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Feb. 22nd – 25th, 2012

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[WHY] Driven to achieve everything, entrepreneurs change the world.

[WHAT] Entrepreneur Week is a global community connecting and educating both aspiring and early-stage business owners with the necessary knowledge, tools, skills and access to create jobs, unleash ideas and strengthen economies. Greece Entrepreneur Week is in partnership with (among others) Startup Greece, Hellenic Startup Association, European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, National Bank of Greece, Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry, American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and American Airlines.

As well as Greece’s: • Ministry of Development, Competitiveness and Maritime • Ministry of Education, Life-Long Learning & Religious Affairs

[HOW]

Entrepreneur Week and its associated events immerse its attendees in an intimate environment alongside world renowned entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders. Our platform sets the stage for entrepreneurship and its founding principles engender change at the crux of ideation, innovation and disruption. For #EWgreece - 25 rockstar delegates from 8 countries (thought leaders, entrepreneurs, investors & policymakers) from are convening in Athens, Greece to educate more than 500 aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs as well as meet with the Prime Minister and Heads of State to architect a framework for Greece to begin solidifying and scaling its entrepreneur ambitions.



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DIMITRIS G.E. TSIGOS President, European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs Founder & CEO, Virtual Trip Group Founding President, Hellenic Start-up Association

Dimitris is the President of YES - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs and the Founder of Virtual Trip, a Start-up Accelerator & Seed Fund in the ICT sector. He received his diploma in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, in January 2001 and his MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Management Science and Technology, in December 2005.

As a student, he was a guest researcher at the Computational Vision & Active Perception Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [1998] and member of the Networks & Telecommunications Group at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology, Hellas [1999, 2000]. His achievements include: - Establishment of the first successful IT start-up in Greece, Virtual Trip Ltd [www.vtrip.net] at the Science & Technology Park of Crete in September 2000. - Spinning-out more than 10 IT start-ups between 2003 and 2011, including amazing success stories like eFront e-Learning [www.efrontlearning.net], SOLO Gateway [www.sologateway.com] and AbZorba Games [www.abzorbagames.com] - Pioneer in ICT Seed Financing, having invested more than 4.5M of euros in 10+ different ventures - Pioneer in internationalization of IT start-ups in Greece having established value-adding reselling partnerships in 50+ Countries around the Globe and operating antenna offices in Brussels-Belgium, Madrid-Spain and Akron-Ohio in the US. - Globally first introduction of the ‘Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’ concept [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurial_ecosystem] as group of non-competing start-ups achieving economies of scales without losing flexibility and strong entrepreneurial drive - Successfully completed 30+ EU-funded RTD projects, creating outstanding commercialization examples [http://www.vtrip.net]. - Delivered IT projects of very large complexity and criticality, like the Passport Issuing System of the Hellenic Democracy.



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SERGIO FERNANDEZ DE CORDOVA Founder, Fuel Outdoor Chairman, Entrepreneur Week

Founder of Fuel Outdoor. Started in 2003, Fuel Outdoor has grown into a Multi-Million Dollar company with six offices in nine cities nationwide and is now a portfolio company of Och-Ziff, a global institutional asset management firm with over $31 billion in capital. Fuel currently has more than 4,000 outdoor advertising locations, a growing portfolio of clients, and a very active philanthropic program.

Sergio is more than a dedicated, focused businessman; he’s a young entrepreneur with an incredible ability to turn opportunity to success seemingly overnight.

Sergio co-founded de Cordova Goldman Capital Management, a holding company with long-term investments worldwide. Sergio is also an active investor or advisor in over 10 media related companies, such as Hyper Local Ventures, BNG, Cross Commerce Media, NLM, Emercury.net, Vlassified, charideem.org and Availor Group.

