The program and speaker bios of the 1st European Youth Entrepreneurship Conference by YES for Europe

1. 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
"DeclaraƟon of Athens" ― a call to acƟon 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.

13. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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

44. 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.

46. 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.

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SUPPORTERS
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