Jorge Espinel - Advisory Board Member @ H2; Chief Business Devlopment Officer @ Lemonade: Jorge Espinel is the Chief Business Development Officer at Lemonade, a technology company he joined in 2018 focused on reinventing the insurance industry. Prior to joining Lemonade, he was the Vice President of Global Business Development at Spotify, the leading global music streaming service, for five years. Previously, Mr. Espinel was at News Corporation's Digital Media Group, now 21st Century Fox, serving as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development. In addition, Mr. Espinel served as the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Mergers and Acquisitions at America Online. Mr. Espinel started his career at Booz Allen & Hamilton as a management consultant focused on media, entertainment & technology. Mr. Espinel holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, magna cum laude, from University of Pennsylvania’s The Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Jose Ojeda – Chapter Director @ H2 Barcelona; Co-Founder @ 011h: Jose is a tech entrepreneur, executive and investor. He is currently co-founder of 011h, a climate tech company that has raised €35m to date with a mission to accelerate the transition to a sustainable Built World through carbon neutral buildings. Previously Jose was COO/Board Member at Lyst, a leading fashion shopping platform with a valuation of $700m, and country CEO at Global Fashion Group, the leading fashion destination in emerging markets which is publicly traded. Jose started his career at McKinsey & Co, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School and Masters from ESADE Business School.

Melanie Mohr - Advisory Board Member @ H2; Founder & CEO @ YEAY: Melanie is a Berlin-based entrepreneur with 20 years’ experience in Media, Marketing and Mobile Technology. In 2016 she founded YEAY - the leading community for Generation Z to share honest recommendation videos with one another about the lifestyle products they love. In 2018 she became the founder and CEO of the WOM Protocol, the blockchain company helping brands tap into peer-to-peer recommendations and digital publishers monetize their platforms in a user-friendly way through word-of-mouth recommendations. Melanie is a four-time founder and a strong female presence in the tech and blockchain scenes. Melanie is a frequent speaker at tech, blockchain, and marketing conferences including Websummit, Dmexco, Asian Blockchain Summit, Blockshow, Coinagenda, Delta Summit, Mobile World Congress, and DLD.

Ofir Yosef – Advisory Board Member @ H2; CEO @ easy: Ofir is the CEO at easy, Israel's most popular service for local search with over 20% market share. Ofir is a veteran entrepreneur with a passion for building and scaling consumer products. Prior to leading Easy, Ofir Co-founded PhotoMania, one of the world's most popular photo editing and sharing services with a community of over 70M registered users. Ofir holds a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion institute and had a long track record in R&D centers of major corporations such as Intel and Samsung.

Olivier Legrand - Advisory Board Member @ H2; Chief Operating Officer @ Sendinblue: Sendinblue is the only all-in-one digital marketing platform empowering B2B and B2C businesses, e-commerce sellers and agencies to build customer relationships through end-to-end digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation. Olivier brings with him more than 2 decades of leadership in technology that includes running Digital Media, Saas and consumer web businesses across the world. Prior to Sendinblue, Olivier Legrand spent 10 years at LinkedIn, including the last 6 years as Managing Director and Vice-President Asia Pacific and China for LinkedIn. Before joining Dow Jones, he founded Creasia Marketing House, a marketing and digital production agency in Hong Kong and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Olivier has a Bachelor’s degree from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESG).

Rabin Yaghoubi - Advisory Board Member @ H2; Chief Corporate Development Officer at Aleph Group. Rabin leads business development and M&A and manages the growth of key partnerships at Aleph Group, the global leader in powering digital marketing growth in emerging markets, exclusively representing the world’s top media platforms - including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Pinterest, Reddit, Snap, Spotify, TikTok, Uber and X - in over 130 countries. Previously, he led Babylon Health's business operation from its inception as Chief Commercial Officer, ran strategic partnerships for Google in EMEA (including launching key products such as Maps, Shopping and Video) and managed DoubleClick's Media business globally. With over 25 years of experience, Rabin is a prolific angel investor and advisor, having acted as EIR at Seedcamp, Europe’s leading early-stage fund, and invested in and advised over 50 early and late-stage digital businesses. Rabin holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA/BS from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Roger Egan – Chapter Director @ H2 Barcelona, Advisory Board Member @ H2; Co-Founder & CEO @ Nurture: Roger is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently Co-founder & CEO of Nurture, a pre-launch EdTech startup. Prior to Nurture, Roger was Co-founder and CEO of Redmart, the largest online grocer in Singapore. Redmart achieved over 70% online market share and raised over US $100M from renowned investors, such as Toivo Annus (Skype Co-founder), Eduardo Saverin (Facebook Co-founder), SEA (NYSE listed), and Softbank Ventures. Redmart was acquired by Alibaba in Nov 2016. Roger has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from INSEAD Business School and a BA in Economics from The University of Pennsylvania.

Rowan Barnett – Advisory Board Member @ H2; Head of Google.org EMEA @ Google: Rowan is responsible for leading Google’s philanthropy in the Europe, Middle East & Africa region. Google.org brings the best of Google to innovative nonprofits that are committed to creating a world that works for everyone. Previously, as Head of Google for Startups, Germany, Rowan was responsible for supporting the startup ecosystem in Germany to work with Google and grow, and helping to enable a new generation of diverse entrepreneurs to succeed. Prior to Google, Rowan spent nearly 5 years at Twitter where he was Senior Director for strategic market development in D/A/CH, Benelux, Russia and Emerging markets. Previously he spent 8 years leading digital and social innovation at the German publisher Axel Springer and news site BILD.de. Rowan has always been passionate about startups and has played an active role in the Berlin ecosystem. Rowan, born and raised in England, studied History at Oriel College, Oxford, before moving to Berlin in 2004.

Simon Davies – Advisory Board Member @ H2; Founder & CEO @ NewCo: Simon Davies is the founder and CEO of a new business innovating in the genealogy space. Previously he founded two other tech ventures including Krowd9, a social platform connecting friends with rivalrous sporting passions, and Snaptu, a Sequoia Capital backed operator of the mobile application Snaptu which was acquired by Facebook in April 2011. Designed to facilitate a smartphone-like app experience in ‘emerging markets’, the Snaptu platform now powers ‘Facebook Lite’, Facebook’s application for several hundred million users in the ‘developing world’. In addition, Simon has held, or holds the following positions: Special Advisor Spond AS, BBC Worldwide Labs Advisory Board and Board Director of Quadriga Worldwide.