Daniel Appelquist

Senior Technology Strategist, Vodafone

Daniel Appelquist is senior technical architect at Vodafone Global Products and Services, where he is currently helping to shape the next generation of mobile content services. He has been a technology consultant to the publishing and new media industry, specializing in content management and e-business strategy, and has been involved in some of the seminal Internet publishing projects. Previously, Daniel was Director of Content Management and VP of Global Technology for TheStreet.com. He has served on the advisory committee of the W3C and on the advisory board of the ICE working group and is currently representing Vodafone on the PRISM working group. He has spoken on the topics of XML, content management, syndication and multi-channel publishing at numerous conferences and events and has written a book on XML (XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications), published by Addison Wesley.

Roberto Bonanzinga

CEO, Jambaz

Roberto Bonanzinga is currently the CEO of Jambaz. Roberto is bringing more than 15 years of senior management experience to Jambaz, which has been enhanced by his involvement in Internet startups both in the US and Europe. Whilst holding the position of Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business development at Viatel, he pioneered VoIP. During his time at Netscalibur as Vice President of Services and Marketing, he ran the whole pan European organisation. During the mid 90s, whilst living in California, he held the position of Vice President of Business Development at Topica. Roberto has also held senior positions at Fabrik Communications and Information Access Company which is part of the Ziff-Davis group. Nowadays Roberto is also involved as a non-exec/board advisor with five new media ventures: Mobango (user generated content for mobile devices); Pageflakes (AJAX based starting page) and Piczo (social network with more than 11M unique monthly users), Jaiku (presence and micro-blogging) and Woome (stealth mode). Roberto lives in London, UK. His education includes two degrees, the first in Business Administration, and the second in Electronic Information Management.

Nic Brisbourne

Esprit

Nic has over seven years experience in venture capital, working in London, Europe and Silicon Valley. His main areas of focus have been software and media. Prior to Esprit he was with Reuters Venture Capital. Nic has been involved in a number of investments including UltraDNS (acquired Neustar - NYSE NSR), Zeus Technology and Perfiliate (trading as Buy.at). He manages Esprit's investments in Buy.at, Zeus Technology, Axiom Systems, SRC, Cityspace and Tribold.

Prior to joining Reuters Nic worked for Operis, a software and services start-up, and Cap Gemini.

Nic also authors a blog commenting on the European technology and venture capital markets, TheEquityKicker.com

Alain-Gabriel Courtines

Investment Director, Intel Capital

Alain-Gabriel Courtines is a 13 year veteran of Venture Capital and Investment Banking, focusing on technology, consumer electronics and emerging growth companies. A native New Yorker with both European and US experience, he has been based in London for the past five years, where he has led investments for Intel Capital across Europe in support of Intel Corporation’s Strategies. In addition, he leads Intel’s Digital Home & Digital Enterprise investment initiative throughout EMEA.

Courtines joined Intel Capital in 2000. Prior to Intel Capital, he was a Vice President in the Corporate Finance Group of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. Inc., a New York based investment bank focused on emerging growth and middle market companies. There he completed numerous equity and debt financings and also provided advisory services on several public and private M&A transactions. Prior to that he was an Associate in the Corporate Banking group of NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of National Westminster Bank, plc.

Courtines holds an MBA from Columbia University with High Distinction and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Georgetown University. He is a dual citizen of France and the US.

Adrian Critchlow

Co-Founder & Director, AlertMe.com

Adrian is Co-Founder and Director of AlertMe. In his role, Adrian is responsible for overseeing the commercial development of the company, helping to communicate and establish the brand and build business partnerships.

A serial entrepreneur, Adrian has founded several extremely successful companies in his beloved city, Cambridge, including ActiveHotels.com, Europe's No.1 online hotel reservation system and Iota Software Ltd. In 1989, having graduated with a degree in General Science and Mechanical Engineering, Adrian began his career in a marketing role at Acorn Computer Group, at the time of the ARM spin out. Adrian quickly developed a taste for business and it was in 1991 that he launched Iota Software, which developed and marketed software used in over 5,000 schools across the UK.

In 1999, Adrian co-founded and was Director of ActiveHotels.com. Hugely successful, it went on to become the fastest growing company in the UK, in 2003, before being sold a year later for £90 million and delivering a 16 fold return to investors.

Most recently, Adrian founded Sawston Hall, Luxury Eco-Hotel, a beautiful 16th century hotel outside Cambridge, which is being converted into Europe's first carbon neutral hotel.

