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7 SASHA ASTAFYEVA Felix Capital Partners LLP United Kingdom VIVIAN BARING Seagrass Capital Partners United Kingdom Sasha is a Principal at Felix Capital. Over the past few years she has been involved with three successful technology start-ups, in the UK and Brazil. Most recently she was Head of Business Intelligence and Strategy at Lyst, a leading online fashion marketplace based in London. Prior to Lyst, she was VP of Finance and Business Intelligence at VivaReal, the leading online real estate marketplace in Brazil, where she was one of the earliest employees and was responsible for financial operations, BI, legal, fundraising and investor relations. She started her start-up journey at Dafiti, the largest fashion e-commerce player in Latin America. Prior to becoming involved in start-ups, Sasha was an investor at TA Associates, covering consumer and retail companies in Europe. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Middlebury College, Sasha is fluent in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Portuguese and German. Vivian is the founder and president of Seagrass Capital Partners, which invests in angel and early stage digital start up businesses in Latin America. Vivian Baring started working for his family business DMGT in 1981 originally with Northcliffe Newspapers Group. Vivian then went on to 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 worldwide with a particular focus in Latin America. JAIME BIEL TURON Faraday Venture Partners Spain CENK BAYRAKDAR Revo Capital Turkey Jaime Biel is an investment manager at Faraday Venture Partners, a venture capital fund that funds seed, early stage, and late stage businesses. Jaime has over 7 years of experience in venture capital and corporate finance. Prior to joining Faraday Venture Partners, Jaime spent over 2 years working at KPMG Corporate Finance as a senior analyst. He has worked as a Financial Analyst at Procter & Gamble. He holds a bachelor's in business administration and law from CUNEF and an MBA from IESE. Cenk is a co-founder and the CEO of Revo Capital, a $50M VC fund focused on early growth technology ventures in Turkey. He has nearly 19 years of experience in the technology ecosystem of Turkey, including 13 years at Turkcell. During his time at Turkcell, he established and led numerous key initiatives influencing Turkcell's entire non-voice VAS (Value Added Services) lineup as the Chief Product / New Technology Businesses Officer. In this role, he and his team effectively developed an innovation ecosystem of 350 technology startups around Turkcell. Cenk served on the Board of Directors for Corbuss, Fizy and Turkcell Interaktif. He earned a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and holds a master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.