International Conclave of Entrepreneurs2012 Winter Retreat – Les Crosets, Switzerland

We are fortunate to not only be living through an industrial revolution, but driving it.

The International Conclave of Entrepreneurs - ICE is a select group of founders and key facilitators of the European start-up ecosystem who share mutual trust and a passion to build.

We came together to share entrepreneurial insights, lessons learned the hard way (or, occasionally, the easy way), and in the process have forged lifelong friendships.

The group has since has evolved into a series of retreats, workshops and an active online discussion list with passionate participants sharing a sense of community.

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Sharing Knowledge for the revolution

International Conclave of Entrepreneurs

Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Beginning in 1996, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine called “BackRub” that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work, creating the company you know today as Google.

Since then, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language we now offer dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks—in scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world.

Our philosophy -- Ten things we know to be true

“The perfect search engine,” says co-founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.” When Google began, you would have been pleasantly surprised to enter a search query and immediately find the right answer. Google became successful precisely because we were better and faster at finding the right answer than other search engines at the time.

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But technology has come a long way since then, and the face of the web has changed. Recognizing that search is a problem that will never be solved, we continue to push the limits of existing technology to provide a fast, accurate and easy-to-use service that anyone seeking information can access, whether they’re at a desk in Boston or on a phone in Bangkok. We’ve also taken the lessons we’ve learned from search to tackle even more challenges.

As we keep looking towards the future, these core principles guide our actions:

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.3. Fast is better than slow.4. Democracy on the web works.5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.6. You can make money without doing evil.7. There’s always more information out there.8. The need for information crosses all borders.9. You can be serious without a suit.10. Great just isn’t good enough.

A lot has changed since the first Google search engine appeared. But some things haven’t changed: our dedication to our users and our belief in the possibilities of the Internet itself.

Balderton has a track record of helping entrepreneurs build substantial businesses – with more $250m+ exits in the past five years than any other European venture firm.

We have backed over 100 entrepreneurs in the last decade, and continue to look for outstanding entrepreneurs who share our passion for disrupting large markets and building long-lasting, great companies.

We invest early stage, but, with nearly $2 billion of committed capital, we have the resources to support companies for the long term.

But we do more than just invest. Our partners have founded and grown companies from one to thousands of employees; and we bring that real-world company-building experience, as well as our extensive network of relationships across multiple industries and continents, to the entrepreneurs we partner with.

Balderton was founded in 2000 by Benchmark Capital, the leading US venture firm. In 2007 Balderton formally became independent, although we maintain close ties with our Silicon Valley sibling.

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Eden Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on the software space investing in areas such telecommunications software, enterprise software, SaaS, digital media, e-commerce, internet, social media and mobile sectors.The Eden Ventures team is a mix of successful entrepreneurs and investment professionals. The blend of knowledge, experience and skills covers business strategy, sales and marketing, finance and operations, M&A transactions and institutional fund management.Eden Ventures is an active investor which means that post investment the aim is to provide active support to help businesses in, for example, strengthening their teams, helping them focus on their product propositions and securing follow-on investment.

Some of Eden Ventures’s current portfolio companies include:Basekit (www.basekit.com) – Web 2.0 website design and hosting made simpleBorro (www.borro.com) – Lend yourself moneyHuddle (www.huddle.net) – The online tool for doing work, running projects and getting stuff doneReevoo (www.reevoo.com) – Decide what to buyTruphone (www.truphone.com) – The telephone company for the internet ageWe7 (www.we7.com) – Free and legal music for the download generation

Further information on Eden Ventures and portfolio companies can be found at www.edenventures.co.uk.

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Microsoft BizSpark: Helping startups succeed with all the right resources

Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, and providing marketing visibility to help entrepreneurs starting a business.

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Northzone is a stage-agnostic investment fund focused on hyper growth technology companies. We help world class entrepreneurs build impactful companies by equipping them with what we call “the three pillars of critical mass”: experience, resources, and reach.

We work as an orchestra; each investment professional carries their own weight, but our collective resourcefulness is one of our core strengths. Having grown to a team of nine seasoned professionals with holistic experience in both operations and finance, our proactive investment approach is the only way we know.And let’s face it- we just can’t let it go: working with outstanding individuals to grow longlasting companies is what gets us up in the morning.

Established in 1996, we have thus far raised six funds with consistent top tier-returns, investing in over 80 companies. Our focus is on visionary companies with global potential. Over the past 15 years we have been privileged to witness the early formation and subsequent success of companies such as Hugin, Lastminute, Stepstone, Pricerunner, NextGenTel, and Spotify. Over time we have learnt that times change, and with them great entrepreneurs adapt and continue to flourish.

