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  Randi Zuckerberg

  Founder - R to Z Media
  Former Head of Marketing - Facebook

  Randi Zuckerberg

  Founder - R to Z Media
  Former Head of Marketing - Facebook

  Randi Zuckerberg ran marketing at Facebook for six years, where her team led the company’s U.S. election and international politics strategy, launched the live streaming industry with her media partnerships around the U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2011 for her innovative TV/online coverage of the 2010 mid-term elections. Randi has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Bloomberg, NDTV & World News, and was a correspondent for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
  
  In August 2011, Randi left Facebook to start R to Z Media, a new type of media platform that will be launching later this year. She was recently appointed to the United Nations Global Entrepreneurs Council, the World Economic Forum's Global Council on Social Media, and the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors Commission on Innovation. Randi holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University.
  
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  Hiroshi Mikitani

  Rakuten
  Chairman and CEO

  Hiroshi Mikitani

  Rakuten
  Chairman and CEO

  Hiroshi Mikitani is Chairman and CEO of Rakuten, one of the world’s leading e-commerce companies. Mikitani has been referred to as a maverick in his approach and is widely seen as the leader of an emerging, ’New Japan’, one which increasingly turns away from traditional modes of doing business.
  Born in Kobe, Japan, Mikitani graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1988, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1993. Personal tragedy in the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake inspired Mikitani to leave a promising career in investment banking to create something that he thought would be more meaningful to society. Starting out with just a handful of team members, Mikitani launched the “Rakuten Ichiba” marketplace in May 1997. Today, Rakuten is listed on the JASDAQ market and is the world’s third largest ecommerce company.
  In Rakuten, Mikitani sought to create an ecommerce platform characterized by Empowerment and Omotenashi (Japanese service mindset), which seeks to empower businesses through the Internet and provide members with truly exceptional customer service experiences that Japan is renowned for. Rakuten now works with more than 38,000 professional merchants to offer over 80 million registered products to its 73 million members, in addition to an expanding Internet services ecosystem that includes travel, banking, securities, e-money, and much more.
  From 2008, Mikitani began to take his unique B2B2C model global. With operations in 10 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia, Rakuten is now a truly international organisation. In addition to acquisitions last year in Germany, Brasil and the UK, in late 2011 Mikitani made a bold statement by acquiring global eReading company Kobo, which brought with it a family of innovative hardware and one of the largest online book catalogues in the world.
  In March, 2010, Mikitani stunned the Japanese business community by mandating English as the company language. Mikitani and Rakuten are now the subject of a popular Harvard Business School case study on language and globalization taught to all first year students.
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  Christophe Lambert

  Actor and entrepreneur
  

  Christophe Lambert

  Actor and entrepreneur
  

  Film actor and entrepreneur, he created and invested in many companies related to audiovisual production in the hospitality industry, real estate and technology. Christopher is a professional communication and promotes DEMAT STORE in France and abroad.
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  Brian Wong

  Founder and CEO
  Kiip.me

  Brian Wong

  Founder and CEO
  Kiip.me

  This young businessman is already known as a specialist in mobile marketing and mobile gaming with social game dynamics. In July 2010, Brian created kiip.me, a mobile advertising platform that is bringing the mobile and gaming worlds. He was spotted by True Ventures and in particular Phil Black who invests $200 000 in the project. Techcrunch and the Wall Street Journal recently called him the “youngest person (19 years old) to ever receive funding by a venture capital firm”. Graduate from the University of British Columbia, he previously works at the social news website Digg.com and launched his Android mobile app. Next to this experience he starts his first startup in creating the first categorized Twitter discovery tool: http://followformation.com
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  Ammar Bakkar

  Group Director of New Media
  MBC Group

  Ammar Bakkar

  Group Director of New Media
  MBC Group

  Ammar Bakkar is the CEO of Yes 2 Digital, a newly launched digital media company, and the Executive Consultant of Intigral (an STC subsidiary and the largest Arab digital content company).
  Up until the end of 2011, Ammar was the Group Director of New Media at MBC Group, one of the largest media organizations in the Middle East. During the 9 years of working for MBC, Ammar was able to transform the Group strategy and direction to become the largest Arab media company in terms of digital revenue and users.
  In order to achieve that, Ammar has established and managed several major portals including Alarabiya.net (2004), Alaswaq.net (2006), MBC.net (2006), MBC3.net (2008), and then Shahid.net (2010). All of these websites joined the top most visited Arab websites within its segment. Ammar has also launched MoBC (2006), which has become the most profitable Arab mobile content brand ever. Furthermore, Ammar was responsible for the interactivity on all MBC TV & Radio, and for managing commercial relations with telecom operators all over the Arab World on various levels. In addition, Ammar was the General Supervisor of Scenario Creative Production, the drama production arm of MBC Group in Saudi Arabia.
  Ammar has been in the new media industry since year 2000, when he established bab.com, one of the earliest Arab news portals. Ammar is also a columnist on the issues of digital media since 1996, and he introduced a weekly radio show that deals with these issues. Dr. Bakkar was the subject of numerous press stories and profiles. He was described by Alhayat Newspaper as “The Pioneer of New Media in the Arab World.”
  Ammar is also an active speaker at academic, media, and IT conferences around the world. He is a member of the Advisory board of UbiQ in Paris. He was also associated with the Digital Emmy Awards in New York and 360 Content Awards in France.
  Ammar holds a doctoral degree from the University of Oklahoma (USA), where he studied political campaigning on the web and creativity enhancement in media organizations. He has more than 15 years of experience working for the traditional media as a journalist, a correspondent, and a Chief Editor with several Saudi and international publications.
  Some years ago, Ammar managed the "September 11th media and research program" in Riyadh. Under this program, he edited a book titled "September 11th: An Arab View," and supervised the production of a documentary that won "the best professional film" award by the Arab Documentary Festival in Beirut. In 2008, he published a book in Germany titled “Creativity Enhancement in Media Organizations.”
  During the years 2004, 2005, Ammar was as an adjunct mass communication professor at the American University of Sharjah.
  