Sergio has had the honor to speak at; The European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs Annual Summit, speaking to European Commission members in Brussels, Speaking about entrepreneurship in emerging countries at the Economic Forum of the Americas; Forum for Global Cities in Toronto, in Senegal, Africa at the 36th World Congress Event, speaking about Private Public Partnerships to Delegates and Country leaders from the continent of Africa, Finally, in his Non-Profit endeavors Sergio is the Chairman of Political Affairs for 'Entrepreneurs Organization' "EO" and is also Chairman of 'Entrepreneur Week'. Internationally Sergio is Co-Chairman of the Young Global Leaders Board for the Global Center for Development and Democracy [CGDD] alongside former Presidents of Latin America, and he is a founding board member of the UN Foundations new Global Entrepreneurs Council, an honor only given to ten accomplished young global leaders and he is also an Official Delegate for the US Department of State's Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP).

http://charideem.org/



LAUREN PERKINS Founder, Perks Consulting

Lauren Perkins is a branding and digital marketing evangelist who delivers integrated solutions with an entrepreneurial perspective. Best known for her core entrepreneurial business principals that have made her a success, Lauren founded Perks Consulting in 2008, a boutique full-service marketing agency specializing in the fusion of lifestyle and technology. As Founder and CEO, Lauren oversees the agency’s mission to develop brands, products and campaigns that build relevant innovative businesses.

Since 2001, Lauren has provided strategic counsel by integrating digital activation with core marketing tactics. Lauren attributes her expertise to her proven success in building and executing off-and-online marketing plans to grow small businesses such as, the prestigious New York medical spa, Laser Cosmetica from its infancy stage to quadruple revenue growth and triple retail location expansion over the course of two years. In the fitness category, Lauren kicked-off retail branding and visual merchandising programs for Nike before moving on to Crunch Fitness’s New York headquarters, to build the Community Activities department, the first interactive initiative to drive community engagement and member acquisition.

As traditional marketing and communications efforts merged with the digital space, so did Lauren’s strategic approach. She continued to parlay her key competencies into 360 degree integrated strategies for companies in need of marketing solutions. She also served as a consultant on her expertise in product launches to guerilla marketing tactics for brands in the lifestyle space including Toyota, Bloomingdales and ABC TV.

A supporter of engendering the start-up workplace ratio, she invested in the first ever women's executive network, 85 Broads in 2009. Lauren’s strategic vision paved the way to reinvigorate 85 Broads’ business model, brand identity, website platform and global social media implementation. In 2011, Lauren was invited to be one of 50 global emerging women leaders to attend the inaugural Banco Santander“W50” summit at the UCLA Anderson School of Management that focused on executive leadership and board management.



☺☺☺☺ NAM BUI Co-Founder & Director, Inc. Magazine’s Business Owners Council Vice President, Quanta Family Office

Today, Nam leads Inc. Magazine’s Business Owners Council, which is a membership organization for top entrepreneurs and family business owners. A new Inc. magazine initiative that cultivates the community of Inc. 500 | 5000 companies, America’s fastest growing privately held companies. Prior to starting the Inc. Business Owners Council, Nam joined Quanta Family Office and Quanta Capital and currently serves as the Vice President and Principal tasked with growing and leading the organization's U.S. practice and investments. Quanta’s global and core business is in contract manufacturing and their principal investments are global in scope and synergistic to the core business. However, Quanta’s U.S. practice currently and primarily invests in but not limited to real estate, venture debt/financing, technology, manufacturing, and early stage venture capital investments.� Quanta's controlled source of capital allows us to invest without the timing and asset-class limitations of traditional private equity funds and permits us to be structurally flexible and agile.

Prior to joining Quanta, Nam led a division of Ferrazzi Greenlight (a C-Level marketing and management consultancy), where he oversaw operations and sales for the organization’s Training and Professional Development Practice. At Ferrazzi Greenlight, Nam worked with cadre of thought leaders and gurus within the organization’s network. Before joining Ferrazzi Greenlight, Nam worked for The Irvine Company (based in Newport Beach, California) in development and acquisition and growth for their commercial and retail properties. Before joining The Irvine Company, Nam was an associate for Asia America Holdings, LLC based out of Irvine, CA where he facilitated in formation of the company’s Family Office. Nam is still personally involved in the Asia America Holdings, LLC’s Family Office through sourcing potential strategic alliances and investment partnerships for the organization.

Nam earned his dual Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Political Science and Urban Studies and Planning with honors from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He currently resides in New York City but spends his time between New York and California.