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• Orrick is one of the world’s largest and best-regarded law firms – More than 1,100 lawyers in 23 locations in 8 countries – Named to Law 360’s “Global 20“ list of the world’s leading global law firms• Focus on emerging companies – More than 1,000 emerging company clients – Relationships with more than 100 venture capital funds• Orrick’s emerging companies and venture capital team in London advises has a strong reputation in the market and particularly in the hi-tech sector and is able to tap into the expertise of the firm’s US Silicon Valley practice. London team ranked by both Chambers UK and Legal 500.

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DFJ Esprit is a leading cross-stage venture capital firm that invests in European technology companies. Members of the DFJ Esprit team have been active in technology investing for three decades. They have experience of investing in over 200 companies, generating strong returns for investors through building valuable global companies alongside founders and management teams.

The DFJ Esprit partners have invested and helped build many of Europe’s most successful venture companies of recent years, including Apatech, Buy.at, Icera, KVS, LOVEFiLM, CSR, Domantis and Zeus. DFJ Esprit is the exclusive European partner for Silicon Valley based Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Global Network of venture funds. DFJ Esprit invests across Europe and has partners located in London, Cambridge, Dublin, Helsinki and Paris.

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DN Capital is a global early stage and growth capital investor in digital media, ecommerce and software companies with offices in London and Palo Alto. DN Capital’s objective is to identify, invest in and actively support its portfolio companies to become global leaders. Portfolio companies include Shazam Entertainment, Endeca Technologies, Datanomic (sold to Oracle), Eyeka, JacobsRimell (sold to Amdocs), Mister Spex, OLX (sold to Naspers), Digital Chocolate, Tbricks and Windeln.de.

The professionals at DN Capital bring over 50 years of private equity experience to their investments, and actively work with portfolio companies to steward their growth through the various stages of development. Additional information about the firm and its portfolio companies can be found on its website at www.dncapital.com.

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Thurs 12th Jan – Delegates arrive throughout the dayThurs 7.00pm – Welcome Meal at the lodgeFri Jan 9.00am – Ski guiding - Portes du Soleil Fri 12.30pm – Lunch at Chez Flo, AvoriazFri 2.00pm – Afternoon Ski with guides Fri 6.00pm – 8.00pm – Panels & DiscussionsFriday 8.00pm - Dinner in the hotel and POKER NIGHTSat am – Free day to ski all day in groups, lunch destination TBCSat 6.00pm – 8.00pm – Panels & DiscussionsSat 8.30pm – Traditional Cheese FondueSun all day – Ski Sunday 5.00pm – Head back to the Airport

Discussion Panels

Panels and Discussions Moderated by Wired Editor David Rowan & Alex Hoye[Survey feedback and circumstance may supersede panel planning at any time!]

ThursdayKick-off: Introductions & AspirationsMobile: The now, now thing and what’s nextInternational: Europe, the Market at our Doorstep + US Hybrids

FridayGo Global, Pivot, Exit: A Fireside Chat with Max NeiderhoferBig Data: Moving from buzzword to realityInvestment Trends: VCs discuss what they are seeing and what they’d like to see

SaturdayTechnology Talent: The European Advantage?Google: Acquisition and Platform Strategy 2012 Awards

After surviving the nuclear winter following the burst of the Web 1.0 bubble to get the industrial online auction startup he co-founded publicly-listed in London, Alex believed that building business in Europe could be more rewarding and, frankly, more fun if entrepreneurs helped each other out. Along with the other founding ICErs, he is thrilled with the community that is evolving, the opportunities Europe offers, and exhilarated by the cocktail of founders, investors, sports and good company that ICE is helping to facilitate. Alex is co-founder of freestyle and freeride ski company Faction Skis, CEO of digital marketing firm Latitude, and an investor in web startups - some in the ICE community like Skimlinks, BraveNewTalent, Brainient and Conversocial.

Have spent the last year setting up Inter-Resolve, a mediation business using an ethical and tech heavy approach to solving the corrupt personal injury industry in the UK. Now passing on the reigns to go and look into some new startup ideas.I spent a couple of very exciting years at Balderton Capital, covering a range of cool companies and areas including consumer internet, new media and mobile.Prior to joining Balderton, I worked with McKinsey & Company, focusing on telecom and media sectors in the UK, India and the Middle East, and prior to that I spent time with a number of tech start-ups and financial services companies.I also did a bit of teaching at Stanford when I thought that was the most effective way to change the world!

