FEATURED SPEAKERS

Alan
Clayton

Global Roaming Mentor @ SOSV

Acceleration specialist, mentor at HAX, Food-X, Chinaccelerator RebelBio and IndieBio accelerators. Previously 5x founder.

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Turning vision into action for leadership teams

Alan serves as the SOSV Business Coach. He works directly with teams across all SOSV accelerators and focuses much of his time on HAX Growth companies, growing hardware distribution and sales networks globally.

Alan is also the creator of the “Wholebrain Startup” methodology, which focuses on fully utilizing the intellectual resources of startup founders and teams.

With experience both founding and mentoring hundreds of startups across the globe, Alan brings a wide range of expertise to team building, product development and sales, marketing, and global distribution channels.

After 10 years in marketing/logistics at WalMart UK, Alan co-founded an international coaching consultancy, turning vision into action for leadership teams, including managers at Motorola, Unilever, ATT&T, etc. ​

Following that, Alan embarked on 20 years​ of startup​ experience ​working on his own ventures, culminating in a meeting with SOSV in 2009.

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Ioan
Istrate

Advisor to the Minister @ Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization

With over 10 years of work experience in various fields, ranging from consulting and entrepreneurship to policy and social impact, his core competencies include new business development, analytical skills, and geopolitics.

Cezara
Panait

Government Affairs & Public Policy Country Lead for Romania @ Google

Young professional in EU digital policy and human rights lawyer with comprehensive knowledge of legal, policy and regulatory issues, acquired in both public and private sectors.

Ana
Crețu

Co-Founder InnovX-BCR @ BCR

Co-Founder and Board of Advisors member of InnovX-BCR business accelerator, assisting startups to architect, accelerate, and expand from idea to hypergrowth, by means of leveraging the infrastructure, knowledge, resources and test environments of BCR.

Robin
Haak

General Partner @ Robin Capital

With a varied career portfolio, Robin has acted as an entrepreneur, operating executive, investor, and advisor to a broad spectrum of private and public companies. These include Algolia, Aircall, Axel Springer, and many more.

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