Seed Camp

Team

Board of Directors

Advisory Board

Selection Panel

Team

Saul Klein

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

Reshma Sohoni

Reshma runs Seedcamp on a day-to-day basis as its CEO. She joined Seedcamp from the Venture team at 3i. Prior to 3i, Reshma spent over 3 years at Vodafone in their Commercial Strategy team, working across the Europe and Japan footprints in marketing strategy and pricing functions. Reshma started her career in the US in investment banking (Broadview) and venture capital (Softbank).

Stephanie Zari

Stephanie joined Seedcamp in March 2007 as the Events & Relationship Manager, overseeing the Mini-Seedcamp events throughout Europe and is now concentrating on managing PR throughout the regions. Prior to Seedcamp, Stephanie was the Global PR Manager for Skype, where she supported the management of PR Agencies in 15 regions, working alongside the Head of Global PR. Previous to Skype, Stephanie held various managerial roles for companies in Toronto, Canada.

Alasdair Bell

Alasdair joins Seedcamp fresh from a year as president of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Europe's largest student society, the highlight of which was giving away £10k in OE's business idea competition, Idea Idol. Before that, Alasdair studied Engineering Science at The Queen's College, Oxford, at the same time designing rockets, going on punting adventures and producing the college ball. To see what he is up to at the moment check out his blog.



Advisory Board

Alex Hoye - Chairman

Alex acts as angel investor, co-founder and/or advisor in internet-based and consumer brand projects, including home repair marketplace MyBuilder.com, Faction Skis, and interactive online music provider U-MYX. He co-founded GoIndustry plc from the proverbial napkin and led it to become a publicly-listed, 17-country, $100M market cap industry leader. Alex is an alumni of McKinsey & Co. and Disney and a trustee of the Venture Partnership Foundation. While obtaining his BA from Stanford and MBA from Harvard, ever the entrepreneur, he co-founded the wine club at both. www.hoye.org, Twitter: alexhoye

Paul Birch - Cominded

Paul is a serial internet entrepreneur based in London. He co-founded BirthdayAlarm and helped found Bebo.com. Paul's previous life was as as an accountant (briefly) and Data/Systems analyst. Currently spending almost all his time on Cominded which will launch a range of social networking centric websites. Paul has a wide range of interests which are reflected in his book collection available at librarything. For more on Paul’s background please go to www.cominded.com/paulbirch.

Sherry Coutu - Cambridge Angels, NESTA

Sherry Coutu invests in early stage companies and serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities. As an entrepreneur, Sherry established and successfully exited two web-services businesses. The first (acquired by Euromoney plc) now has operations in more than 70 countries. The second was floated before being acquired (by AMP plc). Sherry has more than 20 early stage investments in her portfolio and she likes the consumer internet, financial services and clean energy industries. Current company affiliations and investments include Linkedin, Lovefilm, New Energy Finance, CUP, Library House, Alertme, Covester, Reevoo, I2O, RM plc, Zoopla, and Summit plc. For more on Sherry's background go to http://www.linkedin.com/in/coutu

Anil Hansjee - Google

Anil Hansjee BSc (Hons.) MSc FBCS CITP, joined Google in September 2006 as Head of Corporate Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. He is responsible for Google's acquisitions and investments in the region as well as relationships with the early stage technology community and their backers and advisers. Anil is a board observer with three of Google's investments - FON (Spain) the largest WiFi community in the world, UbiquiSys (UK) the leading Femtocell developer and mTLD Top Level Domain (Eire) the official ICANN global registry for the ".mobi" top level domain. Anil is also a board member of the British Computer Society's External Relations Board. Prior to joining, Anil was a Principal with the venture capital firm IDG Ventures, where he was board director of one of their portfolio companies, the mobile music company, Shazam Entertainment.

Laurent Haug - Google

Laurent is an entrepreneur, researcher and writer based in Geneva, Switzerland, interested in the social impact of technologies and innovations. He has been working with new technologies since 1994 in a start-up, a big five consulting company, a large Swiss bank and now LIFT lab, a service company he founded that organizes the popular LIFT conference series.

Laurent is a regular speaker in the media, at conferences (First Tuesdays, AdTech, SHiFT, Inforum, etc.), and a guest speaker at various institutions (IMD Alumni Club, McKinsey, United Nations, University of Korea, University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, etc.) on topics ranging from Web 2.0 to the impact of technologies on business and society.

