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Endeavor Investor Network Colombia: September 2014

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10 VIVIAN BARING United Kingdom DMGT International Vivian Baring started working for his family business DMGT in 1981, originally with Northcliffe Newspapers Group. Vivian then went onto become Chairman of A&N International Media, building a collection of digital businesses in nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe, concluding with a successful exit in 2012 when the Group decided to re focus on core markets. In 2011 He became Deputy Chairman of DMGT International, looking for digital businesses that will complement existing DMGT businesses world wide with a particular focus in Latin America. Vivian is also Founder and President of Seagrass Capital Partners, who are investing in angel and early stage digital start up businesses in Latin America CAMILO BOTERO Colombia Inventure Camilo has over 15 years of investment and corporate development experience in Colombia and Latam. Currently, he is a Parnter at Inventure where he helps early and growth-stage companies find an integrated solution for structuring their business initiatives to raise seed and growth capital or alternative financing. MARCELA CALDERON Colombia QMFC Marcela has 15 years of experience in evaluating new businesses, corporate finance and strategic planning in the media communication industry. She worked for 7 years for Casa Editorial El Tiempo in different areas of the company such as the direction of Corporate Innovation, Strategic direction and Planning and Finance. She led the evaluation and implementation of new digital business lines, the M&A activity of the company and the strategic and financial analysis of the different business lines. As an independent consultant in corporate finance she gave advisory to Caracol Televisión and Pautefacil, a digital ad network for the most important media in Colombia, among others. Today, she is the executive director at QMFC. PATRICK BURTIS United States Amadeus Capital Partners Pat joined Amadeus in 2006 and is a Partner focusing on high tech companies in the US, Latin America, and Europe. He currently serves on the Boards of Bidu, GreenRoad and AMEE (as an Observer). He has also worked closely with Transmode (TRMO.ST), Optos (LON:OPTS), Tobii, ClickTale, and GlySure. In 2010-2011, Pat was seconded to GreenRoad as interim CFO and CEO. Pat is based in San Francisco. Pat began his career with five years in Bain & Co's Boston office, where he advised clients in the telecoms, financial services, insurance, steel, automotive, PCs, and FMCG industries.

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