Riccardo Donadon was born in Treviso and, after graduating from high school, embarked on a psychology degree course. In 1990 he started working with his father but his great passion was the internet, so halfway through 1995 he accepted the challenge to create a work crew whose purpose was to tell the world the story of the Benetton sports teams via the internet. A few months later the first Italian virtual mall Mall Italy Lab (http://www.mall.it) was set up. In 1999 it was signed over to Infostrada and is still present in the commercial area of the Italian portal Libero.it

September 1998 marked a turning point: Riccardo Donadon left Verde Sport together with the 8 people who had accompanied him along the Mall adventure and founded E-TREE (www.e-tree.com). From this moment on, it is all about e-nergy, enthusiasm and pure e-speed

With Riccardo Donadon, in just a few months E-TREE became a reference point throughout Italy for its way of working, its informal outlook, its rapid growth, its business method and the undoubted skill in the solutions created. In 2001, when the company reached a 26-billion lire turnover and employed 160 people, it was sold in its entirety to the Etnoteam group.

In September 2003 Donadon left E-TREE and spent almost a year looking after his garden, relaxing and pondering new ideas and new initiatives.

In January 2005 Donadon founded H-FARM, the first private Italian incubator, with the aim of transforming innovative ideas into successful startups. H-Farm was born in the countryside of Ca' Tron, near Treviso, and in May 2008 the second epicentre in Seattle, WA, USA was established. H-farm already boasts an operational office in Mumbai, India, which will soon become the third epicentre for business.

Maurizio Rossi was born in Italy in '64 and belongs to the "bad boy" generation. He is connected to creative culture and inspired by design because it shapes new things as well as people's minds. He likes to observe and understand people's lifestyles and their local traditions.

In his previous-century experiences, Maurizio worked for a family-run company called Rossimoda, market leader of luxury women's footwear, at present part of the LVMH fashion holding, where his main commitment was new product-line spin-offs and market expansion. In 1990, within his family group, Maurizio launched Vista Point, a business unit dedicated to internationally expanding leading US action-sports brands such as NoFear, Spy Optics and DC. He has been involved in both retail and wholesale distribution networks and believes that the 21st century will bring the big shift; the internet, new information technologies together with clean energies and environmental issues will be the driving forces of this great opportunity and Maurizio Rossi has joined and invested in H-Farm to make his contribution to innovating models and to support the shift that is coming.

Patrizio Bof born in Treviso 42 years ago, married with two children. From the school time he has been passionate from emergent technologies and how technologies could support the business evolution. He used his resources to propose the more appropriate solution during the technology evolution, improving offers to the continuous Business Management needs.

Patrizio Bof operates on the IT industry from eighteen years, he dedicated special attention to support organisations to manage their relations with customers. This special attention to "manage the customer" affirmed Patrizio Bof to be the Italian precursor on the CRM. Eighteen years ago Patrizio Bof founded his company (PAT Srl) after few years PAT become the Italian reference on the CRM solutions, in few years he expanded the company's subsidiaries and customers in many European countries. His just established company developed not only a CRM but also a Help Desk Software able to support organisations on the growing need to manage their customers. It was the period when organisation become more customer-centric, and the Patrizio Bof's vision to offer CRM solution has been winning, and place PAT as the CRM software solution reference in Italy and abroad.

Patrizio Bof dedicate high attention not only to produce internal solution but also looking for the best opportunity of partnership, dealing with important softwarehouse relevant partnerships in order to propose a complete and complementary overall solution to his customer. Alliances, partnerships, new products development, complete the wide vision promote from Patrizio Bof, oriented to support organisation to manage their customer using many technologies and modeules: mobile, Web, Call Center, Business Intelligence, Geomarketing support, Sales force automation.

Customers' offer has been always drove from the market standard, to whom Patrizio Bof dedicate particular attention in order to supply solutions "standards compliance". Patrizio Bof offer his professional competence to promote standards diffusion, become part of important associations with the scope to diffuse standards or recommendations, as ITIL for example.

During the 2009, Patrizio Bof become the majority shareholders not only in H-CARE but also in Soluta.Net. Patrizio Bof established a Group of company able to sustain each organisations' request relative to the customer management. H-CARE introduce an important innovation on the customer management, the extensive use of a Digital Assistant, in form of intelligence Human representation, as direct interface for the final user, interacting via voice and image throughout web, mobile, kiosk, and any interactive device. Soluta.Net has been wanted in the Group from Patrizio Bof for the extensive use of Software Engineering consultant activities, that in the future will influence the way companies could produce software and integrate Customer Management with Enterprise Architecture.

Once again Patrizio Bof had undertake an innovative union in his Group with the final objective to support organisation to adapt at the market changes, on it he maintained his passion and his commitment unchanged from his first steeps on the Information Technology world.

Max Ciccotosto An experienced manager of both people and businesses, Max spent seven years at Microsoft before returning to his entrepreneurial roots. In the past three years he worked in mobility and was responsible for four patents. He was also actively engaged in deals with Nokia, SEMC, Palm and Motorola. Max holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from UW. Max likes to cook and maintains a cooking blog (http://cucina.wordpress.com).

T.A McCann serves as founder and CEO of Gist. His past experience includes Vulcan Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, where he was an entrepreneur-in-residence. Prior to Polaris, he held senior positions at Microsoft, leading future strategy and product planning for the Exchange Server Group and developing the burgeoning Service Delivery Platforms group, focused on mobile applications development. In addition, he is a founder of Jump2Go - providing innovative solutions for the radio industry, HelpShare - a web Q&A company and Soft Labour, a web design and development consultancy. He currently serves on the board of Art with Heart and is an advisor to Wishpot, Asset Archives and Notary One. In addition to his deep technology background, T.A. has won sailing's America's Cup and sailed around the world. He has a wife and daughter and a yellow lab named Daisy.

Rishikesh Shintre He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI), Cost Accountant (ICWAI) and also a Company Secretary. He is an all India Gold Medalist in Chartered Accountancy Course. His 7 years of experience comprises investment banking and corporate finance across sectors including consumer goods, automobile, industrial products, metals and mining, oil and gas services etc. Rishikesh has successfully advised clients in a range of transactions including Mergers & Acquisitions, Demergers, Debt Restructuring, Private Equity and Corporate Restructuring. Prior to Mindspring, Rishikesh worked with Ernst and Young in the field of corporate finance for 5 years.

Deepa Kaval Qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and holding a Diploma in Business Finance from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India, Deepa has over 15 years of professional experience. She has rich and varied experience in diverse areas of investment banking and management consultancy across industries such as banking and finance, metal and mining, chemicals, industrial products, FMCG etc. She has led various assignments across industries and functions such as acquisition advisory, private equity, valuations, business reviews, joint venture partner search, entry strategy ,regulatory , feasibility etc. Before Mindspring, Deepa worked with Ernst and Young Corporate Finance as vice President for 7 years. Prior to that, she was working with A. F. Ferguson in the capacity of management consultant for 5 years. She started her career with S.B. Billimoria & Co. where she was heading audits such as Tata Motors, IL&FS, CRISIL etc.