Our community of Experts
A program that aims to help form your startup idea as well as your team and prepare you for the next stage of

Our Program Partners
Our Lecturers
Our startups receive top-notch mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and leading industry experts, who give them their insights, feedback and valuable connections.
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Joe Haslam
Adjunct Professor at IE Business School
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Mike Grandinetti
Faculty member at Harvard, MIT and UC Berkeley
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Mike Lepech
Professor at Stanford University
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Ikhlaq Sidhu
Dean of IE School of Technology
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Agustin Saenz
Co-Founder & CEO at Wanna
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Enrique Linares
Co-founder and CEO at Letgo
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Matthieu Heusch
Professor & Mentor at IE Business School
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Ned Taleb
Adjunct Professor at IE Founder of B-Yondv
Our International Experts
Our lecturers are highest class experts in the field, who provide our start-up founders with all the theoretical and practical knowledge they need to become successful.
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Sahara Albaharna
Founder of WOMEN4IMPACT
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Sarmad Ahmad
Managing Director at Saaya Health
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Eduardo Layrisse
Organization Director at Parclick
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Carlos de Otto
Investor at Startupxplore & Mentor at SeedRocket
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Federico Palmieri
Founder of BizPlace Holding
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Alex Barrera
Editor in Chief at The Aleph Report
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Carlijn Nelissen
Co-founder at ON.PURPOSE STUDIO
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Balvinder S. Powar
CCO at Booster Space Industries & co-founder at Unfold Work
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Guillermo G. Muchacho
Co-founder at Mantalon, Coklub & Cokrea.com
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Alfonso López García
Co-founder at Mäkelismos
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Álvaro Cuesta
Founder of Sonar Ventures & FoodInTheBox
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Jesus Moreno
Co- founder at Mäkelismos
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Jesús San Román García
Professor & Mentor at IE Business School
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Tal Catran
Startup ecosystem builder & Accelerator Guru
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Annik Janssens
IE Business School, "Venture Lab&Venture Network" Department Head
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Joe Haslam
Adjunct Professor at IE Business School
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Agustin Saenz
Co-Founder & CEO at Wanna
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Matthieu Heusch
Professor & Mentor at IE Business School
Our Local Experts
Our startups receive top-notch mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and leading industry experts, who give them their insights, feedback and valuable connections.
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Jafar Jafarov
Professor & Mentor at IE Business School
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Farrukh Aliyev
Founder & Head of Innovation at PASHA Holding LLC
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Fuad Babayev
Chief Communications Officer at FMGC Group of Companies
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Zaur Jalilov
Consumer Experience Tribe Leader at Kapital Bank OJSC
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Mustafa Huseynov
Head of Customer Value Management at Bakcell
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Elmar Quliyev
Product Owner at Kapital Bank OJSC
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Zaur Bayramov
Chief Sales Officer at Azerconnect LLC
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Mehdi Aslanov
CDO at PASHA Holding & CoFounder of MiniDeed
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Tural Vazirov
Chief Commercial Officer at PMD Projects LLC
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Rauf Gulamaliyev
Business Group Manager at "PASHA Holding" LLC
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Seymur Mammadov
Chief Executive Officer at Simbrella
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Zaur Darabzadeh
Chairman of the Board at CinemaPlus
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Riad Salayev
Transformation Director at Pasha Holding
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Azad Huseynov
Big Data Analysis Director at Azercell
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Nariman Mammadli
Director & AI Architect at Royal Bank of Canada
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Shaig Garibzada
Chief Executive Officer of AzeriExpress
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Shafa Aliyeva
Head of Business Partnering Division at PASHA Bank
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Kamran Babashov
Digital Marketing Manager at Kapitalbank OJSC
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Ayaz Sadigli
System Engineer at HEINEKEN
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Guljan Nazarli
Product Owner at Kapital Bank OJSC
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Nazli Orujova
Senior Product Manager at Hexad GmbH
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Turkan Nabiyeva
Product Manager at EPAM Systems
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Seymur Rasulov
CEO at Whelp and SmilePay
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Vusal Khalilov
Chief Technology Officer at PASHA Bank OJSC