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Our BOLD Judges

Discover our BOLD jury board! Market leaders, innovators and change-makers around the 4 corners of the globe joined us in the judging process of the boldest projects.

Maurizio Rossi

Chairperson of BOLD Awards, curiosity driven dreamer and always a keen observer, Maurizio father of four likes to discover and understand differences of people's lifestyles and their cultures. He's fascinated how technologies impact our day life and what about their influence in the society and cultures, thanks to his dynamic personality he has developed an important network of international connections.

CHAIRPERSON

Moojan Asghari

Born in Iran and based in Paris, Moojan is a passionate entrepreneur and an advocate for women's rights and is a true believer in entrepreneurs. She has started a few companies and has ran several startup programs in various industries , from Iot to AI and in different places from France, to the US, and Taiwan. She is the co-founder of Women in AI, which is a global non profit organisation for the mission to close the gender gap in AI.

Artificial Intelligence

MARC KUCHNER

Astrophysicist Marc Kuchner is known for work on images and imaging of disks and exoplanets. Together with Wesley Traub, he invented the band-limited coronagraph, a design to be used on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). He is also known for his novel supercomputer models of planet-disk interactions and for developing the ideas of ocean planets, Carbon planets, and Helium planets. Kuchner currently serves as the principal investigator of the popular citizen science website, DiskDetective.org.

OPEN INNOVATION

EPI LUDVIK NEKAJ

Epi is the Founder & CEO of Crowdsourcing Week. In 2008, he created Ludvik + Partners - one of New York’s hottest boutique virtual ad agencies built on a 100% crowdsourcing model. Epi Ludvik is one of the pioneers in the crowdsourcing ad space, an industry expert and thought leader in entertainment advertising - including public relations, event production, experiential marketing, consumer advertising and digital marketing.

Crowdsourcing

Rob Israch

As CMO for Tipalti, Rob Israch brings over 15 years of expertise to the company, and a modern approach to running marketing, with a heavy orientation around data analytics, technology, and content marketing. Prior to Tipalti, Rob served as VP Global Marketing Programs at NetSuite where he led global branding, international marketing, and demand generation, helping guide the company through 10X+ revenue growth, from a private company through IPO to cloud market leader. Rob also has held management positions at Intuit and GE.

MARKETPLACES

JULIA HOENG

Julia is Director of Systems Toxicology at Philip Morris International Research & Development where she leads the Systems Toxicology Biology Program. She holds several patents and has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters and invited strategic reviews in the field of Systems Toxicology, Inhalation Toxicology, Crowd Sourcing, Molecular, and Computational Biology.

SCIENCE

Ana Xavier

Ana Xavier has more than 15 years’ experience in venture capital as portfolio manager and in analysing investment opportunities. Prior to joining Portugal Ventures, Ana held the position of financial manager at several SMEs in the textile and clothing sector.  Ana is currently part of Portugal Ventures’ Engineering & Manufacturing Division, and focuses mainly of deal flow generation of investment opportunities infor areas such as agri-tech, clean-tech, smart manufacturing and smart materials. She represents Portugal Ventures on the Board of several portfolio companies.

Agritech

Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan is the APAC Managing Director of McCann Worldgroup’s Production division – CRAFT Worldwide Equipped with over 15 years of industry experience, Melissa has spent the last 10 years in Production-led agencies in the region. She has worked with leading brands to introduce new ways of work, develop effective campaigns and deliver efficient content. Her experience over a diverse portfolio of clients enables her to share hands-on knowledge and solutions from different sectors and channels. Melissa is a Marketing & Management Graduate and Mass Communications Diploma Holder

ADVERTISING

Ricardo Marvão

Co-founder and Board Member of Beta-i, a portuguese non-profit association that since 2010 has focused its energies on fostering and elaborating entrepreneurial ecosystems, increasing innovation and entrepreneurship in Portugal. Lisbon Challenge Coordinator, international startup acceleration program for growth & international stage tech startups. Co-founder & CEO of Evolve Space Solutions (Germany and Portugal) since 2004, developing software products for the Aerospace Industry, with clients like ESA, Thales, Astrium, Inmarsat, Eumetsat, Airbus, Embraer (acquired by Novabase (NBA) in 2011, Euronext company since 2000, Portugal's Nr.1 IT company specialized in the Telecommunications sector, with over 2000 employees, offices in Portugal, Spain, Germany, the Middle East, Mozambique Angola, South Africa and Ghana).

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