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4 SPEAKERS& SPONSORS DANIEL HARRIS Gunderson Dettmer United States Dan is a corporate attorney in Gunderson Dettmer's San Francisco office. Dan specializes in the representation of emerging growth companies throughout their life cycles and venture capital funds investing in emerging companies. Dan represents a wide variety of technology companies from consumer internet, software, telecommunications, and entertainment technology industries, as well as a number of leading venture capital firms. He received a B.S. from Vassar College and a J.D. from Columbia University. PATRICK ARIPPOL DGF Investimentos Brazil MARKUS BIHLER Vertex Ventures Singapore Patrick is a Director at DGF Investimentos, where he leads acquisition sourcing, negotiation, and portfolio management activities for DGF's Venture Practice. Over the past 16 years, he specialized in building and investing in high-growth innovative companies. Before DGF, Patrick launched and managed an investment fund based in Silicon Valley, Delphis Capital, which focused on software, Internet, business services, and healthcare companies. Earlier, he co-founded and built 3 startups, including a California-based mobile payment technology company, and a leading Brazil-based provider of healthcare authorization/eligibility services (acquired by Tivit). Patrick began his career consulting for multinationals at Seer Technologies and the Monitor Company. He has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford. Based in Singapore, Markus is an investor and entrepreneur with a background in private equity and consumer tech. He is currently a Venture Partner at Vertex Ventures, a member of Temasek Holdings of Singapore, where he focuses on venture capital investments in information technology and healthcare. Markus is the Co-founder and Group CEO of Happy Fresh, Southeast Asia's leading online grocery marketplace. Prior to his job as CEO of HappyFresh, Markus ran online retailer Tirendo in Europe (sold to Frankfurt-listed Delticom AG in 2013), was a private equity investor with The Blackstone Group and EQT Partners, and a consultant with BCG. He is a German national, a graduate of Balliol College, University of Oxford, and a passionate amateur athlete with a weak spot for mountains & forests.