EF Alumni

Amita Goyal

CEO, Playback

Founded:

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Interests / background:

Enterprise Solutions, Retail and Commerce

Location:

Berlin

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Amita has experience with BCG, Wework and UBS, leading large teams globally. She holds an MBA from INSEAD, and has worked with Fortune 50 CEOs on B2B sales, omnichannel strategy and ecommerce due diligence. Amita is passionate about helping businesses grow, having seen her dad run a small business.

worked with Fortune 50 CEOs on B2B sales, omnichannel strategy and ecommerce due diligence.

Playback pitch at our Europe 14 Demo Day.

Company:

Playback

B2B wholesale video based e-commerce platform.

Peter Little

CTO, StartScreen

Software Engineering Graduate. Led teams at scale-ups and specialised in augmenting 3rd party UIs.

Phil Protomanni

CEO, Agota Health

Tech sales leader turned healthcare executive. Led COVID vaccination and testing team across Canada.

Alex Wilton

Experienced technologist and entrepreneur.

Chloe Burles

Experienced CEO and British record holder.

Maximilian Rolf

Former tech investment banker, advised leading B2B SaaS companies.

Leon Wisskirchen

WHU graduate. Serial founder and former Head of Operations at SumUp US. Full-stack web developer.

Duncan Ryan

Experienced developer in regulated environments, and integrating unstructured, disparate data.

Chris Gudde

Self-taught data scientist & full stack developer. Led 1000+ teams in risk, compliance & operations.

Edward Alun-Jones

3x founder experienced in building, scaling B2B SaaS businesses & streamlining compliance workflows.

Daniel Parekh-Hill

3x founder. 5 years building, scaling and advising companies from MVP to IPO.

Rumessa Raja

CEO, Celerity Labs

Designed & scaled e-commerce platforms leading B2B companies in advanced industries (ex-McKinsey).

Samarth Shyam

3rd time founder, investor. Secured deals with large airlines and telco's in MENA and Europe.

Kevin Yee

CTO, BetterData

BEng in AI. Ex-IBM. Unlocked phones with fake human fingerprints. Winner of Ideasinc 2017.

Frederick Sia

Serial entrepreneur with MSc in Investment Management.

Ulysse Mizrahi

Serial early-start-upper, passionate about all things productivity

Raffaele Colella

2x passionate founder. Google Acquihired. MIT alum

Keshev Kulkarni

Created pricing engine for world's largest foodservice company; generated $52M+ incremental revenue

Ife Ishola

CEO, Speech Titan

Experienced Ops and Product Leader; ex-Glassdoor PM; ex McKinsey

Milton Calderon Donefer

Founded & scaled restaurant service organization across 10+ Canadian cities. Loran Scholar @ McGill

Sarthak Shrivastava

Has experience in logistics and building multiple business verticals at Indian startups.

Jay Bullen

Developed new, low-cost methods for water quality monitoring. PhD from Imperial College London

Andrius Sutas

CEO, Simple Construction Software

Co-founder & CEO of AimBrain (B2B deep-tech security, acquired), author of The Founder Handbook

Stuart Johnson

CTO, Simple Construction Software

Y Combinator startup employee #1, co-founded Wutzu (left, acquired), MIT Battlecode 2019 finalist

Robert Van Den Bergh

Prev CEO & Founder @ VC backed robotics and AI company. Expert in growth marketing and partnerships.

Cameron Whitehead

Previously Senior Engineer at Series A tech company. Expert in building scalable consumer solutions.

Ben Allen

Experienced CTO; built & scaled products from 0-500k+ users for multiple venture-backed businesses

Ben Freeman

Experienced founder, built Tessian from 5-200+ people & $0-20m+ ARR, raising $130m (Sequoia, Accel)

Sam Daviau

Co-founder, UpBeing

SaaS tech and community leader with proven success in Operations, Partnerships and Product

Patrick Olden

Product-driven, technical CEO

Holger Nießner

Full-stack developer with experience leading engineering teams, MSc in Space Science and Technology

Bijan Farsijani

2x founder, hands-on experience with product and sales, Masters from Copenhagen Business School

Nicolas Carmont

CTO, Connect Earth

Experience creating sustainability startups with background in AI and software engineering

