YES for Europe

European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs

1st European Youth Entrepreneurship Conference

Athens, June 26th - 28th, 2014

Turning Europe Young Again:

“Overcoming the Fragmentation Barrier in Europe –

Creating the European Entrepreneurial Identity”

Jointly organized by the Hellenic Youth Entrepreneurship and Orange Grove

Under the Auspices of the:

Hellenic Presidency of the

Council of the EU

European Commission

Municipality of Athens

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Preface

Over the last six years the European Union and the European ideal in general have faced their

most significant challenges since their introduction in the 1950s.

When the global financial crisis that first hit the US economy came to Europe, the EU institutions

were proven slow and lacking the decisiveness necessary for an effective response.

A demand for concrete solidarity arose along with the realization of significant differences in

economic and fiscal policies among the EU and the Euro zone member states.

This unprecedented challenge came in a time of rapid change in the global geopolitical and

economic landscape. Emerging economies keep growing at a strong pace, even challenging the

ex. G7 countries in their previous strongholds of high-end products and services, while the

political instability in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere creates further

uncertainty.

If we want to sustain the social standards that constitute the core of the European idea, the

European economy needs to become more competitive and create more jobs. The role of youth

entrepreneurship in this is extremely important.

Young Entrepreneurs are very well aware that they are the actors of positive change. Young

people who were born Europeans, grown up as Europeans, are now facing a conservative,

populist rhetoric from older generations questioning the Europe's achievements and proposing

alternative nationalistic and separatist routes. This option has been tried in the recent history

and the consequences were disastrous.

Creating a competitive economy and regaining the momentum of global business and thought

leadership in Europe is the prerequisite for the economic surplus necessary to sustain and

further improve the European living standards.

In this context, European Young Entrepreneurs have identified the Fragmentation Barrier as our

number one challenge. We want to take advantage of the huge single European market of 500

million people and its 13 trillion euros economic output. For that to happen, however, a truly

united market is needed, something can only happen when the fragmentation in all aspects of

the European economy, from capital markets, to telecom infrastructure and IPR & data

protection regulations has been overcome.

Our second challenge is the creation of a European Entrepreneurial Identity. European Young

Entrepreneurs have deep respect to dominant growth models such as the “Silicon Valley”

model. We are, however, convinced that the largest economy on this planet deserves its own

growth model with sustainability in its core.

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With those thoughts in mind, the Young Entrepreneurs of Europe are gathering in Athens,

Greece, from June 26th to June 28th to connect and discuss how they can work together and

collaborate with other stakeholders in the direction of Overcoming the Fragmentation Barrier

and Creating the European Entrepreneurial Identity.

This will be the first of a series of events under the title “European Youth Entrepreneurship

Conference” that will be taking place on a biannual basis at the EU Member State holding the

rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

In addition to an impressive line-up of keynote speakers from Europe, US, Latin America, the

Middle East and Africa, the Leadership Assembly of the European Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs will bring together European youth entrepreneurship leaders and publish the

"DeclaraBon of Athens" ― a call to acBon for European young entrepreneurs to promote high

growth and innovative entrepreneurship to drive sustainable quality jobs creation and

generation of economic surplus.

Last but not least, during the 1st European Youth Entrepreneurship Conference we will unveil

the Greek Startup Manifesto, a document dealing with the actions and policy changes needed to

enable innovative entrepreneurship in the EU member state most badly hit by the financial

crisis. We strongly believe that startup entrepreneurship can take-off all around Europe,

including in the most crisis-stricken areas, and completely change the dynamics of the European

economy.

Looking forward to welcoming you in Athens and working together for igniting youth and

startup entrepreneurship in Europe!

Dimitris Tsigos

President

YES for Europe – European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs

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Program

Day 1 – Thursday June 26th

Venue: INNOVATHENS Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Technopolis City of Athens , Building D10 –

Purifier

16:00 - 18:00 Registration

18:00 - 18:15 Welcome Remarks

Dimitris Tsigos (Greece), President YES for Europe

18:15 - 18:45 Opening Speech

Georgios Kaminis (Greece), Mayor of Athens

18:45 -19:00 Presentation of INNOVATHENS – Athens Innovation Hub

Yiannis Giannarakis (Greece), Executive Director HAMAC – Hellenic

Association of Mobile Applications Companies and Σynergies – Connecting

Changemakers

19:00 Panel Discussion: Sectors of potential European leadership - 3Dprinting,

Culture, Tourism and Mobile

David Beijer (Netherlands),Founder & CEO at Dignify

Glynn Pegler (UK), Founder & CEO at Culture Group

Philipp Brinkmann (Greece), Co-founder and CEO at Travelplanet24/Tripsta

Marco Veremis (Greece) Founder & CEO at Upstream, Vice President at

HAMAC – Hellenic Association of Mobile Applications Moderator: Nikolaos Maniatis (Greece) Founder & CEO at Museofabber,

Advisor to the Hellenic Start-up Association

20:00 Keynote Speech: The role of the social enterprise in the 21st Century's

entrepreneurial ecosystem

Nathaniel Peat (UK) Founder at The Safety Box Ltd

20:30 Visit to the INNOVATHENS exhibition space

Presentation of the stakeholders of the Greek Innovation Startup scene

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21:00 B2B Speed-dating networking event

All of the Participants will first have the chance of introducing themselves to

every other participant and then the flexibility of networking at the

INNOVATHENS space

22:00 The EYEC2014 startup party

Day 2 – Friday June 27th

Venue: Orange Grove -

8:00 Registrations

9:00 Welcome notes

Dimitris Tsigos (Greece) President YES for Europe

Varvara Roza (Greece) President, Hellenic Youth Entrepreneurship

Jan Versteeg (Netherlands) Ambassador of the Netherlands in Greece

9:30 Opening speech

Representative of the Hellenic Government

10:00 Keynote speech: "Pyramids to Pancakes, a decentralized and localized

Socio-Techno-Economic Development Model and a new paradigm of

Scarcity to Abundance"

Josephine Green (UK), Founder at Beyond20:21st Century Stories

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Presentation of Startup Europe initiatives : Innovate and Grow

Viorel Peca, European Commission - DG CONNECT F2

11:30 Keynote Speech: "Entrepreneurship as the only way to turn Europe young

again: What actually drives a teenage entrepreneur"

Bastiaan Zwanenburg (Netherlands) Co-founder of Woodify, Award-winning

teenage entrepreneur

12:00 Panel discussion:

"Entrepreneurship and Governments - The Greek Startup Manifesto"

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Neelie Kroes (Netherlands), Vice President of the European Commission

Kiriakos Mitsotakis (Greece), Minister of Administrative Reform & e-

Governance

Maria Pinelli (Italy), Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young

Dimitris Drakoulis (Greece), Founder & CEO Telesto Technologies, Member

of the Greek Startup Manifesto Team

Moderator: Ann Mettler (Belgium) Executive Director Lisbon Council

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Panel discussion: "How to develop a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem in

