STARTUP EXECUTIVE ACADEMY25 - 30 AUGUST, 2017CASTLE OF URSTEIN, SALZBURG

The Startup Executive Academy (SEA) is an executive educational program designed exclusi-vely for Founders and Executives from early stage startups (seed, A or B phase) whose compa-nies are based in Europe, Russia, Middle East, India, and Africa.

The SEA offers six days of practical, essential best practice professional business education for Founders and Startup Executives. Located in the heart of Europe at the Urstein Castle in Salz-burg, Austria, this unique program brings together a select group of professors and lecturers.from famous universities, professional educational organizations, and globally important com-panies to ensure the high quality of this program.

What to expectThe SEA is interactive and structured with a workshop style designed by practitioners for practitioners. The participants will get insights into key scientific topics, will work on concrete deliverables, get professional advisory support during the program, and will leave the SEA with tangible results designed to help them to accelerate their startups, These may include new inves-tment proposals, “Go-to-Market“ planning tools, or marketing plans. The SEA concludes with the Executive Challenge: Founders and Startup Executives will get feedback from professors, lecturers and top experts on their company presentations. And finally you will meet great peers and friends who will help you to expand your global network.

Leadership TeamMr. Baba Shiv, Sanwa Bank Limited, Professor of Marke-ting, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mr. Andreas Spechtler, CEO and FounderSilicon Castles and Startup Executive Academy

Mr. Phil Wickham, Founder and General Partner of Sozo Ventures, Executive Chairman Kauffman Fellows

Mr. Pascal Levensohn, Founder Levensohn Partners, Managing Director of Dolby Family Ventures

Contact and Information:www.siliconcastles.comsea@siliconcastles.com

Castle of UrsteinFirst historical documentation in 1151, completed by 1691. Today owned by the Privatstiftung Aka-demie Urstein and Chamber of Commerce Salzburg, venue used for educational events, and home of the SEA.

STARTUP EXECUTIVE ACADEMY - FACULTY

Dr. Helga Rabl-StadlerPresident of the Salzburg Festival, the famous classical music festival. She started her career as journa-list, then was partner of a success-ful fashion house and member of the Austrian parliament. Later Helga became the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Salz-burg and since 1995 she is leading the Salzburg Festival.

Baba Shiv - Lead Professor SEA ProgramThe Sanwa Bank, Ltd., Professor of Marketing, Co-Director of the Strategic Marketing Management Executive Program and Director of the Innovative Technology Leader Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Andreas Spechtler – Foun-der of the SEACEO and Founder of SiliconCastles. Former President of Dolby Laboratories International. With the new year 2017 Andreas left the corporate world to help startups to grow and startup executives to become world class performers.

Phil Wickham - LeadProfessor for CapitalFormation Strategy at SEAFounder and General Partner of Sozo Ventures. Executive Chair-man of the Kauffman Fellows in Palo Alto. A veteran Silicon Valley venture investor with more than 40 investments and startup entre-preneur with passion forprofessional education.

Pascal LevensohnFounder of Levensohn Partners, Managing Director of Dolby Family Ventures, has 22 years venture capital experience and 36 years professional investor expe-rience, is acting as board member of startups in three continents, he is based in San Francisco. He is partner and Senior Strategic Advisor of Silicon Castles.

Dr. Anastassia LauterbachCEO and Founder of 1AU-Ven-tures Ltd, serves as Independent Director and Chair of the Tech & Innovation Committee at Dun & Bradstreet. She held leading management positions such as SVP Europe at Qualcomm, SVP Business Development and Acting Chief Products & Innovation Officer at Deutsche Telekom.

Andy ZmolekAndy leads technical partnering activities within Google‘s Android Enterprise program. His career journey includes both small star-tups (Divide, acquired by Google in 2014, and NEON, acquired by Sybase in 2001, now part of SAP) and large, well-known firms like Avaya, Raytheon and Google.

Dr. Gerhard BlechingerRector of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, before he led the MultiMedia Department of the university. Before that heserved as Vice-Rector forResearch and Development and Head of the Institute for Design and Technology at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Eva WimmersPresident Huawei Honor in Europe and Vice President Honor Global, Wimmers oversees sales, operations and marketing in Europe and also global business. In her last role before Huawei she was the CPO of DeutscheTelekom group and Member of the T-Systems Supervisory Board.

Dr. Rudolf KinskySenior Partner Austria of DPE Deutsche Private Equity GmbH, Executive Chairman of the Board of AVCO. 35 years in private equi-ty, investment banking and ma-nagement consulting in the USA, UK, Germany, Austria and CEE. worked at 3i Group, Charter-house, Dresdner Bank, McKinsey & Co. and First Boston.

Dr. Sabine HerlitschkaCEO Infineon Technologies Aus-tria AG. She started her career in R&D at the Immuno AG, later she changed into academic research, was Vice Rector of the Medical University Graz, Austria, then Department Head of AustrianResearch Promotion Agency, finally joined Infineon Austria as CTO.

Dr. Peter A. BruckCEO Research Studios Austria with seven research units: smart agent technologies,geoinformatics, pervasive computing applications, smart technology enhanced learning. He is President of the Science Conference Austria and Founder of Knowledge Fox, the worldwide pioneer in micro-learning.

