“letting down the guard
and being around someone
you really admire“
Henry Vasquez
CEO at Tribe, MM startup
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Experience
Makers
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1:1
Meetings
opportunities
to connect
Experience Makers
who Care
From all corners of the world, some of the best minds come to Menorca to connect and learn from each other. Maneuvering busy schedules and long flights, our Experience Makers come because they believe in Decelera and our startups, and it shows.
The right words,
at the right time
For information and advice to make a lasting impression, it doesn’t have to just be valuable – it needs to be the right place, the right person, and the right time. From the physical layout of the campus and spaces where the activities occur, to the inclusion of room for spontaneity in the schedule, everything is planned to encourage these moments.
Experience Maker
“Decelera
is unique“
Paul Ford
Vice Presidente at Sendgrid
Past
Experience
Makers
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Coss Marte
Coss MarteCEO of ConBodyCoss Marte was sent to jail as the ringleader of a multi-million dollar cocaine operation. He was also grossly overweight and warned by his physician that his current lifestyle, if left unchecked, would likely kill him.
Faced with this grim prognosis, Coss started to get in shape using the tools he had — his prison cell and his own body weight. Within six months he lost 70 pounds and replicated his successful formula of body weight exercises with 20 other inmates. Then he launched ConBody a prison style bootcamp that has gained over 20,000+ clients and hires formerly incarcerated individuals to teach fitness classes. Since the launch of his company he’s been featured in over 200 major media outlets such as NBC, CNN, The New York Times, TED Talks, and Men’s Fitness. He’s also won major pitch competitions such as Defy Ventures, Pitch for Good by TOM’s shoes and the YPO shark tank competition, which combined raised $200,000.
CEO of ConBody
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Jason Eckenroth
Jason EckenrothCo-founder, SovereigntyI am passionate about purpose-driven, core-value led businesses. I believe businesses can create success because of their culture, not despite it. I bootstrapped my first company, ShipCompliant over a 16yr time frame to 75 employees and $12M ARR.Customers chose ShipCompliant, not for our features, functionality or price, but ultimately because they liked “how” we did business (i.e.: the values that drove our decisions). It’s the greatest competitive differentiation.
I believe in the power and possibility of self-funded companies and work to educate and empower entrepreneurs tackling the exciting challenge of building a customer-funded business.
I am currently on sabbatical in Barcelona with my family. When not catching up on life, I work with self-funded, independent, and profitable companies to define and scale their cultures and product growth strategies, and guide them toward a path to sovereignty.
Co-founder, Sovereignty
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Jason Womack
Jason WomackAuthor. Speaker. Executive Coach._Personal Bio_A triathlete, author, husband and executive coach, Jason is the first one to say that what he teaches his clients to do helps them be more focused and more productive. In 12 years he has founded two consulting firms, written four books, coached clients in more than 20 countries and continues to train as a nationally competitive age-group triathlete.
He will join us in Menorca for the third time, though his first visits to the Menorca Millenials group were via video. If you follow Jason’s social feeds, you’ll quickly see that he lives AND loves what he teaches.
Jason is considered one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of increasing productivity and maximizing time for the things that are important.
In addition to working with top brands and executives as a productivity coach, Jason and his wife Jodi cofounded www.GetMomentum.com, a blended coaching platform serving the entrepreneurial community. The 12-month Leadership Academy provides members with in-person, in-print and online coaching, teaching skills needed to survive and thrive in business and life.
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Jason is a teacher, international speaker, productivity coach and author whose clients describe him as “a force of nature”. The author of top selling books like Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More, Jason is considered one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of increasing productivity and maximizing time for the things that are important. In addition to working with top brands and executives, Jason is co-founder of the www.timetogetmomentum.com learning platform, which serves to coach the global entrepreneural community on the skills needed to survive and thrive in business.
Author. Speaker. Executive Coach.
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Kelcey Gosserand
Kelcey GosserandManaging Partner at Trellis NYCKelcey is a pioneer in the blockchain landscape entering the scene as an early investor and participant in the crypto-economy. She lends her expertise to blockchain-related event strategy, marketing communications, and investor relations. She has executed successful campaigns for a number of regions including APAC, Europe, and the US.Kelcey is the Founder of Trellis, building the world’s largest community of blockchain professionals and providing end-to-end strategy and support to companies and startups participating in token generating events. She is also the creator and organizer of the inaugural ICOnference.
With a career spanning more than 10 years in tech and innovation, Kelcey has worked with and advised startups of various stages as well as multinational companies. She is preparing the launch of Women plus Blockchain, a news and media platform promoting diversity in blockchain as well as elevating the dialogue. Kelcey is an active board member for a number of enterprise startups in NYC.
Managing Partner at Trellis NYC
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Kepa Acero
Kepa AceroProfessional Surfer, Professional GlobetrotterKepa was european surfing junior champion at the age of 18.After traveling the world on the surfing profesional competition for years , Kepa Acero was not finding what he needed. Rather than focusing on contests and being caught up in one thing in life, he decided he needed to explore his other interests in the world. With very little knowledge behind the lens, Kepa purchased a few cameras, got an around the world ticket, and set off to document the people, cultures and waves he was visiting.
He explored the world from Antartica to Alaska, Africa, Asia and all over.
Kepa now makes a living documenting his solo trips, documenting the other travelers, waves, and culture he comes across along his journey.
