Charlie Barlow – Chief Executive Officer
After 12 years as a private and investment banker in London, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Dubai, Charlie founded Rockfirst in 2012 in order to disrupt the way investment professionals think and act, while offering a modern-day platform for entrepreneurs to gain access to investment opportunities and capital.
Charlie is the Founder and CEO of Health at Hand, the CEO of Chargifi Asia, a board director of RED BOX, RED CUBE and Hurree, and a mentor at Astrolabs (the only Google partnered technology academy in the Middle East and Africa).
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Alberto Furger
Alberto spent 10 years in senior managerial positions for the likes of EY and Credit Suisse before working as Chief Financial Officer for a prominent European family office, and most recently, a Middle Eastern multi-family office.
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Piet-Hein Boekel
Piet-Hein is an experienced intellectual property lawyer, owning his own disruptive legal practice, Certa Legal, while also being a shareholder in Start-up-Bootcamp and an advisor to Revelx.
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Gaurav Sinha
Gaurav is founder and CEO of Insignia Worldwide. A vibrant thought leader in the luxury, travel and lifestyle marketing sector, Gaurav is known as an innovator in creative strategy and is a protagonist in his field.
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Marcus Tempte
Marcus is the CEO of Friday Labs and a seasoned entrepreneur having founded 3 hardware companies and advised a number of consumer technology start-ups.
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Martin Ferro-Thomsen
Martin is the founder of Conferize and the co-founder of online publisher Issuu. Martin specialises in culture, technology and design, and gave up his PhD fellowship for the love of entrepreneurship.
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Nadim Khoury
Nadim has 16 years experience in technology and telecommunications and is a co-founder of Beam Wallet, prior to which he was a director at Cisco Systems.