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  Fernanda Montoro

  New Media Manager
  Real Madrid

  Fernanda Montoro

  New Media Manager
  Real Madrid

  Fernanda Montoro
  Madrid, 1972
  Journalist
  
  
  TV & New Media professional, with expertise in TV rights Sales & Acquisition and New Media Business Development, started her career 15 years ago in the International TV market. After 11 years as Head of International at Videomedia´s Group, one of the best known Spanish TV production companies, she joined Real Madrid C.F. in September 2007 to be part of the New Media Business Department, where now she´s New Media Manager. During these years, Fernanda has helped Real Madrid to create the most innovative and revenue streamer digital division in the football industry.
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  Garrett Gee

  Co-Founder and engineer
  Scan.me

  Garrett Gee

  Co-Founder and engineer
  Scan.me

  Garrett Gee is a Co-Founder and engineer of Scan.me.
  
  Scan.me creates web and mobile experiences and tools that enable both enterprise and individuals to benefit from mobile transaction technologies (QR Codes, NFC, and more). These benefits include mobile web pages, mobile commerce, social media, lead generation, analytics, and more.
  
  Garret built out his skill set as the Creative Director of Capital G Design. Capital G Designs provided web design, branding, and digital media services.
  
  Garrett attended Brigham and Young University. His areas of study were industrial and graphic design, computer science and entrepreneurship. He was also a key player on the university’s soccer team. In 2011 Garret became the youngest ever inductee into Utah’s top 100 Entrepreneurs. He is also a Genius Book of World Record Holder in Tetris.
  
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  Boris Pfeiffer

  Managing Director Europe
  Kabam Europe

  Boris Pfeiffer

  Managing Director Europe
  Kabam Europe

  Boris Pfeiffer has been working in digital media since 1995 when he launched his first Internet company in Germany, the UK and Atlanta, GA with 35 employees. He first came in touch with the game industry in 2001, running global operations, professional services and sales for NXN Alienbrain - the leading provider for digital asset management for games and CG films. Before his return to the gaming world at Wonderhill, he served as Monster.com's General Manager for Internet Advertising in Europe. At Wonderhill, which was acquired by Kabam in October 2010, he launched localized versions of their Aquarium, Farm and Tattoo City game in Germany and France, winning more than 1 million monthly active users within 3 months. Pfeiffer is currently General Manager Kabam Europe
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  Jeffrey Edell

  Executive Director, TODpix, LLC
  Former Chairman of InterMix Media, LLC, parent of MySpace, when it was founded

  Jeffrey Edell

  Executive Director, TODpix, LLC
  Former Chairman of InterMix Media, LLC, parent of MySpace, when it was founded

  Jeffrey Edell has leveraged his relationships, financial/financing expertise, operational and management experience across several industries throughout his extensive business career while focusing on emerging technologies, social media, and the TV/Filmed Entertainment arenas. He has worked extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, and in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Edell has successfully completed over 20 mergers/acquisitions and multiple exit deals on behalf of a number of private and institutional investors.
  
  During the past few years, Mr. Edell has established a Venture Capital Fund to invest in and provide C-level support to a multitude of entities spanning: Mobile/Tablet technology and ‘apps’, Social gaming, e-learning and edutainment, film production, film finance and ‘cutting-edge’ content distribution, and licensing. He has served as CEO for Inferno Entertainment (a well know Hollywood Film production,distribution and foreign sales entity).
  
  Presently, he is a major shareholder and board member of a cutting edge mobile, web and Social gaming technology company in Emergent Apps, LLC. Mr. Edell is also the Executive Director for the Milamber Group LTD, a UK based edutainment and e-learning company, which is operating under a European Union Funding grant to create a leading Digital Learning Marketplace (DLM) for multimedia e-learning in partnership with Pearson Learning. Milamber is the major shareholder of DLM, plc (public: AIM).
  
  Prior to that, he was President of DIC Entertainment (public: AIM), the largest independent producer of Kids entertainment properties in the U.S. with an extensive licensing business. Prior to that he was CEO of Vertical Branding, a (public: NASDAQ) infomercial and direct marketing company.
  
  Before this, Mr. Edell served as Chairman of Intermix Media, the founding parent company of popular social networking giant MySpace, with a member base that approached 200MM, and its 30+ other on-line businesses (public:AMEX). Intermix was sold to Newscorp in 2005.
  
  From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Edell was President/CEO of Soundelux Entertainment Group (SEG), a fully integrated entertainment content and services company (winner of 5 Academy Awards and over 50 Emmys, along with numerous Addys). SEG was sold to Liberty Media in 2000.
  
  Prior to that, Mr. Edell was the Founder and the Chairman/CEO of elabor.com, a privately held software technology company that developed in-house and web-based time and attendance, labor, and project management solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. Elabor was sold in two tranches, to both ADP and Microsoft. He has also held senior level positions within the Transamerica Group (public: NYSE) and at KPMG, where he obtained his CPA designation, while specializing in the entertainment and technology area, in the audit/tax and consulting departments.
  
  Additionally, in 1994, he assisted in taking the $120mil revenue family vitamin business, International Vitamin Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:IVC), public and served on its board until it was successfully sold in 2003 to Inverness Medical, currently Alere, Inc. (NYSE:ALR).
  
