Tag Archives: Accelerate

Joyce Kim – Stellar – San Francisco

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Joyce began her career as an attorney at Sherman & Sterling and Wilmer Hale while also working pro bono at Sanctuary for Families and the Innocence Project. She became CEO of Soompi in 2006 and cofounded simplehoney, a mobile commerce startup, in 2011.

Before cofounding Stellar, Joyce was a VC at Freestyle Capital. She graduated from Cornell University at the age of 19, followed by graduate school at Harvard and Columbia Law School. Joyce is currently a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab.

Alejandro Barrera – Tech.eu – Madrid

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Alex is the Chief WOWness Officer at Press42.com where he helps companies tell better stories and fiddle with their data storytelling.

Alex is also cofounder and associated editor at Tech.eu where he helps cover all things tech in southern Europe.

In a previous life he was a hacker, cofounded two startup accelerators (Tetuan Valley & Startupbootcamp) and was part of the Global Shapers by the World Economic Forum.

Joe Haslam – IE Business School – Madrid

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Joe Haslam is the Chairman and co-founder of Hot Hotels, Europe´s largest last minute hotel booking App and a Techstars (Boston, Summer 2015) company.

At IE Business School, he is the Executive Director of the Owners Management Program which focuses on how to scale up companies. He also teaches an elective on exponential technologies called Trillion Dollar Challenges in the MBA program.

He has experience in the Enterprise Software, Video Games and Online Security fields. Born in Ireland, Joe has lived in Madrid for the last 12 years.

Rishita Bachu – Aptoide – Lisbon

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Rishita is the Head of Advertisement and Monetization at Aptoide, one of the leading global Android App Stores. She is currently responsible for the definition and management of a successful strategy for Aptoide Ads, establishing partnerships with the largest performance-based mobile advertising networks and creating disruptive business models.

Having worked on both product and user acquisition for the last 7 years, Rishita exercises a holistic approach to analytics, keeping an eye on customer happiness and engagement, while focusing on growing the business as a whole.

Global citizen, born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal. Rishita holds an Executive Master Degree in Marketing Management from INDEG – ISCTE Business School with exchange in Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands).

Rishita´s philosophy is simple: Mobile is making marketing evolve. Companies need to adapt in order to keep-up. Right now.

Moaffak Ahmed – Sisu Game Ventures – Finland

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Moaffak is a serial entrepreneur turned early stage investor working with ambitious founders of technology companies who want to disrupt boring businesses – in finance, commerce, communications, education, and entertainment.

Previously, Moaffak was co-founder of Trema (today: Wall Street systems), the leading technology solution for global corporations and financial institutions to manage their financial risks, assets and trading.