Mete Coban, 26, is the Chief Executive of My Life My Say and Councillor for Stoke Newington. He is best known for his work in setting-up the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Better Brexit for Young People and for contributing to the increase of turnout for young people at the 2017 UK General Elections. The youngest ever elected Councillor in the London borough of Hackney, he is also Chair of the Skills, Economy & Growth Commission in Hackney, which has a remit for skills, economy and growth in Hackney. Previously, he worked on the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s selection campaign leading on youth engagement. Alongside his role in politics, Mete previously worked for Arsenal & Southampton FC as a football scout for their respective youth departments.

Former Director of Operations for YPlan, City Pantry & Dice.

Katie Lewis has been immersed in working with early stage high growth companies since establishing her first successful company at age 16 focused on advertising for the tourism sector. Coupling her hands on learning of building a business and her later experience of working with the management team of a private company preparing it for a prosperous trade sale led her to spending  4 years at an early stage Venture Capital (VC) firm in London.  In September 2014 Katie joined The Accelerator Network where she oversees the programme delivery of their 14 programmes supporting companies from idea to Series A investment. Each year she works with around 1000 companies across a variety of stages and sectors including IoT, Cyber Security, Immersive, FinTech, Media, B2B SaaS just to name a few. Alumni of The Accelerator Network's programmes have now raised more than £100m in equity investment.  Katie is also co-founder of an international network of entrepreneurs, 9others, where over 4,500 entrepreneurs from over 45 cities around the world have joined for a meal in a format she co-created to share the challenges they are facing when building their business and to aid each other by sharing from their learnings. The network has seen investments made, skills hired, partnerships created and friendships blossom! 

Max is VP of Strategy and Innovation for Techstars globally. Prior to Techstars, Max spent 12 years at Virgin where he was responsible for the strategy of the group and for starting new companies
●        Virgin Insight - delivered big data solutions to all the Virgin companies
●        Virgin Mobile USA - grew to revenues of $1bn within 18 months
●        Virgin Mobile Canada - voted best Canadian network in its launch year
●        Virgin Healthbank - freezing stem cells cryogenically These companies exited for more than $500M for Richard Branson.
Alongside his Virgin commitments, Max also co-founded lastsecondtickets.com which was successfully sold in 2014.
He started his career at L’Oreal running the UK’s largest haircare brand – the irony was lost on no one. He was a scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained a First Class Degree in Chemistry.

Nihal is the Business Development Director at an edtech startup where she raised £1.5 million in funding and went on to launch a cloud-based learning platform, achieving global user acquisition in 47 countries in less than a year.
Nihal has 12+ years’ experience in developing and launching businesses, products and projects in the UK and across MEA.
She has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Nokia, set up a women’s boxing business, worked with start-ups on developing growth strategies and managed development programmes for the NHS, House of Commons and the Royal Court of Bahrain.
Nihal has a background in market research and marketing strategy, holds an MBA, an Advanced Certificate in Market and Social Research Practice. She has a particular interest in the future of work and regularly facilitates online research for the Future of Work Consortium.
She is also passionate about inclusion and diversity and has worked with education institutions on developing programmes such as Women for the Board - aimed at increasing the number of women in board roles.
In her free time, Nihal enjoys extreme sports, olympic weightlifting and travel.

Simon is a start up enthusiast with a process driven approach to aggressive growth and strategic thinking. Simon is the Head of Product at Sherpa, an insurance company focused on the self employed having raised £3M in seed and is looking to make getting and keeping the right insurance simpler. With over 10 years experience working with startups across various industries, having organised and mentored at over 100 events, sits on various boards across Europe (startups/tech-focused associations/DTL) and has a strong soft spot for social impact businesses. Simon loves anything to do with the sea, food as well as anything that can be accompanied with wine.

Program Director at Techstars London. 

After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and spending an Erasmus semester abroad at ICHEC in Brussels, Marko obtained a Master's degree in Business at the University of Zagreb.Even though Marko is a founder of TimePrep, an iOS time management app for CFA candidates, he worked as a Business development manager and a blogger for Netokracija, leading the organisation of a few 400,500 people conferences and as an Organizer at the Zagreb Entrepreneurship Incubator.Eventually, he joined Techstars as an Associate in the London Winter 2014 program and became a Program Manager and successfully led Techstars London 2015, 2016 and 2017 cohorts before being promoted to a Director role.

COO at Yoola

Susan has had a career spanning 20 years of experience in leading software product development and information technology organisations. She has vast expertise in marketing and delivering innovative, value-based solutions in B2C and B2B businesses. Prior to joining ZEAL as COO, she has worked as Vice President of Technology at Travelocity and Disney Online. Most recently she was the CTO of Rue La La, a leading private shopping portal in the US. 
She is also one of the Techstars startup accelerator mentors. 

Gene loves Startups! He organises DublinBeta startup showcase, the startup meetup Drinkabout Dublin, Startup Weekend Dublin and previously the pre-accelerator Startup Next. Previously also a cofounder @startupireland & currently E.I.R. at Bank Of Ireland. His passion is working with tech startup entrepreneurs.

Engenheira de Produção e apaixonada por empreendedorismo e educação. 

One Collective is a network of creatives that complement each other's skills for the benefit of the individual as well as the whole

Helen is a startup community enthusiast, currently supporting the Campus London community in Shoreditch. She regularly makes meaningful and valuable connections within her strong network.  

Helen joined the Campus London team in early 2017 as community assistant, supporting on everything from membership onboarding to Campus' many events and programmes. When not at Campus, you’ll find Helen at a gig or at the theatre.