Seda RöderAka “the piano hacker” is an adventurous musician devoted to spreading creativity in society and organizations. She also founded Sonophilia, an international think-tank of executives,entrepreneurs and influencers from arts and technology.

Tarif SayedLeading VR technologies and commercial strategies for Nokia TECH. Prior to Nokia, he was at Dolby heading the nextgeneration live audio experiences market roll-out, also served as Director Middle East & Africa. Earlier, Tarif also founded his own film production firm „The Frame“, Dubai.

Mahesh SundaramVice President Worldwide Sales and Customer Support atImmersion. Prior to joining them, Mahesh was Vice President, Asia Pacific at Dolby Laboratories and worked at Intel bringing newproducts and technologies tomarket in the Asia Pacific region.

Alexey UgrinovichGeneral Director of Dolby Laboratories in Russia & CIS, a technology veteran with more than 25 years of experience in the Russian entertainment industry and long-term governmentrelations. He started the first inde-pendent Russian music label and was CEO of the National Federati-on of Phonograph Producers.

Chris DeeringBest known for his longterm role as CEO of PlayStation Europe from launch in 1995 through its first decade. He also headed Sony‘s Electronics Division in Europe as CEO for 2 years, then moved into new technology and entertainment ventures.

Maximillian DaschMember of the executive board of „Salzburger Nachrichten“, a major Austrian media company. Before that Maximilian worked as mana-ger in marketing, news agencies in Austria and Switzerland. His media house is accompanying the startup ecosystem Salzburg with reports in the daily printed news-paper and online platform sn.at

Dr. Gerhard AumayrFounder and Executive Dean of the Salzburg University Busi-ness School. Started his career as management consultant, then founded this school 15 years ago and was able to establish it inter-nationally with partner universi-ties in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Latvia, Russia, Switzer-land, Thailand, UK and US.

Cindy ChinEntrepreneur, venture strategist , and management consultant with over 20 years experience in rese-arch, operations and strategy with companies across several sectors like technology, telecommunica-tions, pharmaceuticals or asset management. Cindy is an advisor and board member to several tech startups in the EU.

Dr. Balthasar SchrammSerial entrepreneur and busi-ness angel, started his career at Bertelsmann, founded Germany‘s leading entertainment law firm, strategic IPO adviser for the Frankfurt New Market. Served as President of Sony Music Enter-tainment GSA, founded Europe‘s market leader for industrial biogas production. Cofounder and sup-porter of various startups.

Casper BannetFounder and CEO Aethon Group in The Netherlands, a staffing/recruitment firm for health care and government, one of the fastest growing companies in The Netherlands. Aethon won the Golden Gazelle Award in 2013 and aiming to become one of the top 10 players in the staffing industry in EU.

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Christian DreyerEntrepreneur and investor in more than 10 startups, was former CEO of SkiData and Hansen Sicherheitstechnik, a specialised mining equipment manufacturer in Germany, which he grewinternationally into emgering markts like Russia, China or South Africa and finally IPOed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Dr. Matthias RöderManaging Director of the Karajan Institute, responsible for the overall strategy and worldwide business development of theKARAJAN® brand and itsassociated products. This year Dr. Röder hosted the successful Karajan Music Technology Con-ference.

Dr. Thomas GrundniggProfessor at the SalzburgUniversity of Applied Sciences, where he is engaged as Head of the „Management & Producing“ Department at the MultiMediaArt Degree Programme. He is Head of the TRACE-Lab/Salzburg. His research focuses on work, space and rhetoric.

STARTUP EXECUTIVE ACADEMYAPPLICATION AND TERMS

Your ApplicationWhen you are ready to apply, please input your data into the Application Form on www.siliconcastles.com. Most applications may take about 15 minutes to complete. You will need to provide personal information, details about your startup as well as a personal statement why you would like to participate in the SEA.

Please complete all sections as otherwise your application cannot be properly reviewed. If you submit your application after June 30, 2017, your application will be considered on a space-available basis.

Confirmation of ReceiptYou will receive a confirmation of receipt by email within 48 hours of submitting your application. If you have questions about the status of your application, please contact sea@siliconcastles.com.

Notification of Your AcceptanceThe applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. At the latest, you will hear back two weeks after submitting your application. We understand your need to know your admission status and try our best to balance that with our admission process. With the final acceptance by the SEA you will receive further instructions and details.Important: No full payment necessary before you have been accepted by the SEA.

Tuition Fee• Early booking until June 23, 2017: EUR 6,600 excl. VAT• After June 23, 2017: EUR 7.600 excl. VAT.

This fee incluces the six days participation according to the curriculum, course material, accomodation at the campus of the Uni-versity for Applied Sciences Salzburg (single occupancy only), all breakfasts and meals during the day and all dinners.

Cancellation PolicyWe understand that Startup Executives occasionally have changes in plans or schedules that will result in their inability to attend the program as planned. If you wish to cancel and receive a full refund, you must submit your request in writing latest July 31, 2017. If you submit your cancellation after July 31, 2017, you are not eligible for a refund. Cancellation requests are valid only upon an email from the SEA Management confirming the receipt of your request.

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