Our BOLD Judges
Discover our BOLD jury board! Market leaders, innovators and change-makers around the 4 corners of the globe join us in the judging process of the boldest projects.
MAURIZIO ROSSI
Chairperson of BOLD Awards, curiosity driven dreamer and always a keen observer, Maurizio father of four likes to discover and understand differences of people’s lifestyles and their cultures. He’s fascinated how technologies
impact our day life and about their influence in the society and cultures, thanks to his dynamic
personality he has developed an important network of international connections.
CHAIRPERSON
EPI LUDVIK
Epi is the Founder & CEO of Crowdsourcing Week. In 2008, he created Ludvik + Partners – one of New York’s hottest boutique virtual ad agencies built on a 100% crowdsourcing model. Epi Ludvik is one of the pioneers in the crowdsourcing ad space, an industry expert and thought leader in entertainment advertising – including public relations, event production, experiential marketing, consumer advertising and digital marketing.
CO-CHAIRPERSON
PATRIZIA BUSSOLI
Patrizia Bussoli is Professor of Digital Finance for Sustainability and Inclusion, directs the Bsc and the Msc in Digital Finance and Economics and the Fintech Master at H-Farm College. Patrizia has more than twenty years’ experience in financial markets, as Head of Asset Allocation Products in Pramerica sgr, Head of Fixed Income Asset Allocation at Fideuram Investimenti sgr, fund manager for credit, ABS and structured products in Nextrasgr, macroeconomist at Deutsche Bank, London.
fintech
Jared Yellin
Jarred is the Co-Founder of 10X Incubator. He is a non-technical tech founder who found a way to scale his original tech company with ZERO dollars invested to over 40,000 paying users from around the world. He declared a moonshot in April of 2020: “I will build, scale, and sell 10,000 tech companies in 10 years.” This moonshot has been heard far and wide as some of the most influential people in the tech industry are yearning to play a role. 10X Incubator will democratize the tech industry by creating an even playing field for all.
young achiever
ROB VAN KRANENBURG
Rob Is the Founder of the Internet of Things Council and Bricolabs. He works as Ecosystem Manager for the EU project Next Generation Internet. Rob wrote The Internet of Things: A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID, Institute of Network Cultures and co-edited Enabling Things to Talk published by Springer. He recently published Future Urban Smartness: Connectivity Zones with Disposable Identities also by Springer.
IoT
SOPHIE LUTMAN
Sophie is the Executive Creative Director, EMEA, at global brand specialists, Siegel+Gale.
Sophie brings 25 years of creativity to Siegel+Gale’s worldwide clients. A lot has changed in that time, but the power of a great idea continues to excite and inspire her. Having previously worked with the likes of BBC, Telefonica, Capgemini, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, and EY, Sophie’s expertise lies in brand experience creation and uncovering simple ideas that are scalable, universal and enduring.
ADVERTISING
KAL SAHOTA
Kal has the pleasure of connecting with organizations all over the globe to speak to them about their innovation strategies. Specifically, how to implement crowd as a key
component of that strategy.
She has 25 years in corporate, primarily in Financial Services, her last role as an Executive. With her passion for innovation, coupled with her background in the corporate
world; she’s well positioned to understand the environment of current business and powerfully support Brands and Organizations
in identifying strategies related to open innovation.
Kal joined HeroX in 2015 and is currently serving as the CEO and
President.
CROWDSOURCING
MARK VAN RIJMENAM
Dr Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker. He is a future tech strategist who thinks about how technology changes organisations, society and the metaverse. Dr Mark van Rijmenam is an international keynote speaker, 4x author and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Datafloq and the author of the book on the metaverse: Step into the Metaverse
AI
DANIEL COLAIANNI
Daniel is the Chief Executive of the Academy of International Extended Reality, a not for profit membership body dedicated to supporting companies grow using virtual and augmented reality and actively accelerating the immersive industry.
Daniel built and leads an executive board made up of Facebook, Disney, Microsoft, Google, Boeing and more, to steer and execute global initiatives and strategy aimed at supporting growth within immersive enterprises.
AR/VR
ROB ISRACH
Rob brings over 20 years of expertise to the company, across marketing, alliances, and international business. Rob has served at Tipalti for over 6 years, helping to grow them from 17 employees to over 500 while multiplying revenues by 40X with a Double Unicorn valuation. Prior to Tipalti, Rob served as VP Global Marketing Programs at NetSuite where he led global branding, international marketing, and demand generation, helping guide the company through 10X+ revenue growth, from a private company through IPO to cloud market leader. Rob also has held various management positions at Intuit and GE.
MARKETPLACES
NAREK VARDANYAN
Narek is a co-founder and CEO of The Crowdfunding Formula and the author of 57 Secrets of Crowdfunding bestselling book. In the past three years, With his agency, Narek has helped number of campaigners to succeed in crowdfunding, on average raising $1.2M per campaign. He has been covered in leading media, including Forbes, Bloomberg, TEDx etc.