Peter Finnie

Gill Jennings & Every

Peter, a European Patent Attorney, is recommended in the latest edition of the Legal 500. The core of his practice is represented by high-tech UK start-up companies. He has helped guide his clients through a number of successful funding rounds involving both UK and foreign investors. He is the author of a chapter in a forthcoming publication entitled “European Handbook of Intellectual Property Management”, commenting on IP risk management issues.

Paul Fisher

Advent Ventures

Paul’s areas of focus are digital media & internet, convergence technologies, software and services.

Paul was previously Associate Director and an early investor in First Capital, where he helped to build this European leader in technology investment banking and advisory for the venture capital market. He has also worked in a number of early stage technology companies, including Rawflow, Reevoo.com, OmniPerception and MintDigital and also on M&A for Cassium Technologies, Smart421 & Aim Software.

Before First Capital, Paul worked in investment banking at Citibank and Salomon Smith Barney where he worked on the equity -backed derivative market.

Paul is a graduate of Warwick University, the British University top rated in Business and Social Studies. He is also a member of the Securities Institute where he studied corporate finance.

Judy Gibbons

Venture Development, Accel

Judy Gibbons has over 25 years experience in the computer industry with a focus on software, internet and consumer technologies.

Before joining Accel, Judy was Corporate Vice President of MSN Global Sales and Marketing at Microsoft Corp managing the business across 40 markets worldwide. Judy joined Microsoft in 1994 to launch MSN in the United Kingdom, and went on to manage MSN Europe. She was promoted to run MSN International covering Asia-Pacific and Japan and then also took on responsibility for US Sales & Marketing.

Prior to Microsoft Judy held various product development and marketing positions at Hewlett Packard, where she spent two years in Silicon Valley, and at Apple Computer where she was involved in the company’s early work in interactive multimedia and PDAs.

Judy has been ranked among the top 20 most influential European business women by the Wall Street Journal Europe for two successive years, and as one of Time magazine’s five "People to Watch in International Business". She was awarded the Microsoft Women’s Leadership Award in January 2003.

Judy served on the main board of O2, the European mobile network operator, until its purchase by Telefonica.

Judy holds an honors degree in Engineering from Brighton University in England and has undertaken executive education programs at Harvard Business School and London Business School.

Anil Hansjee

Head of Corporate Development EMEA, Google

Anil joined Google in September 2006 as Head of Corporate Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. Prior to joining, Anil was a Principal with the venture capital firm IDG Ventures, where he was board director of one of their portfolio companies, the mobile music company, Shazam Entertainment. Between mid 2000 and end of 2001, Anil was a Vice President for corporate finance with Bear Stearns International in London.

Between mid 1997 and mid 2000, Anil was a member of Chase Manhattan Bank's corporate finance group both in New York and London. Anil joined Chase's corporate finance team after spending the first 7 years of his professional career as a software engineer first with UBS then Chase. Anil has a BSc.(Hons.) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University and has an MSc. in Finance at London Business School.

Marc Heller

Senior Vice President, News Corporation Europe

Marc Heller started his professional career at Bain & Company (strategy consulting) before joining the Canal+ Group in 1994 as part of the International and Development team which was responsible for expansion through acquisitions in Scandinavia, Benelux, Poland and Italy. From 1997, he occupied various management positions at the leading Italian satellite platform, Telepiu (a subsidiary of Canal+). In 2000, he became Chief Operating Officer where he played a key role in the development of the company and in the negotiations of its merger with Stream (owned by News Corporation), thus resulting in the creation of Sky Italia in 2003 (more than 4.2 million subscribers today). He joined News Corporation in 2005 as Senior Vice President, where he has been responsible for the Corporate Development activities, focusing in particular on the Internet & New Media segments, for News Corporation in Europe since 2006.

Saul Klein

Venture Partner, Index Ventures

Saul Klein joined the London office of Index Ventures as a venture partner in 2007. He works closely with existing portfolio companies and his areas of investment focus include internet, online advertising and the ecommerce space. Before joining Index, he served as the global vice president of marketing and e-commerce for Skype (recently purchased by eBay), where he is currently still advising the company on strategic projects. Prior to Skype, Saul co-founded and served as CEO for Video Island, an Index-funded venture that recently merged with LoveFilm to become Europe’s leading online DVD rental and movie download service. He was also a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, where he was an active seed investor in both US and European start-ups including Moo.com, SpotRunner, Edgeio, Daylife, Stardoll and Last.fm. Saul held management positions at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond within the Web Platform Services Group; served as the senior vice president for Firefly Network (acquired by Microsoft), and was director of digital communication at WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. He currently serves on the board of directors of bridges.org, an international non-profit which works to promote the effective use of information and communications technology in developing countries and he was a founding member of privacy seal, TRUSTe. Saul is a founding patron of Imperial Entrepreneurs, which is helping potential student entrepreneurs at Imperial College reach out to London's established start-up and venture community to kick start opportunities. He was recently named as the winner of the marketing and communications category of the 2006 World Technology Awards in San Francisco. Saul holds an MA from Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Mike Reid