Europe: Risk financing and the culture of failure"

Candace Johnson (Luxembourg), President at EBAN – The European Trade

Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and other Early Stage Market

Players

Yigal Erlich (*) (Israel), Founder & Chairm at YOZMA Fund of Funds

Giannis Papadopoulos (Greece), Chairman at the Hellenic Venture Capital Association, CEO at Attica Ventures

Ann Mettler (Belgium) Executive Director Lisbon Council

Maria Vlachou (Greece), Co-founder & CEO Fereikos Gefsis

Moderator: Fotis Talantzis (Greece), CEO at EVNEO and BoD Member at the

Hellenic Start-up Association

15:00 Keynote speech: "From the ocean depths to outer space"

Peter Madsen (Denmark), Founder, Copenhagen Suborbitals

15:45 Coffee Break

16:00 Open Disruptive Innovation: smart tools in support of entrepreneurship Viorel Peca, European Commission - DG CONNECT F2

16:30 Panel Discussion: "Overcoming the Fragmentation Barrier in Europe:

Towards a truly single market for entrepreneurs"

Luca Donelli (Italy), Responsible for International and European Relations at

Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs

Alex Mitchell (UK), President at Young Brits

Jerome Zois (Luxembourg) Managing Director, Europe4Startups. Prinicpal,

Data4 Ventures

Nils-Erik Jansson (Sweden), President at YEOS

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Sándor P. Mohácsi (Germany), President German Delegation to the G20 YEA

Euchar Sultana (Malta), Founder, Young Business Entrepreneurs

Moderator: George Papadopoulos (Greece) Secretary General at the

Hellenic Start-up Association

17:45 Coffee Break

18:00 Panel Discussion: "Creating a Sustainable Entrepreneurship Partnership

between Europe and the World"

Eduardo Platon (Brazil),International Relations Chair, Brazilian

Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs

Hany Elhabibi (Egypt), Head of EJB international relations

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah (Ghana) Ghanaian Entrepreneur & Broadcaster

Victor Soto (Belgium) Vice-President of JADE - European Confederation of

Junior Enterprises

Matthieu Schiffmann (Belgium) Communication Manager at Think Young Moderator: Pavlos Stampoulidis (Greece) CEO at Psycholate and BoD

Member at the Hellenic Start-up Association

19:00 Leadership Assembly of the European Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs

By Invitation Only - Representatives of the European Association of Young

Entrepreneurs

19:00 Visit to the Acropolis Museum

Conference Participants - Contact the organizers to reserve your position

21:30 The 1st European Youth Entrepreneurship Conference Gala Dinner

By Invitation Only - Speakers, Sponsors, Representatives of the European

Youth Entrepreneurs Associations

Day 3 – Saturday June 28th

Jointly with the 5th Greek Startup Forum

Venue: INNOVATHENS Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship , Technopolis City of Athens.

09:00 Registration

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9:30 Welcome notes

Panos Zamanis (Greece), Vice President at the Hellenic Start-up Association

Vangelis Antoniadis (Greece), Executive Director Σynergies – Connecting

Changemakers

10:00 Panel discussion: "From cutting-edge research to fast growing startups:

Connecting Research, Academia and Entrepreneurs"

Candace Johnson (Luxembourd) President at EBAN - The European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and other Early Stage Market

Players

Maxim Lobovsky (US), Founder & CEO at Formlabs

Nadia Cheng (US) Director of Research and Development Empire Robotics

Fotis Talantzis (Greece) Co-founder & CEO at EVNEO, BoD Member at the

Hellenic Start-up Association

Moderator: Dimitris Tsigos (Greece), Founder & CEO Virtual Trip, Chairman at

the Hellenic Start-up Association

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Keynote speech: "The necessity for Advocacy Groups in the development of

sustainable startup ecosystems"

Michael McGeary (USA), Co- founder and Chief Political Strategist, Engine

Advocacy

12:00 Panel discussion: "The role of incubators and accelerators in developing high-

growth and innovative entrepreneurship"

Stewart Youngblood (US), ex. Program Director, Tech Wildcatters incubator,

Dallas

Mario Paladini (Germany) Founder & CEO at GLOBALS

Nick Gonios (Australia), Pollenizer Startup Studio

Moderator Spiros Kapetanakis (Greece) Founder & CEO at CoLab Workspace,

Advisor to the Hellenic Start-up Association

13:00 Coffee Break

13:15 Panel discussion: "Risk financing: Individual Vs Institutional Investors"

Jerome Zois (Luxembourg) Managing Director, Europe4Startups, Prinicpal,

Data4 Ventures

Apostolos Apostolakis (Greece) Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Early Stage Investor

Sotirios Papantonopoulos (Greece) CEO at MoneyMarket

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Dimitris Tsigos (Greece) CEO at StartTech Ventures, President at YES for Europe

Moderator: Socratis Ploussas (Greece) Vice President at the Hellenic Start-up

Association

14:15 The “Future Enterprise” project presentation:

“Research Roadmap on new forms of Internet-based Enterprises”

by John Aslanis, Senior Project Manager, YES for Europe

Launch of the Future Enterprise competition in partnership with F6S

rewarding European startups for successful exploitation of research results.

14:45 Coffee Break

15:00 European Commission – Digital Agenda for Europe Workshop

“Cocreate ICT: Help crowd-source ideas for topics you'd like to see in

Horizon 2020's next work programme for ICT research, innovation and

entrepreneurship!”

17:00 Startup BBQ, Beer & Pizza party

Addresses of Conference Venues

Innovathens: Technopolis City of Athens -100, Pireos str. , 118 54 Gazi - Athens

Orange Grove: Leoforos Vassileos Konstantinou 5, 106 74 Athens, ground floor

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Speakers - Table of Contents

Neelie Kroes 11

Georgios Kaminis 12

Josephine Green 13

Ann Mettler 14

Candance Johnson 15

Maria Pinelli 16

Marco Veremis 17

Viorel Peca 18

Nadia Cheng 19

Maxim Lobovsky 20

Bastiaan Zwaanenburg 21

Eduardo Platon 22

Stewart Youngblood 23

Philipp Brinkmann 24

Peter Madsen 25

David Beijer 26

Dimitiris G.E. Tsigos 27

Alex Mitchell 28

Luca G. Donelli 29

Euchar Sultana 30

Nils – Erik Jansson 31

Yiannis Kotsis - Giannarakis 32

Socratis Ploussas 33

Nathaniel Peat 34

Nick Gonios 35

Michael McGeary 36

Kojo Oppung- Nkrumah 37

Glyn Pegler 38

Sandor Mohacsi 39

Pavlos Stampoulidis 40

Nikolaos Maniatis 41

Sotiris Papantonopoulos 42

Jerome Zois 43

Marco Paladini 44

Apostolos Apostolakis 45

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Keynote Speakers

Neelie Kroes

Vice-President of the European

Commission

I was born 1941 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where I also

attended school and helped to build my family's transport business. I studied economics at Erasmus University, before

working there for six years as an Assistant Professor.