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur whose interests include writing and film. He is a passionate advocate of mobile technologies and consumer internet services. After creating an irreverent magazine at school, Andrew set up an IT consultancy; his college were his first client. Later start-ups have included web development company (worldwidecity) which he sold in 2001, the world’s first online digital video news archive (BritishPathe), interactive fitness website (Intraining), world’s first location based mobile social network (playtxt) and personalization platform (Rummble). Today Andrew consults, advises and is on the board of Founder’s group ICE, MLOVE.COM Conference and FailCon 2012 Europe.

alex hoye

Andrew Nutter

Andrew Scott

Hi folks, I’m Andy - cofounder and CTO/product lead at GroupSpaces. We’re on a mission to organize the world’s groups.

Internet entrepreneur, coder and guitarist based in London

Andrew Skipworth

AndY Twigg

AndY Young

RatedPeople.com is the UK's leading matchmaker for quality, local tradesmen.Andy founded RatedPeople.com in 2005 after a builder walked out half way through a home renovation project. He was determined to find a way to help other homeowners connect with professional, reliable tradesmen.Today over 30,000 tradesmen use RatedPeople.com to find work and as a way to build up their reputations. RatedPeople.com matches around £1billion of home improvement work every year, but there's a way to go: that's only 2-3% in this massive industry.

Andy is CTO and cofounder at Acunu and Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science and Maths at Oxford's Computer Science Department and St John's College. At Acunu he is responsible for the research and technical direction. He finished his PhD at Cambridge in 2006 and has worked at Microsoft Research, Thomson Research (now Technicolor) andIBM. He's looking for help trying to ski backwards.

Ben is a partner with Eden Ventures, a leading early stage technology VC. With €150 million under management, Eden has invested in over 30 European startups. Ben focuses on the Saas, e-commerce, internet and games sectors and is responsible for Eden’s investments in Huddle, Reevoo, Borro, Lookk and GreenManGaming. Prior to joining Eden, Ben spent 18 years in corporate finance, advising on over 75 software, internet and mobile exits and fund raisings. Ben is also a prolific investor in his own right, having invested in over 15 start-ups and several VC funds in the US and Europe.

Bindi is VC/Emerging Business lead for Microsoft UK and is the UK member of the Silicon Valley Emerging Business Team. She leads BizSpark and BizSpark One in the UK, 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. In addition, Bindi sits on many Advisory Boards, including Seedcamp, Astia, The Cambridge Phenomenon,TechMediaInvest and Telegraph Tech 100. Having grown up in Western Canada , Bindi now lives in London, and her hobbies include competing

Born and mostly raised in Stockholm (have so far lived in 5 different countries), now based in London since a couple of years. Studied behavioural science, philosophy and design. Have a background in PR and a couple of years ago I started my own company in the retail industry, Bed of Nails - which is a health/wellness product scientfically proven to relief muscle pain sold at i.e. US retail chain Bed, Bath & Beyond. I have also consulted a couple of start ups with communication strategy/ PR the past year. Lots of plans for 2012...Oh, and I love skiing (and after-skiing)!

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Bindi karia

Christina Lundberg

in Adventure Races such as the Microsoft UK Challenge, running marathons/duathlons, and skiing (!!) She also enjoys the vibrant life of a Londoner, and can be seen checking out the latest restaurants or live gigs which make London a great place to live.

Media Entrepreneur Constantin Bjerke is the founder and CEO of Crane.tv, the first video only online-magazine for contemporary culture. He is passionate about international culture and digital media which are also the cornerstones of Crane.tv. Constantin started his career in television and film production and was involved in Emotional Brand Building at MPS mediaproduction by Susanne Porsche, an agency acquired by Omnicom. He has worked with many international clients, including FIFA World Cup, Mercedes Benz, Laureus World Sports Awards, Orascom and Deutsche

colin smith

Collette Ballou

Constantin Bjerke

I’m a New Yorker/New Englander, live in London (with the charming @maxniederhofer), and am the founder of Ballou PR, which focuses on high-growth companies in technology and health IT. With the Ballou PR team, we’ve had a string of well-documented client success stories including the exit of Musiwave for $100M+ and the successful entry of Facebook into France. Along the way, we've redefined PR to include social media at its core.I was listed in the 2011 Wired UK 100’ s list of the most influential figures in Britain's digital economy, and am one of the 500 Mentors for 500 Startups.

Telekom, as well as European television channels Pro7 and Sat1. In the past, he also worked in finance across various companies including UBS, Lazard and Citigroup. Constantin holds a Diplôme de Grande Ecole and a Master’s from ESCP, where he also lectures.