JAMES ALLWORTH Fellow, Forum for Growth & Innovation – Harvard Business School James Allworth is a blogger for the Harvard Business Review, and is the co-author of the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Prior to this, James worked at Apple Inc. and Booz & Company.

He graduated from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar, for results in the top 5% of his class, and from the Australian National University with 1st Class Honours.



ELMIRA BAYRASLI Thought Leader, Global Entrepreneurship

Elmira writes about global innovations and entrepreneurship on Entreventures on Forbes.com. Over the past several years, Elmira has worked to support start-ups in emerging markets at Endeavor, served as the Chief Spokesperson for the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and assisted former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright.

Elmira is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an advisory board member for the Turkish Women’s International Network and Turkish Philanthropy Funds and a mentor for the Women Innovate Mobile entrepreneur incubator. She is a regular speaker on innovation and start-ups and is currently writing a book on the obstacles to global entrepreneurship.

http://blogs.forbes.com/elmirabayrasli

http://www.endeavor.org/

http://oscebih.org/

http://cfr.org/

http://turkishwin.com/

http://turkishwin.com/

http://www.tpfund.org/

http://womeninnovatemobile.com/

http://womeninnovatemobile.com/



DAN SCHMITT FOUNDER, THE INCUBATION FACTORY

Dan Schmitt is co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of AAQ and the founder of The Incubation Factory (“TIF”). By 1998, AAQ had become the 156th fastest growing company in the United States on Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 list. In 1997, Dan co-founded Advanced Business Fulfillment (ABF), which applies document processing solutions to the healthcare industry. In 2003, ABF had become the 23rd fastest growing company on the Inc. 500 list and #1 in Missouri, and it was sold to WebMD for $260 million in that same year.

Dan was the mastermind of the AAQ and ABF business models and the architect of a methodology for creating new business initiatives. In 2005, he combined his expertise in business development, administration, finance, and marketing to create The Incubation Factory – a privately funded Economic Development Platform. Dan’s primary roles as CEO are setting company strategy and vision, creating company culture, and supporting the TIF executive team. Dan participates in the evaluation and selection of all portfolio companies and takes an active role in strategic consulting and business model development of each incubated company. He is an investor in all of TIF’s incubated companies.

For the last 10 consecutive years, Dan has spent nearly $25MM in developing a platform that has been coined “Open Source Capitalism”. Part maverick, part scientist, part psychologist and new age “wanna-be”, Dan has created a new entrepreneurial vision he believes can turn the repeating cycles self-destruction into a new vision of Spontaneous Abundance that puts the “intended” form of capitalism and democracy at the heart of daily operations…meaning every aspect of our lives. The “factory” has a unique process that if duplicated en masse, re-innovates innovation itself. Dan strongly professes start-ups are it’s own industry whose time has come to put a renewed infrastructure around as Dan proclaims, “The Innovation Sector (i.e. start ups) is unequivocally the most important in the world”. His personal motto is “Save the entrepreneur…Save the World”.



ANGELA O’CONNOR VP, Market Development – The Incubation Factory

Angela O’Connor is the Vice President of Market Development for The Incubation Factory. She oversees and directs all initiatives involved in the company’s global expansion including identifying and developing strategic partnerships both within and outside of the United States. Angela has successfully initiated start-up companies in Healthcare, International Supply Sourcing & Logistics. She developed and implemented business and operational strategies, including management of foreign organizations, operations, finance, production and distribution.

She brings over twenty years of business and entrepreneurial experience with extensive experience in sales, sales management, international supply chain management, partner acquisition, international logistics, establishment of manufacturing processes and all facets of international facility establishment. Most recently, she co-founded and built one of the largest packaging manufacturing facilities of its kind in the western hemisphere, located in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Angela brings an evangelical passion and perspective to her leadership role in TIF’s introduction and spread of its platform for Open Source Capitalism. A fierce proponent of freedom-centered living, global democracy and limitless human potential, she believes that these things are only possible with an integrated, accountable and fair economic approach. Increasingly aware of the shared widespread frustration with current paradigms and failing systems, she is completely confident that the world is ready to embrace the tangible solution that is The Incubation Factory’s Open Source Capitalism.

With widespread adoption of this “new game”, she knows that a modern renaissance of mankind is within our grasp.

