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ETTORE LEALE United States Xplorer Capital Ettore is a founding managing partner at Xplorer Capital, a growth equity firm dedicated to investing in online media and internet enabled businesses across Emerging Markets. Ettore has twenty years of direct investing and operational experience, thirteen years of which have been in the technology and online media industry. Previously he built and managed Yahoo's search marketing business in sixteen countries across the Emerging Markets. In this capacity Ettore formulated and executed overall growth strategies for Yahoo's fastest growing markets which included numerous acquisitions and minority investments in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, India, Middle East and Africa. ZIAD MOKHTAR Egypt Ideavelopers Mr. Ziad Mokhtar is a Partner at Ideavelopers, Cairo's biggest venture capital firm. Together with his co-investors, he manages a $50 million investment fund focusing on early stage technology companies. As part of his role, he serves on the boards of Siware SemiConductors, Nefsak.com, Nezal Entertainment, Swipe'n'tap, and DrBridge. Before that, Mr. Ziad worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he worked on public and private sector projects related to education, healthcare, and economic development. He had also cofounded espace technologies and served as its CEO. During that the company was the leading provider of enterprise mobile solutions in Egypt. NAZ OZERTUGRUL Turkey Atomico Naz leads the work of the Value Creation Team in Turkey and is based in Istanbul. Before joining Atomico in June 2012 Naz worked at the European Headquarters of Google, in Dublin, as a Process Excellence Specialist where she led global process improvement work for Risk and Billing functions. Prior to that, Naz worked as a Strategist for Google focusing on the Turkish market as part of a team leading process improvement for Turkey, coordinating best in class side projects in EMEA and increasing revenues by reaching out to high potential customers. Before joining Google Naz spent a year at Vodafone Turkey as a Finance Management Trainee. OMAR SATI Jordan Dash Ventures Omar Sati helped establish and launch DASH Ventures in November 2011 where he currently works as an angel investor, advisor, and mentor to early-stage, multi-sector startups. Prior to Dash, Omar was a Venture Principal at IV Holdings, a pioneering Arab Venture Capital firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Accelerator Technology Holdings, that focuses on investments in early-stage technology ventures in the Online Services and Digital Media domains across the Arab World. Omar serves on the boards of several start-up ventures and provides additional support to the entrepreneurial community via various mentorship programs including Seed Startup, Endeavor, and Oasis500. 11