Floris van Alkemade

Website: http://www.solidventures.nl
About:13 years of investing in 50+ seed and early stage IT and telecoms companies in Western Europe and the US.
Co-founded and co-managed 3 VC funds with EUR 320M committed capital. Business angel funding. Previously worked in Telecoms, Consulting and Investment Banking.

Mike Lee

Website: http://le.mu.rs
About: My name is Mike Lee. I am a software engineer and occasional author. I worked for Apple in Cupertino. I co-founded a company called Tapulous. I used to work for Delicious Monster Software in Seattle. We won an Apple Design Award. I drive a Scion tC Release Series 3.0. I love lemurs and airplanes. I collect single-malt scotch. I am Japanese. I am 34 years old. I am from Honolulu.

Mark Voermans

Website: markvoer.com
About:Strategic & Emerging Business Manager at Microsoft. He is responsible for helping and supporting start-ups, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Webdevelopment/design companies. He is also constantly spotting interesting companies with high potential.

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Website: http://bomega.com
About: I’m a Serial Internet Entrepreneur. I started my first company in 1997 and sold it during the hype of 1999. Starting companies, inventing innovative technology and coming up with new ideas is my daily work. A lot of my time is spent on keeping up with new trends on the web, internet and in technology in general and looking for opportunities. I am one of the founders of The Next Web Conference, Incubator and blog. More about that on http://thenextweb.com.

Simone Brummelhuis

Website: http://thenextwomen.com
About: Simone Brummelhuis is VP Europe of Astia.org, the premier entrepreneur programme for high-growth women-led companies. She is founder and CEO of The NextWomen, the First Women’s Internet Business Magazine and Community, with chapters in UK and The Netherlands and behind concepts as Kitchen Dinners, Funding & Pitching events and TheNextWomen Mentoring programme. She was co-founder of IENS.nl, the largest restaurantplatform in The Netherlands.

Ian Zein

Website: http://www.vidoze.com
About:I started my career in 1995 as the founder of a small but profitable web development company, while I was still a computer science student. After I sold my first company (March 2000) I was hooked on being an entrepreneur. At the moment I’m co-owner of several companies, some which I founded, some I joined later. My base is technical but thanks to being an entrepreneur for many years,  I have gained hands-on experience with starting, growing and selling companies. On the investment part I’ve seen both sides of the table. Having investors on board, but also investing myself. One of our investments is in real estate, all others are internet related. I mostly work from the Indivirtual office in Amsterdam. From this location we also run Vidoze, an early stage investment company, I founded with Jaap Visser and Camiel Dobbelaar.

Sebastiaan Capel

Website: http://www.sebastiaancapel.nl
About:Sebastiaan Capel is a member of the  Amsterdam city council for the social-liberals (D66) and spokesman on Economic Affairs. He has advocated strongly for the creative industries in Amsterdam and now focuses on combining economy and sustainability (greenjobs) and on a good education of our youth, so they can find a job. Besides Economic Affairs he is responsible for Housing. Born in Amsterdam, Sebastiaan studied Urban Geography and feels he is a true “urbanite”, with a passion for the ideas of Jane Jacobs. Besides politics he is one of the many “zzp-ers” in the city, working as a policy and communications consultant for profit and non-profit.

Maarten Beucker Andreae

Website: http://www.tty.nl/
About:Martin is co-founder and CEO of TTY Internet Solutions and 2dehands.nl / 2dehands.be (the Marktplaats for Belgium). Additionally he is an Angel Investor and developer and co-founder of real estate site Jaap.nl, gekko.com, and Zwapp.com – a tool for iPhone app discovery. Maarten is currently also engaged in the Launch of two other startups: one in the TV-business and one in the banking sector. In 2009 Maarten was elected Entrepreneur of the year in Amsterdam.