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According to UN, the world is at risk of a mental health crisis. Businesses in the built world and beyond continue to be facing immense challenges - drops in activity, disruptions with supply chains, layoffs. How do we build personal resilience to deal with anxiety, depression and the stress caused by uncertainty? Is mental health the next pandemic?

One different 'Еcosystem' webinar, starting with a fireside chat with Edward Shenderovich, Co-Founder and Chairman, Knotel (who who raised $400 million dollars in SeriesC funding last year).

How have industry leaders adapted to uncertainty - what are their tips on innovating and fundraising in a crisis?

What advice do VCs give portfolio companies on mental health?

Hear from two resilient serial entrepreneurs - Edward, who has built numerous successful companies (a unicorn included) and Devika, who has survived trauma and channeled her negative experience into strength(the inspiration behind her latest venture). Find out from Carolina how a leading VC fund supports founders to (re)build themselves and their businesses in an economic downturn. Samantha will share her experiences from working at several top-tier international real estate companies, on operating at optimum levels during challenging times, and the early warning signs of burnout. As well as sharing initiatives that Round Hill Capital, have adopted to ensure their employees stay connected, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Finally a practical exercise from Niamh Keane, trained ICF Coach and one of Europe's leading meditation teachers.

SPEAKERS

Edward Shenderovich, Co-Founder and Chairman, Knotel

Samantha Rush, Vice President - Head of Sales and Marketing, Round Hill Capital

Carolina Küng, Head of Platform, Frontline Ventures

Devika Wood, Co-Founder, I am Arla

Moderated by Tzvete Doncheva

Finally a practical exercise from Niamh Keane, trained ICF Coach and one of Europe's leading meditation teachers.

TIMINGS

18:00 (EEST): Start

*A fireside chat with Edward, followed by a moderated panel.

18:45 (EEST): Q&A

19:00 (EEST): End

ABOUT THE PANEL
Edward Shenderovich, co-founder and chairman of Knotel, is a longtime entrepreneur, who has founded numerous successful companies, including Kite Ventures, Fyber, Delivery Hero, Plated, Tradeshift, and Darberry (acquired by Groupon). Born in Russia, he was also previously a co-founder of SUP Media and Merchantry, and worked for Silicon Valley Bank. Mr. Shenderovich has invested over $460 million dollars between 2009 and 2015, while cultivating a diverse portfolio. His passion for innovative technology has spanned the food technology, content software, venture capital, and commercial real estate industries, to name a few. Most recently, Shenderovich led Knotel in the raise of $400 million dollars in Series C funding, with plans for extensive expansion of their flexible workspace offerings for enterprises in Europe and Asia in 2020

Samantha Rush is a leader in the world of marketing, sales and business development with a focus on the real estate and leisure sector. Working with top-tier international real estate companies such as Round Hill Capital, British Land and Lend Lease. She has spent the last 14 years curating the brand, customer acquisition, community engagement and commercial strategies for some of Europe’s most iconic destinations, including The Shard, Broadgate – the City of London and Bluewater Shopping Centre. With a passion for placemaking and communications, she has delivered record campaign media coverage, driven brand awareness, asset values and revenue while engaging millions internationally. Samantha is also an active advisor and mentor, impelled by two key elements, optimisation – (of one’s self and the work in which we do) and balance with a focus on wellbeing, living or working environments, education and leisure.

Carolina Küng manages all Platform and Marketing efforts, helping both Frontline Ventures and the Founders we support get to the next level of growth. Carolina has built her career around tech; first by reporting on it for AlJazeera and Newsweek, and later by scaling community, marketing and business development at e-Shoptiques and Appway, e-commerce and fintech startups in New York City. In 2016, Carolina joined Insight Venture Partners, where she led platform and community as part of the Onsite growth strategy team.Her work cuts across both Seed and Frontline X and she spends her days fielding off eager team ideas on outlandish events and products; focusing instead on how we can uniquely support our Founders, to help them fly higher – and faster.

Devika Wood is an experienced entrepreneur with 7 years of hands-on innovation and digital transformation delivery experience, including a successful start-up exit(Vida) in 2019. While building and growing Vida, she won industry recognised awards and was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018, for healthcare and science. Awarded "health tech pioneer" in Europe for 2018 and multiple accolades and awards ranging from Glamour magazine, cosmopolitan, the FT, Business Insider. Notably the most distinguished recognition was awarded in 2019 from United Nations #sheinnovates campaign, recognised for pushing boundaries to break stereotypes in STEM globally and most recently has been awarded the "Entrepreneur of the year" by King's College London. Recently founded I am Arla, the first gobal community for women that have experienced trauma, discrimination, abuse.

Tzvete Doncheva is а start-up advisor, consulting companies on positioning and strategy. She’s most recently helped develop the ecosystem and portfolio initiatives at a London- based PropTech venture capital firm. A core activity of her work has been identifying innovative solutions (PropTech and Mobility) and connecting the key stakeholders in the public and private sectors (transport and real estate) to enable open dialogue and future progress.

This is also the goal of the "Ecosystem" series - the webinar where Europe's leading investors, innovators, corporate players and public sector actors come to share insights, hear from experts and connect in the age of social distancing.
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