Mr. Feng Deng founded Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC) in 2005. He currently manages approximately US$ 1.7 billion in committed capital with 4 US$ funds and 4 RMB funds. He has led and backed over 200 companies, focusing on 4 main sectors: TMT (technology, media and telecom), clean technology, healthcare and consumer.
David Mandelbrot became the CEO of Indiegogo in early 2016 after spending over two years as COO and SVP of Operations at the company. David has been an executive at high-growth online businesses for over 20 years, at both small start-ups and larger companies. Prior to Indiegogo he was VP and General Manager of Media and Entertainment at Yahoo where Dave led the teams that built Yahoo! News, Finance, Sports, Movies and Games into the #1 online destinations in their categories.
Brian Milne is a former AP award-winning senior writer and editor for McClatchy Newspapers who has since gone the tech route. He has provided web/content/biz development services for sustainable techs such as Hortau, REC Solar and Mainstream Energy, as well as a handful of Top 1,000 websites (HP.com, About.com, Examiner.com, eBay.com, Experts-Exchange.com, Shopatron.com).
An Arab Venturesome Investor and Innovator. Roula started at a very young age right after her graduation from the engineering school as an entrepreneur and turned challenges of being a Woman in Tech into opportunities. She founded Netways the pioneer of internet technologies and innovation in the MENA region and successfully grew the company by acquisitions and joint ventures to achieve global reach.
Gemma joined Change.org in January 2016, assuming responsibility for the company's General Management globally. She was previously Executive Director of Crisis Action, having joined as the second member of staff in 2006, and led the organization to receive the 2012 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions and the 2013 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Yves Moury is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fundación Capital. He has spent his life working for the elimination of poverty in Africa and Latin America, utilizing a wealth of expertise in finance, banking, development economics, anthropology and sociology, as well as his on-the-ground experience working with low-income families.
Komal Mohindra is a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist with the World Bank Group's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, based in Washington DC. During her seven years in the WBG, she has been advising client governments and operational teams on business environment reforms, working across all regions. She has recently taken leadership of the womenX program that is working to build entrepreneurial ecosystems and improve business outcomes for high-growth potential female entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Pakistan.
Komal Mohindra is a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist with the World Bank Group's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, based in Washington DC. During her seven years in the WBG, she has been advising client governments and operational teams on business environment reforms, working across all regions. She has recently taken leadership of the womenX program that is working to build entrepreneurial ecosystems and improve business outcomes for high-growth potential female entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Pakistan.
Ann Mei Chang is the Chief Innovation Officer and the Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID. The Lab is the newest bureau at USAID and aims to transform global development through science, technology, innovation, and partnerships. Prior to USAID, Ann Mei was the Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps, an international NGO. She also served as the Senior Advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State.
Lesley Marincola is the Founder and CEO of Angaza. Angaza creates Pay-As-You-Go solar technology to enable manufacturers and distributors to make solar energy affordable to the world’s 1.2 billion off-grid individuals. A product designer (B.S.) and mechanical engineer (M.S.) from Stanford University, Lesley has also worked as a design engineer on the Amazon Kindle team, and at Bay Area design consultancy D2M Inc., with clients including DirecTV, Genentech, Qualcomm, and Volkswagen.
Randa Masri is the founder and CEO of ConnectME. Established as a social enterprise, ConnectME supports the development of sustainable economic opportunities in Palestine and the broader MENA region, as a means of promoting fair and equal societies. Her work focuses on increasing economic initiatives by leveraging public-private partnerships to support communities in MENA, empower youth and women to develop local entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Dr. Arun Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford University and co-director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, which integrates and coordinates research and education activities across Stanford. In October 2009, Dr. Majumdar was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate to become the Founding Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), where he served till June 2012.
Loretta McCarthy is Managing Partner of Golden Seeds, an investor consortium that invests in early-stage, women-led companies in the US. Since 2005, Golden Seeds has invested $85 million in over 100 companies. Ms. McCarthy manages its nationwide network of nearly 300 investors. She is co-manager of Golden Seeds International, which assists in the development of angel networks throughout the world.
Deborah Magid represents IBM’s $25 B software business in the company’s 12-year old Venture Capital Group. Her expertise spans several industries. Deborah is responsible for sharing insights about emerging markets, technologies, and business models with venture firms and entrepreneurs around the world.
Having worked, lived, and travelled in 50+ countries, Sebastian has a strong belief in the transformational power of social enterprises. A serial entrepreneur, he is the Director of Business Development at Simprints, a nonprofit tech startup building mobile biometric tools for the frontlines of global health.
Khawar Mann joined The Abraaj Group as a Managing Director in the healthcare team.
Mr. Mann was previously co-head of the healthcare team at Apax Partners and led investments across Europe and Asia. He was also Chairman and President of Medsi Group, Russia’s largest private healthcare sector institution. Mr. Mann holds an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in Medical Sciences and Law from Cambridge University.
Stephanie Marrus has built an entrepreneurship program to start companies from UCSF technologies. Since joining in 2012, she has brought business expertise and startup energy to the University, resulting in a vibrant startup scene symbolic of Silicon Valley. Her entrepreneurship courses and programs mirror those of Berkeley and Stanford with a life science focus.
Dave McClure is the founding partner of 500 Startups, a venture capital firm and startup incubator in Silicon Valley founded by PayPal and Google alumni, with over $150M under management. He has been an investor in hundreds of companies around the world such as Credit Karma, Twilio, MakerBot, Wildfire Interactive, Viki, Mashery, SendGrid, Mint.com, and SlideShare, among others.
Manan is a founding partner of Unshackled, an early stage venture capital fund created to support foreign-born entrepreneurs. Founded by two friends who understood the challenges facing immigrants entrepreneurs in the U.S., Unshackled helps innovators turn their ideas into the next great American company.
