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Rogan is a founding General Partner at PROfounders Capital. Most recently Rogan Angelini-Hurll headed the Citi Pan European Media Research team, covering both UK and Continental European companies including TV and radio broadcasters, consumer, business and professional publishers, directories, advertising agencies and entertainment companies.

Prior to joining Salomon Brothers (subsequently acquired by Citi) in 1997, Rogan worked at Spectrum Strategy Consultants, originating work and managing teams of consultants on a number of projects both in Asia and Europe related to media and telecoms.

In addition, Rogan helped write the original Lastminute.com business plan with Brent Hoberman.

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Sean is a founding General Partner at PROfounders Capital. Since 2000, Sean has been investing in technology companies, across both the US and Europe, at both Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe) and Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Boston. He has worked closely with many companies including Bebo, Wonga.com, and ConstantContact.  

Sean has also worked as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company, in both the US and Europe. Sean received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. In addition, Sean graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.

Brent co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox and was CEO and took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. Lastminute.com was floated in March 2000 and in 2005 was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.

Brent most recently founded another VC-backed internet based startup, mydeco, the online interiors site that will revolutionise the way we shop and design for our homes. Brent is on the Advisory Board at MobiMate and Kenshoo.  He is a Governor of University of the Arts College, London and a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group. Brent is also an angel investor in several internet companies including Viagogo, Wayn.com and moveme.com.

www.brenthoberman.com

Michael co-founded the social networking site Bebo in January 2005 with his wife Xochi Birch. Bebo has around 40m registered users and in 2008 the site was sold to AOL for US$850m. Previously Michael had co-founded BirthdayAlarm.com and Ringo.com, which was sold to tickle.com in 2003.

He currently serves on the board of three companies in addition to BirthdayAlarm.com, and is an investor and advisor to eight other companies including wordia.com and playfire.com.

Peter is currently the founder and head of Oakley Capital. Prior to founding Oakley, Peter was instrumental in establishing 365 Media as one of the UK's leading online sports content providers. Peter subsequently led the sale of the company to BSkyB in December 2006 for £110 million.

He was also Executive Chairman of Pipex, the AIM listed provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services, where he led the strategic development and execution of 14 acquisitions building one of the UK's largest broadband suppliers. Pipex was sold for £330 million.  Peter has over 21 years of operating experience and over the course of his career has bought, sold and restructured over 40 businesses.

Jonathan Goodwin is the founding partner of Lepe Partners, a merchant bank focused on entrepreneurs in the digital media sector. Prior to starting Lepe Partners in March 2011, Jonathan founded LongAcre Partners in August 2000 with Julian Culhane. LongAcre Partners advised clients including Friends Reunited on its sale to ITV plc, Celador (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire) on its sale to Endemol and uSwitch on its sale to EW Scripps. LongAcre Partners was sold to Jefferies & Co. in June 2007 where Goodwin served as the firm’s Global Head of Media & Internet Investment Banking for three years.

Karen Hanton MBE, was the founder and Chairman of Toptable, a restaurant booking company. In 2010, Toptable was sold to OpenTable for $55m.

Karen has also founded the IT staffing firm Mortimer Spinks. After selling Mortimer Spinks, she bought and staffed a restaurant business in Fulham, which in 1998 inspired her to found Toptable. Karen was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

Mike Danson was the founder of Datamonitor, an online information company that provides analysis and forecasts to clients in the consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology industries. He led it from his front room, through its listing on the London Stock Exchange, to its sale to Informa for £502m in 2007.

Mike now splits his time between his media and philanthropy interests.  Through his Progressive Digital Media he owns a number of media companies ranging from magazines such as the New Statesman and Press Gazette to a number of online properties.  Mike also devotes time to The Danson Foundation, a registered charity that focuses on education.

Mark is an experienced Internet founder and executive.  From 2000 to 2007, Mark was CEO for QXL ricardo, a leader of online consumer trading platforms. QXL was the best performing stock on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 and the LSE’s Main Market in 2004. It was sold for nearly £1 billion in 2007.  He was also Chairman and CEO of Dailymotion from 2007 to 2009. Under his leadership, the Company became the world’s number one independent video-sharing site with over 60 million unique visitors and 1 billion video views per month.

Mark is an angel investor, the Chairman of DVDPost, and a non-executive Director and investor of CyberSports Football Superstars a MMOG football game. He has invested in several other high-growth internet businesses across Europe such as Dailymotion, GOOM, Limundo, Digitech and Shutl.

Johan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in technology and growth companies.  Currently, Johan is a General Partner with Creandum in Stockholm.  His prior experience includes time at Balderton Capital (previously Benchmark Europe) working with investments such as LiveBookings, Habbo Hotel, Rebtel, Zopa and others.