Angela O’Connor graduated Magna Cum Laude with a double major in Business and Political Science from Birmingham Southern College in 1988. Angela resides with her family in Denver, Colorado.



SUSAN FONSECA Founding Member SIngularity University Founder/CEO Women@TheFrontier Susan is a Founding Member of Singularity University (SU). She organized SU’s 2008 Founding Conference, helped source 1.5M seed funding, and negotiated a 5-year partnership with NASA. Susan spearheaded SU’s TED09 public launch and executed SU’s inaugural Graduate Studies and Executive Programs. Today, SU Alumni are in 60+ countries around the world. Susan is titled “Founding Architect” for her role in building the initial DNA that is SU. Susan is also the founder of Women@TheFrontier, an explosive forum highlighting female change-agents that are leveraging exponential technologies and innovative platforms to address global grand challenges. An anthropologist and lawyer, prior to SU Susan negotiated diplomatic and international collaboration with Central American Presidents, Ambassadors, U.S. State Officials and Industry CEOs that culminated in the successful vote and passage of the U.S. & Dominican Republic – Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). In addition, Susan has produced technical and scientific conferences (e.g., Life Extension Conference, Singularity Summits, Aging Conference and Convergence). Susan’s focus is to create strategic alliances and global networks that empower, inspire and drive positive change.



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USA DELEGATION

Sergio Fernandez de Cordova - http://www.linkedin.com/in/sergionyc Susan-Fonseca – http://www.linkedin.com/in/susanfk Nam Bui – http://www.linkedin.com/in/nambui James Allworth – http://linkd.in/yvbvVq Elmira Bayrasil - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/elmira-bayrasli/2/a43/725 Lauren Perkins – http://www.linkedin.com/in/perksconsulting Angela O Conner - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/angela-o-connor/3b/77a/a46 Dan Schmidtt - http://www.linkedin.com/in/danschmitttif HOST: Gary Whitehill - http://www.linkedin.com/in/garywhitehill

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sergionyc

http://www.linkedin.com/in/susanfk

http://www.linkedin.com/in/nambui

http://linkd.in/yvbvVq

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/elmira-bayrasli/2/a43/725

http://www.linkedin.com/in/perksconsulting

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/angela-o-connor/3b/77a/a46

http://www.linkedin.com/in/danschmitttif

http://www.linkedin.com/in/garywhitehill



Entrepreneur Week

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GARY WHITEHILL Founder of Entrepreneur Week & The Relentless Foundation

A relentless entrepreneur and driven philanthropist with a footprint on four continents; broad experience spanning entrepreneurship, M&A, business turnarounds, and Fortune 100 board directorships.

A visionary in structuring the macro-level dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems, Gary has authored 10 professional articles and given more than 50 presentations in forums around the world on a multitude of topics pertaining to entrepreneurship. His works have been featured in several prestigious publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Inc and Time Magazine. Gary is also an investor in 8 companies spanning multiple verticals, including: consumer products, outdoor advertising, print and technology.

Philanthropically, Gary is driven by a desire to ensure every continent remains competitive globally in the entrepreneurship space. He seeks to build a framework to teach every child in grades K-12 the tenets of entrepreneurship inside the classroom by 2030. This mission commenced with the formation of The Relentless Foundation in 2009. Gary also plans to expand upon his ambitious vision and launch a network of entrepreneurship curriculum-based schools in major metro cities around the world by 2040.

Fulfilling his passion for promoting innovation in large corporations, Gary played an instrumental role in architecting the first Fortune 50 Entrepreneur-in-Residence program in history at Dell. Currently, he resides as a member of the AOL Small Business Board of Directors, Astia Global Board of Directors, Dell Entrepreneur-in-Residence Advisory Board and Holcomb Nature Farm Board of Directors. In 2011, Gary represented the United States at the Young G20 Summit in Paris, France advising heads of state on innovation in technology and communication. Recently, Gary was nominated to represent the United States at the G8 Young Global Leaders Summit in Chicago, Illinois this May.

Gary was Division I collegiate athlete in both Football and Track & Field at Central Connecticut State University and graduated with a triple degree in management, marketing and entrepreneurship.



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