My political career started on the Rotterdam Municipal

Council, and in 1971 I was elected as a Member of the Dutch

Parliament for the liberal VVD party. From 1982-1989 I

served as Minister for Transport, Public Works and Telecommunication in the Netherlands.

After politics I was appointed President of Nyenrode

University from 1991-2000, and served on various company

boards, including Lucent Technologies, Volvo, and P&O

Nedlloyd.

My charity work included advising the Nelson Mandela

Children's Fund and World Cancer Research Fund, and I have

an ongoing interest in mental health issues.

Since 2004, I have worked for the European Commission, as

one of the 27 Commissioners working to maintain a peaceful and prosperous Europe. From 2004 to 2009, I was

Competition Commissioner, responsible for ensuring a level

playing field for business in Europe, and fair prices and wide

choice for consumers.In 2010, I became Vice-President of

the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda

for Europe. This portfolio includes the information and

communications technology (ICT) and telecommunications

sectors. For example: ensuring trust and security for the

Internet and new technologies; ensuring competitive

communications, such as in the mobile roaming market; building world-class European research and innovation in

this sector; and above all getting every European Digital,

with access to fast broadband, so we can make the most out

of the Internet to support our economy and society.

My current role is Vice President of the European

Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe.

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Georgios Kaminis

Mayor of Athens, Greece

Mr. Kaminis was elected Mayor of Athens in November

2010 and re-elected to a second term in May 2014.

Prior to his election as a Mayor of Athens, Mr. Kaminis

served as Greek Ombudsman. From 1998 to May 2003, he

was Deputy Ombudsman for Human Rights at the Greek

Ombudsman. In 2003, he was unanimously elected Greek Ombudsman by the Greek Parliament, and he was re-

elected for a second term in 2007. In August 2010, Mr.

Kaminis resigned from the post of the Greek Ombudsman in

order to stand as an independent mayoral candidate for the

City of Athens. In the 1990s Mr. Kaminis worked as a

lecturer and assistant professor of constitutional law in the

Faculty of Law at the University of Athens.

Mr. Kaminis studied law at the University of Athens, and holds a doctoral degree (Doctorat d’ Etat) from the

University of Paris II. He was born in New York City and he

has also lived in Osaka, Paris, Madrid and Heidelberg. In

addition to his native Greek language, he speaks fluently

English, French, Spanish and German. Mr. Kaminis is

married and has two children.

Josephine Green

Founder at Beyond 20:21

st Century

Stories

Josephine Green

Century

Through refreshing terms and paradigms, Josephine

explores and articulates this dramatic period of

transformation that we as a human society are

experiencing. Using her frameworks of Pyramids to Pancakes and Scarcity to Abundance, she challenges us

think and to act differently.

Josephine regularly delivers international presentations and

is an advisor to European Futures and Research platforms.

She is Visiting Professor at the University of

Northumberland in the faculty of Art and Design and So

Sciences and she lectures at a number of European

Universities and Design Schools.

Josephine was appointed Senior Director of Trends and

Strategy at Philips Design, in the Netherlands, in 1997.

Philips published her manifesto ‘Democratizing the Futu

in 2007. She left Philips in 2009 to return to the UK and her

company, Beyond20: and 21st Century Stories explores our

present Change of Age. She has lived in the UK, Italy

Holland.

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Through refreshing terms and paradigms, Josephine

explores and articulates this dramatic period of

transformation that we as a human society are

experiencing. Using her frameworks of Pyramids to Pancakes and Scarcity to Abundance, she challenges us to

Josephine regularly delivers international presentations and

is an advisor to European Futures and Research platforms.

She is Visiting Professor at the University of

Northumberland in the faculty of Art and Design and Social

Sciences and she lectures at a number of European

Josephine was appointed Senior Director of Trends and

Strategy at Philips Design, in the Netherlands, in 1997.

Philips published her manifesto ‘Democratizing the Future’

in 2007. She left Philips in 2009 to return to the UK and her

Century Stories explores our

present Change of Age. She has lived in the UK, Italy

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Ann Mettler

Executive Director of The Lisbon

Council

Ann Mettler is executive director and co-founder of the

Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based knowledge economy think

tank and innovation policy network. In addition, she serves

as executive director of the European Digital Forum, a new

think tank spearheaded by the Lisbon Council and Nesta, in

collaboration with the Startup Europe Partnership and the

European Commission.

From 2000-2003, Ms. Mettler worked at the World Economic Forum, where she last served as Director for

Europe. Prior to this appointment, she was responsible for

the World Economic Forum’s activities in the United States

and Canada.

From 1997-2000, Ms. Mettler held positions on the

Governmental Affairs Committee of the United States

Senate, a strategic advisory firm in Washington, DC and the

Foreign Policy Division of the European Commission, Brussels.

Ms. Mettler is widely published and quoted in key media

outlets, such as the Financial Times, The Economist, Wall

Street Journal Europe, International Herald Tribune,

Business Week and Newsweek. She has provided analysis of

current affairs on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and BBC, and is a

frequent speaker at high-level conferences across Europe.

Ms. Mettler is also a member of the

World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Europe and serves on the international advisory boards of the

Telefónica 'Think Big' initiative and the Flemish Council for

Science and Innovation. In 2006, she was named a young

leader by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt.

A dual citizen of Germany and Sweden, Ms. Mettler has

lived and worked in Greece, the United States, Switzerland

and Belgium. She holds Masters degrees in political science

and European law and economics, and graduated with

distinction from the University of New Mexico, USA, and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, Germany.

http://be.linkedin.com/in/annmettler

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Candace Johnson

President at EBAN – The

European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds

and other Early Stage Market

Players

Candace Johnson is a serial entrepreneur and a global

infrastructure, network and innovation expert. She is a founder

of SES, the world’s pre-eminent satellite group and initiated,

conceived and architected SES Global for which she was bestowed

the Commander of Merit by the Government of Luxembourg. She

is also founding President of Europe Online Investments S.A., the

world’s first internet-based online service and satellite broadband

network, and founder of Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, Europe’s

first independent private trans-border satellite communications

network. Ms. Johnson is also founding President of the VATM, the

Association of Private Telecom Operators in Germany and

founding President of the Global Telecom Women’s Network

(GTWN). Recently, she was elected to the Presidency of EBAN, the

European Business Angel and Early-Stage Investment Network for

a two-year period of office.

Ms. Johnson is President of Johnson Paradigm Ventures (JPV)

which is a principal founding shareholder with AXA, Caisse des

Depots, Bayerische Landesbank, and the SPEF of Sophia Euro Lab,

Europe’s first trans-border early-stage investment company based

in Sophia Antipolis. JPV is also a principal founding shareholder in

London-based Ariadne Capital, “Architecting Europe.net”, one of

the earliest supporters and promoters of Skype, the global VoIP

phenomenon. Ms. Johnson has served as Founding Member of

the Boards of both companies.