Professional Surfer, Professional Globetrotter
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Mario Alonso Puig
Mario Alonso PuigPhysician, Surgeon and LecturerMario Alonso Puig is a physician, surgeon, and lecturer. One of the most globally in-demand in all three areas of expertise. He has practiced surgery for 26 years, is a fellow of surgery at the faculty of medicine at Harvard University in Boston and member of the Academy of Sciences of New York among others.Mario has dedicated a large part of his life to exploring the impact that mental processes have on making the most of our talent and state of health, energy and well-being. He’s a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership, and was awarded “Best Communicator in Health” by Spain’s ASEDEF. He has published several books and spoken at dozens of summits and forums globally on Leadership, Communication, Creativity and Stress Management.
Physician, Surgeon and Lecturer
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Philippe Gelis
Philippe GelisFounder at kantoxPhilippe is considered a true pioneer in the world of Fintech. Co-founding Kantox in 2011, Philippe and his team transformed the foreign exchange industry by bringing light and fresh air to an obscure, static market. Kantox gives customers the ability to manage their currency exposure, build hedging strategies, automate foreign exchange transactions and process international payments easily and efficiently. In the past 5 years, Philippe has grown the company to support over 1500 corporate clients spanning 18 industries and grossing over 2 billion dollars in 20 countries. Before co-founding Kantox, he was a strategy and management consultant at Deloitte, specializing in corporate finance and business strategy. As a world traveler and wine connoisseur, we look forward to tapping in to Philippe’s vast knowledge of “the fruit of the vine” in addition to his expertise in Fintech.Philippe leads Kantox’s strategic vision.
Founder at kantox
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Sylvain Paineau
Sylvain PaineauSchneider Electric , EMEA Business Incubation DirectorSylvain Paineau is in charge in Schneider Electric of managing Open Innovation & Business Incubation for EMEA in corporate strategy organisation. (Incubation, Excubation, Start-up relationships, R&D partnerships, strategic innovation management domain).
He is member of different incubator, accelerator investment committee (SATT Linksium (the Grenoble Alps Incubation organisation), InnoEnergy (European organisation) …
He is also Administrator of TENERRDIS: competitiveness cluster, Shareholder & member of the supervisory board of the European EIT InnoEnergy.
Sylvain is also strongly involved in the BigBooster program: an international startup accelerator program between Lyon, Boston, Shenzhen and Shanghai.Schneider Electric , EMEA Business Incubation Director
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Matthias Ummenhofer
Matthias UmmenhoferFounding Partner at Mojo CapitalFounding PartnerUnder Matthias’s leadership, European Investment Fund’s technology investment business grew to over EUR 4.7bn committed in or alongside more than 260 funds, Business Angels and Family Offices who invested in about 3,800 technology companies. Matthias had a key role in raising and managing major third party investment mandates such as the EUR 1bn ERP-EIF Dachfonds, the GBP 200m UK Future Technologies Fund (UKFTF), the EUR 150m Dutch Venture Initiative (DVI) and the EUR 150 m European Angels Fund (EAF) for co-investments.Founding Partner at Mojo Capital
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Alicia Stewart
Alicia StewartJournalist and entrepreneur who works with established tech founders and leaders on media strategy, presence and programming.Alicia Stewart is an early stage founder who speaks professionally about innovation, intrapreneurship, and the art of the interview. She got her start hosting a television program in high school, and worked for 20 years in broadcast and online journalism. She has co-hosted the Online News Association conference, keynoted Google for Media Boston, and spoken at SXSW, MIT, and Harvard University. While at CNN, she launched Engage, a unit that identified and incorporated under-reported stories into network coverage. She also grew acclaimed projects there as a senior producer for the “In America” documentary unit, and as editor of its award-winning blog. Her journalism work has been honored with a Harvard Nieman Fellowship.Journalist and entrepreneur who works with established tech founders...
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Martin Varsavsky
Martin VarsavskyCEO at prelude FertilityMartin Varsavsky is an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, and has founded several extremely successful companies over the course of his career. Martin manages the Varsavsky Foundation and is a board member of Instituto de Empresa, Spain’s leading business school, where he taught entrepreneurship for eight years.Martin started his first business while still in college, Urban Capital Corporation, one of the early leaders of the loft movement in downtown Manhattan. His third business, Viatel Ltd., Varsavsky’s first venture into the world of telecom, is best known for inventing call back and building the first pan European fiber optic network ahead of liberalization. In 1998, he started Jazz Telecomunicaciones (Jazztel), Spain’s second largest publicly traded telecom operator, and founded Ya.com the following year (Spain’s third largest internet web site/DSL provider.) Martin is currently the larger shareholder and Chairman of Fon – the largest WiFi network in the world (headquartered in Madrid.)
CEO at prelude Fertility
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Camille Hearst
Camille HearstCo-Founder and CEO at KitCamille Hearst is the cofounder and CEO of Kit, a community to discover, discuss, and get interesting useful products. In addition to 10x-ing all core business metrics twice over in the space of 18 months, Camille took Kit through the notable Stanford StartX accelerator, and has raised over $2.5M from VCs.
Prior to Kit, Camille worked for 10 years as a Product Manager and Product Marketer at various tech companies including Apple iTunes, where she was the second PM to work on iTunes; Google, where she lead marketing for the Google Cultural Institute from London and Paris; YouTube; and London-based startup Hailo.
Camille holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University’s programs in Science, Technology, & Society/Product Design and Management, Science, and Engineering. A San Francisco native, Camille is currently based in Soho, New York.
Co-Founder and CEO at Kit
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