Ray Skoglund 1st Corporate Technologies
Advisor / Speaker
Ray heads up the corporate finance efforts of 1st Corporate Technologies (“1CT”), a European and US based merchant banking, corporate finance advisory and investment firm focused on high-growth technology companies. Prior to joining 1CT, Ray was one of the original members of a US based international investment banking firm and was instrumental in growing this firm from its early entrepreneurial beginnings to an international reach.

Dr. Shameen Prashantham
Yann Mauchamp Mutual Benefits
Advisor
Yann Mauchamp is the founding CEO of Mutual Benefits, business advisory network focused on business development of internet companies and leadership.
Current or recent clients include amiando, blacksocks, dilelui, DxO, FON, iTaste, Kampyle, Pay.on, ProjectPlace, SecondMarket, tweegg, Wengo, Wasabi and XING.
Mutual Benefits developed a business practice dedicated to private investors and VCs offering them deal sourcing, portfolio management, due-dilligence and exit strategies.

Nagraj Kashyap Qualcomm Ventures
Advisor / Speaker
Nagraj is currently Vice President of Qualcomm Ventures (QCV) and heads up worldwide activities for the team. Nagraj also leads all business development activities for new projects in Qualcomm’s R&D group and manages the QIN (Qualcomm Innovation Network) program which is designed to solicit new ideas from Qualcomm’s employee base. Mr. Kashyap has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to his current role, Nagraj worked in various engineering and management capacities at Nortel, 3COM, Motorola, PRTM and Qualcomm.

Bernard-Louis Roques Truffle Capital
Robert Ferri Robert Ferri Partners
Stewart Townsend
Advisor

Mark Veverka Barrons
Advisor
Mark Veverka is West Coast Editor and a columnist at Barron's, where he writes the weekly "Plugged In" column on technology. He joined the Dow Jones financial magazine in June 1999. He occasionally appears on CNBC and is based in San Francisco.
Before joining Barron's, Mark was a financial markets columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Prior to joining the Chronicle, he was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal.

Falk Müller-Veerse Cartagena Capital
Advisor / Speaker
Falk is the founder and Managing Partner of Cartagena Capital. He is an experienced M&A and fundraising professional with over 15 years experience in the technology industry. He is the former leader of Durlacher’s mobile industry research and investment practice (Bonn/London) and Managing Director of its German office. At Durlacher, which is today merged into Panmure Gordon, a division of Lazard, Falk was involved in making several wireless related investments and M&A transactions.