  Mr. Edell is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmys) and has been a member of the Young Presidents Organization since 1996. He was named Entertainment Entrepreneur of the year 2000 by NASDAQ and Ernst and Young and has been a frequent speaker at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business, USC Marshall School of Business and Pepperdine Graduate School of Business.
  
  Mr. Edell obtained his Bachelors of Science degree in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia (UVA), Charlottesville, VA, with an emphasis in Accounting, Taxation and Law. Mr. Edell was also a member of the 2005 U.S. Maccabi Basketball team to Israel, and the 2006 U.S. Maccabi Soccer team as a goalkeeper at the games in Sydney, Australia. He is an avid comic book and sportscard collector, is married with three children and resides in Westlake Village, California, U.S.A.
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  Jean-Marc Dufour

  President
  DEMAT-STORE

  Jean-Marc Dufour

  President
  DEMAT-STORE

  Masters in Information Processing Specialist for over 30 years for the implementation of value added services and multimedia applications. It is listed with the Ministry of Economy Finance and Employment and is also Chairman of the Worldwide Alliance for ASEAL Paperless Trade and President of FranceE-commerce International.
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  Chris Redlitz

  Founder
  Kicklabs

  Chris Redlitz

  Founder
  Kicklabs

  Chris Redlitz is a founding partner of Transmedia Capital, an investment and advisory group focused on early stage digital media companies, and managing partner of Kicklabs, a technology accelerator in San Francisco. He is a serial entrepreneur in digital media companies. He launched the first advertising exchange (AdAuction), online independent yellow page directory, automated coupon platform, RSS advertising and content syndication systems. He received Ad Age’s prestigious i20 award for his contributions to the development of interactive marketing and advertising.
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  Morald Chibout

  Directeur Général
  Autolib

  Morald Chibout

  Directeur Général
  Autolib

  In the ruthless world of Marketing, Morald Chibout has earned a prominent place which gained him an authoritative reputation.
   
   • In 1993, he joined the Mass Market Customer Branch of France Telecom.
   
   • Appointed Director of Marketing and Communication of Wanadoo Europe for 4 years, he designed the products and communications strategy of the group and develops the range of offers launched by the operator since 1998.
   
   • In 2002, he joined T-Online with the mission to strengthen the position of Club Internet in France and to develop its business model.
   
   • Between 2004 and 2011, he was Director of Consumer Marketing at EDF. He was awarded Marketing Man of the year, 2008.
   
   • Since September 2011, he has been appointed CEO of Autolib', the first self-service electric cars in the world. He is in charge of the launch and development of Autolib in Ile-de-France.
   
   Ph.D. in Economics, Option Business Management, University of Paris I – La Sorbonne.
   
  He is a member of the Club XXIst Century’s Board, an association that brings together professionals who strongly believe that diversity is an opportunity for France.
   
  He is the author of a bestselling book "Marketing explained to my mother: the art of product positioning," Ed Eyrolles.
   
  Knight (Chevalier) in France's National Order Of Merit and Knight (Chevalier) of the Legion of Honour.
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  David Wilde

  CIO
  Essex County Council

  David Wilde

  CIO
  Essex County Council

  Currently CIO for Essex County Council, David is establishing a new strategy for the County based on cloud adoption, shared services through collaboration and a move towards self service provision through digital engagement including take-up of social media.
  
  David was previously CIO for Westminster City Council where he set up and implemented an exciting new ICT strategy based on the principles of customer centric service delivery, a zero infrastructure technology environment and transformational change, resulting in cost reductions of over 30% and dramatically improved customer satisfaction levels.
  
  Prior to that David was CIO at the London Borough of Waltham Forest, with responsibility for the Council’s access to services strategy, transforming service delivery, all ICT and the Project and Programme management profession.
  
  Earlier roles included Head of e-Business and Head of Internal and Electronic Communications for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), where he was responsible for development and delivery the ICT strategy and service management, e-government and internal and electronic communications strategies and operations. He also ran Internet service development and delivery for the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) and worked on Schools capital policy in the Department for Education and Employment, including the New Deal for Schools programme.
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  Dragana Djermanovic

  Online strategist
  Serbian Public Relations Association

  Dragana Djermanovic

  Online strategist
  Serbian Public Relations Association

  Dragana Djermanovic is online strategist and lecturer, as well as the president of the Section for on-line PR of the Serbian Public Relations Association. She is the owner of a consulting firm PRpepper. As a representative of The European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) and Euroblog Association, she is also the honorable member of the jury for the Social Media Awards, a member of the jury for the European ICT awards for 2011 in Luxembourg, and the respectable ambassador of WebIT committee of Internet Practitioners of South-Eastern Europe.
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  Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

  Co-founder
  The Next Web

  Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

  Co-founder
  The Next Web

  Drawing from his experiences as a successful serial entrepreneur, internet enthusiast and blogger, Boris offers a lively and unique perspective on starting up companies, networking your way to fame and glory (and riches) and current technology trends.
  In 2010 he was proclaimed Technology Trendwatcher of the year and received the Dutch TWOTY Award.
  His background as an artist, professional juggler, and graphic designer endow him with an interesting combination of technology know-how and creativity.
  He coined several useful management theories such as ‘How to paint a white rabbit‘ , ‘The Domino Model of Success Causation‘ and ‘The Burning Cat Strategy‘. His entrepreneurial background lends all of Boris’s presentations a very actionable and success-oriented focus. Nowadays Boris publishes his thoughts on The Next Web Blog.
  Boris is the Founder of The Next Web Conference and The Next Web Blog, a technology blog featured in the Technorati Top 20 Technology Blogs. Furthermore he founded Twittercounter.com, a popular statistics site for Twitter users, and Spread.us, a service that creates social reach for websites.
  Earlier Boris founded other internet companies such as V3 Redirect Services, HubHop, and Fleck. V3 Redirect services was sold to Fortunecity in 1999, and HubHop was sold to the Dutch Telecom KPN in 2003.
  Whether you want to discuss the latest in online technology or web marketing, Boris is an excellent source of knowledge. Boris’ years of successful technology management experience allows him to bring real-world examples to your meeting or convention.
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  Wolfram Jost

  Chief Technology Officer
  Software AG

  Wolfram Jost

  Chief Technology Officer
  Software AG

  Dr. rer. nat. Wolfram Jost, born in 1962, has been a member of the Management Board of Software AG since August 2010 and is responsible for Research & Development.
  
  Dr. Wolfram Jost studied business economics, majoring in economic information science and marketing, at the University of the Saarland, from October 1983 to April 1988. After graduation in 1988 he worked for the Institute of Economic Information Science (IWi) at the University of the Saarland, where his duties included supervising and holding classes, heading projects in the field of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and organizing scientific congresses.
  
  Dr. Wolfram Jost completed his doctoral thesis at the Law and Economics Faculty at the University of the Saarland in November 1992 on the topic of "Computer-based CIM Planning - Conception and Realization of a Tool for Analyzing and Planning CIM Systems".
  
  In 1992 Dr. Wolfram Jost joined IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH, Saarbrücken. Here he was initially the head of ARIS Product Development before taking over as the head of ARIS Product Strategy in 1998.
  
  In 1994 he was promoted to a senior management position, a post he held until he was appointed to the Executive Board of IDS Scheer AG in 2000. He remained a member of the IDS Scheer Board until the takeover of IDS Scheer AG by Software AG had been completed.
  
  Dr. Wolfram Jost has written numerous articles for books and magazines and has also (co)authored more than ten specialist books.
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  Jimmy Fussing Nielsen

  Managing Partner
  Sunstone Capital

  Jimmy Fussing Nielsen

  Managing Partner
  Sunstone Capital

  Jimmy Fussing Nielsen co-fJimmy Fussing Nielsen co-founded Copenhagen-based Sunstone Capital in 2007, today a leading European early stage VC firm with more than €750 million under management. He heads Sunstone’s Technology Ventures group and serves as its managing partner. Jimmy brings to Sunstone a combination of start-up and investment experience spanning more than 20 years. Jimmy believes that passion more than anything is the key ingredient in fostering a global start-up success. His main role as a VC is to be the strategic sparring partner and sometimes the mentor to the entrepreneur.
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  Victor Emmanuel de Sa

  Partner and Chief Strategy Officer
  Geneva Solutions SA

  Victor Emmanuel de Sa

  Partner and Chief Strategy Officer
  Geneva Solutions SA

  Prior to his key role as Conversion Manager for SAGEM Morpho on the Malaysian AFIS [Automated Fingerprint Identification System], Victor-Emmanuel de SA was Foreign Relations Officer in the French Air Force at the HQ in Paris and worked as Pre-Sales Engineer for Sun Microsystems at their HQ in Paris. Then he joined a Swiss based Security IT Company, as System Security Team Manager to design and build new secured e-payment architectures. Then he worked with K2na Systems in Melbourne as Security Systems Architect for the Open Secured Smart Cards Management System and the Medic@l Secure Storage® (e-health).
  
  After four years, he was successively Senior Security Consultant, Senior Security Auditor and Security Engagement Unit Manager. Since 2003, he has been working closely with the State of Geneva and the Swiss Confederation for security matters related to e-Gov.
  
  Belonging to the official e-Gov delegation for the Swiss confederation and international Security lecturer [United Nations - ITU - Various Governments and Ministries of Defence - etc], with almost all computer security certifications, he is part of the “Routards” team which became Quadruple Vice-World Champion in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 during the mythic and prestigious international hacking Contest: the DEFCON " Capture The Flag ".
  
  Specialised in microchips and applied cryptography, inventor of Quantum Dana®, used to secure e-services by quantum properties, this expert in protection of sensitive information systems is Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Geneva Solutions SA.
  
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  Ned Sherman

  Co-Founding, CEO & Publisher
  Digital Media Wire

  Ned Sherman

  Co-Founding, CEO & Publisher
  Digital Media Wire

  As Co-Founder, CEO & Publisher of Digital Media Wire, Inc., Ned Sherman works at the center of the rapidly growing digital media industry, where he brokers relationships and keeps a tab on the most important developments shaping the industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Publisher Ned Sherman is more than the average pundit: He is an attorney and has an inside grasp of what is happening.” Ned is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted and profiled in publications including The Wall Street Journal, American Lawyer, LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard and interviewed and featured on C-SPAN and National Public Radio (NPR). Ned is a board member of The Technology Council of Southern California and is a judge for the annual Mobile Excellence Awards. He is also founder and creator of the Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards, which he sold to VNU/Nielsen in 2006. He is also Managing Member of DMW Hexagon, LLC, a San Francisco-based investment and consulting advisory. Before co-founding DMW, Ned was a founding member of the iLaw Group in the Entertainment Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Los Angeles, where he handled licensing and corporate transactions and financings for media and entertainment clients including Universal Studios and MGM and launched dozens of Internet and new media start-ups. From 1997 to 1999, he practiced in the Los Angeles office of Mayer, Brown & Platt where his practice centered on representation of U.S. and foreign banks in syndicated lending transactions and securitization matters. From 1995 to 1997, he was a foreign lawyer at Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo, Japan, where his practice involved international mergers and acquisitions and the formation of technology and entertainment joint venture companies. He also served as President of the Roppongi Bar Association in Tokyo, the leading association for foreign lawyers working in Japan. In 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer of Law at Tulane University Law School where he taught an entertainment law seminar. Ned is a graduate of Brown University (AB, with honors, 1990) and the University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1994).
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  Bill Young

  Managing Director of EA Ready
  Electronic Arts

  Bill Young

  Managing Director of EA Ready
  Electronic Arts

  EA Ready has a mission…to identify and/or create innovative programs that market EA’s products; not only at no net cost to EA, but at a distinct profit via brand partnership and distribution. As a result, EA Ready allows brands to communicate with gamers in never been done before, highly engaging ways. One recent execution of this was the reality web series, “The Controller: BF3,” a highly successful partnership with CBSi/Gamespot and AMD that resulted in over 3MM views. Another example is EA Signal, an interactive video content wrapper around the Madden 12 game demo on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, in which branded entertainment videos were created in partnership with Chevrolet. EA Ready is proving that you can “Market At A Margin.”
  Prior to EA, Bill was on the network launch team at Massive Inc., the dynamic in-game advertising pioneer that sold to Microsoft in 2006. At Ziff Davis Game Group, he was one of the creators of 1UP.com, a radically innovative take on the gaming enthusiast and lifestyle network. Bill started his career in gaming at Shockwave.com, where as part of that launch team, he worked with casual game developers to develop branded content (including some of the very first in-game advertisements).
  
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  Jim Griffin

  Managing Director
  OneHouse LLC

  Jim Griffin

  Managing Director
  OneHouse LLC

  Jim Griffin is Managing Director of OneHouse LLC, dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art. Today, Jim is focused on accelerating the pace of scholarly research, especially through collaborative tools, sharing and open access to knowledge. He works with Mendeley, a UK company that is changing the world of research. In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. Jim started and runs Choruss LLC, incubated by Warner Music Group. He started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C. While at Geffen, Jim led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world's top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States. While at Warner, Jim led a team the Choruss team that successfully built a new model for sound recordings: Sharing music with flat-fee access to unlimited music downloads for college students. Jim is co-founder of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets for discussion-oriented meals in cities around the world, electronically linked by the Pho mailing list. Pho's many thousands of readers enjoy dialogue on the digital delivery of art and the new economy in music, movies, books and all media. Jim testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment. He is often a keynote speaker or moderator at conferences (Internet Summit, Giga Conference, Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many others) and lectures annually at business schools (Harvard, USC, UCLA, Berkeley). He also serves as an expert witness in digital entertainment, and has presented many Continuing Legal Education courses. In addition to work with music, his expertise includes wireless work in Europe, including at Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, Finland, and with numerous companies in Finland and throughout Europe. He's moderated numerous panels on wireless and given speeches on wireless issues around the world, ranging from music conferences to parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings.
  "One of the sharpest minds in digital music." - CNN Money (Eric Hellweg, January 26, 2003)
  "Entertainment Technology Visionary." - Los Angeles Times (Paul Karon, April 8, 1996)
  
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  Garth Trinidad

  Award-winning DJ
  Host, Music Supervisor

  Garth Trinidad

  Award-winning DJ
  Host, Music Supervisor

  As an award winning, world traveling DJ and unique hustler of culture, Garth is considered the foremost curator of urban alternative music and culture with top-ranking career highlights that span music programming and supervision for film and TV, advertising, online and in-flight entertainment, studio music and live event production, and music journalism. As a voting member of NARAS, Garth sits on the Grammy Awards R&B Board in support of the new Best Urban Alternative Performance category, created as a direct result of his continued approach to music programming. Hungry to nurture and house an international identity for urban artists from all nations, Mr. Trinidad exploits stereos and club speakers to seduce minds and bodies with varied ghetto music philosophies. He’s broken artists like Jill Scott, Van Hunt and Gnarls Barkley and primes his radio canvas with progressive and familiar soul, R&B, hip hop, and jazz, while the rebirth of cool comes courtesy of such rising stars as Seu Jorge, Sa-Ra, Steve Spacek, and J-Davey with hopes of catapulting them into mainstream status. Garth’s approach to rocking parties is a fusion of world rhythms and beloved beats from many genres. One might find him finessing samba, bhangra, and afro-beat with classic hip hop, R&B, house, and other assorted dance rhythms. Over the years he’s lubricated dance floors in South America, Western Europe, and across the US, with a constant presence in Los Angeles. Steadfast in his mission to cultivate a global urban alternative, Garth has been heard as music commentator on NPR syndicated programs News and Notes and The Tavis Smiley Show, and been found blogging, interviewing artists, and programming playlists for Napster and iTunes. As music consultant and supervisor his client roster includes UPN, Nike, FX Network, PBS, Mitsubishi, Infiniti, and United Airlines with record production credits from Warner Bros, Atlantic, Rhino, and BBE. Companies such as Nike, Adidas, Puma, Ford and Toyota have contracted Mr. Trinidad to host events, sport apparel, and drive cars for his ability to influence the market as a respected tastemaker. As music supervisor in 2007, he’s helping HBO add some additional music flavor to the hit show Entourage and has assisted critically acclaimed director Stacy Peralta (Dog Town and Z Boys, Riding Giants) in a gut wrenching study of South Central LA gangs for release in 2008. For the latest information on Garth try www.garthtrinidad.biz.
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  Mick Darling

