Pavel Durov
With the Russian social network VKONTAKTE, the most promising Northern European leader under 30 Pavel Durov turned a personal project into one of the largest Russian companies in a market that knows very little start-ups.
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Drew Houston
Named one of the most promising players aged 30 and under by Business Week and the top 30 under-30 entrepreneurs by inc.com, Drew Houston turned his MIT project DROPBOX into one of the 20 best startups of Silicon Valley.
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Troy Carter
Founder of music management brand Atom Factory, Troy Carter has managed countless recording artists like John Legend and Lady Gaga.
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Nick D'Aloisio
Making headlines by selling his company and app Summly to Yahoo, Nick D'Aliosio was still a pupil at a high school in South London while rising to the top of the tech world. Summarizing, Summly’s main functionality, has been around forever, Nick tells Matthew, yet was never more needed then today with the daily information overload. What made Summly so unique is the back-end approach where we use linguists and human interpretation combined with the digital algorithm of metrics. We are referred to as the digital native generation, growing up with Google and programming. With a wide variety of apps available on the app store and everyone equally being able to submit an app, our generation is growing up with the notion that we can create a company Nick states.
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Linda Abraham
Heading the Media Board of the World Economic Forum, Linda Abraham isalso the co-founder of the internet marketing research company ComScore.
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Peter Diamandis
Serving as the Founder of X Prize Foundation and Zero Gravity Corporation & the Chairman of Space Adventures, Peter Diamandis also founded the Internationl Space Univeristy & Singularity University.
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Martin Varsavsky
Honored as Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, and entrepreneur of the year, Varsavsky has been an active founder as well as investor from Fon to GSpace, Joost, Google Europe, Xing, Tumblr.
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Bruce Aust
Assisting over 200 companies with going public at NASDAQ OMX, incl. Google, Facebook & Dunkin Donuts, Bruce Aust has been key in bringing the most cutting-edge brands to the NASDAQ OMX market.
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Slava Rubin
Slava Rubin is the brain behind the pioneer funding platform for the creative, cause-related, or entrepreneurial ideas Indiegogo.com, which has raised more than 10 million dollars in almost every country in the world.
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Errol Damelin
Errol Damelin is the Founder and CEO of one of the world's leading providers of hosted supply chain collaboration solutions Supply Chain Connect Ltd. and the co-founder of the online automated lender Wonga.
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Naif Al-Mutawa
Graced as The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations “Marketplace of Ideas” Awardee, Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is the creator of The 99- the first and the world acclaimed comic superheroes ispired by the Islamic archetype.
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Michael Lazerow
With over $2 billion of successful exits, Lazerow is considered Fortune magazine’s “40 under 40” list of business’ hottest rising stars, a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded and sold four internet-based media companies and invested in 25 more.
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Bill Gross
Founder of business incubator Idealab, GNP Loudspeakers, Knowledge Adventure, goto.com, tweetup.com, Bill Gross contiues to be on the forefront of technology for decades.
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Alejandro Ramirez
Alejandro Ramirez is the president of Cinepolis and Cineticket- the largest film exhibitor in Latin America and the first ticket selling system in Mexico.
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Lucian Tarnowski
Lucian is the Founder and CEO of Brave New Talent and Europe's youngest Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum.
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Matt Michelsen
Besides having been the Social Media Marketer of Lady Gaga and 50 cent, Matt Michelsen is the CEO and Founder of Backplane, Emarcadero Securities, and UNX, and the chairman of Gunnar Optiks.
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Nathan Wolfe
American Virologist and Global Viral Forecasting Intiative Director Dr. Nathan Wolfe is the brain behind the early warning system for pandemics that monitors transmission of diseases for both animals and humas.
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Jesse Draper
Jesse Draper is a Nickelodeon Star turned into The Tech World’s Queen of Networking and the founder and CEO of the multi-platform brand Valley Girl Inc.
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Sandy Climan
Sandy Climan is the executive behind Entertainment Media Ventures, a former advisor to Buddy Media, the former President of Worldwide Business Development for Universal Studios Inc. and senior manager at Creative Artist Agency - CAA.
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Chris Prescott
Chris Prescott is the Co-founder of Fantasy Shopper, one of the first gamified loyalty and shopping apps and the winner of 2011 Amazon Global Startup Challenge.
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