Colin is a co-founder of www.TradeChase.com, a stock market gaming site that applies poker gaming models to real world stock trading. He is also the founder of Launch Ventures, the parent company that is all about starting new businesses.Colin was born and raised in Zimbabwe and went to England as a teenager. He is a dual national of Zimbabwe and the UK. He studied as an undergraduate and graduate at Oxford University, including his MBA. Colin is a well known rower, having won numerous world medals, including Olympic silver in Beijing in 2008, and also a twice winner of the Boat Race for Oxford.

Daniel Heaf is EVP of Digital at BBC Worldwide, where he is responsible for growing all existing businesses as well as launching and investing in new ones. This year he oversaw this launch of Global iPlayer in sixteen countries, the rollout of localised news editions in Asia as well as a number of venture investments (Viki.com, Wenzani.com etc). He lives between London and San Francisco with his wife and two children

Fun-loving Shoreditch-living Start-up founder.Marketing/operations/COO of Groupspaces. Enjoys hanging out and casuing trouble with like-minded entrepreneurs and related others.

I’m David Rowan, editor of WIRED magazine, and I write tech columns in GQ and Conde Nast Traveller. I do a lot of speaking at corporate events as well as at conferences such as F.ounders, Lift and SIME, and tend to say yes to too many things. I spend a lot of time being inspired by entrepreneurs - most recently three days in San Francisco to write a cover story about Reid Hoffman, which led to intros to Peter Thiel and Elon Musk... my kind of magazine project. Big fan of the SPICE events, not least because they teach me an awful lot about Europe’s most engaging entrepreneurial community (plus, they’re a lot of fun). So tell me about you...

Daniel Heaf

David Langer

David Rowan

Part of the Horizons Ventures VC team. Based in London, HK and SF. Currently on the board of Magisto, Tripboard, Tout, Trapit and other Horizons investments.Previously on the board of Spotify for 3 years, and was on the board of SIRI until the acquisition by Apple in 2010.Founded and led INQ Mobile from 2008 - 2011. Won Best Handset award with “INQ1” at MWC 2009 Barcelona, and was runner-up with our first handset the “3 Skypephone” in 2008.Originally a software coder and troubleshooter with Ericsson, and a strong technical and product orientated background in mobile.

Ella Weston

Frank Meehan

George Berkowski

Ella Weston is the Director of Stream (stream.wpp.com), a global series of events that gather leading thinkers in technology and communications. Named by Wired Magazine one of the “World’s Best Tech Conferences,” Stream is hosted by Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of global media communications group WPP, and Yossi Vardi, internet investor and founder of Kinnernet. The next Stream will take place in March in Phuket, Thailand. Ella can be found on Twitter as @ellaweston

George is currently nurturing a new startup. He is also the Chairman of The MIT Enterprise Forum UK, and recently hosted Ray Kurzweil and the premiere of his ‘Transcendent Man’ Movie.

Ella WestonGeorgina received a BTEC in Film & Animation from Central St. Martins and B.A in Multi Media Design and Digital Animation from Cumbria. Taking her love for art and technology she joined the games industry and went on to work on many titles including Battlefield Modern Combat and Total War: Empire for EA and Sega respectively.Georgina founded Toytek in 2008 which provides unique gaming solutions for Traditional publishing, Educational projects, Marketing campaigns and Awareness campaigns.In 2011 Georgina was elected to the Board of Directors for TIGA the UK Games Trade association.

Prior to founding onefinestay in 2009, Greg spent 3 years on the IT investment team at Index Ventures, the venture capital firm behind Skype and MySQL. Previously he had management roles in operations, business development and product development at logistics marketplace start-up GF-X, most recently as the firm’s Product Manager. Greg has an MA from Christ’s College, Cambridge, and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright Scholar and graduated top of his class. He also works with Amnesty International and is elected to the charity’s Finance and Audit Committee.

I’m a VC at Balderton Capital.Before that I set up Firefly Tonics, an incredibly stylish health drink that is conquering the world - just very gradually.I’m spending new year in Cape Town, so if I’m hoping to be a tad less pale by mid-Jan.And apart from skiing, I waste my time singing, playing cards (poker, bridge, Oh Hell), playing silly piano tunes after dinner, and blowing my bonus on royal opera house and theatre tickets. (Then cancelling for a startup conference)

Georgina Mackenzie

Greg Marsh

Harry Briggs

Heidi Isern

Isa Sonnenfeld

James Eder

Heidi is the Director of Dealmaker Media in San Francisco, CA where she brings together innovative startups and influential companies for strategic deal flow. Prior to joining Dealmaker, she founded Chameleon Endeavors, a strategic advisory firm where she designed growth strategies and product roadmaps for a breadth of online and offline retailers from Fortune 500 firms to start-ups. In her spare time she writes for Women 2.0, kickboxes in the ring, and makes Paella. Heidi speaks conversant Spanish, German, and French.

