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She is the former head of strategic services at AKQA, an ideas and innovation company that specializes in creating digital services and products with 13 offices across Europe, Asia, and America. An accomplished digital consultant with 17 years of experience in product and service design plus digital strategy, Alison Rushworth leads BCGDV’s strategic design team in London, delivering exceptional experiences across all platforms, both physical and digital.

He is the cofounder and former CEO of Hachiko, an IoT consumer product for connecting pets and owners via a next-generation smart collar for dogs that measures and reports their daily activities in real time. A startup and corporate entrepreneur with expertise in innovation and IoT, Hod Fleishman brings talented teams together to deliver winning IoT-enabled businesses to the world’s leading corporations and to solve the unique challenges they face today.

He is the former CEO of XING, Europe’s leading social network for professionals. He is also the former vice president and managing director of eBay Germany, eBay’s biggest market outside of the US. One of Germany’s most accomplished executives in the digital space, Stefan Groß-Selbeck has been successfully building, launching, and running digital businesses and platforms for more than 15 years. He manages the operation and growth of BCGDV on a global scale in several sectors, including consumer, mobility, and financial services.

She is the founder and former CEO of Shopcade, a fashion app and website that promotes trending fashion and beauty products, showcasing the latest content features and engaging socially with consumers. She is also the cofounder and former managing director of PriceMinister, an online French marketplace trading second-hand or cut-price consumer goods. A serial entrepreneur with international experience in e-commerce, mobile, data analytics, and social media, Nathalie Gaveau provides strategic advice about digital opportunities, forming partnerships to help clients rapidly launch and grow transformational digital products, platforms, and new business builds.

He is the former CEO of Rocket Internet, which incubates, builds, and develops Internet-based business models, providing operational support to its companies and helping them scale internationally. Based in Singapore and a member of the leadership team of BCGDV’s new incubation center in Southeast Asia, Hanno Stegmann invents, builds, invests in, and launches category-changing businesses at startup speed for the world’s most influential corporations.

She is a UK cofounder and a former chief marketing officer at Scalable Capital, a financial-technology startup that launched an innovative automated investment service for retail clients in Germany and the UK. An experienced top-management consultant and startup entrepreneur, Ella Rabener joined BCGDV’s management team with the expertise and experience to shepherd tech startups from initial idea to successful market entry.

She is a former CEO of Interbrand, where she focused on a modern, evolved definition of brand experience strategy and design for the world-leading brand consultancy. She is also a former COO and CMO at Kickstarter, where she defined and implemented brand strategy and visual direction for the funding platform. With her deep background in product and service innovation, experience design, and technology, Beth Viner has defined and built the future of several consumer businesses across such industries as travel and tourism, health care, financial services, and private equity.

He is a former chairman of Shazam Entertainment, where he built the senior team and led strategy development and operations to turn the mobile app into a global music brand. A successful global CEO with more than 25 years of experience in digital transformation, including ten venture launches, Ajay Chowdhury manages BCGDV’s Western Europe region. He is also a member of BCGDV’s global executive committee and the chair of its global investment committee.

He is a former investment manager at Archer Capital, one of Australia’s leading private-equity firms and an established market leader in leveraged buyouts in both Australia and New Zealand. He is also a cofounder and a former CEO and director of One Big Switch, the fastest-growing consumer network in Ireland and Australia. An experienced venture capital investor and successful entrepreneur, Paul Hunyor is the regional head of BCGDV Asia. He leads teams of digital business builders in Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo to incubate game-changing businesses with the world’s most important corporations.