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Mario Berta – FlySpaces – Manila

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Mario Berta is currently the Founder and CEO of FlySpaces a tech-start up that empowers SMEs to get access to flexible office and retail space.

Formerly Nova Founder’s director for growth, a tech incubator and VC firm that boasts among its investor Richard Li (among HK’s richest tycoon) and Asia Regional Co-Founder of Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi.

True global professional with extensive experience in leadership, strategy, innovation and expansion. Passionate about empowering and enabling people, developing businesses, and supporting companies and institutions all around the World.

Driven by success, strongly believes that we live in a World where relationships are the key to standing out of the crowd and excelling at doing business in present competitive environment.
Built, managed and trained successful sales teams in Africa and in the APAC region, including Papua New Guinea, Macau, Angola, Nigeria, Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Area of expertise: Start-ups, IT / E-commerce, Mobile Payments, Social Media, Telecoms, Advertisement, Business Development / Sales, Training and Coaching.

“Asia Expert” by founding and running multiple businesses for 6 years +.

Fluent in 4 languages: Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese

Contestant in the famous business reality show “The Apprentice”, Spanish version.

Master Degree in Business & Economics from University of Turin with exchange in IE Business School (Madrid)

Cigdem Toraman – Startupbootcamp – Istanbul

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Startupbootcamp Istanbul Managing Director Çiğdem Toraman is one of the top experts on marketing, digital media, finance and commerce in Turkey.

She has consistently played leading roles in her career of 26 years, which include building the electronic trading system for Borsa Istanbul (BIST) in early 1990s, managing all of the research and development activities of Karma International in the second half of 1990s, a 10 year period in Doğan Holding (one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates) with positions including Group Director responsible for Media Sales, Marketing and Technology in Doğan Gazetecilik and later the General Manager of Doğan Online’s private shopping site.

After managing the country-wide operations of the global personalization technology company in 2012-2013, she started her own business in digital media (yumurtaliekmek.com – a specialized news site covering daily news and information in a format that is compatible with the perception of children and teenagers) and e-commerce (arkofcrafts.com – a unique shopping site with a vast collection of works from artists performing traditional Anatolian arts and crafts).

Along with these activities, Çiğdem also acts as a business advisor to several startups (Voscreen, Newsmeter, Neredennereye) and teaches classes at several companies and universities on e-commerce, digital and social media, business development, sales and marketing. She is also the marketing lead at StartersHub.

Mira Kaddoura – Red & Co. – USA

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Mira Kaddoura is an Interactive Artist, Storyteller and Executive Creative Director. In 2013 she founded, Red & Co., a creative and technology agency that helps brands solve problems that matter.

Red & Co.’s first initiative, Made with Code with Google, is seen as one of Google’s most important and ambitious marketing efforts to date.

She has worked in advertising for 14 years 10 of which were at Wieden+Kennedy, both in the US and UK, where she created work like Nike I feel pretty, The Girl Effect, Travel Oregon, Coke Olympics among many others. She tries as much as she can to create work that starts meaningful conversations around topics and causes she believes in. Her work has received numerous national and international press and her honors include TED’s Ads Worth Spreading, several Gold and Silver Lions at Cannes, D&AD Yellow and White Pencils, Gold Effies, Clios, Communications Arts and Webbys.

After working on four continents (so far), she finds it no big deal to hop to the other side of the globe. She speaks a few languages, which helps when hopping so far and so much. Mira thinks her husband, family, yoga and conceptual art projects keep her sane in the crazy world called advertising.

If you meet her you’ll find she has crazy hair that dances almost as crazily as she does.

Loulou Khazen Baz – Nabbesh – UAE

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Throughout her 13-year career in Dubai, Loulou – a Lebanese national – never missed an opportunity to get out of her comfort zone, her journey landed her roles in Hospitality Management, Financial Services, Marketing Management and most recently she was part of the founding team at Venture Capital firm ActiveM where she oversaw the planning and execution of new start-ups across the healthcare, education and technology sectors. In 2012, Loulou founded Nabbesh.com to fulfill her dream of building a world-class business while making a positive impact on the local communities.

In November 2012, Loulou competed with over 2000 regional entrepreneurs and won the reality TV show “The Entrepreneur” for the Nabbesh.com concept bringing the business US$272k in prize money.

Today, Nabbesh.com is a venture backed, fast growing freelance marketplace focusing on top talent from the world’s emerging markets and connecting nearly 80,000 freelancers with 5,000 businesses in over 100 cities across the world.

Through Nabbesh.com companies can find, hire, manage and securely pay screened and handpicked freelancers to get any work done.

Loulou will be speaking at BDL Accelerate 2015 next week! Register to get the chance to see her!