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20 NICOLAS SZEKASY Kaszek Ventures Argentina FRÉDÉRIC TARDY AXA France ALEX TEPPER General Electric Ventures United States Nicolás Szekasy is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Kaszek Ventures, a Venture Capital firm focused in the technology industry in Latin America. He currently sits on the board of several companies such as ComparaOnline, OpenEnglish, Restorando, SaferTaxi, and Zupcat. Before launching Kaszek Ventures, Nicolás was an advisor to Tiger Global Management and an angel investor. Prior to that, he was CFO for 9 years at MercadoLibre (Nasdaq: MELI), Latin America's largest online commerce and payments platform, where he led its $333 million IPO. Throughout his career, he has closed M&A deals and issued debt and equity capital exceeding $2billion. Nicolás is currently a Board Member of Endeavor Argentina, a Board Member of Endeavor Global, and an active mentor. Frédéric is the Group Chief Marketing and Distribution Officer at AXA and is based in France. AXA is a French global financial services company present in 57 countries, with over 105 million customers, and about 157,000 employees. It is the second largest insurance group in the world and also has banking, investment banking, and asset management activities. AXA is interested in investment opportunities that could aid its strategic objectives around digitalisation and customer centricity, including big data analytics, crowd-sourcing and peer-to-peer lending and insurance, home automation, platforms that connect multiple devices, drones, automated cars, Artificial Intelligence, etc. Alex Tepper is a Managing Director of General Electric Ventures group, where he focuses on growth strategy and venture investments in robotics and other disruptive technologies. Before this role, he was the Global Director of Innovation and worked across all the GE departments to design and bring to market breakthrough products and new business models. He collaborates closely with the Global Research Center and is helping to lead the advanced manufacturing commercial strategy for GE. Alex is also the Co-founder of the GE Open Innovation (crowd-sourcing) Center of Excellence. Prior to joining GE, Alex was at American Express where he led a marketing group and then the Strategy and Innovation group for the consumer division. MASSIMILIANO SPAZIANI BRUNELLA TIM Ventures Italy Massimiliano is the Investment Analysis & Data Manager at TIM Ventures, Telecom Italia's vehicle for seed and early-stage investments in startups and the first Italian Corporate Venture Capital. Massimiliano studied Engineering at La Sapienza in Rome, Italy, and was a Business Network Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, where he did a research entitled "Web and Financial Market as an integrated empirical platform." Prior to joining TIM Ventures, he worked in the communications and the CRM departments of Telecom Italia.

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