Prior to joining Balderton, Johan has been involved in building several successful companies as an entrepreneur, investor and board member, such as Jobline, E*Trade Nordic, DIBS and Tradera. Johan has also held various executive positions with the Kinnevik Group and MTG, and spent 10 years with the ABB Group in various executive positions.  Johan holds a M.Sc. in International Business from Stockholm School of Economics, and studied at the Stern School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Andrew Phillipps was CEO and co-founder of Active Hotels. The company sold hotel rooms on-line for over 10,000 hotels throughout Europe, and Andy sold the company to Priceline.com for $161 million in 2004.  Andy then ran Priceline's international operations involving 300 people until Q4 2005 where he and his team grew the company to be the largest hotel booking company in Europe.

Subsequently, he bought into and was Chairman of Toptable (bought by Opentable).  He is now an active angel investor and involved as a director in several start-ups.  His current activities include lecturing in entrepreneurship at  INSEAD and LBS, Chairman of i2o water, Director of Reevoo.com, and Director at Albion Ventures VCT.

George Coelho is based in London and is active in Venture Capital activities covering semiconductors, software and ecommerce. Formerly he was with Balderton Capital (formerly known as Benchmark Capital, Europe) which he co-founded in 2000.  Before founding Benchmark Capital, Europe, he led all of Intel Corporation’s strategic Venture Capital investment activities outside the U.S. Prior to that he was a founder of the group that evolved to become Intel Capital and ran the M&A group as Assistant Treasurer. 

Coelho holds a B.S. from The American University and an MBA from The George Washington University. Today he is a Trustee of The George Washington University, Chairs the Sustainability Committee of the Board and is an advisor to the School of Business. In addition he is co-President and Member of the Board of Directors of the UK chapter of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs).  He serves as a Board director of a number of private companies including AlertMe.com and Enecsys Ltd.

Torben, a Dane living in the Ukraine, is founder and CEO of www.ciklum.net, a company providing IT resources from Eastern Europe to smaller and medium size IT companies in Western Europe, currently employing close to 1000 people.  Prior and parallel to founding Ciklum, Torben have been founder/co-founder of 6 other IT companies all exited within the last 15 years.

Torben is also the founder and majority shareholder of Touchlink Mobile, a Danish developer of application solutions for the mobile content market. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of Vic, a hardware distributor to Eastern Europe, and Den Bla Butik, a Danish retail network for hardware sales. 

Matthew is Founder and Group Managing Director of Eames Consulting Group a specialist recruitment and search firm. Since its launch in 2002, the firm has focused on the Insurance, Banking and Professional Services sectors. It is now a business with over 80 staff globally, operating from offices in London, Zurich and Singapore.

He is also a Partner of Performance Change Consulting an independent and specialist consulting firm offering consultancy services across M&A, Distribution Channels, Organisational restructuring, System and Business Change Management. Matthew is also a shareholder and board member of Brightsparks Recruitment, a market leading graduate focused and event staffing and recruitment business.

Russell Glenister was CEO and initiator, as well as co-founder, of image100, which built a unique collection of 40,000 wholly-owned, royalty free images.

Having sold the company to Corbis, owned by Bill Gates, in 2005, Russell stayed on as a consultant for one year. Russell is currently involved in biometric and image search businesses as well as creative content ventures and remains a key authority within the photographic industry. He invests primarily in technology and creatively led businesses.

Jon founded the SRM Global Fund after 17 years with UBS and its predecessor firms. During his career, he has invested in listed and unlisted equities, derivatives, options and other financial instruments. Prior to joining UBS, Jon was Head of Options and Proprietary Trading at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (1986-89) and prior to that was a trader at Wedd Durlacher (1984-1986).

Jon graduated from Loughborough University in 1983 with a degree in Economics.

Matthew Stillman is founder and ceo of Stillking Film Holdings. The SFH group currently holds 12 operating companies internationally and is one of the largest private companies involved in the production of tv commercials, feature films and music videos.

Group companies have won many of the top advertising awards for their creative advertising campaigns and been involved in the production of over 40 feature films. Matthew has also served in a producing capacity on productions including Casino Royale, Mission Impossible 4, Narnia:The Lion, the Witch and the Wadrobe, Prince Caspian, The Bourne Identity, XXX, Van Helsing, The Illusionist, Shanghai Knights and others. Music videos include Beyonce, Kanye West, Duran Duran, David Bowie, Linkin Park and Madonna.

Matthew was once nominated by The Hollywood Reporter as a Top 50 International Media Personality.

Daniel Bergmann is the founder and CEO of Stink, www.stink.tv. With offices in London, Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Bombay, New York and Los Angeles, Stink is a world class film production company with a truly international reach.

In 2009, Stink expanded into digital and interactive areas with the launch of Stink Digital www.stinkdigital.com .The interactive offshoot now has offices in London and New York. Stink Digital has received a Cannes Grand Prix, a Webby Award, as well as numerous FWA awards for its achievements and is frequently cited as one of the world's top interactive companies.