Founders ForumMadrid

For the first time, Founders Forum, will be coming to Madrid with South Summit. Founders Forum is a private network of the world´s leading digital and technology entrepreneurs.

Founders Forum brings together the best, brightest and most inspirational digital entrepreneurs, corporate CEOs and senior investors who engage in open debate, brainstorming, discussion and problem solving at our forums across the world.

Founders Forum at South Summit will be discussing some of the most pressing issues in tech today; access to capital, accountability, social responsibility, inequality, the power of community, and opportunity, while engaging with leaders of Spain´s exciting and fast growing tech industry.

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Founders Forum Attendees

Brent Hobermann
Brent Hobermann Founders Factory, Lastminute.com

Brent is Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory, a corporate backed incubator/accelerator. Brent is Chairman and Co-Founder of made.com, a direct-from-factory consumer crowd-sourcedhomewares retailer in the UK. Brent co founded PROfounders Capital in 2009. Brent also co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998. He was CEO from its inception and the team took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), The Economist and the UK Government Digital AdvisoryBoard. Brent is also a Non-Executive Board Director of TalkTalk PLC. He is a YGL and Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassador. Brent was awarded a CBE in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List. Brent co-founded and chairs Founders Forum; a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow.

Frédéric Mazzella
Frédéric Mazzella BlaBlaCar

Frédéric originally imagined a new transport network, built on people, when he could not get home one Christmas, several years ago. He had no car. The trains were full. The roads, too, were full of people driving alone in their car. It occurred to him that he should try to find a driver going his way and offer to share fuel costs but he couldn’t and his sister made a detour to pick him up... BlaBlaCar was born. Today, with more than 25 million members across Europe, BlaBlaCar is making road travel social, more affordable and more sustainable. Frédéric leads BlaBlaCar’s vision, focusing on the excellence of the product, brand communication and interactions with the ridesharing community

Robin Chase
Robin Chase Zipcar

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur and one of the leaders of the sharing economy. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a peer to peer carsharing service in France (now merged with Drivy); and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She is currently co-founder and board member of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. Chase has has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment, including TIME 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. Robin graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow, and received an honorary Doctorate of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology.