Meet the speakers: Patrick Vlaskovits

Founder of Superpowered Audio Engine & NYT bestselling author

Patrick Vlaskovits is a NYT bestselling author and founder of Superpowered. His writing has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and The Browser.  Patrick speaks at technology conferences nationally and internationally, including SXSW, GROW Conference, The Turing Festival and The Lean Startup Conference. He serves as a mentor for 500 Startups seed fund and startup accelerator.

Patrick holds a Master’s in Economics (emphases in finance and econometrics) from University of California, Santa Barbara. He can be found with family usually on the beach or in the ocean surfing or SUP-ing.

Meet the speakers: Alexandre Barbosa

Managing Director, Faber Ventures

Co-Founder and Managing Director of Faber Ventures, early stage VC and startup studio. Alexandre has over 15 years of experience in business innovation and growth as entrepreneur and investor in tech companies, executive manager and strategy consultant.

His previous experiences include serving as Co-Founder and CEO of Innovagency, as CEO of Atlântico and Blueticket and as Associate at Oliver Wyman. Alexandre is also mentor at Seedcamp Lisbon, Founder Institute Lisbon, Startup Lisboa, Beta-Start, Startup Live Lisbon.

Meet the speakers: Stephan Morais

Board Member & Executive Director, Caixa Capital

Stephan Morais is an Executive Director at Caixa Capital, the Private Equity and Venture Capital fund management company of Caixa Geral de Depósitos with 750 Million Euros under management, where he leads Venture Capital and co-leads Private Equity investments.

With a diversified background as an investment banker, consultant, entrepreneur and CEO, he has lived in 8 countries and 4 continents over the last 18 years. He is a non-Executive Director and Advisor to numerous innovative companies and member of Investment Committees of several VC and PE funds. He is also the current Chairman of the European Venture Fund Investors Network, which gathers 24bn Euros from several major European fund managers, Council Member of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (VC Council), and Council Member of International Venture Network, that gathers over 50 European Venture Capital firms.

Meet the speakers: Alexis Bonte

Co-founder & CEO eRepublik Labs

Entrepreneur, co-founder at eRepublik Labs and angel investor Alexis has a strong general management background and a 17 years 360 degrees experience in all types of start ups from early stage to post IPO (lastminute.com, eRepublik Labs etc.)

Recognized by the World Economic Forum (Davos) as a Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2012. He is passionate about building successful organizations and management teams in fast growing environments, to deliver maximum results by offering the best service to customers. Building great companies is hard its also an incredibly interesting adventure.

Meet the speakers: Rodrigo Martinez

Early Stage Investor, Point Nine Capital

Rodrigo joined Point Nine Capital as an Investment Associate after finishing his MBA at London Business School in 2013. Previously, he was a Summer Associate at Index Ventures in London. Prior to that he worked as a Senior Strategy Consultant at PwC in Madrid.

Meet the speakers: Chrys Chrysanthou

Exec-in-Residence, Notion Capital

Chrys joined Notion as Exec-in-Residence in 2015 from Accel Partners, where he was a VP on the investment team. Prior to Accel, Chrys was at Amazon Web Services, where he led Business Development efforts of the startup ecosystem, across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before AWS he was COO of Living PlanIT, a B2B startup technology company enabling the development of intelligent and sustainable urban-scale environments. Chrys worked at Cisco for approximately 10 years, where he led Services-related investments, acquisitions worldwide among other IT tasks.

He has lived and worked in Silicon Valley, UK, Portugal and India and led projects in the Middle East, South Africa, China and Singapore. Chrys holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University.

Meet the speakers: Jeremy Yap

Angel Investor

Jeremy is an angel investor from Singapore, mostly based in London for the last ten years with a portfolio of 30+ investments in the US, UK, Sweden, Israel, and Singapore. He is mostly interested in big data/predictive analytics, consumer and mobile technologies, and finding a cure for jetlag. Some of his investments include Citymapper, Azimo, Move Guides, Skycatch, and Mapillary.

Prior to being unemployed, Jeremy ran two equity derivatives trading desks at Merrill Lynch, and was shouted at a lot as a Lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces (and at the bank too come to think of it). He also has separate degrees in Psychology, Finance, and Financial Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, and the National University of Singapore.