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James Costa

James 'Jem' Costa is a highly sought after thought-leader, motivational speaker, technologist, radio show host, filmmaker, and global entrepreneur. As a visionary, he delivered supercomputing to the world as employee #13 with Alienware. Today the company is a $1 billion a year company and is Dell’s number one acquisition. During his first year as “Alien#13”, the company doubled revenue from $5 million to $10 million dollars. Setting his sights higher, James founded Hypernia, which became one of the world’s largest cloud gaming hosting providers generating over $15 million dollars in revenue. Hypernia’s clients and partners included industry luminaries like Activision, Disney, Dreamworks, EA Games, Microsoft Game Studios, CCP Games, Crytek, Dice, Nexon, Rumble Entertainment, Epic Games, Zynga, Smile Gate, Bandai Namco, Kabam, Alienware and id Software. 

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Laurence Vallord

Laurence Vallord is a french native who began her career as a sales, marketing and strategic director at renowned London financial recruitment firm, Mark Sattin. While there, she led initiatives to create a platform and methodology for building teams of top founders and executives and pairing them with projects with Fortune 1000 companies. Her initiatives led to key partnerships with Coca Cola, Bloomberg and Britannica. After making an impact in the international business circuit, she set her eyes upward and joined United Airlines to bring a new vision for the friendly skies.

As one of the founders of Grapetree, she has been a key driver in the investment and operational strategy of the company advising in executive and partner decisions. 

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