Larry Biehl
Larry Biehl
Managing Director
Larry is a financial consultant and investment manager with more than 50 years of experience in Silicon Valley. He is a co-founder of two successful investment management firms and has an extensive background in asset management, personal finance management and marketing. Larry is an avid promoter of the local innovation ecosystem and a founding member of the Bulgarian Entrepreneurship Center (BEC) which seeks to motivate and encourage entrepreneurship in Bulgaria.
Larry holds a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and Medieval history and a Master’s degree in Finance, both from Stanford University.
Barak Rabinowitz
Barak Rabinowitz
Managing Partner, F2
Barak is a Managing Partner of F2 Capital, a $50m Israeli seed fund, backing Israeli technology companies in artificial intelligence, drone technologies, augmented reality, insurance technology and other. Prior to that, he was a Venture Partner at Genesis Partners, a $600m early-stage Israeli venture capital fund. Barak is a founder and CEO of a number of companies in the technology sector and an active angel investor.
Barak holds an MBA from Harvard University.
Stefan Gugushev
Stefan Gugushev
Managing Partner, G&P
Stefan Gugushev is Managing Partner and founder of Gugushev & Partners, a leading law firm established in 2006 in Bulgaria. The team of Gugushev & Partners is comprised of 45 attorneys and tax experts offering legal services in the sphere of the commercial, tax, real estate, obligation and administrative law, intellectual property, bank law, project funding and other. Gugushev & Partners received the 2017 award for the best law firm of the year.
Stefan holds a Master’s of Law degree from Sofia University, Sveti Kliment Ohridski.
Bogomil Balkansky
Bogomil Balkansky
Former VP, Google
Bogomil joined Google as VP of recruiting solutions in 2015, following the sale of bebop, a cloud enterprise development platform. Previously, he was a key executive at VMware for 8 years where he played a pivotal role in steering VMware’s flagship server virtualization product line. Prior to VMware, Bogomil worked in product management at Siebel Systems, the pioneer of CRM software. Bogomil is also an angel investor and a board director to a number of technology start-ups.
Bogomil holds a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford University.
Thuan Pham
Thuan Pham
Former CTO, Uber
Thuan Pham is the former CTO of Uber, based in Silicon Valley. Before Uber, Thuan was VP of R&D at VMware, where he led the development of the Cloud Management Platform and Virtual Infrastructure and founded VMware Bulgaria organization – the largest R&D center of VMware in Europe, which is thriving today. Previously, he was VP of Engineering at Westbridge and Doubleclick.
Thuan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science, both from MIT.