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Hana Abaza is the Director of Marketing for Shopify Plus, the commerce platform that powers the world’s fastest-growing brands to Fortune 500s including Unilever, MVMT, The New York Times, Allbirds, Fashion Nova, Rebecca Minkoff, Kylie Cosmetics and thousands more. Prior to joining Shopify, Hana led marketing and growth in a variety of industries with a proven track record for scaling teams, revenue and customers. Beyond her daily routine, Hana is also a seasoned speaker and contributes to various industry podcasts and publications like Entrepreneur.com, CMO.com, Fast Company and others.

Gabrielle Bufrem is a Product Manager at Pivotal Labs in Paris where she works with a range of clients from startups to enterprise to build user-centered products. 

She is originally from Brazil, has lived in 13 cities around the world across ten different countries, and has built products across North America, Europe, and Asia. She is passionate about the intersection of product management and design — so much so that she is currently conducting research with Brown Ph.D students on how to improve collaboration in design.

She loves to travel and explore different countries; she is a barista, a foodie, and a coffee lover. Gabrielle earned a B.A. from Brown University in International Relations.

Previous talks

• Turing Fest 2018: Bootstrapping User Research: No Budget, No Team, No Buy-in, No Problem

Danae Shell is Chief Marketing Officer at Care Sourcer, the UK’s first comparison and matching site for care. Before that, she was Head of Awareness at FreeAgent, who make award-winning accounting software for freelancers and micro-businesses. She joined FreeAgent when they were at about 30 employees, and left after their IPO, when they were about 140 employees. During her five years at FreeAgent, she built the company's content team and content strategy, kicked off their analytics strategy and data science team, and looked after their PR, Events, social media, and content teams.

Maria is head of engineering and co-site lead in London for Intercom. With over 17 years of experience in the software industry, Maria has previously worked as VP Engineering at FreeAgent, at LivingSocial leading globally distributed teams, and at Adobe where she worked in the developer technologies group. Maria is one of the directors of the Women Who Code Edinburgh network. WomenWhoCode is a global non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers.

Previous talks

• Turing Fest 2018: What Should We Work On? 
• Turing Fest 2017: A Clear-Eyed Look at Distributed Teams

Natalie Novick is a sociologist and ethnographer researching the people, places and practices of Europe's startup ecosystem. For the last several years, she's been crossing Europe interviewing entrepreneurs, freelancers and community builders for a project that began as her PhD research, but has since to encompass much more. Her work aims to communicate the motivations and needs of today's entrepreneurs with policymakers and academia to help build better cities to live and work in.

In summer 2018, she joined Tech.eu, the online home for Europe's startup ecosystem, to assist with their research and outreach activities. She also serves as the Research Director for the European Startup Initiative, a non-profit research group working to facilitate mutual understanding between municipalities and their startup ecosystems.

Erin Platts is the incoming Head of EMEA and President of the UK Branch at Silicon Valley Bank. She is currently Head of Relationship Banking, Europe. She oversees a number of teams including those covering Client Acquisition, Entrepreneurial Banking, Accelerator & Growth Banking, Debt portfolios, Healthcare & Life Sciences and Working Capital Finance.

Erin and the broader team are dedicated to providing financial services, specifically debt financing, to early, growth, and late stage technology businesses, with a particular focus on venture backed businesses. Erin is responsible for developing new relationships and overseeing the continued growth of the portfolio, as well as taking an active role in the development of the external eco-system.

Erin has been with Silicon Valley Bank for over 10 years, beginning her career in SVB’s Boston office. She moved to London in 2007 and has worked with a wide variety of technology and life science businesses, providing flexible and innovative financing solutions at all stages of growth. In her previous role as a Director, she was responsible for the team managing the financial analysis, structuring and management of debt relationships with technology businesses throughout the UK.

Erin was recently selected by Management Today to appear on the top 35 Women Under 35 list.

Erin earned a BA in Business Management and Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Jono is a digital strategist, marketing technologist and full-stack developer with nearly two decades of experience in web development, SEO, analytics, brand and campaign strategy, lead gen and eCRM, CRO and more.

He’s worked with startups, agencies and international brands to fix websites, implement growth strategies, prepare for the future, and win markets.

Jono currently manages special projects at Yoast, and was previously principal consultant at respected SEO agency Distilled. Prior to that, he was global head of digital and head of insight at SEO platform Linkdex, and head of SEO at award-winning agency twentysix.

Previous talks

• Turing Fest 2018: Digital marketing in a post-digital world: are you ready for what comes next?

Fred is the founder of Stride.VC, a seed-stage fund based in London, which he started with Harry Stebbings (the Twenty Minute VC) and Pia d'Iribarne. Prior to Stride, Fred was a General Partner at Accel and Accomplice. Of 17 investments he led, 10 have exited and 4 are active value drivers, including 3 companies in excess of $1bn in value (Zoopla, Deliveroo and Pillpack). His portfolio has a total enterprise value of more than $9bn and he has returned over $500m to investors.

At Accel, Fred was the lead investor and board member at Deliveroo, Pillpack (acquired by Amazon for $1bn) and Carwow. At Accomplice (previously Atlas Venture), he invested in and served on the board of Pillpack, Zoopla (IPO), Secret Escapes, Integral Ad Science (acquired by Vista for $850m), TheCurrencyCloud, Kinvey (acquired by Progress), Lagoa (acquired by Autodesk) Dailymotion (acquired by Orange), PriceMinister (acquired by Rakuten) and others.

Fred grew up in Belgium and graduated from the Solvay Business School, University of Brussels.

Previous talks

• Turing Fest 2018: Boards That Don't Suck

Joe Chernov is the CMO of Robin Powered, a venture-backed Boston startup that’s modernizing the open office. Previously, Joe was the CMO of InsightSquared, a sales intelligence company. He’s been a marketing leader during two successful IPOs (Eloqua, HubSpot.) The Content Marketing Institute awarded him “Content Marketer of the Year” and AdWeek named him one of the 100 most creative people in advertising. Joe serves on the board of advisors for several tech startups and is part of Flybridge Capital's advisor network.

Kieran Flanagan is the VP of Growth at HubSpot, a marketing and sales software company. He is responsible for the growth of HubSpot's freemium products, monetization of their freemium funnels and optimization of their global web strategy.

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building product, leading teams, and creating communities. He is currently GM, Europe at application monitoring platform Scout. Eamon sold his last startup to Engine Yard, Inc., a Bay Area cloud company, where he served as VP Engineering. 

Over the years Eamon has hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought countless people together to collaborate, create value, and do good things.

He built Cohort to help you find the people you need through the people you already know and trust.