1991 Mentors

Optimises and structures processes for 20+ startups.

Has over 25 years of experience in product management and e-commerce across a wide range of sectors.

Works across export support, team building, strategy, business development, and sales.

Manages relationships with a wide range of investors, from local angels to leading venture capital firms.

Has experience in launching, scaling, and investing in startups. At Sifted, leads the development and execution of Sifted Pitch Days.

Founder of Short Story Ventures, a venture studio that helps early-stage startups build a fundable startup brand.

A leading health tech innovator and NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) alumnus, having scaled and exited multiple digital health companies. He has previously been recognised as one of the top 100 HealthTech Influencers.

Dan’s experiences include VC-backed, bootstrapped, and agency businesses - the most recent exit saw Conversocial acquired by a US public company for $50M.His role has always been as the technical co-founder, which has also involved much leadership and operations work.He has been an official mentor on the Founder Institute London programme.

Oleksandr serves on the boards of various startups as a venture investor. He has experience in fundraising, finance and business planning, business development and growth, as well as handling rather unusual situations (founder disputes and sharp revenue declines).

Yevhenia has been supporting technology businesses for approximately 10 years. She consults companies working in products and services, focusing on the strategic development of innovative projects.

Vasyl has extensive experience in traditional finance and asset management. He is skilled at guiding limited partners towards meaningful investments and has a strong track record in strategic investing, asset allocation, and capital management.

Daniel has equipped 8 companies with data-driven strategies that helped secure over $20 million in funding and double key performance metrics. His expertise spans user acquisition, retention, conversion optimisation, and more.

Oksana has experience in product management and new market expansion, business development and partnership relations, fundraising, creating investor pitch decks, and investor relations.

Mikko-Pekka Hanski is a founder of the Ministry of Good Spirit — a social impact growth platform. Good Spirit community has over 100 companies and impact NGOs like Fornemus and Stories of the Nation NGO.

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Also, he is a co-founder of Idean, a global innovation & design company. Idean was acquired by Capgemini 2017. Key competencies are strategic concept design skills, digital strategy creation, qualitative market research, international sales and business development, global networks, focus on imagination, and opportunity hunting.

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He is the chairperson at YTK — the largest unemployment fund in Finland; a chairperson at Juuriharja Consulting; and a member of the board for Kovanen Capital — a family office.

He has been with Hubspot for 6+ years and was instrumental in breaking into the Benelux, MENA & Africa regions for Hubspot Sales. 

Alongside this Eoin is a Entrepreneur & Angel Investor who currently is the Founder & MD of 2 businesses. In 2012 he had his first successful exit at the age of 22 a company he founded when he was 17.

He was also the Head of Sales for a Startup with a sales team of 9 and grew the business from $1.2m ARR to $4.8m ARR in 14 months.

Provides comprehensive business consultancy on Ukrainian and international taxation and corporate structuring. Has extensive experience working with IT companies, including startups, foreign investments, and Ukrainian and international clients. Lead of a pro bono project creating tax guides for Ukrainians who have left Ukraine due to the war and relocated to European countries.

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He has progressed from IT recruiter to board member of an IT outsourcing company with a focus on the US, EU, and UK markets.

Core expertise:

• Scaling up and operational efficiency
• Helping early-stage startups with effective management and workflow organisation
• Strategic planning
• New business development and outbound marketing
• Organisation, hiring, planning, and launching sales, marketing, HR, recruitment, and finance functions, as well as improving operational efficiency
• Corporate data analytics, reporting, and decision-making

An expert in strategy, systems thinking, anthropology, sustainable development, and inclusivity.

She has 16 years of entrepreneurial experience and 5,000+ hours of consulting in HR and recruitment. She has worked with clients from 28 countries, from Singapore to Canada. An expert in Executive Search.

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He has extensive experience advising both established businesses and startups as a legal counsel. His client portfolio includes a diverse range of companies, from those providing cybersecurity services to standard outsourcing firms. He was co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of the IT business legal boutique Moris.tech, and at one time laid the groundwork at the Ukrainian Startup Fund.

Cупроводжував в якості трекера більш ніж 300 команд стартапів на різних стадіях. За допомогою методології трекінгу допомагає стартапам з визначенням цільової авдиторії, формуванням ціннісної пропозиції продукту, створенням бізнес-моделі, підготовкою презентації та пітчу перед інвесторами.

Mentor and consultant for startups.
He has over five years of experience in full-cycle software development and over three years in project, process, and team management.
He has designed and launched organisational systems ranging from 20+ to 300+ participants. An expert in launching projects from scratch. Crisis manager and expert in operational process optimisation.

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A senior manager of commercial departments in the IT sector with experience building effective teams and profitable sales and marketing systems from scratch.

A certified expert in facilitation and coaching who creates and delivers personalised educational programmes, such as facilitation sessions, business games, strategic sessions, various masterclasses, coaching sessions, mentoring sessions, and more.

Clients include companies with over 10,000 employees and global brands, including Nova Poshta International, QATestLab, and Miratech.

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Anastasia works on digitalisation, internationalisation, and strategic partnership projects for technology companies. For over 10 years, she has been organising international events and moderating business and business delegation participation at major international events across Europe and the Middle East. She has collaborated with UNIT.City, ZEO Alliance, Strategic Legacy Ventures (UK, London), Impact Hub Odessa, founded Black Sea Summit, and is a partner in several international projects such as Tech Pool CEE in China, Arabian Nights in Davos, and Hack for Italy.

She was nominated for the Kyiv Post 30 Under 30 ranking, officially invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos as a young leader (World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting 2017), and is a graduate of the Global Shapers, World Economic Forum, and Aspen Institute Kyiv programmes.

An experienced organisational leader with over ten years of senior management experience.

Previously — Chief Executive Officer of Prozorro.

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