James Eder: Founder of The Beans Group - the company behind studentbeans.com the UK's leading lifestyle website helping +500,000 visitors every month save money, providing help advice info and guidance. Passionate about helping 18- 22 year olds and brands engage with this niche audience.

You'll find me always up for a good time, travelling and wanting to help and make a difference.

I started working for Twitter in September 2011, and am preparing the market entry for Twitter in Germany. Before, I studied Political Management in Germany, ran my own political magazine, and worked for a political consultancy on sustainable development. By personal coincidence I got to know the startup family, and am happy to meet fresh and creative minds - even on the ski-lift.Traveling and running marathons is what keeps me happy!My father is a ski instructor, so I did my first downhill run when I was 3 years old - be prepared :)

I’m a product person and quite the geek. Talk to me about what you’re building, and I’m always willing to break apart a Beta and offer solid feedback.Accidentally an event planner and community curator for Europe’s largest gatherings of product managers. More than anything, I’m here to learn.Founding organiser of ProductCamp London, a fast-growing community of product managers around a dynamic, attendee-centric conference. Co-organizer of ProductTank events.• Head of Product at BraveNewTalent.• Founder, part-time hacker at ProdPad.• Writer/Curator at MindTheProduct.com

I starting and grew Dolphin Music into a £16m E-Commerce business in the music sector. After exiting in 2011 I am onto my next venture Concoursa. Studying inefficiencies of supply chain in retail & e-commerce industry sectors Concoursa plans to disrupt the niche retail industry space supporting both retailers and manufacturers. Concoursa plans to launch in the Summer of 2012.

Joe Stepniewski is the co-founder of Skimlinks, an automatic in-text monetization solution for online publishers. Skimlinks subtly monetizes words and links in content, is deployed on hundreds of thousands of websites worldwide, handling billions of pages per month. Skimlinks is a team of 35 in London/San Francisco.Joe previously founded SiteRefinery, which acquired under-performing websites/domains, to redevelop their traffic and functionality, and monetize. Joe also ran New Media at Finger Lickin’ Records, inadvertently killing vinyl.Joe is a self-confessed uber geek, so keeps sane by enjoying the sun, beaches and avocados of his hometown Sydney.

Janna Bastow

Jason Tavaria

Joe Stepiewski

I am the co-founder and CEO of Conversocial, a SaaS company providing a social media management system to allow companies to effectively manage marketing and customer support through social platforms. It grew out of iPlatform, the UK’s leading social app development company (and the first official Facebook Preferred Developer Consultants in the UK), which I co-founded in 2008.From 2008-2010 I was the Chairman of the Facebook Developer Garage London, an official Facebook event running monthly for developers, entrepreneurs and marketers working on the Facebook platform, which I helped found in 2007.

Josh March

Karen Von Grabowiecki

Kieran O'neill

Karen von Grabowiecki has been active in the Private Equity & Venture Capital industry in London since 2006. Last year she joined the London & Silicon Valley based Venture Capital fund, DN Capital, focusing on early stage investments into the Digital Media, Internet and Software sectors in Europe, until Summer 2011. During her previous role at the Global Investment Firm H.I.G. Capital, she was part of the Deal Origination team based in London and Hamburg. There she specialised in identifying and analysing Growth Investments and Buyouts across all industry sectors in the German speaking counties, UK and Benelux. Currently she is active in coaching entrepreneurs and acting as a Guest Lecturer in VC& Finance at the University of Nottingham, Business School in China and Imperial College London and launching a Web-based Start-up in Germany and the UK.

Kieran is the 24 year old co-founder/CEO of Playfire, the Last.fm of games. Backed by Atomico, Michael Birch, William Reeve, Brent Hoberman and others, Playfire is the leading way for core gamers to track their gameplay sessions, compete with friends and follow what games everyone is playing. Prior to Playfire, Kieran co-founder one of the first video sharing website which was acquired in 2007, and then one of the largest video gaming content destinations which was acquired in 2010.

Kes is a co-founder of multiple recruitment tech startups and is always looking for new ways to make finding talented people easier. Having co-founded RolePoint.com, he also co-organises Startup Poker, curates Startup Digest London and dabbles in stop-motion video.

