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Meet the Mentors
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Daniel Proctor – Meet the Mentor
Hey, I'm Daniel Proctor born in England, grew up running around the streets of Spain until I was 10, and now living the dream in Australia. I've spent the last 9 years building businesses online, travelling to 47 countries, and helping over 9,000 people learn how to make real money through affiliate marketing. I'm not here to sell you a lifestyle, I'm here to show you exactly how it's done.
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Hamza Arif – Meet the Mentor
Process excellence practitioner at the intersection of operational excellence, process intelligence, and AI adoption. I work at the architecture layer — designing frameworks that make operations actually flow, not just implementing tools on top of b…
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Amine Chafai – Meet the Mentor
I work as Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and I accumulated 15+ years of experience in Data, Analytics, and AI. Throughout these years I had the chance to work with 300+ companies, across 35+ countries and 5 continents, to help them turn raw d…
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Bakhrom Kholmatov – Meet the Mentor
In Web3 since 2017. Currently working as a DeFi strategist: building risk frameworks for protocols, launching DeFi agents, and setting up DeFi operations from scratch. Deployed $10M+ into strategies across multiple engagements. I help investors and …
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Meet the Mentors
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Otavio Lessa – Meet the Mentor
I’m Otavio M. Lessa, founder of Fandom Builder and a strategist with more than 25 years of experience across games, entertainment, content, community, and brand systems. I help creators, founders, and businesses turn audience attention into real belonging, then turn that belonging into stronger retention, trust, and more durable revenue.
Otavio Lessa
Otavio Lessa
April 20th, 2026
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Marco Ferra – Meet the Mentor
I am a senior technology leader with more than 18 years of experience in driving digital transformation and continuous improvement across the media, biopharmaceutical, automotive, and aerospace sectors. Currently, I lead initiatives focused on streamlining business processes to maximise customer value.
Marco Ferra
Marco Ferra
April 20th, 2026
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Dilyana Radulova – Meet the Mentor
I’m a UK based Solution Engineer working with Microsoft stack technologies (like Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot and enterprise automation). I help people turn messy, frustrating work into solutions that actually make their day easier—and I’m deeply passionate about mentoring people who don’t always see themselves represented in tech.
Dilyana Radulova
Dilyana Radulova
April 6th, 2026
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Audrey Muller – Meet the Mentor
I specialize in career transitions that require more than a resume update: PMs moving into AI roles, technical PMs shifting into commercial work, and non-PMs breaking into product. The common thread is the same - you have more capability than your title reflects, and you need a clear path to close that gap.
Audrey Muller
Audrey Muller
March 30th, 2026
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Boyan Angelov – Meet the Mentor
I am a management consultant and a fractional CTO, focusing on data and AI strategy, and bridging that difficult gap between sky-high expectation of the amazing technology we have, and the software and organisational complexity that we face in reality. Beyond consulting, I am also an author, with books so far on programming languages and strategy.
Boyan Angelov
Boyan Angelov
March 9th, 2026
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Auws Al-Gaboury – Meet the Mentor
I’m Auws Al-Gaboury, a creative producer and founder of Hyper Film, a London-based studio that helps brands turn content into real business results. Over the past decade I’ve worked with startups and global brands, focusing on strategy, storytelling, and performance driven creative. I mentor founders and marketers on how to use content and branding to grow their businesses.
Auws Al-Gaboury
Auws Al-Gaboury
March 9th, 2026
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Taskin Karlar – Meet the Mentor
I’m a multi-time founder and CTO with a background in building and scaling deep tech ventures across AI, biotech, and aerospace. Over the past decade, I’ve led teams through complex product, infrastructure, and growth inflection points. I mentor founders and technical leaders making high-leverage decisions in architecture, product, and organisational design that compound early.
Taskin Karlar
Taskin Karlar
March 2nd, 2026
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Ahmed Elbagoury – Meet the Mentor
I am a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Google with over a decade of experience building scalable, safe, and efficient AI systems, ranging from LLM safety frameworks to multimodal document understanding. Beyond my engineering work, I am a passionate educator, dedicated to helping the next generation of engineers bridge the gap between theoretical ML and production-grade software.
Ahmed Elbagoury
Ahmed Elbagoury
March 2nd, 2026
From the Community: Mentor Contributions
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Adam Oskwarek – Meet the Mentor
I'm a seasoned operator with 20 years of experience across startups, corporates, and venture — spanning Founder, COO, CPO, & growth leadership roles. I thrive in fast-paced environments where clarity, structure, and execution are critical and I'm calm, unflappable and focused under pressure. I've worked in large corporations & startups/scale-ups in edtech, climatetech, fintech, SaaS and more.
Adam Oskwarek
Adam Oskwarek
November 14th, 2025
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Ludwig Wullner – Meet the Mentor
I’m Ludwig, a Senior Manager at McDonald’s Global Technology. I lead backend and frontend deployment operations and the Deployment Reliability Engineering function, focusing on making large-scale releases predictable, secure and repeatable across global markets. I blend technical fluency with process design and people leadership to help engineering teams move faster with less operational risk.
Ludwig Wullner
Ludwig Wullner
September 12th, 2025
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Demian Gutierrez – Meet the Mentor
I have 20+ years of experience in software development roles. I founded two companies serving government and building enterprise systems. As a professor, I modernized software engineering/computer science curriculum by integrating theory with hands-on learning. At Amazon/AWS as a Principal Engineer, I provided technical leadership for complex, critical services, and mentoring for 50 people org.
Demian Gutierrez
Demian Gutierrez
March 5th, 2024
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Catalin Rosu – Meet the Mentor
I am a Software Development Lead with a strong background in software engineering, specialising in architecting and delivering robust software applications, as well as leading and building high-performing teams. With nearly two decades in coding, my transition to leadership was driven by a passion for creating impactful solutions the right way with the right team.
Catalin Rosu
Catalin Rosu
December 4th, 2023
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Larry Jacobson – Meet the Mentor
15+ years experience managing cross-functional technology teams, delivering impact while fostering innovation and a growth-oriented culture. I've worked at Amazon, Snap, and several midsize companies and startups. Currently I am an independent career and leadership coach, and have a few entrepreneurial efforts in the works.
Larry Jacobson
Larry Jacobson
August 16th, 2023

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