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Lumia's investment and operating teams work closely with Lumia Global Success, including the Global Success Council to bring our companies the capital, expertise and relationships critical to building global category leaders. We're looking forward to meeting you. test

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Martin Gedalin Partner
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Chris Rogers Partner
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Peter Weed Partner, Head of Lumia Global Success
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Everett Tu Investment Analyst
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Boris Bogatin Venture Partner
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Leonard Lodish Operating Partner
Global Success Council

Lumia's Global Success Council, A core element of our Lumia Global Success platform, brings together some of the foremost internationalization trailblazers, wireless decision makers, and influential local leaders --- Powerful, personal and real time knowledge and expertise across our global scope, critical to helping our companies achieve ideal outcomes.

Diego Ávalos

Vice President of Originals for Netflix Spain. Previously, Head of Business Development for Yahoo, Latin America.

Product Readiness Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth Local Financial Infrastructure Corporate Operations and Excellence

Mark Bagley

Managing Director for Woodside Capital Partners. Previously, VP of Strategic Growth Initiatives for BT.

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth

Teresa Barger

Managed largest portfolio of EM investment funds at IFC. CEO/Co-Founder of Cartica managing $2B of EM assets

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy

Georg Bauser

Co-founder of Expansion Partner. Previously, co-founded housing rental company Accoleo which was acquired by Airbnb.

Local Financial Infrastructure Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth Local Regulations and Public Policy Product Readiness Recruiting & Performance Management

Ashley Behncke

Leads Global Expansion at Apple and led Global Market Entry at Levi Strauss & Co

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Financial Infrastructure International Sales and Growth

Steve Biondi

Led Oracle’s global ISV and OEM business and leads global channels at Avaya, a Fortune 1000 company

Market Selection and Entry Structure Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence International Sales and Growth

Christopher Cederskog

Co-founder of Expansion Partner. Previously, co-founded housing rental company Accoleo which was acquired by Airbnb.

International Sales and Growth Local Financial Infrastructure Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy Product Readiness Recruiting & Performance Management

Ninan Chacko

CEO of a $20 billion powerhouse in the travel industry, Travel Leaders Group

Product Readiness Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth

Mark Charkin

International Expansion at Snap, previously EVP Global BD, King Digital (ATVI)

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth

Patricia Cobian

CFO of O2 (Telefonica UK) and drove strategy as Director of Strategy and Transformation at O2

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy International Sales and Growth

Jose Fernandez Da Ponte

Leading global business development at PayPal and led BBVA's emerging markets strategy

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Financial Infrastructure International Sales and Growth

Pascal De Mul

Built Spotify’s hardware partnership program and led its international business development team

Market Selection and Entry Structure Product Readiness Local Regulations and Public Policy Recruiting & Performance Management Income Repatriation International Sales and Growth

Tom Erickson

Fmr. founding CEO of Acquia, growing company to $175M in revenue and 800+ employees

International Sales and Growth Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Income Repatriation Market Selection and Entry Structure Recruiting & Performance Management

Maelle Gavet

Currently COO at Compass, previously EVP Global Operations at the Priceline Group

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Recruiting & Performance Management International Sales and Growth

Anya Goldin

Fmr. managing partner of Latham’s Moscow office where she led 11 IPOs of Russian issuers and has served on 13 boards

Corporate Operations and Excellence Local Regulations and Public Policy

Raza Haider

Senior Vice President of Global Consumer & Small Business: Sales, Strategy and Product Management at Dell Technologies

International Sales and Growth Corporate Operations and Excellence Income Repatriation Market Selection and Entry Structure Product Readiness Recruiting & Performance Management

Paul Holmstrom

Head of Group Strategy at Tele2, one of Europe’s fastest growing telecom operators

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy International Sales and Growth

Enrique Kaufer

International retail expert. VP of Intl. Stores at GNC. Previously, intl. development at Jamba Juice

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy International Sales and Growth

Steven Koltai

Led Entrepreneurial Initiatives at US Dept. of State, Founder, SES-Astra, an $85B global satellite firm

Corporate Operations and Excellence Local Regulations and Public Policy International Sales and Growth

Lee Linden

Led Facebook’s emerging initiatives in commerce, previously founder of Karma and Tabjoy.

Product Readiness Local Financial Infrastructure Recruiting & Performance Management

Patrick Morselli

Led Uber’s launches in Europe and LatAm. Scaled 10x in 2 years as Head of Global Expansion at WeWork

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Recruiting & Performance Management International Sales and Growth

Anya Oleinikova

Senior Director, Talent at Hired. Formerly, led Strategy and intl. Expansion at Eventbrite. Drove search and display internationalization at Google

Corporate Operations and Excellence International Sales and Growth Local Financial Infrastructure Local Regulations and Public Policy Market Selection and Entry Structure Product Readiness Recruiting & Performance Management

Alexandros Paterakis

CIO at Mobily ($15B market cap operator), previously CIO at Vodafone Greece ($76.8 billion market cap as of 10.12.16)

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth

Jamie Perlman

Head of Global Business Development & International Expansion at Box, responsible for generating more 20% of Box's new ARR

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth

Sven Schildknecht

Emerging markets expansion expert. Currently Head of Program Management at Tipico. Previously, VP at Deutsche Telekom AG’s Group Business Development and Corporate Venturing Program.

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth

Allen Shim

CFO at Slack

Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy International Sales and Growth

Patrick Sigrist

Founder of iFood, Latin America’s leading online food ordering platform and a subsidiary of Movile

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Financial Infrastructure International Sales and Growth

Manjit Singh

Experienced technology executive. CIO at Clorox. Previously, Head of Industry Solutions at Box

Product Readiness Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy

Sonny Singh

Business Development expert. Currently Chief Commercial Officer at Bitpay. Previously, VP of Business Development at Jumio.

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure International Sales and Growth

Neeraj Singhal

Developed Uber’s international playbook by expanding into 30+ markets in 2 years, including India, Middle East and Africa

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Local Regulations and Public Policy International Sales and Growth

Justin Spratt

Director of Business Development and Payment Processing for Uber MENA

International Sales and Growth Local Financial Infrastructure Local Regulations and Public Policy Income Repatriation Market Selection and Entry Structure Product Readiness Recruiting & Performance Management

David Sullivan

Founder and Managing Director of ADG, a leading China go-to-market firm assisting Western enterprise and consumer technology companies to identify, develop and execute China growth strategies and to partner with China technology leaders going global

International Sales and Growth Local Financial Infrastructure Local Regulations and Public Policy Market Selection and Entry Structure Corporate Operations and Excellence Income Repatriation Product Readiness Recruiting & Performance Management

James Walker

Entrepreneurial advisor with 10+ years of experience leading startups global growth and operations

Corporate Operations and Excellence Market Selection and Entry Structure Product Readiness International Sales and Growth Recruiting & Performance Management Income Repatriation

Chris Weasler

Director, Global Connectivity at Facebook. Head of Internet.org, which aims to bring the Internet to underserved markets

Product Readiness Market Selection and Entry Structure

Peter Yared

Founder & CTO at InCountry. Previously, Founder & CTO of Sapho

Corporate Operations and Excellence International Sales and Growth Product Readiness Recruiting & Performance Management
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