Mr. Katter is responsible for business development activities which put emerging technology companies in front of Intel’s top customers and other potential strategic partners. He is working with companies like Alcatel-Lucent, BNP Paribas, BMW, Cap Gemini, Morgan Stanley, Sony Mobile Telecom Italia, Total, and many others. Previously, Horst has been with Intel Corporation for 7 years where he was responsible for ISV marketing, SAP alliance, server platform management, enterprise market development and marketing operations for the EMEA region. He also held strategic positions in professional services, business development, strategic marketing, public relations and corporate management in Europe and Middle East.

Founder of Deulcom lnternational, one of the fastest growing trademark of Turkey that was prized by Eurowards. Founder of UFRAD – Turkish Franchise Association. Elected as the Best Businessman – 2010. His company Links Angel is acting as a business angel platform supporting start-up businesses in Turkey. Full member of World Business Angels Association. One of the dragons of Dragons’ Den, entrepreneurship TV show. He was the only participant of a White House Presidential Summit in Washington DC who was given a personal audience by the US President Obama. Serves as Ambassador to Turkey & Balkan Countries at World Entrepreneurship Forum.

Founded Aggio Partners, focusing on building high performing management teams in the global life sciences sector. He mentors entrepreneurs, runs workshops and contributes to MBA courses and executive leadership programs including VISION, UCL’s leadership forum for the biological sciences industry. Aggio works with investment companies seeking to transform under-performing assets. They work with seed businesses which have developed novel technologies and are embarking on ambitious growth curves, as well as with multinationals establishing operations in new markets and territories.

Tobias is a venture partner at  Kwamecorp and a research fellow in Innovation at Huddersfield University, which is one of the most entrepreneurial universities in the UK, and has www.3mbic.com, a leading innovation space. He is also on board of the Wye, a creative industry and tech co-working space in Berlin. He mentors and advises a number of startups through various initiatives including Startup Bootcamp, having particular interest in medical startups and hardware. He worked on economic development in Serbia and around SE Europe from 2002-2005, as a Program Director at the Soros Foundation.

Irina has considerable experience in corporate finance and financial advisory, including acquisitions, VC financing, disposals and exits, valuations, research and due diligence. She has been instrumental in success of a number of IPOs, trade sales (buy and sell side), capital increases, private placements, and public-to-private transactions (tender offers). LAUNCHub is a seed fund supporting the most promising entrepreneurs and digital startups in South and Eastern Europe. Their investments vary up to 200K Euro and they also run a mentor-led program helping young entrepreneurs grow their business faster

Anita is COO of META Group’s subsidiary in Croatia, in charge of Globe Innovation Platform Concept in Croatia, SEE and CEE region. She is also supporting fund management and activities of Ingenium Slovenia Fund. Prior to joining META Group, she served as COO at USAID project Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) which supported financial sector development in SEE and Eurasia. There she built a broad network of more than 200 investors, business angels, incubators, and technology parks with the goal to improve the investment climate and entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region. From 2006-2010, Anita served as Director and Fund Manager of Fund Company Subsidiaries of Closed Ended Real Estate Fund under the Management company Jadran Invest LTD.

Ivo devised Eleven’s strategy. He was previously a director in a private equity fund, but now wants to change the VC industry from the bottom up. Eleven is a EUR 12 million venture fund that provides financing to early-stage startups using an incremental investment approach alongside iterative development – thereby, starting with many small experiments, filter out failures, and invest in successes. Eleven is powered by Springboard, the leading European startup accelerator.

Balaji Bal’s 16 year entrepreneurial career has spanned both start-ups and turn-arounds. Companies he has founded or led include SurfKitchen (acquired by Teleca AB), FlauntR (acquired by Fotodesk Group AG), Fotodesk Group AG (Acquired by the CEWE Color AG) and DeviceDriven among others. He is currently CEO of Bal Lab, a boutique software company focused exclusively on product engineering, primarily for start-ups. They are currently working on projects for start-ups in multi-channel messaging, banking, travel and big data image analytics. They are located in Belgrade, Serbia and Basel, Switzerland.

Tatjana joined RSG Capital in early 2007, only few months after its establishment. She co-founded the venture capital fund and contributed to setting up an existing venture capital business. As investment director she now serves on boards of the portfolio companies TAB Systems, ShoutEm and Efos. Prior to joining RSG Capital, Tatjana was a corporate finance adviser in Deloitte, mainly engaged in transaction services, M&A advisory and in-depth company reviews. She also consulted on development strategies and worked on company valuation projects.