Ms. Johnson is founding Member and was President of the Board

of the Sophia Business Angels in Sophia Antipolis, France from

2006 – 2008 as well as founding president of three multi-million

Euro early stage investment vehicles, Succès Europe, Croissance

Europe and Innovation Europe funding TMT, Med-Tech and Clean-

Tech. Ms. Johnson is a Non –Executive Director of SES-ESL, a

publicly quoted corporation on the French Stock Exchange as well

as a member of the Advisory Board of numerous European and US

ventures.

Ms. Johnson has been decorated as Commander of the

Luxembourg Order of Merit and Officer of the Couronne de la

Chene as well as Officer of the Bundesverdienst Kreuz 1. Klasse

(Germany) for her work in de-regulation, innovation, privatization,

and globalization. Further, Ms. Johnson is the second recipient

ever of the UN-sponsored World Teleport Associations’ “Founders

Award”. Ms. Johnson has also received the “Lifetime Achievement

Award” along with Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners Lee from the

World Communication Awards, the prestigious global telecoms

organization in 2002. Ms. Johnson holds Masters Degrees with

Honors from the Sorbonne and Stanford Universities, a Bachelors

Degree from Vassar College and her high-school degree from

Punahou, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Maria Pinelli

Global Vice Chair

Strategic Growth Markets at EY

Global, London, United Kingdom

Maria Pinelli is Global Vice Chair of Strategic Growth Markets for

EY Global. She oversees EY’s business unit that is the world leader

in advising, guiding and recognizing entrepreneurs and high-

growth companies. She advises clients who are focused on

accelerating growth and achieving market leadership. Having

more than 25 years of experience providing professional services

to both private and public companies, Maria has led more than 20

IPOs in three continents.

Maria has briefed members of the G20, The World Economic

Forum, the London Stock Exchange, the US Senate Banking

Committee and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as

well as the US, Russian, European Union and African governments,

on the trends that are driving global activity in the IPO market,

entrepreneurship and innovation, and economic growth. She has

also testified before a subcommittee of the US House Financial

Services Committee about the key findings of EY's annual Global

IPO Trends Report. Maria has been quoted in publications such as

The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Financial Times, as

well as news services such as Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires.

She has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg and other related

television stations to discuss her viewpoint on the economic

climate. She has authored several reports and White Papers

including leading EY’s renowned EY G20 Barometer 2013 Report,

which ranks the G20 countries on their ability to foster

entrepreneurship.

Maria is truly passionate about supporting entrepreneurs and is

heavily involved in creating a support network for such business

enterprises and founded the Strategic Growth Forum which

convenes high-growth companies to share insight and expertise of

the market. She also oversees EY’s renowned Entrepreneur Of The

Year® program worldwide and founded EY’s Entrepreneurial

Winning Women™

program in 2008, designed to accelerate the

growth of high-potential female entrepreneurs.

At the World Economic Forum (WEF), Maria is a Member of

Advisory Board, WEF Global Growth Companies, and a member of

the Steering Council, WEF Fostering Entrepreneurship. She also

supports Endeavor as a Senior Advisor. EY is a Strategic Partner to

Endeavor. Maria is Chair of the Board of NFTE – Network For

Teaching Entrepreneurship – which is committed to helping youth

develop an entrepreneurial mind-set.

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Marco Veremis

Founder & CEO at Upstream, Vice

President at HAMAC – Hellenic

Association of Mobile Applications

Marco is Upstream’s CEO and co-founder and has been

Chairman of the Board since 2002. Marco sets Upstream’s

strategic direction and spearheads business development as

the company continues its expansion into new geographical

and product areas. As an experienced marketing strategist

at leading advertising agencies Grey Advertising, McCann-

Ericsson and DDB in London, Marco developed global and Pan-European communications strategies for brands such as

Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Sony and SmithKline Beecham. Marco is a

mentor at Endeavor and Openfund, Vice-Chairman of the

Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies

(HAMAC) and an angel investor and board advisor to

Workable HR. Marco holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics

and International Studies from Warwick University and a

Master’s in European Studies from Oxford University.

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Viorel Peca

Head of Innovation Unit

European Commission DG CONNECT F2

Viorel Peca is Head of the Innovation Unit with the

European Commission, DG Connect. His unit's mission is to

develop and inspire a new vision on ICT innovation and

entrepreneurship. This addresses, in particular,

entrepreneurship and innovation support actions and

policies, access to finance, inducement prizes, innovation

procurement, ICT innovation vouchers and coordination of

standardisation activities (including the ICT multi-

stakeholder platform).

He joined the European Commission in 2008 and DG Connect in 2011 as Head of Unit for Networked Media;

previously he was Project Manager and Chief Business

Analyst for the eFP7 team of DG DIGIT.

Viorel started his career in R&D at Alcatel Romania in 1996, and then moved to Belgium in 2000 where he worked for

several Alcatel products spanning all the layers of the

network. Later he worked as feature development team

leader, then as IPTV project manager.

Viorel holds an MSc in electronics and communications from

University "Politehnica" from Timisoara, Romania and has a Master in Industrial Management from KU Leuven

University, Belgium.

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Nadia Cheng Ph.D.

Director of Research and

Development Empire Robotics, Inc

Nadia Cheng is the Director of Research and Development

at Empire Robotics, a hardware startup in Boston,

Massachusetts, USA. Empire Robotics is developing a highly

adaptive robotic gripper for industrial automation.

Nadia received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical

Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, and a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering

from the University of California, San Diego. She was also a

National Defense Science and Engineering Research Fellow, has worked at the MIT Media Lab, and has held internships

at various government and private institutions. Nadia has

publications in robotics, air traffic management, tangible

user interfaces, and nature-inspired cocktail garnishes, and

has also worked in areas including medical devices, assistive

technologies, and 3D printing.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nadia-cheng/61/53a/14a

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Maxim Lobovsky

Co-Founder at Formlabs

Maxim launched a successful career as an entrepreneur and

start-up founder by age 23. As a master’s student at MIT’s

Media Lab, Lobovsky enjoyed access to three-dimensional

printers to create necessary components for his projects, designed and printed to spec. Lobovsky could see the

potential applications of 3D printing for designers,

architects, engineers, and other small businesses; however,

the machines he used were prohibitively expensive.

After graduating, Lobovsky worked with two of his friends to

create the first small-scale, affordable 3D printer

for prosumers and thus was born his start-up, Formlabs.