  Founder & CEO
  Tomorrowish

  Mick Darling

  Founder & CEO
  Tomorrowish

  The idea for Tomorrowish Social TV and all the other tools that surround it originally came from the needs of one person: Amy Greenlaw. A few years ago at SXSW, Amy, who is now our head or Marketing, was watching several TV series intently, I believe the last season of LOST was one she was talking about a lot. She would pop onto Twitter and talk about the show with other strangers using the hashtag #lost to follow the conversation. When she was at SXSW she missed one or two weeks of the show and had to stop looking at the tweets from any of her friends who watched the show. She also couldn't enjoy looking at those comments even as she was watching the show later on her DVR, because spoilers would be visible. I thought, "If only she had a DVR for Twitter she could watch the show and the conversation at the same time whenever she wanted." That was the idea, fully formed while I read a tweet from her talking about missing the fun conversations as she caught up on all the shows she recorded while at SXSW. I tried out a quick test to see how tough it would be and got a VERY simple version working with the help of a friend, Dave Fisher. We put it on the back burner for a year or two and then when the opportunity was right for it, I put together the team that has built a very capable and complex, heuristically aware filtering system to not only replay social media comments, but find the best ones and let people add new comments to the saved conversations days or years later. With help and partnership deals, we have Hulu premium content on our Tomorrowish TV site, and elevated rights to grab the full conversation every night for prime time TV and more.
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  Vince Bannon

  VP, Entertainment Partnerships & Development
  Getty Images

  Vince Bannon

  VP, Entertainment Partnerships & Development
  Getty Images

  Vince Bannon started Concert Company Ritual Inc. while in college in Detroit. The company, which owned and operated nightclubs St. Andrew's Hall, The Shelter (featured in Eminem's movie 8 Mile), Industry Asylum, Industry, and Clutch Cargo's, produced over 550 shows a year and worked with Nirvana, The Police, Prince, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, Nine Inch Nails, and Guns And Roses, among others. Vince served as President from 1979 to 1993. Vince also helped create the popular music festival,Lollapalooza, during this time. From 1994 to 2000, Vince was SVP of Artist Development at 550/ Epic Records, where he worked with Oasis, Travis, Macy Gray, Celine Dion, Des'ree, Fuel and more. From 2000 to 2001, in conjunction with Clear Channel, he co-produced the Area One Festival Tour Featuring Moby,Outkast, Paul Oakenfold, Incubus, The Roots, New Order and more, with over 20 shows in 17 markets. He was subsequently head of A+R for Redline Entertainment, a film and music content company wholly owned by Best Buy. In 2003, Vince became Executive VP of Music Worldwide for image.net. Image.net is a technology solution for entertainment companies and works with Universal Studios, Paramount, Disney, and Warner Music Group, delivering all their marketing materials and assets to media and affiliates worldwide. In 2004, Getty Images acquired image.net. Vince became part of the Getty Images business development team, where he currently is VP, Entertainment Partnerships and Development. Vince has played an integral role in the Michael Ochs' Archive acquisition, Sony/BMG Archive representation, Led Zeppelin Reunion exclusive deal, British Music Experience deal, the acquisition of Pump Audio and the recent Premium Playlist launch on www.gettyimages.com
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  Kevin King

  CEO & Founder
  Music Hype

  Kevin King

  CEO & Founder
  Music Hype

  Kevin King is the Chief Executive Officer of MusicHype, a technology, social music and fan engagement platform specializing in the music vertical. MusicHype.com rewards fans for promoting, listening, generating content, and spending money on the bands they love. MusicHype takes street teams digital and enables bands to use their fans to help them make money from exclusive merchandise, tickets, digital downloads, and other products. Fans sign into MusicHype to see their fan activity across social music services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Last.FM, Spotify, Blip.fm, Instagram, Rdio, and Grooveshark. Fans also see how they've been rewarded for promoting the bands they love. MusicHype is powered by the social commerce Appreciation Engine®, a proprietary underlying technology which labels and artists can tap into to run their digital street teams. MusicHype has worked with OK GO, Thievery Corporation, Ke$ha, Manchester Orchestra, Sony, Warner Music Group, and most recently signed a deal with The Orchard. King also sits on two advisory boards in the social music space, Blip.fm and Mobbase. King created the Blip.fm Sessions and executed over twenty sessions with artists including: Plain White T's, Gomez, Good Old War, One Eskimo, and The Temper Trap. At Mobbase, King has brought on over 600 artists who utilize the platform to build and distribute mobile apps. King has been in the music business for over 10 years, working at most of the major labels. The past 6 years, King has devoted his career and passion to social and mobile music.
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  Michael Kelley

  SVP, Business Development, Programming & Advertising
  Ensequence

  Michael Kelley

  SVP, Business Development, Programming & Advertising
  Ensequence

  Mike Kelley manages Ensequence’s business with the programming and advertising communities. He works collaboratively with leading TV networks, sports leagues, brands and agencies to develop compelling interactive TV experiences across various distribution platforms. His clients include: ESPN, MTV, NBC, Turner Networks, A&E, QVC, HSN, HBO, Showtime, Scripps Networks and Discovery Networks. Kelley’s career has included senior positions with Yahoo!, Mastercard, The Bonham Group, Striker Marketing Group and Publicis’ Relay Sports Group - leading digital media strategy, business development, sponsorship planning and promotional execution. Kelley has worked closely with brands like Coca-Cola, Nike, Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Kraft Chase, NASCAR, NFL, MLS, NCAA, Sony, Motorola, McDonald's, AOL, and many more. Kelley has a passion for digital media and entertainment - especially as it allows media companies and brands to connect with their users in a more meaningful way. He lives in Katonah, New York with his wife and three kids and has a passion for soccer, architecture, and photography.
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  Chad Lucien