He is not a fan of moguls.

CTO and Chief Product Officer at Reevoo, providers of social content to retailers and manufacturers. Kyle has a strong technical and product engineering background with experience building out systems in the travel industry at SITA, Expedia and Opodo followed by a stint building out the infrastructure for the BBC iPlayer launch. He specialises in lean/agile, product engineering, building amazing teams that build amazing stuff, fast. He keeps busy through advisory roles (MapOv, RewardYourWorld, Llustre), an angel investment in ServerDensity and helping out Eden ventures with their tech/product due diligence and running their CTO forum.Kyle is completely addicted to windsurfing (the wave sailing variety) and has been known to win the odd competition.

Kes Thygesen

Kolvin Stone

Kyle McGuinn

I assist online and technology businesses with their day-to-day legal issues. Partner at Orrick, one of the premier legal advisors, for technology companies, with offices in London, Silicon Valley, and other technology centres through-out the world.

Marta got her taste for computers at age eight and has beengeeking-out ever since. She started working at WAYN.COM in 2003alongside her studies, graduating in 2008 with First Class Master’s Degree in Business Management from Sheffield University.Today Marta is Product and Marketing Manager for what has become the world’s largest travel focused social network. From marketing campaignsto product development and strategic planning, in the lasteight years Marta has helped develop the business, managingcross-functional multinational teams.When not glued to a keyboard Marta can be found reading aboutpsychology or nutrition.

Lea Bajc

Lucian Tarnowski

Marta Datkiewicz

Lea Bajc of Northzone, focuses mainly on early stage investments with hyper growth potential. Lea considers working with awesome start-ups to be not only the best-job-in-the-world, but also her favorite addiction. Prior to joining Northzone, Lea worked with Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, L’Oreal, and founded StartMeUp, a London-based advisory firm. She holds a joint MSc. from the Stockholm School of Economics and HEC, as well as an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She is also a Kauffman Fellow. Lea serves on the Boards of FlyBy and Artfinder. You’re most likely to find her at LHR, speaking at a conference or in a yoga class, and if you do, make sure to challenge her to some karaoke.

Lucian is Founder of BraveNewTalent.com. He has been honoured as Europe’s youngest Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. He is also winner of the Global Enterprising Young Brit of 2009. He is on the UKTI (UK Trade and Investment’s) Global Entrepreneur Program with BraveNewTalent being described by the UK Government as a “Technology Company of Exceptional Potential”.Lucian has a long association to India and is a youth advisor for Next Generation India on the Board of the UK India Business Council. In his spare time he runs Take Heart India, a no overheads charity that provides blind students in rural India with the IT skills that guarantee them a job for life.

Martin Ott is today the Co-CEO of Skrill Group (formerly known as Moneybookers) - one of Europe’s largest digital payment companies with over 20 Mio customers and over 100,000 merchants (e.g. Skype, Ebay, Facebook). Prior to that he was the COO of Jamba/Jamster, starting up and growing its mobile content consumer business to revenues of over $500 Mio. Prior to that Martin was the Co-Founder and CEO of Tokyo-based Eken K.K., an online consumer reviews platform. He holds a graduate degree in business from WHU in Germany, studied at the Finance Academy in Moscow and Keio Business School in Tokyo.

Founder & CEO at QwerlyDirector at Niederhofer Ltd.

Prince of Bel-Air.

Hi, I’m a Partner at DFJ Esprit, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms and a regular ICE supporter :). We are currently investing on our fourth fund and have made around nine new investments in the last year, and exited businesses with a gross enterprise value of circa $1.8bn in the last eighteen months.

Martin Ott

Max NiederHofer

Nic Brisbourne

Nick Heller

Paddy Cosgrave

Pete Ward

Nick Heller is Head of New Business Development at Google Europe. He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and is focused on new product incubation and exploratory efforts in technology, meta-data licensing, strategic partnerships, special projects, and alternative distribution for existing and new business initiatives.

He previously founded Degrees Of Separation, a technology consultancy and eBusiness network, linking organizations throughout North America with specialized software development firms. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, an MBA from the University of Cambridge, and currently sits on the board of two Canadian based start-ups.

With over 18 million members, WAYN is the world’s largest travel and lifestyle social network, with a vision to help people realise their dreams and connect with people based on where they would love to go and what they would love to do. The company raised $11M Series-A funding in Nov 2006 and now has over 7.5m unique monthly visitors and 21m visits per month. Awards for WAYN include; ‘Website of the Year’ in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 (Best Community category) as voted by the public; Red Herring Top 100 private company Winner in Europe; and Top 100 Finalist globally. As co-CEO, Peter oversees overall company strategy, product and HR.