Director of Venture Capital, 3i

Mike is one of 3i's key Digital Media investors (web, mobile & other platforms), and is a part of 3i's team that delivered recent successes like Screentonic's sale to Microsoft. With 10 years of Venture board experience behind him, Mike has extensive hands-on knowledge of working with fast growing companies. Businesses where Mike's input has been critical include SBL Vaccine, Q-Matic, Hotsip, Magic4, Adaytum, Marlborough Stirling, Instone Internationl, Xenicom, CDC Solutions, Kaisha amongst others. Mike's current board appointments include Connectivity, Visual Media and Mobile Commerce.

Doug Richard

Chairman, Library House

Doug is founder and executive Chairman of Library House and has more than 18 years experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, both in the US and in the UK.

In addition to his Library House involvement, he is co-founder and Chairman of Hotxt, Ltd. and co-founder and vice-chairman of Cambridge Angels.

Previously, he was vice president and later president and CEO of US publicly quoted software company Micrografx with offices in 11 countries which he sold to Corel Corporation in 2000.

Benjamin Robertson

Head of Software, UBS

Benjamin Robertson is Head of European Software and IT Services and an Executive Director in the UBS Technology team based in London. He has a broad range of experience in both M&A and equity financings in the technology sector and an in-depth knowledge of the European software and IT services landscape. He has advised Rightmove plc, Micro Focus plc and Phoenix IT Group plc on their IPOs on the London Stock Exchange and Seloger on their Euronext IPO. On the M&A front, Benjamin has advised companies such as Autonomy, Anite, Torex Retail, Xansa, Eidos as well as working extensively with private equity firms in the technology sector. He has broader M&A experience in the European market, having been involved in a number of cross border transactions including Saab's acquisition of Celsius and the British Steel/Hoogovens and BTR/Siebe mergers. He joined the firm in 1996 having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte & Touche. He graduated from Cambridge University having read Economics

Nadim Saad

Partner, Result UK

As a partner at Result, Nadim helps companies in the TIME sector (Telecom, Internet, Media, Entertainment) accelerate their international growth. Thanks to its presence in 14 countries, Result has created an ecosystem for growth that enables companies to expand faster, more efficiently and more successfully. Result clients include startups such as Xing (ex-OpenBC) and FON, and leading media groups such as Schibsted.

Nadim also serves as the International Business Development Director of Intamac Systems, where he has been instrumental in making Intamac the leading player in web-enabled Home Monitoring and Control services, with partners such as BT and Bell Canada and presence in more than 10 countries.

Nadim has a background as a successful entrepreneur with a 10-year track record in strategic advisory and business development in Europe, South America and the Middle East. He is a veteran of four startups/early-stage companies in the Telecoms, Internet and Retail sectors. He has developed an expertise in international expansion and company growth, taking companies cross-border in 3 continents.

Nadim holds a Masters in Management from the French Business School EAP-ESCP and an MBA from INSEAD. He speaks 4 languages fluently (English, French, Spanish and Arabic), he is passionate about multiculturalism and he is an avid gourmet traveller.

Graham Sadd

CEO, PAOGA

Graham is Founder, Chairman and CEO of PAOGA Ltd. providing Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) for individuals and a Personal Information Exchange (PIE) for businesses to address numerous vertical and horizontal markets whilst respecting the personal privacy rights of their customers.

He is called to speak at various UK and European conferences on this important issue addressing the private and public sector. Graham is a Non-Executive Director of Ist Software Corporation (Singapore listed) and an advisor to a number of Web 2.0 start-ups.

From 1993 - 2001 Graham was a Founder and CEO of Infobank Plc. developing a B2B e-procurement enterprise solution. He was involved with raising initial investment from 3i, floatation on AIM and subsequent move to LSE involving an international offering of £130m taking the business into the FTSE 250. Infobank was renamed Izodia Plc. and Graham stood down from the board in April 2001.

