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Sina Afra
Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Poland between 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017). Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019). Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).
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Media24
Media24 is a publishing group in Africa that offers 24-hour information and entertainment.
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PeaceTech Accelerator
The PeaceTech Accelerator scales startups using cloud innovation for peacetech.
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Catherine Lückhoff
Catherine Lückhoff is passionate about business development, mobile, big data, music, start-ups and innovation in Africa, and has worked extensively with operators, OEMs and brands throughout the continent. HQ Africa is her second company, having sold her first, MANGO-OMC – one of South Africa’s leading integrated PR and communications agencies – in 2012 before joining a Google Ventures and Omidyar funded start-up, Bozza.mobi. She serves on the board of The Silicon Cape Initiative – a non-profit, community owned and driven movement, that aims to improve the environment in the Western Cape to create more and better start-ups as well as increase access to capital. In her career Catherine has been named one of the Mail & Guardian’s “200 Young South Africans”; was recognised in the Topco Top Women in Business and Government; and included in the first Old Mutual Do Great Things start-up guide. She has spoken on a variety of topics ranging from how content drives the uptake of
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Catherine Lückhoff
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