Advisory board
Esther Dyson
| Founding member the digerati, former Chairman of the ICANN and EFF, editor at large at CNET, currently chairman of EDventure Holdings investing in companies such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Orbitz, Plazes, Technorati, Powerset.. Board member of Meetup, Midentitym, NewspaperDirect, 23andMe, Yandex and WPP Group. Ms. Dyson is also on the boards and executive committees of the Santa Fe Institute and the Institute for East-West Studies, and on the board of the Eurasia Foundation. |
Alexander Dembitz
| After a career in software engineering with International Computers Limited and the Midland Bank Group in the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland, Alex established the IDOM Group in 1988, a consulting firm specialized in the banking, organization and information technology. IDOM grew to be the largest consulting firm in East/Central Europe employing in excess of 500 staff through 13 offices. The IDOM Group was acquired by Deloitte & Touche and was integrated into Deloitte consulting activities. As a result, Alex became a partner and subsequently Chairman, Deloitte & Touche Central Europe (DTCE). DTCE was the largest professional services firm in Central Europe. Since 2000, Alex is involved with private equity. |
Bojana Fazarinc
| Former Director of Global Marketing Services and Brand Management for Hewlett-Packard worldwide and Chair of the BBB OnLine Board of Directors. |
Morten Lund
| Entrepreneur and Angel investor(Bullguard, Zyb, Skype, Maxthon)LundXY |
Max Palla
| Former MD of Ogilvy & Mather Direct, Founder of Palla, Koblinger & Partner, former CEO of PKP/BBDO group in Austria, former board member Proximity Europe, now Management Consultancy MPC. Max is President of the International Advertising Association (IAA) Austrian Chapter. |
Senia Rapisarda
| Executive Director of the Private Equity Institute at London Business School. Former Managing Director and Head of the Technology Private Equity team at Nomura. VP in the Telecommunications and Technology teams of Salomon Smith Barney and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, mainly involved in structured finance and equity investments in Eastern Europe. |
Andrej Vizjak
| Former Executive VP at Bertelsmann Media, Partner and VP at A.T.Kearney and Managing Director of A.T.Kearney for South East Europe. Recently published books “Media Management” and “Growing in Niches“. |
Jure Leskovec, Research Fellow
| PHD at Carnegie Mellon Microsoft Graduate Research Fellowship, Yahoo! Research Modelling real-world networks, machine learning, data mining |