
Academic Advisor / Chair Investor-Experts Panel / Head Mentor
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Professor Rickie A. Moore
Professor of Entrepreneurship Director, MSc in Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship
emlyon business school
France
The Investor Experts
During Round 1, business experts and academics will be invited to participate as Investor Experts on the Peaqs platform. The Investor role is always an individual role.
Each Investor Expert starts out with 10.000 credits to trade with and each project starts with a basic valuation of 100 credits. The virtual stock market has been reigned in somewhat compared to a normal stock market, so it doesn’t encourage speculation in the mere dynamics of a stock market. You can only invest once and divest once per project per phase. So, in case you can’t buy/sell it could be because you have exceeded your trading limits and you’ll have to wait for a new phase to open, where you can re-adjust your investments. Investor Experts will be alerted via email when a new phase opens and you can allocate credits again. Investors are asked to review each project’s progress within each phase and submit reflections, feedback and any questions they have for the student team.
All four phases have set time frames. At the end of each phase, student teams will receive a ranking of best projects on the Marketplace and best investor performance. After Phase 4 closes, the top 5 projects will advance to the Finals Round.
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Stephanie Hussels
Director of the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship, Director of the Business Growth Programme
Cranfield School of Management
United Kingdom
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Mathieu Carenzo
Lecturer of Entrepreneurship
IESE Business School
Spain
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Terrence Brown
SSES Centre Director at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
Sweden
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Diana Popa
Founder and CEO
Extensio
Mexico
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Vasilis Theoharakis
Professor of Strategic Marketing
Cranfield School of Management
United Kingdom
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Mikkel Draebye
Associate Professor of Practice Entrepreneurship & Family Business
SDA Bocconi School of Management
Italy
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Xavier Wartelle
CEO and Co-Founder
Avatar Medical
USA
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Jillian Gordon
Senior Lecturer of Management
University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School
United Kingdom
Faculty Mentors
A faculty mentor’s primary role is to provide guidance to their student team as they develop their project on the Peaqs platform. Faculty mentors will work with their respective student team throughout the four phases within Round 1. Each phase allows for investor feedback as well as faculty mentor feedback. Faculty mentors are advised to review investor feedback with their student team in each phase.
Should their student team advance to the finals round, the faculty mentor should work with their team to prepare a pitch presentation that will be delivered LIVE to the panel of judges.
Final Round Judges
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Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder & CEO
Gidi Mobile Ltd
United Kingdom
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Amini Kajunju
Executive Director
IUGB Foundation, Inc
USA
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Austin Okere
Founder & Vice Chairman
Computer Warehouse Group Plc.
Nigeria
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Darius F. Teter
Executive Director, Stanford Seed
Stanford Graduate School of Business
USA
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Anil Benard-Dende
Deputy General Director
Kedge Business School
France
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Tim Mescon
Executive Vice President and Chief Officer of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Headquarters
AACSB International
Netherlands
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Peter Bamkole
Director, Enterprise Development Centre
Pan-Atlantic University
Nigeria
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Marie Frochen
Co-Founder and Partner
Ramp-Up Lab
USA