Kyle Vucko , CEO & Co-Founder, Indochino
Kyle Vucko Co-founded Indochino with his close friend and business partner Heikal Gani while pursuing a commerce degree at the University of Victoria, Canada in 2006. Vucko has been Indochino's CEO since inception, leading it through two financing rounds, growing the company from a student startup to the premier global brand in online men's tailor made suits.
In addition to CEO, Vucko also acts as company spokesperson and specifically heads the marketing, PR, and global sales divisions of Indochino. Vucko currently lives in Shanghai, China.
Heikal Gani , Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder, Indochino
Heikal Gani co-founded Indochino with close friend and business partner Kyle Vucko while he was pursuing a political science and psychology degree at the University of Victoria, Canada. In 2006, Gani moved to Shanghai, China where he built the foundation of Indochino's industry changing partner tailor business model. As Creative Director, Gani heads product development as well as the global sourcing and production departments. In addition to his lead design role at Indochino, Gani also guides Indochino's consumer strategy at the highest level.
Jeffrey Mallett, Chairman and Investor, Indochino.com
Jeffrey Mallett is best known for building internet giant Yahoo! from its start-up phase into the global franchise it is today. As president and chief operating officer for Yahoo Inc. from 1995-2002, Mallett helped drive extraordinary growth and success for the company while simultaneously serving as an elected member of the Board of Directors. Prior to working at Yahoo!, Jeff held senior executive roles at technology leaders Reference Software International, WordPerfect Corp., and Novell Networks Inc.. Currently, Jeff is a board member of web services company
http://www.synacor.com in New York, Co-Owner of the Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps, Co-Owner/Board Member of English Championship Football Team Derby County, and Board of Advisors Member at the University of Victoria Business School in Canada. Mallett also is an advisor to Steve Nash Enterprises which includes Nash’s foundation, The Steve Nash Foundation, and numerous for profit businesses in film and sport.
Boris Wertz, Ph.D., CEO, W Media Ventures
Dr. Boris Wertz is an Internet entrepreneur and investor and the CEO of W
Media Ventures, a Vancouver-based venture capital firm
http://www.wmediaventures.com that focuses on Consumer Internet investments
http://www.wmediaventures.com/portfolio in the Pacific Northwest in close cooperation with long-term partner Burda Digital Ventures
http://ventures.burdadigital.de . He is also the CEO of Nexopia.com, the
largest social network in Canada
http://www.nexopia.com/ . Before founding W Media Ventures, Boris was the Chief Operating Officer of AbeBooks.com, the world's largest marketplace for new, used and rare and out-of print books
http://www.abebooks.com . Boris successfully finished his PhD as well as his graduate studies at the Graduate School of Management (WHU
http://www.whu.edu ), Koblenz, majoring in Business Economics / Business Management. Boris serves on the boards of AbeBooks, Suite101
http://www.suite101.com , German travel review site Tripsbytips.com
(Reise-Community
http://www.tripsbytips.de ), tailor made mens suits
http://www.indochino.com site Indochino.com, online league and team management tool
http://www.teampages.com TeamPages, and local technology blog network http://www.techvibes.com Techvibes.com. Living in Vancouver with his wife Luisa (a dog treats
http://www.wildbites.com entrepreneur), he loves the outdoors, reading
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bwertz and traveling
http://www.tripsbytips.de
Benedikt Sudbrock, Ph D., Acton Capital Partners
Benedikt holds a law degree of Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) and a Ph D. in Spanish and German law. After working at Westdeutsche Landesbank (
http://www.westlb.com) in Duesseldorf (Germany) and in Madrid (Spain) Benedikt joined Bertelsmann AG (
http://www.bertelsmann.com) where he managed international M&A transactions with focus on internet and new media related target companies. After heading the legal department of BOL International (
http://www.bol.de) in Munich (Germany) Benedikt worked for the corporate VC Burda Digital Ventures GmbH (
http://www.burda.com). Now Benedikt heads the legal department of Acton Capital Partners (
http://www.actoncapital.de), a German based private equity fund investing in European and North American technology-enabled companies striving to take their growth opportunities to the next level.