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15 ALEX MENDEZ Storm Ventures United States SID MOFYA Draper Venture Network United States MARCUS NEW InvestX Capital United States Alex is a founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures. He is passionate about working with seed and early-stage entrepreneurs and companies. Alex currently focuses on anything and everything mobile and all software that creates value for customers in the B2B space. He thinks that the transformation of IT from vertical stove pipes to a true horizontal utility will create unprecedented opportunities for value creation over the next couple of decades. Alex writes a blog at alexmendez.org. Mobile investments include Cellfire (digital coupon distribution platform), Flint Mobile (mobile payment solution for micro merchants), and MiCel (post paid mobile voice/data services). Sid runs Strategic Partnerships for the Draper Venture Network - an alliance that brings together experienced investors and innovative entrepreneurs from around the globe to share strategies, source opportunities, and create greater value. He has previously held various positions at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation in Tanzania, the UK Ministry of Justice, Shell, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He earned a BEng from the University of Sheffield, an MBA from the Acton School of Business, and is a Kauffman Fellow. Marcus is Chief Entrepreneur of InvestX Capital, an online platform that syndicates late stage VC/PE investments into smaller retail allotments so all investors can have access. Marcus is the Founder and Chairman (and previously the CEO) of Stockhouse, Canada's leading financial community and a global hub for affluent investors, with up to 1 million unique monthly visitors. Prior to launching Stockhouse, Marcus built Stockgroup Media, an online information company whose client base consisted of 13 of the top 25 Canadian brokerage firms, 14 of the top 15 global institutional sales desks, and over 200 hedge funds. He also owns Radical Capital, a family investment company that has made more than 150 private placement investments. DOBROMIR PARUSHEV AXA Strategic Ventures United States Dobromir is an intern with AXA Strategic Ventures while pursuing his MBA at Harvard Business School. AXA is a French global financial services company present in 57 countries. AXA Strategic Ventures - AXA's venture capital arm - invests in a broad spectrum of opportunities including big data analytics, crowd-sourcing and peer-to-peer lending and insurance, health analytics, driving analytics, artificial intelligence, and price analytics tools, among others. Previously, Dobromir worked as a Business Analyst with McKinsey & Company and was the Head of Special Programs at Endeavor Chile. He graudated from Princeton University with a BSE degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.