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Julie Meyer is an American who has lived in Europe (Paris and London) since September 1988, building global leading technology-enabled firms, shaping the financing of entrepreneurship and helping founders to build & define their industries. She founded Ariadne Capital in August 2000 to bring the "Entrepreneurs Backing Entrepreneurs" model from her native California to Europe as no one was doing this in Europe at the institutional level at that time. Julie is known for tackling system-level problems and backing entrepreneurs who do so as well. In 1998, she saw the need for a people & investor network across Europe, and built First Tuesday for the market, selling in July 2000 for 20 X her seed investment. She is an advisor to and shareholder in Matternet, the much loved and inspiring drones/UAV firm, as well as a Board Director to Vestergaard, the for-profit humanitarian development firm. She advised Monitise, a global leader in mobile money, from 2004 through 2012. She has backed explosive growth companies like Espotting in 2002, Zopa in 2005, SpinVox in 2006, BeatThatQuote in 2009 (sold to Google), Taggstar & Quill in 2012. Julie was part of the early team at Tom Teichman's NewMedia Investors in 1998, which became early stage investment firm Spark Ventures in October 1999. At NewMedia Investors, she co-managed deals in key technology companies including ArcCores, lastminute.com and WGSN.
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David became President of EGDF in 2013 and has led its growth in membership, campaigning, fundraising and working co-operatively with other European organisations. He has impressive experience in charity governance combined with an international business background as European Finance Director. He served as chairman of the Royal National College for the Blind in the UK for 10 years, initiating and overseeing a £20 million building programme and the re-organisation of the college. He also served as founding chairman of The Priors School, saving it from closure by the local education authority and running it as an independent fee-free village school for 15 years until it became the first government-funded Free School in 2011. David became a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is an alumnus of Warwick Business School. He had a successful international career in the motor industry, and then ran his own business for many years. He has raised large amounts for charity, initiating, organising and participating in fundraising campaigns, including Cycle Cuba for Guide Dogs UK. In 2005 he ran the London Marathon for the RNCB, the Blind Business Association, RP Fighting Blindness, and the Priors School. In 2013 he ran the Plymouth Half Marathon for Motor Neurone Disease. RP runs in his family with his mother and brother also affected. He got his first guide dog, Zoey, five years ago and lost his last useful vision in 2013.
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As the Creative Director of Old-Continent – an Agency specialised in Visual Communication, Charlelie had the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients, from European institutions to Private product-oriented companies and NGOs. He worked 2 years in the European Parliament then 2 years as a freelance strategist in Communication before setting up a Communication Agency with Gauthier Bas. Old-Continent is currently composed of 7 people and has been serving more than 50 clients on 170+ projects over the last 3 years. Old-Continent works on every communication tool - from full integrated campaigns to web, print and video.
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Geert Baetens has been the Head of Communication & PR at the Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs since 2008. He started his career in the early 1990s at the Belgian Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology as promoter and communicator of science and research in Belgian universities. After this he worked on the development of the online newspapers of the Concentra media group and he was head of electronic communication with telecom operator Mobistar (Orange-Belgium). Geert holds a Master’s degree in linguistics and literature.
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Fran Bambust is a communication advisor, “imaginer” and author. She works as a campaign and information strategist for the Belgian agency CIBE. In 2009 she developed the 7E Change Design model based on behavioural insights because she needed the tools to build effective campaigns. The model has since been successfully implemented to address several social issues, introducing the concept of choice architecture in the Flemish communication sector.
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Daniel Freund leads Transparency International's work on the integrity of the EU institutions. He is responsible for EU Integrity Watch (www.integritywatch.eu), as well as the work on legislative transparency, conflicts of interest, lobbying, revolving doors and the legislative footprint. Before joining TI, Daniel was a political adviser to German Green Gerald Häfner in the European Parliament working on constitutional and legal issues. Daniel is also one of the founders of the European Daily, a platform for news and opinion from a European perspective. Daniel has previously worked at the German Foreign Ministry, the EU Delegation to Hong Kong, Deloitte Consulting and the French National School of Administration (ENA). Daniel has a master’s degree in public affairs from Sciences Po Paris and an undergraduate degree in political sciences, economics and law from Leipzig University. Daniel has also studied International Relations at the Elliott School of the George Washington University.
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Dennis is a Dashmote Storyteller & Image Fanatic | DESC(/desc_org) & ECE(/Entrepren_EUR) | 10th year anniversary as a serial entrepreneur | Currently based in Amsterdam.
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Dave is a Senior Manager ,20 years of expertise in international bank accounts and cards, insurance, internet banking, tax optimal financial products, acquiring real estate in Belgium, pension. I have been an Expat.
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Daniel Kaplan is the founder and General Manager of the New Generation Internet Foundation (FING). In 1986, Daniel Kaplan founded JKLM, a leading digital communications agencies in the world, he leads until the early 1990s before becoming a consultant. He then participated in founding the consulting firm digital strategies, Proposition. Since the 1990s, Daniel Kaplan is deeply involved in the development of the Internet in France and in the world. Globally, it was responsible for members of the Internet Society and contributed to the creation of ICANN. He was a member of the Expert Chamber of the eEurope program. In France, he took part in the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies (CSTI), attached to the Prime Minister. In 2000, he founded FING, a think tank dedicated to "produce and share new and actionable ideas anticipate the digital transformation. " He is or was a member of several corporate and academic foresight committees (Inria, Telecom Ecole de Management...). Daniel Kaplan is also part of France's National Digital Council.
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Tony Bass is an independent EU affairs and public relations consultant. He has been a Press Officer and communications advisor in a number of Irish ministries, including Foreign Affairs during an Irish Presidency. He was also Head of Training for the Irish Presidency of 2004. More recently, he has been a team leader on an EU regional project in the Western Balkans and is currently a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations. Tony worked as a seconded national expert at the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht and lectured at the College of Europe in Bruges.. He has extensive practical experience in EU forums, including Council of Minister's meeting, Comitology committees and Council working parties.
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Guido Romeo is data and business journalist. He writes for Il Sole 24 Ore where he also manages the development of Discovery24, a project supported by the Google DNI initiative. He is also co-founder of the Ngo Diritto di Sapere (Your Right To Know) and among the most active promoters of Foia4Italy, the civil society initiative which was instrumental in drafting the first Italian Freedom of Information Act passed in 2016. Graduated from the University of Bologna, he holds a journalism degree from the Ècole Supérieure de Journalisme in Lille, France, and a masters in communications. He has been Armenise-Harvard science-writer fellow at the Harvard School of Medicine and winner of the Astra Zeneca award for science communication, the Piero Piazzano science and environment reporting award, the Amundsen prize for coverage of climate change and the Voltolino, Italy’s most prominent prize for science reporting. In 2013 Guido has been appointed member of the National commission of statistics users by Istat's president. Specialties: journalism, transparency, data journalism, tech and social innovation, environment, energy with an emphasis on new and renewable sources, urban development and planning of innovation ecosystems.
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Francesca Bria is a Nesta Senior Project Lead in the Nesta Innovation Lab. She is the EU Coordinator of the D-CENT project on direct democracy and social digital currencies and the she is the Principle Investigator of the DSI project on digital social innovation in Europe. Francesca is a Researcher and Teaching Associate at Imperial College Business School in the Innovation Studies Centre- Digital Economy Lab. She has a background in social science and innovation economics and an MSc in E-business and Innovation from the University College of London, Birkbeck.
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