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		GILLES BOUCHARD, Vice President, Harvard Business Angels France is a Serial entrepreneur and investor with a successful investment track record. He has been a founder and CEO at Internet Media Telecom start-ups and Group Secretary General at Groupama Gan. Other titles include Secretary General at FFSAM (Fédération Française des Sociétés d'Assurances Mutuelles), Advisor to the President at CNJA, Auditor at UE - Centre Français de Promotion Industrielle and Founder Associate at NHP - Patents development. Gilles is Vice President of Harvard Business Angels France, based in Paris. Internationally, HBS Alumni Angels members have invested in over 35 companies since 2007. Among them are ShopItToMe, RepairPal, STwo, and Grouply (acquired by Oodle). Gilles is a graduate of Harvard Business School, Ecole d’Application du Génie Militaire and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He spent 14 years abroad in Europe, Africa & USA. His areas of special expertise include – launching of start-ups, business units turnarounds, M&As and IPOs.

		JACK LANG, serial entrepreneur and business angel with high-tech and internet companies based in Cambridge, is an Entrepreneur in Residence, Fellow and affiliated lecturer at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, an affiliated Lecturer at the Computer Lab and a by-fellow of and Director of Studies in Management at Emmanuel College. Recent ventures include www.raspberrypi.org an ultra-low cost computer and Moviestorm which makes 3d Animation, and co-Founder of Artimi, (now vbeam) making the next generation of wireless chips. Previously he was founder and later Chief Technologist of Netchannel Ltd, an early Interactive TV company which was acquired by ntl:. Before that he was founder of Electronic Share Information Ltd, one of the first online brokerages, acquired by E*Trade Inc. Author of “The High Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook” he has interests in molecular gastronomy and fireworks.

		DR PHIL O'DONOVAN, Chairman of Twelve Winds is a co-founder of CSR plc, Europe’s largest fabless semiconductor company. Phil helped grow CSR, as founding Managing Director, from a start-up of nine in 1999 into a highly successful company which listed on the London Stock Exchange in March 2004, became a FTSE 250 company in July of the same year, with $705m in revenue and $154m in pre-tax profit in 2006 when he left to become an angel investor. At Twelve Winds, Phil works with the founders, boards and management of emerging companies as well as Universities and other organisations wishing to exploit their intellectual property. His focus is technology-intensive companies in both England and Ireland and he currently holds several non-executive directorships. Phil has worked in the communications industry for over 30 years in both very large and small companies and holds BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering, is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Gold Medal winner.

		DR JOHNNY WALKER, a diagnostic imaging specialist, who founded Global Diagnostics in 2002, was providing a mobile ultrasound service to a small isolated Aboriginal community in late 1995, when he was confronted with a highly critical complication of pregnancy. That evening he embarked on a mission to fundamentally change the way healthcare was delivered through the design and implementation of a simple digital tele-radiology solution. In 2007, Global Diagnostics entered the Irish market through an alliance with Centric Health, a company that provided a range of innovative and accessible primary care services with the aim of keeping people out of hospital. Global Diagnostics, now headquartered in Dublin, has since captured a number of significant contracts in the Irish market servicing all of the Vhi-Swiftcare Clinics, along with the state-of-the-art Hermitage Medical Clinic in Dublin. Global Diagnostics recorded revenues exceeding €22 million in 2009, employing 120 staff in over three countries. Johnny was a finalist in the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.