Plug and Play Acceleration and Collaboration Track (PACT) Partners: international division, international start-ups

Advisors / Speakers / Mentors / Attendees

Aydin Senkut, Founder and President of Felicis Ventures

Aydin Senkut has been an angel investor in promising start-ups since the end of 2005. His portfolio encompasses over 40 companies including Appjet (acquired by Google), Aardvark, Brightroll, Disqus, Imageshack, Inkling, Justin.tv, Meraki, Mint (acquired by Intuit), Mochi Media (acquired by Shanda Games), Outright, Posterous, Powerset (acquired by Microsoft), Plusmo (acquired by AT&T), Practice Fusion, RichRelevance, Sendori (acquired by IAC), Tapulous, and Yume Networks.
Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, he was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific (including Japan). Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google's first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for world-wide licensing deals. He closed key deals for Google with strategic portal around the world including Lycos (Hotbot) in the US, Web.de in Germany, UOL in Brazil, NTT, NEC, Fujitsu, Rakuten in Japan, Sina, Netease and Tencent in China, Korea Telecom, Empas, Dacom in Korea, iPrimus/AOL in Australia, Yam and Hi-net in Taiwan.
In the process, he built Google's Asian syndication business from less than $1M in 2002 to more than $100M in 2005. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet, and led the business development efforts for the financial services industry at SGI.
Aydin received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He speaks five languages: English, German, French, Portuguese and Turkish.
He is a benefactor to the University of Pennsylvania and UCSF. Aydin has been a Mentor to students in the Entrepreneurship class at Stanford University. He's on the boards of Imageshack and the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program

Jonathan Teo Benchmark Capital

Jonathan Teo has spent his career helping companies build distributed engineering organizations that enable technical teams and infrastructure to expand and scale globally.
Most recently he served as Engineering PM in the Search Properties and Enterprise Products groups at Google, and he was an early member of its Strategy and Business Operations team. In both roles he created highly leveraged research and product organizations in countries around the world that enabled the company to adjust to changing strategic and operational needs and foster greater innovation and efficiencies.
Prior to joining Google, he worked at Bain & Company, helping a Fortune 100 client optimize and grow its technical support organization. He also served as a consultant to Intuit, Electronic Arts and other technology companies, spent two years in the Republic of Singapore Air Force and was a founding member of a software development group focused on developing security protocols and analyzers. He currently holds patented work in the area of link layer security.
Education: M.S. from Stanford University. B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sydney University.

Fergus Hurley, CEO of Clixtr

Fergus Hurley, CEO of Clixtr, is an Irish entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He graduated from University College Cork in Electrical Engineering in 2006. He completed his Master's thesis in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2008. He attended the Stanford Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business during the summer of 2008. Following the course at Stanford he started a mobile web company called Clixtr, The Ultimate Social Camera. Clixtr, at it's core is a real-time, location-aware, mobile photo sharing platform which allows people to collaboratively share photos at events and tune into events happening nearby and around the world. Clixtr secured seed funding from DFJ and Silicon Valley angel investors in March 2009. Clixtr released the first version of its iPhone application in September 2009 at TechCrunch50. Clixtr was one of the top 50 companies selected by TechCrunch, out of over 1,000 applicants, to launch on stage at TechCrunch50. You can start having fun with Clixtr today by downloading the Clixtr iPhone app from the Apple App Store or by using the Clixtr web app at www.clixtr.com.