Dejan has over 15 years’ experience as a broker, capital markets, investment and M&A consultant and business development specialist in countries of Balkan region. He started his career in M&V Investments in 1998, and in 2003 set up his own brokerage firm Sinteza Invest Group. During 6 years, he provided brokerage and consulting services in privatization of over 150 companies in Serbia and the region. From 2006 till 2010, Dejan performed several successful acquisition projects in Serbia and the Balkan region. From 2010 to 2012, he served in Ascendant Capital Advisors Belgrade, one of the leading investment banking boutique – M&A advisor in Adriatic region, as Managing Partner for Serbia.

Aleksandar is a co-founder and president of Serbian Business Angels Network (SBAN), one of the leading venture capital/private equity organizations in Serbia that brings together investors, successful entrepreneurs and other relevant stakeholders. Since May 2012, SBAN represents SEE region in a Board of Directors at EBAN (European Business Angels Network). Aleksandar founded engineering company HTEC and invested in few technology start ups.

Peat Miletic is the founder of FinMetrix, Inc. a consultancy which focuses on lean consulting, advanced operational performance measurement, collaborative change management, and operational strategy implementation. Peat is especially passionate about creating exceptional teams, and this philosophy is the guiding principle for equity investing in companies in Serbia, such as Digital ST. FinMetrix, Inc. clients are some of the most renown global corporations operating in virtually all industries. The combined competency platform allows FinMetrix to deliver significant benefits to these clients and compete effectively in global markets.

Mr. Fartunov’s experience is in investment banking, consulting and online media in the Netherlands and Europe. He gained investment banking experience at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Amsterdam and EFG Eurobank Securities in Sofia. As a consultant, Ivan was part of the team that advised LG on their entry in the Benelux Digital Signage market. Most recently, Ivan served as Interim Director of the online edition of a major Bulgarian newspaper. While at university, Ivan was the vice-president of the university investment club, where he was responsible for identifying investment opportunities in CEE in collaboration with ACATIS Investment– a German value investing fund.

Mihovil has 15 years of experience in financial sector where he has, among other things, managed investment funds and a brokerage company. He was member of 29 supervisory boards, including that of Petrokemija. Along with his investments in capital markets, he continuously invested in different investment projects as well.

Gwidon is the co-founder of Xevin Investments Ltd. He graduated from Lazarski University. He has over 11 years experience in online advertising. During that time he held numerous managing positions in biggest online advertising companies in Poland such as CR Media Consulting, AdNet, Sabela Media Polska, Cube Group.

Vedran is working at Google’s Adriatics office based in Zagreb, Croatia as a digital consultant helping Google’s clients and those who might become one, to make the most out of the web – from early phase start-ups to large companies from multiple industries. He has been in the ‘intangible’ business for 10 years, working in marketing, sales and business development roles while leading many startups in that time, some of which are international. Vedran prefers the ‘unknown’ and of restless spirit and is dedicated in helping the regional startup scene.

He is serving corporate clients in the energy and technology sectors across the CEE/SEE region in the context of strategy development, performance improvement programs, and M&A mandates. Previously, he was an M&A advisor at TheMerger, a Viennese boutique investment bank for European technology startups and an associate with SpeedInvest, the region’s first super angel fund. Marius furthermore supports the annual Pioneers Festival and is a board member of “Austrian Startups”, a national industry association for technology startups.

Geoff has spent over 30 years in the technology industry. From 1980 he had a number of general management and CEO positions including as founder of two companies which he successfully exited. Subsequently he has held a number of executive and non-executive Chairman roles in technology companies a number of which have been start-ups / spin outs from UK universities addressing sectors such as waste management, telecoms and manufacturing software, server cooling technologies, truck tire management and structured cabling management. In all of these roles he has a material equity stake. He has built considerable experience in M&A having bought or sold 15 companies and has raised well in excess of $250m in funding via Private equity, venture capital etc.

During international career, working for NCR, Electrohome, Telekom Srbija, B92, Mr. Vatres acquired vast expertize and business insights from various industries. As CEO and co-owner of Digital ST, Mr. Vatres laid foundation for disruptive approach in business, digital and mobile solutions. DBrain, globally unique platform, has became a backbone for highly sophisticated software solution that enables complex data modeling, finance metrics and connection to COGNOS reporting software.

Saša co-founded Five minutes (www.fiveminutes.eu), the largest shop for mobile application development in the region, employing 55 people. He is co-founder of ShoutEm (www.shoutem.com), an easy to use native app builder that allows users to create a full-fledged iPhone and Android app with no coding. In 2010, ShoutEm raised $1Mil investment from Slovenian VC fond RSG capital, which allowed it to grow to one of the most famous platforms of its kind, with offices in Zagreb and New York and customers like the famous NY rapper 50 cent, USA Today, American Museum of Natural History, The Next Web, and others. A month ago Saša made his first exit by selling his share in Five minutes, the multi-million dollar business.

Vukašin co-founded SEE ICT, a not for profit organization that influences Serbian and regional tech startup ecosystem development and community building. SEE ICT delivered several important projects, including Startup Academy. He made startit.rs, a hub for Serbian tech startup community. Vukašin also co-founded a successful startup called TruckTreck.  Startup went to Seed Camp and got few important acknowledgments and prizes.

Milica started her finance/investment advisory career at International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2001 focusing on the Balkan region. As finance advisor and business assessor, she assisted over 130 enterprises in developing, appraising, structuring and implementing investment projects in emerging economies. She has an extensive experience in financial analysis, equity valuation, M&A due diligence and financial restructuring. In 2013 she utilized her financial advisory and A2F expertise in order to develop and implement Investment Readiness Programme for SMEs within the Integrated Innovation Support Programme in Serbia.

Jana is Co-founder and Partner at LiveViewStudio, cross-media creative agency from Belgrade. As a content and technology specialist LiveViewStudio is creating interactive Augmented Reality solutions for wide scope of clients, from large corporate brands to public sector and cultural institutions. LiveViewStudio’s innovative approach to technology has been recognized by leading media and conferences, including among others: Wired, Creative Review, The Creators Project, and conferences like InsideAR, AWE 2013, Museums and Web.

Ralph says he is an entrepreneur because of two reasons – to have fun and make ideas work, and to contribute to a better world without being dependent on any policy or donor. His goal is to start a new (social) company every 6 months! He became an entrepreneur in Belgrade after 3 years of helping young people in the region to start their own company and after 3 years as a policy advisor in city diplomacy for Dutch local government. He founded tourist companies iBikeBelgrade, iBikeNoviSad and Belgrade Nightlife Academy, and is founder and director of the first international bicycle-festival in Serbia: Beograd Velograd.

Elena has spent 12 years in the energy and IT industry. She is involved in Accenture Smart Grid business developmentand supports projects as a Senior Manager in Europe, ME, Africa and Latin America in control system solutions andSmart Grid projects. Prior to joining Accenture, she has worked as Energy Consultant, entrepreneur, business developer, PM and expert throughout the world. She is a published author of a book „Transfer of best practice and available technology in renewable energy sources for isolated regions“ translated in five languages and a guest speaker at international conferences involving technical aspects of network automation control and system integration.

Tomas has successfully built up an innovative venture in the area of Social Media Monitoring, from scratch up to profitability and domestic market leadership. He now works as doctoral researcher at Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, and on down-to-earth new venture projects, helping them with his experience, network and knowledge. Tomas has already done and is further conducting some benchmarking research on startup accelerators across Europe. On the practical side, he is more and more focused on new ventures within the Health / Biotech sector.

International manager at GAIA, an expert in International Commerce, an active member of the Department of Telecommunications of the International Chamber of Commerce, board member manager of the European Network of Living Labs, Advisor of governments for regulatory issues affecting to Cluster companies. He has a broad experience in international projects coordination on ICTs, ecommerce for SMEs, RTD projects to improve competitiveness in the telecommunications sector financed by directorates of the European Commission. And he has also vast experience in ICT business development in countries like India, China, USA, and in many European countries like Austria, Germany, etc.

Programme Manager of “Pokreni se za posao” project at NGO ENECA, (Expert Community Association), funded by Philip Morris Operations Serbia and supported by RTS, where he also led “Poverty reduction through support of start-up businesses” project. Previously he was Relationship Manager for Mid Market at UniCredit Bank Serbia Regional Centre Niš, and Corporate Relationship Manager at Sociėtė Generale Bank Serbia Regional Centre Niš. He also worked as Grant Manager / Consultant for entrepreneurs and SMEs at German NGO “Help-Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe” and National Training Coordinator at OSCE.

Mina Mićanović has graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and started her professional career in the field of development and implementation of intelligent information systems, first in Arius as a developer of reporting solutions for the banking sector, and then in the Asseco SEE (former Pexim) Business Intelligence department. In Mid-2008, she came to Poslovna Inteligencija where she holds position of Executive director from the beginning of 2011. Miss Mićanović is one of the leading consultants for modeling, design and implementation of DWH and BI solutions with expert knowledge of business processes in the telco and financial services industry.