A failed start up. An okay conference. And now a new product that actually works.

At Seedcamp, I manage portfolio relations, company applications, and Seedcamp’s network of mentors. Before, I worked at DuMont Venture in Germany, several startups, and a sneaker/sportswear store. That’s why I’m addicted to fresh kicks.

Unrelated, I’m currently building a wooden turntable to commemorate my dying DJ career. I’m one of the few boarders in the SPICE crew, and a big foodie.

If you get me to drink anything related to Jager or Bombs, you will have to take all responsibility. I’m German, but not that German.

Rahul is a technologist, entrepreneur and music fanatic. He founded Apsmart to bring experienced strategy, design and execution services to the newly relevant mobile application phenomenon. Prior to founding Apsmart, Rahul was the principal technical architect for Shazam Entertainment, a UK-based provider of music recognition and search services. Before the release of the iTunes AppStore, he envisioned and wrote the first Shazam iPhone application, an App that was featured in most territories on launch date. Rahul holds a Masters of Engineering from the University of Warwick.

Architect by trade, entrepreneur by heart. Born 1975, Resides in Denmark, 2 kids, 1 wife, Fairly fit for an old guy- Loves skiing, but not very good at it ;-) Typical founder profile - corporate misfit, pretty good at a lof of things, not an expert in anything but real good at driving projects forward and getting stuff out there. Founded the architectural practice Bit Studios 2004 (sold 2007), then Bit Enterprises and Ahead.com in 2007 (sold in 2010). Now working on creating a unified digital identity via VeriDu.com and Liberating Social Media via Nuffly.com, and investing via Mugami.com.

Phillipp Moehring

Rahul Powar

Rasmus Groth

Nick Heller

Rich Martell

Richard Folsom

Richard Titus

Rich, 22, is the Founder and CEO of Floxx. His business originated from his days at UCL where he built a website called FitFinder which allowed students to flirt with one another in libraries. Floxx now concentrates on building a range of mobile apps and websites both internally and externally. To date he has raised $500k and employs 6 people in their London HQ.

Richard is a serial entrepreneur, investor and strategic adviser to a variety of firms in the UK, Europe, Latin America and the USA through his investment vehicle Octavian Ventures. Until July 2010, Richard was the CEO of Associated Northcliffe Digital (www.and.co.uk) the digital consumer division of Daily Mail and General Trust (LSE: DMGT). He oversaw a portfolio of European digital businesses

including Jobsite, Findaproperty, Globrix, Motors.co.uk, dating aggregator Allegran, and Teletext. Previously he was a Future Media Controller at the BBC responsible for the award winning BBC homepage, Mobile service and led the team responsible for the redesign of its website, Mobile and iTV services, as well as BBC iPlayer. He has (co-) founded seven firms in his entrepreneurial career; including Razorfish LA and more recently its competitor Schematic which was purchased by WPP in 2007. He also exec-produced Sundance Feature film winners On_line and Who Killed the Electric Car?

By winter, Rich is a skier, occasional telemarker and not often enough monoskier. After a season in Jackson Hole ‘shredding the gnar gnar’ (don’t ask), Rich has a terrible skiing vocab, but still loves shredding steep and deep. Ask: to see his 80s-tastic onesy. Don’t ask: why his skis curve the wrong way.Rich has an identical twin who sometimes misbehaves.

Struq – Founder and CEOAdjug - First Business Development employee in the UK’s first display advertising exchange.Espotting/MIVA – Roles in Legal, Strategy and BD.

Sara has previously worked at the UN and for various NGOs and organisations; she loves working in high-pressured environments around the world. She left the international development world to set up a private members club, Areté Club, three years ago (www.areteclub.com) to bring together the worlds of security, arts, finance, politics and business.Sara is now about to launch Secret Me - an invitation-only James Bond meets Audrey Hepburn spy programme taught by top instructors including ex-Special Forces and Intelligence personnel. She is also doing a PhD in War - looking at what

Founder of RougeFrog - a marketing boutique agency dedicated to European start-ups.Citizen of the world - practitioner of ubiquity and remote locations - not a week without travelling!Remaining witness of French red-head endangered species. Natural optimist.Open eye for art (and practice) : photography, sculpting, drawing and you name it.A fine taste for extreme sports (Rally, Raid) and lands (bipolar practice : Artic/Antartic)Black belt karate instructor and fitness boxing practitioner (mainly to conquer an addiction to gourmet food)

Sam Barnett

Sara Fazlali

Steph Bouchet

business literature and ideas on joint ventures, strategic alliances, etc. can bring to the security world (specifically Afghanistan) when they form partnerships and collaborations.She can’t snowboard!

