Toby Coppel

Toby was Chief Strategy Officer for Yahoo! from 2001 to 2007, and then Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe & Canada from 2007 to 2009. Toby started his career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs and then a vice president at Allen & Company. He then co-founded Windsor Media, an investment company with Yahoo’s former chairman Terry Semel. He is an Industry Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Toby graduated from Oxford University and Harvard Business School. He is a member of both the Israel-Britain Business Council and the Palestine-Britain Business Council. Toby is currently an independent investor focused on the internet and cleantech sectors.

Marie Ekeland

Marie has been evolving in the Finance & IT industry since 1997: first on the operational side and then as a VC. She started her career at JP Morgan, working in New York on the development of a worldwide in-house front-office system, and then, back in Paris, on the management of its high-level support. She moved to CPR Private Equity in 2000 and has been acting as a VC within the Crédit Agricole group since then, focusing more specifically on the IT sector. Marie holds an engineer diploma in Mathematics & Computer Science from the University of Paris Dauphine and obtained a Master’s degree in Economics from EHESS (Paris).

Benoist Grossmann

Benoist Grossman is currently on the boards of Meetic, Dalet, Stepmind and OneAccess. Benoist Grossman joined AGF Private Equity in 2002 as Managing Director. Before joining AGF Private Equity, Benoist worked for several venture capital funds for over 10 years. He was a partner at Viventures from 1998 to 2002 and worked as Investment Manager at La Financière de Brienne. He had previously spent over 10 years working in industry as a laser systems specialist at EDF, NASA and Thomson-CSF Optronique, for whom he invented five patents and authored twenty or so publications. Benoist Grossman has a doctorate in physics from the Université de Paris VI and an MBA from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.

Dominique Vidal

Prior to joining the London office of Index Ventures as a Partner in September 2007, Dominique was the CEO of Yahoo! Europe from 2004 to 2007. He joined Yahoo! from Kelkoo, when Yahoo! acquired the company in March 2004. At Kelkoo, where he was Managing Director from 2000 to 2004, Dominique drove the company’s transformation from a small team with no revenues to Europe’s preferred shopping search engine with 400 employees and revenues of $100 million per year. Prior to Kelkoo, Dominque was a partner at Banexi Ventures in Paris, where he led investments in a number of companies including Kelkoo, Algety and In Fusio. He began his career at Schlumberger where he worked for 10 years in product marketing and business development roles in the telecom and smart card industries in France, the United States and Asia. Dominique has an engineering degree from Supelec.