Born and bred in Russia, Elena arrived in the U.S. in 2001 and graduated from UC Berkeley. She has held positions at top global firms, including Senior Analyst for Marketing Strategy at the supermarket giant Safeway. As SurveyMonkey's Senior Director for Growth and Analytics, her focus is on the interlinked fields of consumer behaviour and product usability. She runs two teams at the California-based company: Business Intelligence and Product Marketing.

Nate is the 'Growth Guy' at Zillow, one of the biggest online real estate sites. He has been with Zillow for over 10 years. He started before they had a site and has helped the company grow into the largest real estate and rental networks on the web. He is currently responsible for Zillow’s Growth and Data teams, helping expand Zillow’s audience and data footprint. Nate has built and managed a number of Zillow products, including the creation of its mortgage business and Growth organization. Nate joined Zillow from Microsoft and has an MBA from the University of Washington and a CS degree from DePauw University.

As Senior Product Manager of Growth, Annabell took on BitTorrent's biggest revenue driving products, BitTorrent & uTorrent, growing revenue by 40%. Prior to that she took BitTorrent's mobile apps from launch to 100 million installs with user acquisition cost of ZERO. She graduated from the Cornell Johnson School of Business with an MBA in Marketing and Technology Management in 2009. before BitTorrent she was a Consumer Marketing Manager for Yahoo! Search and for Y!’s Launch and Growth team, which launched the Yahoo!-branded Internet Explorer browser, Livestand, and Yahoo! Mail Beta.

Jason Lenga served as Managing Director of SEEK International until 2015 and continues to serve as an adivsor. Prior to that, he served as Corporate Strategy Director in Brazil Online Holding (Brazil) Jobstreet (South East Asia) and Zhaopin (China) of SEEK. He was responsible for identifying and capitalising on acquisition opportunities. Prior to joining SEEK, he was a solicitor with commercial law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques within the Mergers and Acquisitions practice. He served as the Chairman of the Board at Zhaopin from 2014 to 2016 and has been its Director since 2011. He also served as a Director of Shop Closeouts and Catch Group. Jason Lenga holds Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of NSW.

Sean Ellis has led growth and marketing at some of the most successful technology companies including Dropbox, LogMeIn and EventBrite. In 2010 he coined the term “growth hacking” and began a movement of hyper growth among technology startups globally. Sean is now the founder and CEO of growth community, GrowthHackers.com and quantitative survey company, Qualaroo.com.

Christopher is the Global Technology, Media & Telecom Specialist at Bloomberg, working with a large number of of the world's leading companies in that industry. Chris has grown a very successful startup program including a quarterly event called “Now Thats What I Call Startups”, NoTwics – which has helped raise $9M worth of investment and worked with over 150 startups from all over Europe. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he gained over 15 years experience years at leading global investment banks including Morgan Stanley (as an Executive Director), J.P. Morgan (as VP, Corporate Access), Thomson Reuters, and UBS.

Matt Barrie is the CEO of freelancer.com a popular global freelancing website. Along with this role he is also the chief executive and president of Escrow a global leader of secure online payments. Previously Matt was also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney is noted as a prolific speaker and has spoken at the likes of The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV and the New York Times.

Jane Lu is the CEO and Founder of Showpo, one of Australia's most exciting online retail brands for women's clothing. Grown on the back of social media, Showpo has over 1M Instagram followers, over 650,000 Facebook fans, and last year celebrated $10 million in sales. Recently, Jane and close friend Gen George, started a group for female entrepreneurs. In just over 6 months they have grown the group to boast over 10k members, with 5 chapters worldwide.

Ridwan Kamil or known by his nickname Emil, is the current Mayor of Bandung City, Indonesia. He is a famous Indonesian architect and is the most followed mayor in world with over 1.4M followers on twitter. He is also an educator in Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) at Architecture Department, an urban designer and a writer. After receiving his master degree in Urban Planning from University of California at Berkeley in 2001, he worked in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. Emil founded architect firm Urbane Indonesia in 2004 with three partners. In 2006, Emil was the Indonesian winner of the British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneur award, representing Indonesia in the International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Ben studied computer science at University of Sydney, where he met his Meta co-founder Meron Gribetz who had been visiting from Israel. Meta are technology leaders in the augmented reality industry, projected at $120 billion market size by 2020. Graduate of Y Combinator Summer 2013. Raised a Series A of $23M from renowned investors including Tim Draper and Horizon's Venture among others.

Engineer, entrepreneur, growth marketer. Chandini could easily be VP of Growth at any Silicon Valley startup but she dedicates her time planting highly-measurable growth tactics into the minds of companies coming through 500 Startups. A seasoned serial entrepreneur who previously founded ActivityHero, RawMangoes, and CGP. Chandini's combined knowledge in engineering and marketing contributes to her extensive user acquision skills in all areas of scaling startups.

At just 28 years of age, Danny Bhandari and partners founded Tibra Capital, a global securities firm using super-fast computer programs to make millions on the investment markets before human investors could blink, he served as CEO until 2010. In just 3 years of trading (two during the financial crisis) Bondi Junction's Tibra Capital reaped an impressive $148 million profit, landing Danny on the BRW's Young Rich List and named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. Since stepping down from Tibra Capital, Danny has co-founded two disruptive startups including Centre Wicket, an online, subscription-based cricket-training program, and Ninyo, disrupting the hair/beauty/wellness sector.