Prior to Infobank Graham has over 30 years experience founding and managing a number of businesses in the communications and publishing industries spanning graphic design, advertising, marketing, international book publishing (acquired by Time-Life Books International), early electronic publishing (NAPLPS), software development (Personal Presentation System for Olivetti and DataBase Publisher for IBM and Ventura) and international software publishing (acquired by Ventura Software Inc. a division of Xerox Corp.) where Graham was Managing Director and European Vice President for EMEA.

Sumon Sadhu

Imperial Entrepreneurs

As founding president of Imperial Entrepreneurs, Sumon brings a wealth of experience of the student entrepreneurship scene from across the country. Sumon's interest in technology entrepreneurship began in the summer of 2004 as a research scholar in Toulouse, France where he developed proof of principle experiments for a novel type of Phage therapeutic leading to a EUR 500k patent application by the German biotech company, PROFOS AG. In the final year of his undergraduate degree (in Biochemistry), Sumon founded and ran an educational software company and organised the largest, nationally advertised event celebrating "the interface between science and business" at the Said business school in Oxford.

In addition to experience in founding his own ventures, Sumon has direct experience of the Venture Capital industry and technology start ups as the first ever summer intern at Investment Research start-up Library House (www.libraryhouse.net) in Cambridge, whose members control funds of over £10Bn. At Library House, Sumon interviewed 100 entrepreneurs behind the top private companies in the UK as part of a report analysing national venture capital spending.

As founding president of Imperial Entrepreneurs, Sumon grew the membership from zero to 350 members in its first month, raised significant patron funding from angels including Paul & Michael Birch, Saul Klein, Michael Smith as well as Index Ventures and Accel Partners and achieved widespread press coverage spanning student publications, BBC Business online and the Telegraph. Sumon has also consulted for the UK and Welsh Governments on enterprise policy particularly with respect to the development of young technology entrepreneurs and serves on the advisory board of SeedCamp, a pan-european seed stage firm focussing on early stage internet and mobile entrepreneurs.

Sumon is also the CEO & Co-founder of Jobably (www.jobably.com) which is looking to utilise wisdom of crowds to create a better experience for talent and talent seekers.

In his spare time Sumon enjoys international travel, snowboarding and mood altering music. He is a current Wellcome Trust Scholar in Infectious disease at Imperial College London and holds a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University.

Zvi Schreiber

CEO, G.ho.st

Dr. Zvi Schreiber is the founder and architect of G.ho.st, the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, a pioneering Web Operating System. G.ho.st is also a rare Palestinian-Israeli collaboration. Schreiber has many years of international experience as a software innovator and executive in Israel, the US and UK. Prior to Ghost Schreiber was CEO & Founder of Unicorn Solutions which sold innovative enterprise software to the Fortune 100 and was acquired by IBM in 2006. Prior to Unicorn Schreiber was the Founder and CEO, then CTO of Tradeum Inc., a pioneer of business-to-business e-commerce, selling the company for $500 million in the year 2000. All three ventures have won awards for innovation and business potential. Schreiber holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science from Imperial College of Science, London, an MSc in Physics and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Schreiber's speaking engagements have included: PC Forum, the World Wide Web Consortium's annual conference, TTI/Vanguard Knowledge Management, the Wilshire Meta-Data Conference/DAMA International Symposium, Enterprise Data Forum, Semantic Technologies for E-Government at the White House Conference Center, DCI Business Process Management, the DAMA International Europe Conference, Army Knowledge Management and Enterprise Integration Expo. Schreiber is also the author of several articles.

Chris Seth

UK Managing Director, Piczo

Chris Seth, managing director of Piczo, Inc. (www.piczo.com), is responsible for the UK and expansion into Europe. Piczo, a social networking site for teenagers worldwide, attracts 10 million unique visitors each month. With over 16 years of managerial experience in digital media and advertising, his career has flourished within the fields of interactive businesses, communications, new media and publishing.

Most recently, Chris was managing director for Richmond Events, which runs strategic business forums across the globe. He was responsible for the UK and European division.

Prior to Richmond Events, Chris was media director at BBDO's digital agency Proximity, the first UK agency to integrate interactive, direct and promotional services. While there, he contributed to income growth of over 300% through local and global pitch wins including Emirates, Shell, FT and Save the Children.

Before Proximity, Chris was regional director of the International Herald Tribune, and was responsible for the newspaper's performance in Europe.

Additionally, Chris spent five years in the publishing industry as European sales manager for Time Out magazine. Chris was solely responsible for establishing new companies in Paris and Madrid and also expanded the publishing group with the launch of nine titles.

