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About Alexander Oelling

Alexander Oelling co-founded the database start-up sones with Mauricio Matthesius and Daniel Kirstenpfad in 2007. As director Marketing and Business Development Oelling is responsible for the strategic vision of the development at sones. The software company has developed recommendation systems for media-, community and online shopping platforms. These recommendation systems are based on the cutting edge sones database technology. At the beginning of 2009 T-Online Venture Fund takes an investment in sones.
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About Markus Witte

Markus Witte is Managing Director and co-founder of Lesson Nine, the company behind the language learning website Babbel.com. Since their launch in January 2008, Babbel now boasts more than 250,000 users from over 200 different countries. Their first premium product for the German market was released in April 2009. Witte began his career teaching Cultural Studies at Humboldt-University in Berlin. He also worked at New York University and at Berlin's University of Applied Sciences. "New" and "old" media have always been the focus of his work. For six years, he was responsible for all online activities at Native Instruments, a major music software company in Berlin.
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About Christian Laase

Christian Maria Laase founded plista, the recommendation- and personalization network, together with Andreas Richter und Dominik Matyka. After numerous Internet related work experiences around the globe and his studies in Oestrich-Winkel, Bangkok and Calcutta, he finished his degree in Business Management at the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. Prior to plista, he was founder and CEO of the 5mm, a successful internet agency with various customers from the Web2.0 as well as old economy. At plista, Laase usually mimes the COO and is responsible for HR, Finance and Controlling.
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About Natasha Friis Saxberg

Natasha Friis Saxberg is the founder of Mentory and partner in Webcom ApS, the company that produced Mentory and other startups. Webcom Labs also founded Eksperten in 1998 - the largest IT community in Scandinavia, sold to IDG in 2002. Mentory is a global mentorship community with increasing users and global spread. Mentory facilitates the mentorship relation either as a traditional closed relation, or an open, shared and participatory relation. The open mentorship allows protégés to ask questions regarding their goal and spread it across their communities such as Friendfeed, Twitter and more to come. The answers that are returned from the various communities are collected and shared for all participants on Mentory. Saxberg has been in the Tech industry since 1996, working as a manager and change agent in large international and national (Danish) organisations for almost a decade. With a more scientific angle to social media and behavior, she is affiliated at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. Saxberg is in the last phase of publishing a book about social media expected to be published in the beginning of June 2009.
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