Background of speakers/panelists -
Professor Yossi Feinberg
Professor Feinberg is a professor of Economics and the Graduate School of Business (GCB) at Stanford. He is also the Director of the Corporate Entrepreneur: Driving Innovation and New Ventures Executive Program offered by the GSB for Executive Management. He is the faculty director of Stanford Ignite, a global innovation program running on the Stanford Campus, and led its expansion to Bangalore, Beijing, Paris, Santiago and London.
Dhiraj Mukherjee
Dhiraj's career has been at the intersection of new media, business strategy and societal impact. He graduated from the Stanford GSB in 1997, and became a co-founder of Shazam, the world's first mobile phone music recognition service, in the years following. He then held several leadership roles at Save The Children, Reuters, Bauer Media Group, Infosys. Currently he heads the Banking Innovation group at Virgin Money. Dhiraj has a perspective from both an entrepreneur and intrapreneur helping drive innovation in larger organizations.
Francois Mazoudier
Francois Mazoudier is a founder of Tech Leaders Capital, a co-investment club for global tech CEOs with outstanding track records. He previously held executive roles building eight Technology companies (GoHello, Speakanet, RealNetworks, PictureTel, Central Point Software, The Cloud Networks, Symantec, Firefox), experienced two IPOs and one total failure. In the second part of his career, Francois was a co-founder of Speed Ventures, a $90m seed stage Venture Capital firm backed by Soros Partners and Permira. Francois was recently selected by the Croydon Council to lead the design and management of a new Croydon Tech City initiative.
Stanford Ignite
Stanford Graduate School of Business launched its first Stanford Ignite certificate program in London in September 2015. The 10-week, part-time program is teaching innovators how to formulate, develop, and commercialize their ideas. Leveraging high-definition distance technology, the program is being held at Canary Wharf in London, with both faculty on the ground and Stanford professors beamed in from Silicon Valley. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/stanford-ignite/global-locations/london