Once they had a prototype, called the Form 1, Lobovsky and Formlabs’ co-founders began a Kickstarter campaign, using

the power of crowdsourced funding to finance the

production of commercial models. Formlabs raised nearly

$3 million overall—30 times their

original fundraising goal. Formlabs has since raised $19

million in venture funding and continues to lead the high-

resolution desktop 3D printing market.

http://formlabs.com/ @maxlobovsky

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Bastiaan

Zwaanenburg

Founder at Woodify

Bastiaan (17 yrs) started his first company when he was 9

years old. He sold bottles of sauce from his dad's company

via a website he made by himself. He continued making

websites for tens of clients, including one of the biggest law

firms in The Netherlands, and a telecom provider for

youngsters, which is actually being run by youngsters: bliep.

At bliep, he met Robert, who was marketing manager at the

time.

Together, they started Woodify, a webshop in which they

sell Wooden Sunglasses, purely just to find out what it takes

to start a webshop. It went quite well, they sold almost

5000 pairs of glasses in 2013, generating €200,000 in

revenue.

Besides from that, he advises the Dutch government on

topics concerning the internet. He visited the IGF (Internet

Governance Forum, organised by the UN) in Bali, Indonesia

in 2013, as part of the Dutch Delegation. He also advised

EU-Commisioner Neelie Kroes on young entrepreneurship.

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Eduardo Platon Founder and President at BBOSS

BBOSS founder and president. Graduated in Business

Administration from UFBA in Brazil with MBA in Finance &

International Business and Academic Masters in Political

Philosophy from Tulane University in the United States.

Eduardo Platon lived 12 years in the U.S. working for the

Louisiana International Trade Center, World Trade Center,

and World Affairs Council of New Orleans as its Executive

Director where he developed a global network with talented

people. Upon return to Brazil, Platon worked at the

Odebrecht Foundation in charge of international relations

and planning for large and small enterprises.

Current Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Brazil,

Head of Innovation and international services of Rotary

International District 4550, international relations chair of

CONAJE - Brazil National Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs, Eduardo has provided advisory services to

private, government, and NGO initiatives. Member of the

Brazil American Chamber of Commerce, Portuguese

Chamber of Commerce, Eduardo Platon aims at creating a

global platform of services based on solid business

principles to support investors, management teams, partners, and clients to do business in Brazil. Eduardo is a

Yoga practitioner and enthusiast of a simple, healthy, and

prosperous lifestyle.

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Stewart Youngblood

ex. Program Director, Tech

Wildcatters incubator, Dallas

Stewart Youngblood is a 27 year-old entrepreneur, mentor,

and speaker based in Dallas, Texas. He has been heavily

involved in the creation and growth of the Dallas startup

ecosystem since 2009, during which time Dallas has leapfrogged many other metro areas to now be recognized

as one of the fastest growing startup ecosystems in the

United States.

Stewart was most recently Program Director of Tech

Wildcatters in Dallas, TX. Tech Wildcatters is a Forbes Top

Ten-ranked seed fund and startup accelerator that has

graduated over 40 companies since 2010. Stewart has

presented to crowds of over 500 attendees on topics such as startup ecosystems, investor pitches, mobile

development, and many more.

While at Tech Wildcatters, Stewart was responsible for and

accomplished:

- Raising a $600k+ investment fund from individual angel

investors each year (no government or university funding)

- Supporting the graduate companies in raising over $3mm

in follow-on funding - Helping companies to land over $1.5mm in customer deals

while still in the program

- Being the go-to resource for companies during the

program (help with biz dev strategy, operations,

talent/customer/fundraising pipeline)

- Analyzing company applications to get into the program

(hundreds of applications for 10-15 spots)

- Running the mentorship program (over 75 mentors and

experts)

- Adding new key mentors from Dallas and beyond - Adding new resources and relationships (Sponsors,

freebies such as free hosting from Amazon, etc)

- Expanding awareness for Tech Wildcatters in the press

- Defending startups and technology companies from

unnecessary government intervention (Uber, Lyft, and

more)

- Being a voice for the Dallas startup community both within

Texas and at industry events worldwide

http://www.linkedin.com/in/stewyoungblood

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Philipp Brinkmann

Co-founder and CEO at

Travelplanet24/Tripsta

Philipp is half German half Greek and he was born in 1980

close to Munich. After receiving a Diploma in International

Business Administration from the Munich Business School in

2005, he decided to move to Greece to co-found

travelplanet24.com with Kristof Keim. Currently he is still

acting as the CEO of Tripsta/travelplanet24.

The company started in 2005 as one of the first “Online

Travel Agencies” (OTAs) in Greece.

In 2010 in the middle of the financial crises in Greece, the

company set the goal to expand abroad and to become one

of the five leading OTAs in South-Eastern-Europe.

Travelplanet24 currently employs more than 160

professionals working in several departments

(Development, Design, Marketing, Operations, Finance,

HR,..) in its three offices in Athens, Bucharest & Sao Paolo.

• Since September 2012, he is a member of the board

of PETAGA (Greek Union of Air Travel agencies)

• Since July 2013, he is a member of the board of

Spitogatos.gr a Greek website for real estate ads

He loves his work; he is a tech enthusiast, an optimization

junkie and a good old wine lover.

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Peter Madsen Founder of Copenhagen

Suborbitals

Peter Madsen is one of a kind submarine and space entrepreneur. Peter Madsen's story is about pursuing a

childhood dream against all odds. It is about starting out,

with scarse resources, but a lot of healthy ideas and

succeeding with them. Furthermore it is about cutting

corners to an extreme extent in order to make something

happen that normally would seem completely impossible. In

other words it is about extreme innovation, visions and

dynamics, that makes realizing a dream possible.

Peter Madsen will take you from your everyday live, deep

into his dream, underwater, and ultimately into space.

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David Beijer

Founder & CEO at Dignify

After a bachalor's degree in Electrical engineering, David got

his Master's degree in Systems & Control Engineering. He

did his graduation research at Epyon, a Dutch start-up active

in fast-charging of Electric Vehicles. After graduation he did global sales support for EV chargers at ABB (which had

acquired Epyon by then) for about 2 years. He co-founded

Dingify together with two of the former Epyon founders.

During his studies he held various board positions at NPO's.

nl.linkedin.com/pub/david-beijer/10/912/38/

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Dimitris G.E. Tsigos

President of YES for Europe

Founding Chairman of HSA

CEO at StartTech Ventures

Dimitris Tsigos is the President of YES – European

Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (www.yes.be), the

Brussels-based organization representing young

entrepreneurs of the European Union. YES also represents

the EU at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance

(www.g20yea.com), the international network of young

entrepreneurs from the G20 Countries. An Athens-based

serial tech entrepreneur and early stage investor, he also is

the Founding Chairman of the Hellenic Start-up Association

(http://hellenicstartups.gr) and a Board Member at EBAN –

The European Trade Association of Business Angels, Seed

Funds and other Early Stage Market Players

(http://www.eban.org). Having co-founded Virtual Trip

(http://www.vtrip.net), the first student start-up in Greece,

and then co-founded or invested in a dozen of high-tech

companies, he currently is the CEO of StartTech Ventures

(http://www.starttech.eu), a next generation venture

incubator in Athens, Greece. Dimitris is an active citizen

strongly believing in faster and deeper European

integration.

