Kristian Segerstrale

Kristian is the co-founder and GM of Playfish – one of the largest and fastest growing social games companies, acquired in late 2009 by Electronic Arts for up to $400m. Kristian has been a games entrepreneur and pioneer for the past 10 years. Prior to founding Playfish in late 2007, Kristian was a co-founder of Macrospace Ltd (Glu Mobile) in 2001, a leading global publisher of mobile games, where he spent 6 years growing the company to become the 3rd largest mobile games company in the world and contributing to a successful NASDAQ IPO in 2007 for $84M.

Robin Klein Robin built, ran and successfully sold several companies. Through Accelerator or Local Globe (the family investment company) he has interests in the following businesses among others: astleyclarke.com, digivate.com, dothomes.com, dopplr.com, glassesdirect.co.uk, lookery.com, lovefilm.com, moo.com, mybuilder.com, netlog.com, openx.com, rjdj.me, seedcamp.com, slideshare.com, stardoll.com, snaptalent.com, spotrunner.com, songkick.com, wonga.com, zemanta.com and zoopla.com.

Stefan Glaenzer Former Executive Chairman and first investor of Last.fm until it’s sale to CBS in 2007 for $280M. Stefan is one of the most active business angels in Europe’s digital space and currently he acts as Executive Chairman for research community platform Mendeley.com and at RjDj.me. Stefan is a serial entrepreneur founding ricardo.de in 1998, a German online-auction company, which he took to IPO at Neuer Markt in 1999, and it was later sold to Nasper in 2007 for $1.8B.

Hermann Hauser Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited.

Stan Boland Prior to founding Icera, Stan was founder, President & CEO of Element 14 Inc, a start-up fabless semiconductor company focused on high density DSL chipsets, which Broadcom acquired for $640M in late 2000.

Steven Brown Steve was one of the founders of buy.at and was both COO and CEO at the business, leaving shortly after the acquisition of the business by AOL for $125m.

Bernard Liautaud Bernard Liautaud founded Business Objects in 1990 and was CEO for 15 years then Chairman until January 2008. With 6,700 employees, 45,000 customers and $1.5 billion of revenue in 2007, Business Objects was the world leader in Business Intelligence and one of the 15 largest software companies in the world. Business Objects was the first European software IPO on Nasdaq in 1994. In January 2008, Business Objects was acquired by SAP for $6.8 billion, making it the third largest software acquisition at the time.

Jos White Jos is a founding partner at Notion Capital, a venture fund and advisory business that focuses on early to mid-stage growth businesses in the Internet based services sector. Before founding Notion, Jos has co-founded three businesses helping to grow them all into market leaders each with revenues in excess of $100M.

David Axmark David is one of the Founders of both the MySQL Project and the company behind it which sold to Sun in 2008 for $1B.