  SVP, Sales and Marketing
  Hillcrest Labs

  Chad Lucien

  SVP, Sales and Marketing
  Hillcrest Labs

  Chad Lucien is responsible for Hillcrest Labs' worldwide sales, marketing and business development activities. Since joining Hillcrest in 2004, Chad has been a member of the company's executive management team where he has held positions encompassing corporate strategy, business development, and general management of the Freespace® motion computing product line. During his tenure, he has licensed Freespace solutions to global consumer electronics companies, developed a wide variety of strategic partnerships, and led numerous product launches in the Freespace product line. Chad has over 15 years of experience in corporate strategy, business development, venture consulting, and investment banking. Prior to Hillcrest, Chad was the Director of Strategic Development for TVGateway LLC, where he worked with the cable operators invested in TVGateway to execute a spin-off, reshape the strategy, and complete multiple financings and acquisitions. Prior positions also include Principal of Katalyst LLC, an operational consulting and venture capital firm, and Associate at Houlihan Lokey, an investment banking firm specializing in valuation and merger and acquisition transaction advisory services. Chad earned a bachelor of science in commerce with distinction from the University of Virginia, with concentrations in finance and marketing and is a CFA charterholder.
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  Patrick Sullivan

  Co-Founder
  Rightsflow

  Patrick Sullivan

  Co-Founder
  Rightsflow

  Patrick Sullivan is a leading expert in the field of intellectual property and copyright management for both physical and digital media and was the Founder, President and CEO of RightsFlow, a licensing and royalty service provider. The company was acquired by Google in 2011 to provide music licensing, song Identification, royalty reporting & payment support to YouTube, Google Music, and other enterprise, distribution, label and musician clients. Sullivan spearheads the company’s initiatives to maximize content
  identification, licensing, accounting, and monetization of content for songwriters and publishers globally.
  
  Sullivan has been at the forefront of many pivotal industry issues that have helped define and shape the current market for music in a digital era. His extensive experience in industry negotiations, licensing and royalty payments, digital content management
  and distribution, as well as legislative and legal affairs makes him a frequent lecturer at corporations, universities, and conferences around the world about intellectual property and copyright. He has been a past presenter at the World Copyright Summit, ASCAP Expo, CMJ, NARM, AIMP, A2IM, Leadership Music Digital Summit, Popkomm, and Digital Music Forums East and West.
  
  Patrick’s firm belief that creators should be paid for the use of their work, and his understanding of the complexities surrounding U.S. copyright compliance lead him to launch RightsFlow in 2007. Together with his cofounder, he helped pioneer a service that offers a single, cost--‐effective channel through which rights--‐holders and companies that sell or distribute music can connect, ensuring proper licensing, accurate accounting and timely payment of royalties.
  
  RightsFlow rose to become one of the leading companies helping artists, labels, distributors, and online music services solve the complex issues of copyright compliance and royalty payment as new methods of consuming music emerged. The company’s proprietary licensing, accounting and royalty payment technology helped businesses selling or distributing music in a digitally enabled market to be compliant with U.S. copyright laws. RightsFlow also continues to ensure that artists, songwriters and publishers are paid for the use of their music while providing them with an unprecedented level of data transparency.
  
  Before founding RightsFlow, Patrick served as a dual Vice‐President of Licensing, Royalties and Music Services for both The Orchard Enterprises, Inc. (NasdaqGM: ORCD) & eMusic. Prior to The Orchard, he was a Strategic Licensing Consultant for Selverne, Mandelbaum, & Mintz, a NewYork‐based Entertainment Law Firm. From 1999-2004, he served as the Director of Research and Development at the National Music Publisher’s Association/Harry Fox Agency (HFA), where he managed industry negotiations, internal corporate policy matters, new media, and public relations for the member organization.
  
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  Teemu Huuhtanen

  Head of M&A and Investments
  Rovio

  Teemu Huuhtanen

  Head of M&A and Investments
  Rovio

  Bio coming soon
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  Hanns Koehler-Kruener

  Research director
  Gartner

  Hanns Koehler-Kruener

  Research director
  Gartner

  Hanns Koehler-Kruener is research director in Gartner Research, covering enterprise content management systems and vendors.
  Mr. Koehler-Kruener has more than 15 years of experience in a variety of support, product management, sales and consultancy roles. Prior to joining Gartner, he was a freelance consultant, trainer and facilitator on subjects such as enterprise content management, social content and enterprise search. Before that, he was the AIIM director for Global Education Services EMEA, responsible for AIIM's continued growth in the EMEA region, delivering training and speaking on a wide variety of information management subjects and trends. He has extensive experience in delivery of ECM strategy, imaging and document capture systems, enterprise search and e-discovery products, as well as a strong knowledge of social content vendors.
  
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  Divya Narendra

  Founder & CEO
  SumZero, Inc.

  Divya Narendra

  Founder & CEO
  SumZero, Inc.

  Before founding SumZero, Divya was an Associate at Sowood Capital Management, a $3.5B multi-strategy hedge fund located in Boston, MA. At Sowood, Divya analyzed investment opportunities across the capital structure. Prior to this, he was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse Securities in NYC. Divya graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a degree in Applied Mathematics, and has a joint JD-MBA degree from Northwestern Law and the Kellogg School of Management. While in college, Divya co-founded ConnectU, an online community for university students. His contributions were featured in the Hollywood film, The Social Network.
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  Mike Nichols