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Alex Mitchell

Founder, Causarma

Co-Founder, Young Brits Network

Co-Founder, Kit Us Out

UK President, G20 Young

Alex is the Founder and Director of Causarma (a social

enterprise agency that works with organisations to develop

their enterprise strategy), Co-founder and Director of the

Young Brits Network (a social enterprise focused on

prompting the views and interests of young entrepreneurs

from Britain internationally), he is the current UK President

of the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance (a global network

of young entrepreneurs and the organisations that support

them) and he is the UK representative on the European

Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (the major

association of young entrepreneurs throughout Europe).

Alex is also Co-founder and Director of Kit Us Out, a charity

setup during the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games

with a focus on providing key sports equipment to

Paralympic athletes from developing nations.

Additional roles Alex currently holds is a Leadership Mentor

for the Commonwealth Secretariats Asian Alliance for Young Entrepreneurs (creating a platform for entrepreneurs from

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Entrepreneurs Alliance

UK Representative, European

Confederation of Young

Entrepreneurs

Commonwealth countries in Asia to share best practice and

develop trade ties), a Member for the Institute of Directors

London Committee (the IoDs largest region with the

committee representing over 6,000 business leaders in the

capital) and he is a member of the Advisory Board for Tasksquad by Vinspired (the UKs national youth

volunteering charity).

Prior to setting up on his own, Alex held senior roles at the

Institute of Directors (Europe's largest professional body for

company directors) the Confederation of British Industry

(Europe’s leading independent employers' organisation) and

the Association of MBAs (the international impartial

authority on postgraduate business education).

You can follow Alex on Twitter here:

www.twitter.com/AlexDMitchell

You can visit Alex’s blog here: www.mynameisalex.co.uk

Luca G. Donelli

President Italian Delegation at G20

YEA - Responsible for International

and European Relations at

Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs

Born in 1982, he graduated in International Economics and

Management at Bocconi University in Milan. After an

experience in McKinsey&Co. as a Business Analyst, Luca has

started working with his family business, incorporated in

1911 and specialized in coating, maintenance & finishing services for Oil&Gas, industrial plants and building

construction.

Luca joined Confindustria Y.E. Alto Milanese Chapter, where he has held the VP position and he is now President. As part

of the International Relations Committee, Luca has

contributed to the establishment of MAME YE Network, a

network of Young Entrepreneurs of Mediterranean, Africa

and the Middle East. From 2011 to 2014 he served as

Sherpa of the Italian delegation at G20 Young Entrepreneurs’

Alliance (@G20_YEA). He has recently joined the

Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs Presidency team in

charge of “International and European Relations – Strategic

Alliances”.

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His decision to become an entrepreneur took place from a

mix of sense of responsibility and willingness to have a

riskier, but more rewarding life. He is learning how to be a

fourth generation entrepreneur. He is reshaping part of the

concept of the company through internationalization, establishing branches in the Balkans, and innovation,

introducing energy saving services and more

environmentally friendly technologies. His next challenge is

to further introduce and promote the use of an innovative

technology, already identified and currently being tested,

which would revolutionize the way the company carries out

maintenance projects offshore. Ad astra per aspera is his

motto as well as that of the State of Kansas, where Luca was

an exchange student in High School.

Euchar Sultana

Founder & CEO at Young Business

Entrepreneurs

Euchar Sultana is a graduate in the Bachelor of Science in

Business and Computing and Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.)

Management from the University of Malta. His main stream

of specialisation are Information and communications

technology and Management with great interest on

Entrepreneurship. He is currently also reading for a Masters

degree in Creativity & Innovation at the Edward De Bono

Institute for the design and development of thinking at the

University of Malta.

Euchar is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Young

Business Entrepreneurs, a non governmental organisation based in Malta that work towards empowering and assisting

young adults to develop their ideas into business

opportunities. He is also the founder of Vaultspot, a web

based start-up company. Euchar’s main interest include

youth entrepreneurship, start-ups, health care, web

business opportunities and EU public affairs in relation to

entrepreneurship and trade.

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Euchar’s Quote: “Determination is the motivation that

keeps every Entrepreneur going”

Email - euchar.sultana@gmail.com

Twitter - @eucharsultana

Nils – Erik Jansson

President at YEOS,

Founder of Jansson & Norin

Alongside serving as president of Young Entrepreneurs

of Sweden Mr Jansson is the founder of Swedens

leading tech-driven law firm Jansson & Norin.

Passionate about automating and disrupting the very industry he is a part of Jansson has built a firm

renowned for challenging traditional fee arrangements

and addressing transparency whilst being the go-to guy

for some of the the hottest startups out of Sweden.

Bridging the gap between Sweden and scaling on a

global level Jansson has founded the legal-tech startup

Precisely to create a lean way for companies to handle legal documents and contracts and as a result cutting

costs and thus making legal advice for startups more

accessible.

Serves as President and on the board of several high-

growth companies both as co-founder and advisor

including Überhead, Bitcoin.se, Keycrunch, Metapic

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and Oddwork but also with a focus on sustainability at Global Focus and Unleash.

Yiannis Kotsis –

Giannarakis

Executive Director HAMAC –Hellenic

Association of Mobile Applications

Companies and Σynergies –

Connecting Changemakers

Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis is an entrepreneur, active in

electronic publishing and digital content since 1985. He was

one of the founding members of the Greek leading internet

portal www.in.gr where he acted as Managing Director for

the first five years, from conception till its establishment as

a major media factor. Among others he was Director of the

Greek edition of National Geographic books and videos,

newspaper collumnist and editor of various electronic and

paper publications. He is founder and shareholder at

Magenta Ltd. Born 1959 in Alexandria, he studied Biology in

Athens, never finished his PhD in Bioinformatics, and spends

some weekends hiking and mountain-top communicating

with very low power in radiowaves. He is currently General

Manager at Hellenic Association of Mobile Application

Companies (HAMAC-SEKEE).

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Socratis Ploussas

Vice President at the Hellenic Start-

up Association, founder and CEO of

MELLON Advisory

Socratis Ploussas is the founder and CEO of MELLON

Advisory, an investments advisor firm with international

presence and a holding company for global brands that enter the East Med market like HORWATH, Hickey &

Associates, FANS etc. Also, he is Managing Partner in IPMC

Partners, an international business development company.

He is also co-founder in a start-up that is launching equity

crowdfunding site.

He is active in the fields of Food and Beverage, technology,

Energy and tourism.

He is also founding Vice-president in Hellenic Start-up

Association and member or Hellenic Business Angels

Network.

He has been working in the commercial departments of

Greek multinationals – Hellenic Bottling Company (Coca

Cola licensee for 26 countries) and Fourlis group (master

franchisee of IKEA and Intersport and sole distributor of

SAMSUNG). For the last years, he is advising companies that

go global and is raising money for investments, especially at

the Eastern Med area.

