Mike Butcher (M.B.E.) is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European technology by Wired UK. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Web Summit, and DLD.

He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities. Mike is a regular broadcaster, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg. He has also advised UK Prime Ministers and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy, as well as being a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100

Most Connected Men in the UK. He is the co-founder ThePathfounder.com newsletter; TheEuropas.com (the Annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards for 12 years); and the non-profits Techfugees.com, TechVets.co, and Coadec.com. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.

Sergiu Manea is the Chief Executive Officer of Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), Romania’s most important financial institution. BCR provides market-leading financial services for consumers, small businesses and corporates, as well as asset management and private pension management services.

Sergiu became CEO of BCR in October 2015. Under his leadership, BCR has entered into a new stage of transformation, recently reaching one significant milestone by launching Romania's first intelligent banking platform, George. During Sergiu's tenure, BCR has positioned itself as a promoter of creating prosperity through education and technology, by setting up the largest financial education program in Romania, the School of Money, the entrepreneurial education platform BCR School of Business and InnovX-BCR, the business accelerator for tech start-ups.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from the Academy of Economic Studies and holds a Master of Science in Finance from the ASE Doctoral School of Finance (DOFIN) in Bucharest.

Ana Maria Cretu is the Start-up Programs Coordinator BCR & Co-founder of InnovX-BCR Business Accelerator. Self-starter dedicated and dynamic young professional with a banking experience of 11 years in corporate finance and investment banking, both in Mergers & Acquisitions and Equity Capital Markets, but also in impact and sustainable financing. Currently, within BCR, her focus is to both generate and lead projects at various stages of the innovation process including design, pilot execution and evaluation of impact, alongside with tech startups graduating the InnovX-BCR accelerator and various other partners, including BCR clients, NGOs, public authorities or technology providers partners.

Her most recent initiative  launched in collaboration with Jobful, an InnovX-BCR alumnus, is www.jobs4ukr.com – a fully digital platform matching talent from Ukraine with job opportunities in Europe during this humanitarian crisis. The solution was developed in partnership with Druid, Microsoft and EY, and is currently expanding to markets outside Romania, gathering support from both general public and media, in a very short amount of time.

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