Alex Lempka

CEO, Connect Earth

Experience founding and scaling businesses, worked in FinTech his entire career

Kartik Arora

Full-stack developer and engineering manager across fast-growing startups

Apoorv Singh

Experience scaling B2B SaaS sales across three continents

Michele Riccardo Esposito

Product-thinker & part-time coder

Jonathan Anderson

Experience in strategy and operations, lover of all things SaaS

Ehsan Ghoreishi

PhD in AI, built content classification techniques for major telcos

Danica Damljanovic

CEO, Sentient Machines

PhD in AI and Natural Language Processing, worked in startups analysing natural language

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su

Co-founder, PolyAI

Award-winning reinforcement learning expert, previously Facebook AI Research

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen

Machine learning researcher, previously worked at Google Brain and IPSoft

Nikola Mrkšić

PhD in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, first hire at VocalIQ

Rob Palumbo

Growth marketing leader who scaled 3x B2C companies from Seed to Series A/B+ and millions in revenue

Sean Billings

Cloud + ML engineer going heads down on production-grade ML systems with OutPoint, Cambridge, Amazon

Abhinav Yadav

Co-founder, Wavel.AI

PhD in computational neuroscience, st experience in dealing with big-data

Narasimha Suda

Co-founder, Wavel.AI

Master's in Physics and Mathematics, experience with data ranging from voice, images, and text

Mikhail Dubov

CEO, Chattermill

Full-stack developer with background in data analytics

Dmitry Isupov

Co-founder, Chattermill

Degree in Mathematics, background in quantitative marketing

Siddhartha Gunti

Co-founder, Adaface

Researched in context based machine translation, ex-Quant

Deepti Chopra

Co-founder, Adaface

Engineer, former researcher at Caltech

Arnor Davidsson

Experienced in software engineering, product management and UX, MSc in Computer Science

Majed Chaaraoui

Experience in consulting and investment banking

Alex Kosenkov

Experience in high performance computing

Lottie Liebling

Experience in marketplace business development teams

Hardesh Singh

Qualified solicitor with experience in risk and compliance

Jaron Collis

Co-founder, Plural AI

PhD in AI, experience building natural language and knowledge-based systems

Camille Rougié

Previously worked in finance, launched new products for FinTech startup

Raphael Holca-Lamarre

PhD at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning

Tuhin Chakraborty

Software engineer, previously led engineering teams

Ashish Kumar

Co-founder, Konigle

PhD in Machine Learning, developed framework for pattern detection from unstructured data

Jatin Khosla

Experience architecting, building and scaling adoption of data driven digital products

Xavier Wilders

Graduated top of his year in his Master's in Computer Science

James Williams

CEO, Beyond Labs

Experience in finance, built high performance trading systems

Gaetano Checinski

CEO, LoopPerfect

Software architect, experience creating high performance solutions for enterprise

Akshay Gugnani

CTO, Expertia AI

AI and NLP researcher, developed the current state-of-the-art job recommender & hiring system

Kanishk Shukla

CEO, Expertia AI

Proven expertise in sales, strategy and people

Shalabh Singh

Expert generalist with Machine Learning background

Puneet Lamba

Experienced in B2B business development and sales, consulted for India's top corporates and startups

Abhimanyu Godara

Experience across consulting, VC and startups, built multiple products

Dr Siddhartha

Expertise in multiple machine learning domains, in particular Natural Language Processing

Jose Sampedro Mazon

Ex-corporate lawyer, experience in strategy & ops transformations and business development

Nick Shaw

CTO, Spotted Zebra

Chartered occupational psychologist and thought leader in the assessment industry

Ian Monk

CEO, Spotted Zebra

Ex-consultant and exited founder

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

Nicolas Le Borgne

CEO, Thermosphr

Experience in startups, Master's in Economic Law from Sciences Po

Kannan Reghu

Experienced in product and tech, ex-VP of Engineering at Grover

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Albert Reynaud

Ex-partnerships at Google, graduate from ESCP Europe Business school.

Guenther Eisinger

Co-founder (Operations), Ominpresent

Served in the Austrian Special Forces, ran his own international business

Matthew Wilson

Co-founder (Commercial), Omnipresent

Experienced entrepreneur and technologist

Chris Butcher

Engineer, experience scaling business to serve SMEs

Sho Sugihara

Experience working in NGOs on economic inclusion and consultancy

Nagmanjunath Shivakumar

CEO, PakkaProfile

Deep understanding of talent acquisition

Ankit Parashar

Engineer, built SAAS-based analytics product for hardware

Aaron Lim

Expertise in high-end client engagement, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate

Sunny Saurabh

CEO, Interviewer.AI

Skilled in ideation, sales strategy and product vision

Boon Khai Lim

CTO, Interviewer.AI

Built large-scale web applications, passionate about disruptive tech

Abdelhadi Azzouni

Conducted innovative research applying machine learning to optimise large scale computer networks

Hardik Thakkar

Built complex systems as a software engineer, experienced in Data Science and managing large teams

Zehan Wang

CTO, Magic Pony Technologiy

Co-founder of Magic Pony, built through EF & exited to Twitter for $150M.

