Martin Jasinski

Partner

Martin is a Founding Partner of NEV and is responsible for Fund's telecom, mobile, B2B services and telemedicine investments. Martin has had a successful career as a senior executive with broad management experience ranging from large corporate structures to management consulting and venture capital. His telecommunications experience covered a range of roles in corporate strategy and development, product management, sales and marketing, and R&D management with Tata Communications Growth Ventures and with Verizon. As a management consultant, Martin headed global services innovation practice of Aricent, where his clients included AT&T, Vodafone, TDC, Kontron, Cell-C. As an entrepreneur, Martin was instrumental in growing two venture capital funded technology companies: Zephyr Telecom and Edgix. Martin holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.

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Andrew
Rasiej

Partner

Andrew is a civic and social entrepreneur, technology strategist, and Founder of Personal Democracy Media focusing on the intersection of technology, politics, and government. He recently founded Civic Hall, a 18,000 square foot community center and event space for civic innovation in the Flatiron District of New York City. He is the Chairman of the NY Tech Meetup, a 40,000+-member organization of technologists, venture funders, marketers, representing start up and more mature companies using technology to transform themselves, New York City, and the world. He is the Founder of MOUSE.org which focuses on 21st century public education. He is also Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC organization using technology to make government more transparent. Andrew was the creator of Irving Plaza, an internationally known concert venue. He then founded Digital Club Network, the first live music streaming and archiving channel on the internet; and, Plug-In, the first conference focused exclusively on the future of digital music distribution. Andrew holds a BFA from Cooper Union for Advancement and Science.

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Esther Dyson

Strategic Advisor

EDventures

Esther is an acknowledged luminary in the online/information technology industry and the emerging information technology markets of Central and Eastern Europe. She is editor of Release 1.0, hosts the annual PC Forum conference and as an angel investor recently participated in the sale of Flickr to Yahoo!. She sits on the boards of many companies including WPP, EVDB, Meetup.com, NewspaperDirect (Canada), CV-Online (Hungary), Yandex (Russia). Esther is a trustee of the National Endowment for Democracy, Eurasia Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 1998 to 2000 she was a founding chairman of ICANN (the organization responsible for overseeing the Internet's Domain Name System). Esther was one of the first technology and media investors in Poland through her venture fund EDventure Ventures, which was dedicated to active investment in software and information start-ups in Central and Eastern Europe. Its investments included New World Publishing (publisher of the Budapest, Warsaw and Prague Business Journals); Poland Online, an Internet based information services company recently sold to Poland's Softbank.

Wojtek Uzdelewicz

Managing Director

Espalier Global Management

Wojtek manages a $1B hedge fund with focus on technology stocks, Between 2005 and 2011 Wojtek managed a $500M High-Tech fund at Duquesne Capital. Wojtek was a Senior Managing Director of Equity Research at Bear Sterns, covering telecom equipment sector. Prior to Bear Sterns, Wojtek was an analyst with SG Cowen in Boston. For a number of years he was a top-ranked equity analyst by the Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor magazine. He is an investor in a number of ventures in Poland.

Richard Stokvis

Partner

Europa Partners

Richard is trained as a medical doctor at the Leiden University and has twenty years experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech and/or life sciences industry where he held senior positions in General Management, international marketing/product management, project management, business development, M&A and R&D with Merck Sharp & Dohme (Pepcid) and Novartis, Basle, where he served as the project leader for the successful clinical development, international marketing and global launch of Lescol, a cholesterol lowering drug.