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His bachelors’ degree is from DEREE in business and his MBA

in International business from HENLEY management school,

where along with other Alumni academics, he initiated

HENLEY Emerging Markets and International Business

Forum.

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Nathaniel Peat

Founder of The Safety Box Ltd

Nathaniel is serial Entrepreneur and man of many talents and

achievements, his most compelling trait being his dedication to

helping young people rise above crime and make a positive

difference in their own lives as well as in the lives of others in their

community. He is the Co-founder of Gennex - an innovative

renewable energy company, he is the Chairman of Jamaicans

Inspired UK (Jamaica Diaspora Future Leaders ) and is also the CEO

of the multiple award winning enterprise, The Safety Box Youth

Services, which since 2006 has since grown the company from

strength to strength with ambitions to reach schools worldwide.

In 2007 he was the first double award winner of the Enterprising

Young Brits competition. 2008 saw him feature on the BBC’s The

Last Millionaire TV series, which took 12 of Britain’s most

successful young entrepreneurs and dropped them into six of the

world’s most exciting and demanding cities, to make money from

scratch in just five days. Nathaniel was very successful and created

a business in Egypt starting with only 30 Egyptian pounds that by

the end of the week had made a profit of nearly 3,000 Egyptian

pounds making him and his business partner the winners for that

week.

In 2009 Nathaniel was drafted into the Courvoisier Observers

Future 500 Next Generation List and later that year he travelled to

Jamaica along with 30 young people from the UK where he spoke

at Jamaica’s first Youth Diaspora conference which was attended

by former Prime Minister Bruce Golding. In 2010 Nathaniel

represented Great Britain as a youth delegate for the G20 Toronto

Young Entrepreneur’s Summit in Canada and was also featured in

the under 40’s section of the 2011 JP Morgan / Powerful Media T

h e Black Power List of Britain’s most influential black people.

In July 2011 Nathaniel received an honourary medal from Brunel

University as the Alumnus of the year for outstanding

achievement. In 2012 Nathaniel’s business networking skills was

mentioned in Sir Richard Branson’s book “Like a Virgin, the secrets

they don’t teach you at business school”. In 2013 he was invited

to become a Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement

of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, later that year he was

awarded the Precious Man of the Year Award and the UN/UPF

Youth Achievement Award for his company Gennex. In 2014

Nathaniel became the youngest Trustee to the Ernst and Young

Foundation.

As a qualified pilot, engineer, entrepreneur, martial arts expert,

professional speaker, mentor and academic his life continues to

inspire many wishing to further themselves in life.

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Nick Gonios

Director / Investor / Advisor/

Corporate Vetnuring

Nick Gonios, currently the Head of Corporate Venturing

Program at Pollenizer, resides in Sydney, Australia and is an

experienced executive, advisor and early stage investor with

over 22 years in the online & technology markets

internationally. He has extensive corporate experience working in large multinationals including Gartner Group,

OpenText, Microsoft and Fujitsu globally, has been the

cofounder of several technology startups and has worked

with executive teams that have subsequently raised over

$58m in early stage funds over the last 13 years.

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Micheal McGeary

Co-founder and Chief

Political Strategist, Engine

Michael McGeary is the co-founder and Chief Political

Strategist of Engine Advocacy, a non-profit based in San

Francisco, working to connect startups with government to

effect change on issues important to high-growth entrepreneurial tech businesses. Previously, he worked with

Silicon Valley startup TuneIn as their social brand

ambassador and evangelist, as well as stints with two

Presidential campaigns, and work with a leading California

law firm specializing in political compliance and disclosure.

A Gloucester, Massachusetts native, he holds a bachelor's

degree in political science from Tufts University, and resides

with his wife, Sarah, and son, Jack, in Alameda, California.

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Kojo Oppong-

Nkrumah

Ghanaian Entrepreneur &

Broadcaster

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah is a Ghanaian Entrepreneur.

He holds a Bachelors of Commerce Degree, an MBA in

Marketing, an LLB and is a Fellow of the Henry Crown

Fellowship of the Aspen Institute.

Kojo started his career as a treasury analyst at British

American Tobacco. Between July 2006 and December 2013,

he took up a broadcasting job at JOY-FM in Accra-Ghana,

hosting flagship programs including the Super Morning

Show, Newsfile and the 2012 Presidential and Vice-

Presidential debates of Ghana.

In January 2014, Kojo was appointed as Chief Operating

Officer of Investment and Advisory Firm - Brownstone

Capital. BROWNSTONE operates three (3) subsidiaries and

offers Business Coaching Services to scores of other

entrepreneurial ventures in Ghana. The company’s vision is

to become one of Africa’s leading indigenous Investment

firms, building profitable businesses that solve problems,

create jobs and deliver sustainable value for Africa.

Prior to this appointment, Kojo had served as a resource

person to many corporate organizations including Standard

Charted Bank Ghana, Barclays Bank Ghana, Friedrich Ebert-

Stiftung Foundation, The University of Missouri, TIGO

Ghana, Enterprise Life, the Springboard Roadshow

Foundation and TED Talks.

He consults on Business Process Modeling, Sales,

Marketing and Performance Management.

He is married to Akua Oppong-Nkrumah and has two

children Kwaku and Afua.

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Glynn Pegler

Founder & CEO at Culture

Group

Glynn is the founder and CEO of Culture Group, a strategy

and content company whose clients include Google, Virgin

Group, Red Bull and Comic Relief.

Glynn serves as a Business Champion for the Welsh

Government and sits on an Editorial Advisory Board for BBC

Worldwide. He co-founded Young Brits as a social enterprise

to champion young business talent from the UK to the rest

of the world and is a UK Ambassador for the European

Cultural Parliament's Youth Network. He is the UK’s Lead

Entrepreneur delegate at the G20 Summits and served as a

Director of UnLtd - a £100m Foundation for social

entrepreneurs - for six years.

Glynn works across private and public sectors; producing &

marketing formats that entertain, inform and inspire.

He started his career by establishing a leading youth

consumer magazine at the age of 15. His content initiatives

have been consumed by millions of print media readers, by

tens of millions of television viewers and over a billion

internet visitors. Glynn has worked with a 'who's who' of the

entertainment industry and his core areas of expertise span entrepreneurship, youth market engagement and brand

development.

Twitter: @GlynnPegler

Website: www.CultureGroup.co.uk

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/glynnpegler

Biography: www.GlynnPegler.com

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Sándor Mohácsi

German President at G20 YEA

Managing Director at commlab

GmbH

Born in 1980, he graduated in Business Administration at St.