  VP, General manager
  GM SoftKinetic Studios

  Mike Nichols

  VP, General manager
  GM SoftKinetic Studios

  Mike is managing the development of content and applications for SoftKinetic. Mike is a 20+ year veteran of the gaming industry, and joined SoftKinetic from Microsoft Games Studio, where he worked as an Executive Producer helping define & co-ordinate development for what would become Kinect. Mike co-founded Surreal Software in 1994 and grew the company and portfolio to become a AAA cross-platform developer with over 60 employees and 6 published franchise titles by 2004. After the Surreal was purchased in 2004 by Midway, Mike successfully transitioned the company onto next generation platform and grew the company to over 100 employees. Mike remains endlessly enthusiastic, creative and passionate about creating high quality interactive entertainment and applications.
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  Jalak Jobanputra

  Managing Director & Founding Partner
  RTP Ventures

  Jalak Jobanputra

  Managing Director & Founding Partner
  RTP Ventures

  Jalak Jobanputra is Managing Director and Founding Partner of RTP Ventures, a $120M venture capital fund in NYC. Previously, she was the Director of Mobile Investments at Omidyar Network, a philanthrocapitalist fund started by Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay. While there, she created a mobile investment strategy, invested in an East African mobile tech incubator, invested in an Indian mobile classifieds site, and closed Omidyar’s largest for profit investment ($5M) to date in Latin America. She has over 18 years experience in venture capital, media and technology. She was previously Senior Vice President at the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF), a private economic development fund founded by Henry Kravis, where she managed the fund’s technology and digital media venture investments. While there, Jalak spearheaded the formation NYCSeed in 2008, a seed fund dedicated to funding early stage tech entrepreneurs in NYC. She also was on the selection committee and served as a mentor and speaker for NYCSeedStart, NYC’s first summer accelerator program. Jalak worked closely with the Bloomberg administration and NYCEDC to implement initiatives to help diversify the NYC economy through NYC’s growing tech/digital sectors and served on Governor Paterson’s Small Business Taskforce. Her portfolio at NYCIF included outside.in (acquired by AOL), Imagespan, Thumbplay and TXVia (acquired by Google) in addition to seed investments Magnetic, Ticketfly, Enterproid and SeatGeek.
  
  Prior to NYCIF, she was a Principal at New Venture Partners, a $300 million early stage venture fund which commercialized technology out of corporate labs. At NVP, she founded and served as interim CEO of Real Time Content (spun out of British Telecom), a personalized video ad platform, and was a Director of Procelerate Technologies, a SaaS workflow management tool for the aerospace industry. She also incubated a range of other technologies, including speech recognition/NLP, 3D displays, video surveillance, 4G wireless broadband and music recommendation software.
  
  From 1999-2003, Jalak was at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, where she invested in enterprise software, internet and digital media startups, including Demantra (sold to Oracle), Extricity (sold to Peregrine), Viacore (sold to IBM), R Systems (IPO), Financial Engines (IPO), Yodlee and Zinio. In 1997 in NYC, in the early days of Silicon Alley, she launched and managed product development for online financial information startup Horsesmouth. She began her career in media, telecom and tech investment banking at Lehman and Broadview in NYC and London.
  
  Born in Nairobi to Indian parents, Jalak has invested, and traveled extensively, in North and South America, India, Europe, Africa, East Asia and Latin America. She is also active in supporting education reform and social entrepreneurship and served as a Trustee of Achievement First Bushwick Charter Schools (Brooklyn) and sits on the Executive Committee of the Social Investment Council of Echoing Green. She is on the Board of Directors for the Center for an Urban Future, Advisory Board of Loreal’s Women in Digital Initiative, and Access to Capital Subcommittee member of the US Secretary of State Women’s Leadership Council. She served as a Mentor for the Unreasonable Institute in Boulder in the summer of 2010, a summer accelerator for social entrepreneurs worldwide. In 2003, she took a year long sabbatical from VC to consult on replication strategy for Gates Foundation funded charter schools, including the Big Picture Company. Jalak spent four months setting up microfinance programs and training women entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania after receiving her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in 1999. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Communications from the Annenberg School and a BSE in Finance from the Wharton School.
  
  Jalak was selected as an Outstanding 50 Asian American in Business in 2010 by the Asian American Development Center. She was selected as a US State Department Delegate to Indonesia in the summer of 2011, where she met with entrepreneurs, angel investors and business leaders to promote tech entrepreneurship. Jalak is a Techstars NYC Mentor, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Mentor, Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Advisory Board Member of Astia NYC, the Wharton Private Equity Network, Kellogg Entrepreneurs, and is a frequent speaker and judge at entrepreneur and venture conferences, including Mobile World Congress, CTIA, TechCrunch Disrupt, Bloomberg and AlwaysOn. She has been asked to speak on entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems by the Obama White House, as well as governments worldwide. She can be found at @jalak or on her blog www.thebarefootvc.com.
  
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  Michael Widenius

  Founding member
  MySQL AB company

  Michael Widenius

  Founding member
  MySQL AB company

  Michael Widenius, often called 'Monty', is the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and was a founding member of the MySQL AB company.
  
  In 1985, Monty founded TCX DataKonsult, a Swedish data warehousing company, together with Allan Larsson. Based on work done at TCX DataKonsult he created the first version of the MySQL database together with David Axmark in 1995. He was awarded the Finnish Software Entrepreneur of The Year prize in 2003, and provided the highest honorary title of MySQL Fellow at MySQL AB in 2007.
  
  Until Sun Microsystems bought MySQL in January 2008, he was the chief technical officer of MySQL AB and is still one of the primary forces behind the ongoing development of the product.
  
  Monty left Sun in February of 2009 and has since been active in two companies. He is Founder and CEO of Monty Program Ab, which continues the free, independent and open source core development of the MySQL codebase under the MariaDB name. In parallel, Monty acts as the Technology, Community and Open Source Wizard at Open Ocean Capital Oy, a Venture Capital company investing in disruptive software startup companies in Europe.