Bindi Karia - Microsoft

Bindi is the VC/Emerging Business lead for Microsoft UK and is the UK-based member of the Emerging Business Team. She is responsible for managing the UK Startup Accelerator Programme where she focuses on how Microsoft can drive success for leading edge and early-stage technology companies. She is also responsible for managing the relationships with the UK Investor Community, including Venture Capitalist, Angels and other Investor Organisations. Prior to Microsoft, Bindi worked as an Associate Director in Interregnum, a UK-based Technology Merchant Bank; as Business Development Manager at Trayport Ltd, a highly successful commodities trading technology start-up; as a Strategy Management Consultant at PwC Consulting; and as a Senior Business Analyst at Datamonitor. For Bindi’s background please go to http://microsoftstartupzone.com/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=2353

Sara Murray - Buddi.co.uk

Sara founded and runs buddi, the GPS personal tracker with emergency support, which locates people instantly (www.buddi.co.uk). She was a finalist in the 2008 Blackberry Awards for Outstanding Women in Technology and the CBI Real Business First Women Awards. Previously, Sara founded Ninah, the marketing optimisation consultancy, whose clients include Masterfoods, AA, Coca-Cola Schweppes and Norwich Union, which she sold to Publicis Groupe. She also founded the leading online general insurance marketplace (confused.com), which she sold to the Admiral Group.

Max Polyakov - IDE Group

Max Polyakov - Director, COO, 29 year old, rising star of the International Internet software scene and the founder of HitDynamics Ltd, the best in its class WebAnalytics package which is now part of Hitwise Inc. He is now an Executive Director of IDE Group and as the original Maxymiser founder leads product and strategy development. Max finished medical university and business school in Ukraine.

Lori Vokes - Cisco

Lori Vokes is the Operations Director for the BT Account. She is responsible for providing sales leadership to achieve revenue targets across the BT Channel business internationally and leading the vision, strategy and execution planning across the market segments, countries and technologies that are growth priorities for BT and for Cisco. Prior to this role, Lori was the Director of Operations and Planning for Linksys Service Provider where she was responsible for establishing the foundation to build and scale this business from $99M to over $400M in 3 years by selling Small Business and Consumer products and solutions through targeted SPs worldwide. As the Director of Strategy and Planning for Cisco’s European Markets, Lori led the development, implementation, and measurement of Europe’s long range plan. Lori was also a member of Cisco’s Worldwide Sales Strategy and Planning team, ensuring alignment and best practice sharing at a global level. An entrepreneur at heart, Lori also started up the business for Eagle’s Flight Creative Training in Canada and prior to that ran her own business in Corporate Health and Wellness. Throughout her career she has worked with various industries including oil and gas, manufacturing, airline, transportation, automotive, consumer goods, and medical technologies.

Sumon Sadhu - Snaptalent

Sumon is currently the founder & CEO of Snaptalent - a Y Combinator funded company looking to redefine how recruitment advertising is created, distributed and targeted. Sumon is also chairman and founding president of Imperial Entrepreneurs and was named as one of the 'top 10 rising stars in UK Business' by the Observer newspaper in 2007. Sumon was previously with Library House, where he helped deliver the first census study of venture capital spending in the UK and was an undergraduate at Exeter College at the University of Oxford and a Phd drop out from Imperial College London. sharpshoot.blogspot.com, Twitter: sharpshoot

Mike Shaver - Mozilla

Mike Shaver is a founding member of the Mozilla project, and has been involved since its inception in aspects ranging from software development and architecture to governance and licensing. As Chief Evangelist, Mike leads a team working to help developers, users, and everyone else better understand Mozilla and how they can benefit from and participate in Mozilla's work to improve the Web for everyone.

In addition to his decade of work on Mozilla, Mike has worked on the Linux kernel, high-performance filesystems, privacy technology, electronic cash prototypes, and large-scale web applications. He is a frequent speaker and advisor to open source projects and companies, and a passionate advocate for the Open Web.

Mike lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter. He speaks marginal French, likes to cook and play video games, and hopes to live long enough to see the Maple Leafs win a Stanley Cup.