Gallen in 2004. Sándor made his first experiences in

Management and economy when he was still at school. It

was his former decision to become an entrepreneur. His willpower and awareness, that he can only change anything;

Sándor started his own business at the age of 18, when he

founded his first business for movie and television

production. He was responsible for Business Development

and especially of the Business Unit „Corporate Film“. Since

2004 he is the owner and Managing Director of commlab

GmbH – a international production company for film, online

and events.

Over the past 10 years he has taken the responsibility for

several enterprises. At the same time he has enhanced the

commitment of his volunteer activities. Sándor was national

president of JCI Germany – Wirtschaftsjunioren Deutschland

- the largest association of young entrepreneurs. Sándor

accompanied the campaign "Youth strengths: 1000

chances" to encourage disadvantaged young people to

make a high school diploma and to get a perspective for

their future career. In 2012 he became the President

Germany at G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance. His aim is to use the synergies between the Member States for example

in order to counter the shortage of skilled workers.

Entrepreneurship is a mindset.

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Pavlos Stampoulidis

CEO at Psycolate and Board Member

of the Hellenic Startup Association

Pavlos Stampoulidis is cofounder and Psychometric

Solutions, Director in Psycholate and Board Member

of the Hellenic Startup Association. He studied

Psychology at the University of Crete. He worked at

SHL Greece for nine years as R & D Manager. He is

currently combining the talents of his colleagues and

his own in computer programming, statistics,

psychometrics and research methodology to serve

corporate clients in four continents. He is co-creator

of the Moral DNA business ethics test. His current

interests are item response theory, computational

psychometrics, business ethics and the startup

culture.

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Nikolaos

Maniatis

Founder & Managing

Director, Museotechniki Ltd.

Nikolaos Maniatis is an archaeological conservator, with a

Masters degree in Cultural Management and an innate

interest in technology and entrepreneurship. Since 2000, he

has been working in the field of cultural heritage, participating in field projects and research programs in the

UK, Greece and Syria. In April 2012, he founded

Museotechniki Ltd. (museotechniki.com) with the ambition

to accelerate industry specific innovation in the field of

cultural asset management. Museotechniki was one of the

winners of the @Diversity – European Idean Competition

Awards 2013 (www.at-diversity.eu), a pilot project launched

by the European Parliament and organised by the

Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture, competing in the “access culture” category with the

“museofabber.com – Access to Printable Museum

Collections” project.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Hellenic

Startups Association (hellenicstartups.gr) and a member of

the UK National Youth Network of the European Cultural

Parliament (kulturparlament.com). Over the years he has

been a member of European Working Groups discussing

issues related to the preservation and management of

cultural heritage. He has also been proposed as a Greek

expert by ELOT (The Hellenic Organization for

Standardization) to participate in Working Groups of the

European Committee for Standardization – Technical

Committee 346 for Conservation of Cultural Heritage (CEN-

TC/346) on issues related to environment conditions &

cultural heritage.

Nikolaos has a keen interest in cultural economics and is a

passionate advocate of openness when it comes to

technology, data and innovation. He's also strongly believes

that cultural diversity is, for society, as important as biodiversity is for biological evolution.

email: maniatis@museotechniki.com | twitter:

@n_maniatis| linkedin: nikolaosmaniatis

Sotiris

Papantonopoulos

- Mantopoulos

CEO at MoneyMarket

Sotiris holds BSc’s in Finance and International

Marketing from Boston University and an

MSc in Management from the Lond

Economics.

Prior to founding moneymarket s.a,

Vice President for Institutional Sales at

Gruntal & Co LLC in Boston and NYC and a fully

licensed NASD Series 7 & 63 securities trader.

He then worked as an associate for

Partners and was Director of DTZ Greece S.A,

an international real estate advisory firm.

Sotiris is also an angel investor in an entertainment

resevation and a real estate auction start up and an

endeavor enterpreneur

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Sotiris holds BSc’s in Finance and International

Marketing from Boston University and an

MSc in Management from the London School of

Prior to founding moneymarket s.a, he was a Senior

Vice President for Institutional Sales at

Gruntal & Co LLC in Boston and NYC and a fully

licensed NASD Series 7 & 63 securities trader.

He then worked as an associate for Soros Real Estate

Partners and was Director of DTZ Greece S.A,

an international real estate advisory firm.

Sotiris is also an angel investor in an entertainment

resevation and a real estate auction start up and an

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Jerome Zois

Managing Director,

Europe4Startups,

Prinicpal,

Data4Ventures

Jerome is a Luxembourg native and a Silicon Valley

entrepreneur, who helped orbit a number of startups in

the field of distributed evolutionary algorithms, cloud

computing and big data. Prior to to managing

Europe4Startups and overseeing venture capital

investments at DATA4 Ventures, Jerome worked as an

International Cultivator for Palantir Technologies in

Palo Alto and in technology focused corporate finance

at Hutchison Whampoa and Goldman Sachs in Hong

Kong. Jerome was awarded a Bachelor's Degree in

International Economics and a Masters Degree in

Corporate Finance from Bocconi University in Milan

(aged 19) and is an avid digerati & technology

connaisseur who specializes in the financing of

technology ventures and the scaling of startups in the

US, Europe and Asia.

Mario Paladini

Founder & CEO at

GLOBALS

Mario Paladini (Berlin), Founder & CEO

ClubGLOBALS.com, Co-Founder & Past President

EClub Berlin Global, Startup Weekend Mentor

Advisor to Rotary.org has more than 10 years experience in Business and Community Development. Mario´s main

industries expertise is in the IT & hospitality industry. Prior

to co-founding ClubGLOBALS, Mario gained experience at

large organizations including Oracle

InterNations.org. Mario has a double degree in International

Business Administration, specialized in eBusiness from

Universidad Católica Córdoba and European University

Viadrina.

Social Profiles: http://xeesm.com/mariopaladini/

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Mario Paladini (Berlin), Founder & CEO

Founder & Past President Rotary

, Startup Weekend Mentor & Strategic

has more than 10 years experience in Business and Community Development. Mario´s main

industries expertise is in the IT & hospitality industry. Prior

founding ClubGLOBALS, Mario gained experience at

Oracle Corporation and

InterNations.org. Mario has a double degree in International

Business Administration, specialized in eBusiness from

Universidad Católica Córdoba and European University

http://xeesm.com/mariopaladini/

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Apostolos

Apostolakis

Serial Tech Entrepreneur

& Early Stage Investor

Apostolos is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in the internet/technology sector. He

started in 1998 when along with 2 friends

cofounded e-shop.gr the first and largest e-tailer

in Greece. In 2009 he cofounded Openfund the

first seed investing fund in South Europe that

helped many startups including Taxibeat in which

Apostolos serves on the board of directors. In

2011 he cofounded e-food the largest online

food delivery aggregator in Greece and in 2012 he cofounded doctoranytime a web service

helping patients look for, learn about a doctor or

diagnostic center and book an appointment

online. His latest involvement is with nannuka

which allows parents to look for and find help for

the children.

SPONSORS

SUPPORTERS

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