Adam Keynes
Founder and General Partner of the Venture Capital Firm Bizrupt® and Mind The Gap®, Adam is currently LATAM's most active angel investor with an average of one investment per month.
As an entrepreneur, he successfully founded and obtained exits in 4 companies in the entertainment, financial services, construction equipment and led lighting sectors before the age of 28, scaling this startups reaching annually sales in million dollars.
He is Senior Partner at Freeman Financial, with more than 10 years of experience in M & A and business financing, structuring and leading projects for national and transnational companies in various industries such as: technology, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, infrastructure and construction, mining, entertainment and agroindustry among others.
Leading investor and member of the board of several technology startups such as: Pig.gi, Joyas de Mexico, BlazingDB, Hoopa, Gaszen, Decidata and Vylon amongst others. Adan is member of the Board of two financial institutions, a packaging conglomerate and an infrastructure and drinking water company.
He is opinion leader in social networks under the pseudonym "Adam Keynes" in subjects of investment, finance, entrepreneurship and technology.
One of the first angel investors to join Angels Nest network.
Norah Prida Bay
Norah Prida Bay is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of New Finance LTD, a UK technology company focusing on building the mobile banking platform for the middle and lower income segments. New Finance LTD is considered among the most disruptive FinTech start-ups focusing on financial inclusion. Norah received the 2015 Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Founder's Award.
She has been an entrepreneur for 7 years. All her entrepreneurship ventures have had the economic advancement of women in their core. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she was an investment banker for 8 years; starting her career in her native Mexico. Her last role as a banker was Head of Financial Institutions for the investment banking arm of VTB, VTB Capital, in London. Norah holds a Sloan MSc in Leadership and Strategy from London Business School and an MBA from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico.
She lives in London with her husband and three children.
Pier Paolo Mucelli
I am a London based entrepreneur, angel investor, mentor. My main business is eOffice, the first coworking concept in Europe and the company I founded in early 2000. eOffice is a modern workplace offering sociable, business setting geared to vibrant, like-minded startups and entrepreneurs, in a number of Central London locations, including Soho, Fitzrovia, Holborn.
eOffice also is developing and manages a large network of independent business centres and coworking space, in over 250 locations worldwide.
I am active in the UK/European startup community and I support several startups and mentoring organizations, I am also a speaker and contributor at workplace and design conferences. I am often part of the judging panels and startup events / pitches of major UK Universities, including Hult Faculty, Imperial College, Westminster Un., Kings College, LSE and Warwick University.
I am currently a Mentor at the largest pre-acceleration programme in UK, organized by The Accelerator Network, at KryptoLab in Abu Dhabi and FrenchLab in London.
I am also the CoFounder of the TechItalia member group, the largest community of Italians in tech and the TechItaliaLab acceleration programme.
I am also increasingly active in the development and investment of online business mostly involved in commercial properties. I founded CoWorkingLondon.com, a complete listing of coworking spaces in London, OpenOffices.com a platform of office spaces for lease, and I am an investor and advisor in a number of proptech ventures, including Bold Tech.
I recently become a founding member of AngelsCube together with 30 high profile professionals and entrepreneurs in the tech/media sectors.
I am part of Tech London Advocates.
I support the charities and organisations Founders4Schools, onepercentclub.com, Charity Water, House of St Barnabas and Leighton House Museum in Holland Park
Thiago Osti
Thiago Osti is a career diplomat currently serving as the Head Trade and Investment and Energy at the Embassy of Brazil in London. He has a master’s degree in diplomacy by Instituto Rio Branco and is currently an MSc candidate in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, he worked for the technology company IBM.