Tamas Locher

Tine Thygesen

Tobias Van Amstel

My current gig aka LOOKK goes after the fashion industry.

I am here for race boarding and party :)

Tobias is co-founder of HotelGiftCard.com (a gift card which can be redeemed online at their hotel inventory of over 70.000 hotels worldwide) and passionate about high potential startups. Besides running HotelGiftCard.com, he is involved with a startup working on mobile payment / M-Commerce focused on traditional retailers.

Consider myself an ambitious, fun loving, dedicated, big dreaming, party hard-ing and dedicated entrepreneur. Key skills team building, organisation, commercialisation and strategic network.Mentor of Seedcamp, Startup Bootcamp and quite a few more entrepreneurial programmes. Startup fanatic.

I love life, I love great people and I love making things happen. I therefore love (SP)ICE lots. I have just launched NearDesk.com - the flexible working passport. We’re on a mission to get a million people working near home one day per week. Suggestions, contacts and insights very welcome. In previous lives, I’ve built three agencies, explained Dubai’s new healthcare system, own an indoor treehouse - and a bar and a boardroom on a bus. I can’t wait to see/meet you.

10 years of Venture Capital and Private Equity experienceFormer Partner at DFJ EspritInvestments include: Performance Horizon Group, Halo Networks, MisterSpex, NetEconomy (acquired by Fiserv), LOVEFiLM (acquired by Amazon), DisplayLink and VirtualLogix (acquired by Red Bend Software)MA Oxford University

Tom Ball

Tom Bradley

Tom ImpallomeniHi I’m Tom, was in finance, now in startups, at Swapit.co.uk via WAYN.

This is my second SPICE trip - just recovered from the last one.

Victoria Pattinson

Victoria until recently was the Development Director of WPP Digital and is currently on sabbatical planning her next project. After joining WPP in 2003 she worked in London and New York on a wide variety of marketing projects and clients, most of which were related to the digital world in some way. She also founded Stream - a series of events around the world which focus on the future of media, marketing and communication - for WPP in 2007, which she was the Director of until her departure.

Hey guys,I am the Founder of DN Capital and we are an early stage and growth investor in e-commerce, digital media and software companies.We have invested early, late and even created a few companies so our experience is relevant to this group.We love being involved in created new products which others will use and make some good returns on the way.

Recent Web 2.0 entepreneur with an international background in M&A and Operations in Technology and Media (UBS IBD, ThomsonReuters, Bertelsmann).Devoted to th technlogical disruption of media and financial information businesses. Founding member of the HBS Angels Chapter of London.

Nenad Marovac

Arnaud Loiseau

PA to Alex Hoye and Office manager at Latitude.

Olivia Rowe

Chloe JOhnsMarketing Exec at Latitude and part-time restaurant manager.

The organisers

Should you need to get in touch for any reason during the trip, you can call Liv - +447814 276750 Chloe - +447414 557094

Local Taxi firmsTourem - +41 79 853 67 70Taxi de Champery - +41 79 430 15 15

Local Doctor

Parate Jacques- +41 24 477 35 11

Mountain Lodge SAHameau des Crosets

Les Crosets CH - 1873Val-d’Illuez (CH)+41 24 479 2580

Mountainlodge@netplus.ch

This is the biggest Ice trip to date. This is the second trip we have helped to organise and we look forward to catching up with old and new face alike, on the slopes (or in the bar with a jagerbomb!).

Situated at 1,670m above sea level in a sunny bowl above Champery, Les Crosets is the ideal jumping-off point to explore the whole of the Portes du Soleil. This includes Avoriaz and Morgins, and further afield, Chatel and Morzine. Over the last few years, Les Crosets has undergone a major transformation from small mountain farm community to a high class ski-in/ski-out resort which also offers excellent summer holiday options as well.

Champery is just a cable car ride away and the Thermal Baths in Levey des Bains can also be accessed easily. The Post Bus connects Les Crosets with trains in Val d’Illiez, enabling you to explore the entire Valais region. In summer, it’s possible to mountain bike or walk long distances and explore large areas by taking advantage of the chair lifts, and in Winter you can ski over as far as Les Gets.

Les crosets, Switzerland

life is simple. eat. drink. ski.

change the world.