Sam Sethi

Blognation

Sam Sethi is a London based entrepologist and consultant. Sam has worked in the IT industry for over 18 years for companies like Microsoft, Netscape, Gateway Computers and CMGi, in a variety of senior technical and marketing roles. Sam has also experienced the joy and pain of running his own start-ups. Recently Sam has been working as a freelance consultant with companies such as MSN (UK) and BT, helping develop their Web 2.0 strategies.

When not blogging, consulting or presenting, Sam loves nothing better than spending time with his wife & young family, running, drinking fine wine with his friends or watching his beloved Liverpool FC.

David Soskin

CEO, Cheapflights

David Soskin joined Cheapflights Limited – the pioneer of internet travel price comparison - as CEO in March 2000 from ABN AMRO Corporate Finance, where he was head of global media. He had previously founded Asquith Court Schools which was sold in 2001 for US$100m to West Private Equity. By maintaining Cheapflights' consistent profitability, he has grown the Company organically without recourse to external funding. Cheapflights is possibly unique in having successfully launched a US sister site 4 years ago. It has increased its traffic from 300,000 in 2000 to a record 6 million global unique users a month (Jan 07)-(3.3 Million UK and 2.5 million USA). In January 2007 Cheapflights.co.uk was the third largest source of search-provided leads to the UK Travel-Agencies sector (Hitwise) after Google and MSN. The company is the UK's leading online travel vertical search media business publishing over one million travel deals a day and accounted for nearly 1% of the £1.1 billion UK (PPC) search marketing spend and 3.2% of UK travel market display advertising. Last year Cheapflights' sites drove an estimated US$1.8 billion worth of travel business to its advertising partners. Most recently he co-founded HOWZAT media LLP, an investment vehicle for early stage dotcoms.

Paul Walsh

Segala

Paul is the co-founder and CEO of Segala, an authority in enabling trust on the Web using Content Labels and a specialist in Web standards compliance.

Prior to Segala, Paul was an executive at Eqos, a pioneer in the development of Web technologies for the B2B retail industry. In 1995 he became one of the first employees for AOL in Europe. He was a key member of the team developing AOL’s UK presence and assisted with the launch of other AOL European territories. Paul also has international experience within the Telecommunications Industry and has consulted for companies such as Vodafone, O2, Orange, CMG and ADC Metrica.

Paul was instrumental in the formation of the W3C’s first ever incubator activity, to review Content Labels as a formal method of classifying and labelling content. This method, based on the Semantic Web, is now moving onto a full recommendation track as a proposed replacement for PICS – an old W3C recommendation currently used by Internet Explorer for filtering content.

He is Segala’s W3C advisory committee representative and founding member of the Mobile Web Initiative Steering Council. Paul is also an active participant in the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) special interest group.

Paul was elected Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), a trade association for the digital industry, in May 2006 after serving as a member of the Executive in 2005. He was also the Chair of the BIMA Awards 2006.

Jonathan Wolf

Director of Corporate Development, Yahoo!

Jonathan is Director of Corporate Development for Yahoo! responsible for M&A, joint ventures/major partnerships and strategic investments in Europe. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 2005, Jonathan spent over five years in venture capital, the last four at Atlas Venture, a leading VC firm with offices in Europe and the East Coast, where he was a Principal in the technology group based in London. He focused on wireless start-ups, as well as software and communications-related businesses.

Prior to Atlas he worked at Internet Capital Group and Boston Consulting Group.

Richard Youngman

VP Research, Library House

Richard Youngman is the Vice President of Research & Operations at Library House. He is responsible for running the Library House Research team, which is responsible for discovering and collecting the information about high-growth companies to underpin our analytical, information and event services. He also oversees the running of the day-to-day, operational activities running from pre-sales to post-sales functions.

Before Library House, Richard ran his own advisory firm conducting research and consulting on the measurement and evaluation of intangible assets and intellectual capital for organisations such as the European Commission. This followed nine years building a broad-based finance and research background with leading financial institutions such as ABN AMRO, Barclays Capital and BZW in the City of London. His work was centred on the debt markets and revolved around financing M&A deals and advising clients on achieving alignment between their financial and strategic plans.

Richard has an MA from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Theseus International Management Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Tim O'Reilly

CEO, O'Reilly Media

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. The company also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source, open standards, and sensible intellectual property laws.

Since 1978, Tim has led the company's pursuit of its core goal: to be a catalyst for technology change by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of "alpha geeks" and other innovators. His active engagement with technology communities drives both the company's product development and its marketing. Tim has built a culture where advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism are key tenets of the business philosophy.

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