Saul Klein – Chairman & Founder
Saul is a Partner at Index Ventures and also a Founding Partner of The Accelerator Group. He loves working with seed and early stage companies and brings over a decade of experience successfully building and exiting companies in the US and Europe as an entrepreneur, seed investor and operator. Most recently he was the co-founder and original CEO at what has now become Lovefilm International and part of the executive team at Skype. He started Seedcamp and OpenCoffee Club in 2007 to help support seed and early stage entrepreneurs in Europe. He lives in London, occasionally gets to watch Arsenal, dreams of Cape Town and Cochin and is happily married with two kids under two. For more info check out his not very active blog at www.localglo.be
Linkedin: Saul Klein
Fred Destin – Partner at Atlas Ventures
Fred has been a Partner at Atlas Venture since 2004 and focuses primarily on web services and consumer-facing innovation. In his ten years in venture, he invested or served on the board of PriceMinister (acquired by Rakuten), Rainfinity (acquired by EMC), CapitalIQ (acquired by S&P) and Xerox-PARC spinoff Inxight Software (acquired by BOBJ).
He was previously an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs and also worked at JP Morgan in hybrid derivatives, but has never looked back since deciding to jump into innovation and entrepreneurship. He holds a Master of Finance (Magna Cum Laude) from Solvay Business School (University of Brussels) and has lived, studied and worked in London, Hong Kong, New York, Geneva, Belgium and now Boston.
Linkedin: Fred Destin
Thomas Jones – Partner at Charlotte Street Capital
With two co-founders, in February 1994 Tom started and built SMARTS, a market surveillance platform now used by dozens of stock exchanges and brokers around the world. The system processes in realtime billions of market events a day and notifies the exchanges of unusual trading activity in realtime (the needle in the haystack). In August 2010 the company, now with nearly 150 staff, was sold to NASDAQ. As well as investing in Seedcamp II, Tom has made a number of direct investments in London based software companies.
Linkedin: Thomas Jones
Mark Esiri – Venrex Investment Management