CROWDFUNDING
RICARDO MARVĀO
Ricardo is an entrepreneur and investor, and a Co-founder of Lisbon-based Beta-i, one of the world’s most active startup accelerators. He has helped more than 900 new businesses grow and thrive by offering 360-degree innovation services ranging from acceleration, events, and corporate innovation to education, investment, and community.
OPEN INNOVATION
KAIT SCHOECK
Having kick-started her career as a lead designer in the Microsoft Devices Group, Kait has worked to help Microsoft as a brand reposition itself through designing products and product experiences that leave people with a different brand perspective. Working to light up new and innovative experiences through flagship hardware with new form factors, Kait took a key role in establishing the devices design groups overall principles and approach to product making, embracing the opportunity to work hand in hand with the software teams to deliver complete experiences. Her passion for hands on prototyping realizes quick opportunities to help solve complex design problems in the early phases fast, and has evolved over time into storytelling through functional prototypes, video creative direction, and CG animation.
DESIGN
JULIA NEBRIJA
Julia has 10+ years of leadership experience advancing urban development agendas, primarily in Asia, across grass roots, national government, and international organizations. She remains closely involved with the advancement of active mobility policies in the Philippines as a consultant with The Asia Foundation.
In 2020, Julia helped launch the Global Partnership for Informal Transportation with her Agile City Partners, New Cities Foundation, and CoMotion colleagues and is currently leading an informal transportation policy framework project with UNDP Accelerator Lab Network Cities.
The Transformative Urban Mobilty Initiative (TUMI) and Women Mobilize Women named Julia Nebrija in their 2021 list of Remarkable Women in Transportation.
MOBILITY
BONNIE CHIA
Bonnie is a passionate storyteller with more than 15 years of success in the field of marketing and communications, from advertising, public relations to brand development. She cut her teeth in the industry with successful stints at top ad and PR agencies across the globe from LA to Taipei to Singapore, working on internationally renowned brands like P&G, SK-II, ASUS, Panasonic, IHG, etc.
In 2012, she joined the WWF’s Earth Hour global team in Singapore, where she switched her focus to marketing and branding for social good and sustainability, leading the global strategy and planning for the world’s largest grassroots movement. Now as the Head of Brand for WWF International, her portfolio expands to include the development of the WWF brand globally.
SUSTAINABILITY
ERIC WADE
Eric is the editor of Crypto Capital and Crypto Cashflow.
Eric is an Internet entrepreneur and investor who began picking stocks and trading futures contracts in college, using his expertise to become a certified financial manager at the largest American retail brokerage. He eventually sold the Internet domain of his nickname – Wallstreet.com – for over $1 million.
Eric’s cryptocurrency career began by mining bitcoin. Soon, he turned to mining Ethereum and then even taught himself how to build and program his own miners.
CRYPTO
AMY WU
Amy is an award-winning writer for the women’s ag and agtech movement. She is an entrepreneur and storyteller bridging the action in the field with the digital advances in the office and laboratory.
Amy is also the Founder and Creator of From Farms to Incubators, a multimedia platform that uses documentary, video, photography and the written word to tell the stories of women leaders and innovators in agtech. It has a mission of highlighting women in food, farming, and farmtech, especially women of color.
AGRITECH
FRANK SALZGEBER
Frank is the Head of Innovation and Ventures Office of the
European Space Agency – the largest space entrepreneurship
network in the world. His team has initiated over 370
industry transfers and aided over 1,200 start-ups. He
promotes the Directorate of Telecommunications and
Integrated Applications of
ESA, which has additionally supported over 1,000
downstream business cases. His team supports
Industry to work with ESA, venture capitalists to
connect to start-ups and helps new space companies
into orbit and to the Moon.
SPACE FRONTIER
CRAIG GOODWIN
Craig leads Cyvatar’s product strategy, product management, and engineering functions as a member of Cyvatar’s senior leadership team. Prior to that he has spent 20 years in the security industry, starting with the intelligence services in the United Kingdom, he then went on to hold the role of Global Chief Security Officer (CSO) for a number of large public and private sector organizations including Fujitsu, Monster Worldwide, Wolseley Group PLC and CDK Global. Craig has spent his career driving real business outcomes from his security organizations, positioning security as an enabler for digital trust and transformation rather than a hindrance. Craig is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
CYBERSECURITY
LIAM MARTIN
Liam is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Time Doctor and Staff.com — one of the most popular time tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He is also a co-organizer of the world’s largest remote work conference — Running Remote.
Liam is an avid proponent of remote work and has been published in Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat and many other publications specifically targeting the expansion of remote work. The mission statement that feeds all the products and services that Liam is involved with stem from empowering workers to work wherever they want, whenever they want.
REMOTE WORKING
JOSE LUIS CORDEIRO
José Luis is a world citizen in our small planet in a big unknown universe. He was born in Latin America, from European parents, was educated in Europe and North America, and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. He has studied, visited and worked in over 130 countries in 5 continents.