AUSSEN WIRTSCHAFT TECHNOLOGIEINITIATIVE GO SILICON VALLEY 2016 - 2017 JURY TOM RICE PLUG & PLAY TECH CENTER Executive in Residence at Plug and Play Tech Center Tom has 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, operational executive and venture capitalist. He has helped many companies build the market strategy, management team and financing around their core technologies. He has been a board member or CEO of six venture backed companies. Dr Rice has a BS and PhD from Stanford and an MS from MIT. He is interested in software, data analysis, clean technology, and technically-innovative startups. http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/ YAEL OPPENHEIMER PLUG & PLAY TECH CENTER Yael works with tech startups and international organizations, both public and private, to connect their technologies and entrepreneurship ecosystems to Silicon Valley. She is a native of Montevideo, Uruguay but is now based in Sunnyvale, California where she enables international entrepreneurs’ access to various resources of Silicon Valley in order to accelerate and validate their business models. As the Manager of International Operations, Yael directs Plug and Play's Acceleration program and serves as the point of contact for the selected entrepreneurs. During her time at Plug and Play, she has worked with over 50 international startups from more than 10 countries. Yael was previously a Business Manager for Software Company in Uruguay where she helped international startups build their technologies with a team of 30+ engineers and designers. She was also an Assistant Professor at ORT University in Uruguay, teaching Financial Mathematics to Business Majors. She spent some time at Babson College, one of the top Entrepreneurship colleges in the United States, and graduated from ORT University with a degree in Business Administration. Yael speaks fluent English and Spanish and is very proud of her multicultural background. http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/ gefördert im Rahmen von einer Förderinitiative des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft und der Wirtschaftskammer Österreich STEVE AUSTIN FOUNDERS SPACE Steve Austin is an innovation and start-up expert and a 25-year veteran of Silicon Valley. He is the head coach at Founders Space in San Francisco. It’s rated the #1 international accelerator by Forbes. Austin is also CEO of Silicon Valley i-Lab, a company that provides innovation, revenue and growth hacking strategies to corporations and startups. Austin has coached over 1,300 start-ups in Silicon Valley and around the world. Other start-up clients include the Center for Creative Economy and Innovation, Korea and Accelerators in Sydney and Istanbul. Austin recently presented talks at Shanghai University Engineering Science and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Austin’s teams have delivered several products. His previous company invented computer chip machines for Intel, Samsung, Seagate, IBM, Philips and SONY. He later co-founded an online enterprise billing software, won an award for best new smart card and developed an app and hardware for the Internet-of-things. Currently he is advising an I-o-T lab in Beijing and consults several companies in driving revenue. Austin has a BS in Finance and a major in Chemistry. He is a member of the Association of Financial Technology and several Silicon Valley technology orgs. http://www.foundersspace.com/ EXPERTS SIGWARD MOSER PARTNER COMMITTED CAPITAL Sigward Moser. Adjunct Lecturer at MCiT, MCI. Board Metta Institute. Partner Committed Capital. Sigward is a serial entrepreneur based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded several companies including a local broadband provider, a communications firm based in New York and a sustainability impact fund with $2 billion in assest which he successfully exited in 2002. With his earlier firm Communication House Int’l and the Austrian and German trade commission in NYC he helped to launch several companies on the US market including Miele appliances. As adjunct lecturer Sigward teaches a class on entrepreneurship and start-ups in the area of management and communication in IT at MCI, a private Austrian University. He also serves on the board of a hospice organization with focus of end of life care training for doctors and care takers. His angel investing activities focus on Active Assisted Living and end of life care. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigward GERALD REISCHL ORF START UP CAMPUS Gerald Reischl is the CEO of the ORF Mediaservice GmbH since 1st of January 2016 and will therefore head the ORF Start-up-Campus. Gerald Reischl is working as a journalist since 1989 and worked for 23 year for the “Kurier” media house. The past five years he was the editor-in-chief and head of the portal futurezone.at. Mr. Reischl developed this site to the leading technology news page in Austria. https://at.linkedin.com/in/geraldreischl THOMAS WERNER CISCO, FORMER SOLVEDIRECT Thomas Werner is the program director for Cisco EIR (Entrepreneurs In Residence) in Vienna. He describes himself as an entrepreneurial leader who drives short and long term plans to deliver results in growing the business. https://at.linkedin.com/in/thomas-r-werner-01774319/en
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