Angelo Del Priore is a partner at HP Tech Ventures, where he leads investments and partnerships in several areas, including AI, AR, VR, PC Gaming, and Education. Previously he was with HP’s corporate strategy group. Before joining HP, Angelo was VP BD and Strategy at Couchsurfing, where he helped raise $23M in VC funding and grow membership to 5M+ people. Previously, Angelo ran a tech sector focused consulting company and worked for numerous startups and Fortune 500 clients, e.g., Apple, Dell, Groupon, Microsoft, Oracle, YouSendIt. He earned degrees from Northwestern and Wharton, and has taught at Wharton’s Executive MBA program and Haas Business School.

Henry is a global executive with extensive venture capital, cross-border advisory, corporate finance and entrepreneur experiences. He currently focuses primarily on fintech / blockchain and frontier technology ventures based on his collective experiences to date to include 10+ years as a VC in Silicon Valley and Asia. Henry is also an advisor to multiple blockchain and tech startups and also continues to serve as a mentor for accelerators & incubators worldwide. Additionally, Henry is also the co-founder of multiple organizations to include private crypto group Decema and the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the Global Chamber. He is also a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Henry began his career as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies. Later, he worked as an investment banker focused on sell-side M&A and other corporate finance transactions within the IT and consumer & industrial product sectors before transitioning to direct investments in early stage technology companies. Henry holds a BS in Finance from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA and an MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business in Durham, NC.

Jayanand is a seasoned Serial Entrepreneur with 7+ years track record of success. Crypto Investor and Tech Consultant, Jayanand is a Co-Founder of First Principles Ventures. He enjoys creating new products and is an expert in emerging technologies - blockchain and crypto industry are his new experimental grounds. Jayanand is a CTO at NewsBTC.com and holds deep expertise in blockchain-based projects and specifically Bitcoin.

Jeff Smith has spent over 30 years of domestic and international high technology sales, marketing, business development, corporate development and venture capital experience in multiple industry markets. Jeff was most recently with RBM Technologies, a leading cloud based retail software company that was successfully sold. Prior to RBM, Jeff was the Founding and Managing Partner of XcelR8 Partners that provided business development consulting services to accelerate revenue traction for development, marketing, and product line management at BlueCurve (acquired by Red Hat), Sybase, Technology Concepts (acquired by Bell Atlantic) and Unisys.

An entrepreneurial, Emmy award-winning Advanced TV executive consistently recognized for innovation and market execution. A successful startup veteran (six startups -> one IPO, three acquisitions) with numerous industry awards and firsts. First to launch a global connected TV advertising network with Samsung, Sony, Panasonic & Toshiba.

Bitcoin Investor and a Hardcore crypto believer. Jonathan is a CEO of NewsBTC.com, one of the leading Bitcoin News outlets, founded in October 2013 with the goal of educating and informing those curious about the virtual currency that is Bitcoin. NewsBTC.com publishes insightful news articles, interviews with industry experts and extra bits of information to help better understand the Bitcoin ecosystem and share the awesome start-ups and projects running on Bitcoin. NewsBTC’s coverage has been mentioned in the major business and technology outlets like TechCrunch, CNN, Forbes, Business Insider, and others.

Leo Batalov advises on corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, private equity transactions and general corporate matters. He also has broad experience representing issuers, underwriters, trustees and servicers in public and private offerings of asset-backed securities as well as lenders and borrowers in a variety of debt finance transactions.

Mark is a serial entrepreneur, advisor and growth leader. He has a background in B2B cloud services, sales and marketing, games and entertainment. He was CEO of Gigex, the first cloud game download service, then founder/CEO of GameDaily.com, the world’s largest video games website and ad network and exited through AOL Time Warner’s acquisition. He’s founded 4 companies and been an executive at Oracle, TimeWarner/AOL and Philips. Recently, he was interim president of B2B rideshare company ICars and Senior Director at Oracle Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud. He was Managing Director of Teleworld, an interactive voice, TV and online services provider to MTV. Mark’s first business introduced chocolate chip cookies stores to Sweden. He also works with early stage founders at TechStars.

Yu is working on startup sourcing at LVMH. She helps LVMH Group and Brands to identify and evaluate relevant startups for their businesses. She was directly involved in selecting startups for LVMH during Viva Technology 2016 & 2017. Yu holds a Master in Management degree from ESSEC business school, one of the best business schools in France. Yu is originally from China. Her bi-cultural background gives her a good understanding of both European and Asian digital ecosystem.

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