Rob Bishop

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Investor & co-founder of Magic Pony, built through EF & exited to Twitter for US$150M

Dan Swygart

Experienced founder. Consumer addictiveness & networking effects. Worked with Celebrities & Creators

Edward Alun-Jones

3x founder experienced in building, scaling B2B SaaS businesses & streamlining compliance workflows.

Daniel Parekh-Hill

3x founder. 5 years building, scaling and advising companies from MVP to IPO.

Rumessa Raja

CEO, Celerity Labs

Designed & scaled e-commerce platforms leading B2B companies in advanced industries (ex-McKinsey).

Matthias Richard

Studied Computer Vision at Stanford and ESTP, award-winning entrepreneur

Lancelot Salavert

Built and managed two of the largest e-commerce ventures in Southeast Asia

Aditya Mehta

Technologist with a passion for sales who’s built and sold recommendation systems across domains.

Prathmesh Mise

Launched & scaled retail distribution business, deep understanding of industry's challenges

Raghav Toshniwal

Extensive experience in data science and e-commerce analytics

Shyam Nallasenapathy

Extensive experience in ecommerce and consumer analytics, ex-Myntra

Christoph Sträter

PhD in Theoretical Physics with expertise in deep learning and software development

Nat Wollny

Former VC with expertise in FashionTech

Carmine Paolino

Began programming at 5, developed machine learning and anti-corruption systems

Avik Mukhija

Machine learning scientist & entrepreneur, developed & sold AI solutions to grocery retailers

Alexandros Pantalis

Tech entrepreneur, built & managed successful startups in e-commerce, software development & fintech

Lorenzo Sani

CTO, Shopscribe

Product-obsessed full-stack software engineer. Imperial dropout

Alexander Zhou

CEO, Shopscribe

Went to #1 school in the world for hospitality, previously Y Combinator-backed founder

Daniil Moskovtsov

Fullstack engineer with experience in marketplaces and e-commerce. Ex-Redmart and Shopback

Jan Gasparic

Ex-DJI with sales and marketing experience in IoT

Lorenzo Ampil

CTO, Hawksight.co

Data scientist, built financial AI software for global enterprises and asset management firms

Bradian Muliadi

CEO, Hawksight.co

Built and sold Indonesia's largest creator platform, scaled leading social SaaS startup

Prashant Maurice Dhara

Built multiple deep learning solutions, experience building tech in startups

Sreenadh Narayanan

Degree in Engineering, helped tech companies accelerate growth and monetise new products

Sagar Setu

CTO, Milky Way AI

Robotics and computer vision expert, PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Eunice Wong

CEO, Milky Way AI

Award-winning retail professional

Dominik Eggert

Founder, Better by Less

Experience in B2C ecommerce

Andre Woons

Founded peer-to-peer payment application, led development team

David Sutton

Expertise in all aspects of the diamond industry

Christian Schiller

Led and scaled BlaBlaCar Germany to 6 million registered users

Volkan Bilici

Full-stack software and blockchain developer

David Wood

Data scientist, PhD in Computational Neuroscience

Alex Reed

Degree in commerce, led creation of AI driven buying experience

Jonathan Dory

Specialist in brand strategy, product and marketing development and managing retail networks

Trevor Stunden

Experienced commercial Director, previously early employee and senior leader in a PropTech startup

Arvind Venugopal Nair

CEO, NeuroPixel AI

Experience across Fashion E-Commerce and Consulting

Tom Walker

Worked at the cutting-edge of mathematical optimisation and on production machine learning

Tom Barber

Experience at the intersection of fashion and technology

Kannan Reghu

Experienced in product and tech, ex-VP of Engineering at Grover

Pramod Ghadge

CEO, Unbox Robotics

Master's in Industrial & Systems Engineering from NUS

Anshul Gupta

CTO, Retail Pulse

Engineering degree from NIT, led winning team in P&G Global AI Challenge

Ahmed Isber

Experienced in B2B sales, passionate about sustainability as a service.