate Ventures
● Justin Hall is Associate at Golden Gate Ventures. He is a scholar from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, having
specialised in entrepreneurship policy, and graduated with Honours at Trinity College Dublin in History and Political
Science.
● In addition to Golden Gate Ventures, Justin is the organizer for a number of community building events, including
SuperHappyDevHouse.sg, WalkAbout.sg, and FailCon.sg.
● Before Golden Gate Ventures, Justin was previously an Account Manager for Rakuten LinkShare Corporation, based in New
York, and managed online e-commerce sales for prominent web-based retailers and service providers. Justin is a New York
transplant and fitness fanatic, as well as a huge fan of Chicken Rice and kopi gau.

Ross McCray
Co-Founder & CEO, VideoAmp
Twitter; LinkedIn
● Ross is the Co-Founder and CEO of VideoAmp, a platform that amplifies your brand's presence through video advertising.
● Prior to VideoAmp, he was the CTO of Channel Factory, an online video distribution network that serviced over 300 of the
Fortune 500 companies.
● Ross enjoys untraditional trips, new experiences and pushing people past their comfort zone. He also eats a lot of rice.

Dusan Stojanovic
Founder & Director, True Global Ventures
LinkedIn
● A "citizen of the world" with a Swedish passport, Dušan was awarded the prize Business Angel of the Year in Europe in 2013 by EBAN
(European Business Angel Network. He was also nominated as one of four Business Angels of the Year in Europe 2009 by EBAN.
● He has worked for more than 20 years within Business Development primarily in E-payments/E-Commerce and financial services. Half
of the time at GE Capital and Monabanq.com and the rest with own ventures/investments. Strong international network in primarily
Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, New York, the SF Bay Area, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
● Has learnt 6 languages and as many cultures and working habits.
● Has a portfolio of a total of 25 Investments: 12 direct investments and 13 through funds).
● Starting to have a solid track record as a business angel with 5 out of 12 direct investments exited. All other investments have reached a
first break even point and none has closed down.

James Riney
Principal, DeNA
● James is a Principal on the venture capital team at DeNA, where he focuses on consumer mobile & internet research and investments. He
just joined the dark side after being an entrepreneur, and is still learning to wield his lightsaber as a sith lord. His most recent
investment is Famebit, a 500 Startups company.
● Prior to DeNA, James was the founding CEO of STORYS.JP, a publishing platform that crowdsources real life stories and channels them to
publishers and television networks. Notable content partners include Yahoo! Japan, Kadokawa, Fuji Television, and Huffington Post. The
platform has reached millions of readers and gathered thousands of user submitted stories since day one. Many of these stories have
gone on to be published, of which one became an Amazon #1 bestseller, selling over 300,000 copies in less than 3 months.
● In another life, he was a banker at J.P. Morgan, covering bonds and structured products across Asia. He holds a B.S. in International
Studies, B.S. in Marketing, and B.A. in Japanese from Penn State University.

Anders Hallin
CSO, Telenor Digital
● Anders Hallin recently joined Telenor Digital as Chief Strategy Officer.
● Prior to joining Telenor Anders co-founded Bokavard, the largest site for booking health care appointments in Sweden,
Duego, the most popular dating app in Brazil, and the number one online classifieds site in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Ghana.
● Prior to that Anders headed marketing and business development at Stardoll, the worlds largest online social game for
young girls, with over 200 million members globally, and was an early day employee at Skype, where he among other things
headed up Skype’s efforts targeting business users.

Julie McDermott
Angel Investor, McDermott LLC
● Julie McDermott was born and raised near Boston, Massachusetts.
● She received her B.A. in Molecular Biology and Art History from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MBA from
Columbia Business School in 2001.
● She interned for Endeavor in Brazil while in business school and speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
● Julie spent over a decade as a bond trader at Wall Street investment banks Citigroup and Bank of America, where she
developed a passion for the markets.
● She is currently an angel and social impact investor and lives in New York City.

Edwyn Chan
Founder & CEO, Spottly
● Edwyn is the founder of Spottly, a service re-imagining travel guides for the social media era.
● Prior to Spottly, Edwyn was with the NBA in Beijing and was in charge of running the official NBA websites for China, Hong
Kong and Taiwan.

Koichi Saito
Director, IMJ Investment Partners
Facebook; LinkedIn
● Koichi Saito is Director at IMJ Investment Partners, headquartered in Singapore. He sources, evaluates, and executes early-
stage investment deals focusing entirely on Southeast Asia.
● Prior to joining IMJ Investment Partners, he worked at private equity fund set up by George Soros from 2007 to 2012, and
was engaged in several company and hotel acquisitions in Japan. Prior to that, Koichi served as an arranger of the
securitization of mortgages at investment banking division of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. He also worked at
Orix Corporation where he was responsible for providing loan to small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan.
● Koichi holds a Master of Business Administration degree from IE business school in Spain.

