Fireside Chat featuring Jørn Lyseggen, CEO and Founder of the Meltwater Group ($100 million+ online media monitoring SaaS) and Founder of M.E.S.T., a non-profit mentoring/training program raising entrepreneurs from Ghana/Africa. Interviewed by Tomio Geron of Forbes Magazine. This inspiring fireside chat was featured at the 2013 beGLOBAL Conference in Silicon Valley. About Jørn Lyseggen: Jorn Lyseggen founded Meltwater News in 2001 with only $15,000. Meltwater News has since grown into the Meltwater we know today as a global leader in online intelligence. As CEO, Jorn leads the expansion of Meltwater with new ventures in the Software as a Service (SaaS) market. Jorn also founded the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a non-profit designed to provide training and mentoring to young African entrepreneurs aspiring to launch new, Ghana-based software companies. More info can be found at these links: http://beglobal.co/speakers/jorn-lyseggen-276x300 and http://www.cp-africa.com/2013/07/16/jorn-lyseggen-mest-meltwater-group About Tomio Geron: Tomio covers start-ups, social networking, venture capital and other technology topics from San Francisco. Tomio was previously a reporter for Dow Jones, where he covered venture capital and Internet start-ups for VentureWire. His work also appeared often in Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. He has also written for Red Herring, the Long Beach Press-Telegram and other outlets. In a former life he was a web application developer. Find more information about the beGlobal conference here: http://beglobal.co

• published: 04 Oct 2013
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