Keynote Speakers
Garrett Camp, Founder & Chief Product Officer, StumbleUponGarrett is responsible for StumbleUpon's product design and strategy. He has guided StumbleUpon's design and development since 2001, from inception to over 5M members. Garrett completed his Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he researched collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval. He is also a 2007 recipient of MIT Technology Review's TR35 award |
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Michael Liebreich, Co-Founder & CEO, New Energy FinanceMichael Liebreich is an experienced venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Michael is the CEO of New Energy Finance, which is a specialist provider of financial information to the renewable energy and energy technology industry, and its investors. NEF also provides consultancy and transaction support: it is based in the U.K. but is global in scope, http://www.newenergyfinance.com. The investment analysis at NEF covers the sectors of: biofuels; biomass, solid waste and biogas; efficiency breakthroughs; electricity storage; fuel cells; geothermal; hydro (small scale); hydrogen; marine, renewable extraction of energy from the sea; passive energy saving; solar; and wind power. During 2000 and 2001, Michael was UK Managing Director of a Groupe Arnault division that invested $700m in technology, media and telecommunications. Before that, Michael was Deputy Managing Director of Associated Press Television, and also spent 5 years with McKinsey & Company in their London office, working throughout Europe and North America, specializing in operations and finance. Michael has a Masters of Arts in Engineering with First Class Honours from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he was a Baker Scholar and Harkness Fellow. His interest in energy goes back to his undergraduate years, when he won the Cambridge University Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics. Michael speaks fluent German and French, and good Spanish. He was a member of the British Ski Team from 1986-1993, competing in the World Cup and in the 1992 Albertville Olympics. |
Peter Hartzbech, Co-Founder & CEO, iMotions - Emotion TechnologyPeter is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of iMotions. Peter's passion is global entrepreneurship and building companies. Driven by a desire to make a difference in the world, he embarked upon his entrepreneurial career by starting his first venture at the age of 25. Prior to founding iMotions, he worked in Ernst & Young Denmark and Venture Cup Denmark, where he advised start-up companies on business plans, strategic and financial issues. In December 2006, Peter was appointed by Red Herring Magazine as Top 25 under 35, where the Magazine appoints Notable Entrepreneurs under 35. Peter's positive attitude and global vision have been the main driving forces behind iMotions' rapid growth and expansion. Within the first 18 months of iMotions' existence, he raised $US 4 million in venture capital and the capital raised is now totalling $US 6.9 Million. He has also devised the "True Born Global Framework" to rapidly commercialize and internationalize the disruptive technologies and the strategy is applied in iMotions. His experience in financing and business strategy, and his global network spanning across more than 90 countries, plays a continuing role in the company's global expansion. Peter's background is in Business Administration and Accounting, and has studied at world class institutions where he achieved academic honours. He has a Master's Degree in Accounting, Economics, and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School (no thesis handed in), and also attended the Schulich School of Business in Toronto; the London School of Economics; the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania; and The Australian National University in Canberra. Peter actively participates in projects for aspiring entrepreneurs from around the world, and is a frequent speaker at entrepreneurship lectures and conferences. He is currently on the jury of Young Enterprise Denmark. He is a prior Jury Member of Venture Cup,the Danish National Business Plan competition and is now acting as a coach for new teams. |
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