Stephen Misa
First Vice President/Group Head, Voyager Innovation
LinkedIn
● Tep currently serves as First Vice President/Group Head at Voyager Innovations, the innovation arm of the PLDT/Smart Group, the country's leading ICT and
Telecommunications Service Provider, to help drive strategy and go-to-market execution.
● Prior to this, Tep served as a Director in the ASEAN Partner Business Group helping drive partner strategy and operations for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand, and Vietnam.
● Prior to this, Tep was Country Managing Director of Cisco Philippines for over 5 years. Tep put in a sound vision and strategy, built a great team and deep leadership bench,
fostered a great culture
● of operational and sales discipline, partner centricity, camaraderie, diversity and teamwork, and led the charge in achieving trusted advisor status in several key accounts
and winning many transformational lighthouse accounts. Tep's leadership capabilities were made evident through strong contributions to business growth as well as
managing the organization through very challenging times, including the Manila floods and more recently, Typhoon Haiyan.
● Prior to Cisco, Tep had stint at Microsoft for over 5 years and produced great results year after year.
● Tep won the prestigious Bill Gates' Chairmans Award, one of only 12 winners out of 72,000 employees that year and the lone Philippine employee to have won it by far.
● Prior to Cisco and Microsoft, Tep also had an 8 year stint at Oracle with many Club Excellence awards.

Dindo Marzan
AVP Product Development & Management, Voyager Innovations
● Dindo Marzan has 10 years extensive experience in strategic business development and product management in the field of
media, IT, and telecommunications. He is very knowledgeable in market planning and market research, and has full
exposure to branding and marketing communications with expertise on digital media and digital marketing.
● Specialties: Product development and management, market planning, market research, advertising and media campaigns,
branding and marketing communications, digital marketing and strategy, digital media and telecommunications
convergence

Ravi Agarwal
Founder & CEO, engageSPARK & Opportunity Labs
Facebook; LinkedIn
● engageSPARK is building the Twilio for non-techies, especially focused on developing countries.
● engageSPARK is the first business under Opportunity Labs, a conglomerate of not-for-profit businesses focused on
alleviating poverty worldwide.
● Before that, Ravi volunteered for Grameen Foundation and lived in Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya.
● Before Africa, he founded 3 companies in Boston: one is public (NASDAQ:EIGI) with US$1.8 Billion market valuation and
another was acquired by BestBuy.
● He loves to mentor entrepreneurs and is helping to build the startup ecosystem (especially for social enterprises) in Cebu,
Philippines, his new home.
● In his free time, he enjoys scuba diving, rock climbing, trekking, kayaking, and is slowly learning paragliding.

Patty Sakunkoo
Founder, Script Inc.
Twitter; FaceKbook; LinkedIn
● Patty went to Stanford PhD, won Google's Best Gadget and Most Intelligent Awards and Stanford/Facebook App Contest,
and is currently a co-founder & CEO of Script Inc. Built apps, which together attracted millions of users, reached the Top 5
hottest apps on Google Play's Social in the US, and is a Top 10 photo app in iTunes in 13 countries.

Liz Fleming
Deputy MD Venture Lab, IE Business School
● Liz has spent most of her career in the Seed Capital industry. Starting out as an Investment Advisor with Enterprise Ireland, a public VC
investing €40m per annum into 70 High Potential Start Ups following on as Programme Manager HBAN, Ireland´s national Business
Angel Network, establishing 7 Business Angel Syndicates across the country with an investment capacity of approx. €20m.
● In recent years Liz has worked indirectly with over 300+ High Potential Start Ups and has brokered 20 investments securing over €8
million in seed capital. Now Deputy Director for the Venture Lab at IE Business School (ranked No.1 in Europe, 13 worldwide by FT ´13)
she is responsible for accelerating 50 teams and spinning out on average 10 start ups per year.
● Liz is also founder of the Venture Network an international pitch slam event and head of the Co-investment Network for the Spain
Startup Co-investment Fund, a €40m seed fund run in collaboration with Enisa, Spain´s leading government agency for innovation.
● Liz is a Mentor for Wayra and Investor in Invoost. Liz was listed as one of Europe’s Top 100 Women in Tech by GirlsInTech, and one of
the Top 100 Women in Tech on Twitter by Business Insider. Liz also sits on the steering committee of the Startup Europe Partnership, a
platform for scaling startups in Europe launched by the EU Commission.

Bryce Maddock
CEO, TaskUs
● Mr. Bryce Maddock is a Co-Founder of TaskUs, LLC and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
● Mr. Maddock initially entered the investment banking industry as a junior analyst.
● He is also a Contributor to the Huffington Post.
● He graduated Summa Cum Laude from New York University.

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