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Panelists for the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Challenge Semifinals

Kevin Bloomfield is founder and managing partner of Bloomfield Partners, LLC.The company’s diverse focus includes identifying, funding, and advising early stage, scalable technology companies. He previously co-founded and served as President and CEO of NetVentures Corporation. Kevin has been named both a Rising Star and Entrepreneur of theYear, was recognized by the Center For Innovative Technology (CIT) GAP Fund as one of fifty entrepreneurs who are most likely to buildVirginia’s next generation technology companies, was listed in the Blue Ridge Business Journal’s 20 under 40 directory, and has been nominated for numerous Chamber of Commerce and other civic awards. Eva Doss has 20 years of experience in business consulting, strategic planning, business development and equity fund establishment and management in the United States and Europe. During her career Eva established new business ventures and seed investment opportunities, and developed innovative business partnerships for companies. She established the Southside Business Technology Center, a business consulting entity in 2005, which grew into The Launch Place, the lead entrepreneurial development organization offering business consulting, training, office space and subsidies, and equity investment through its two equity funds to start-ups in Danville, Virginia, and in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Doug Juanarena is a serial entrepreneur with more than 35 years of experience as a founder and CEO of successful technology businesses.  He is the past VP and site leader for Rackspace Hosting’s Blacksburg development center.  He is past head of GenTekVentures, a firm that assists technology companies with start-up and business development activities.  In the past he has served as a research engineer for NASA at the Langley Research Center and was founder and CEO of Pressure Systems, Inc., KPSI, and Luna Technologies. Kevin Passarello is Counsel to Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney inWashington, DC in its emerging companies group.  His practice encompasses corporate finance; venture capital and private equity; intellectual property;

mergers and acquisitions; and corporate law.  Kevin is a serial entrepreneur.  Before joining Buchanan, he co-founded two venture- backed technology companies in the software and mobile markets--with investors including Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Hg Capital, and Catterton Partners--as well as a $60 million buyout fund.  He recently co-founded and is CEO of a predictive analytics company, based on research from the University of Virginia Medical Center.  He has hands-on international business experience in 15 countries.  Kevin is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. Kamran Razvan , Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of Click & Pledge, a global leader in providing over 9,000 nonprofit organizations and political campaigns with cloud-based online fundraising and donor management applications. Dr. Razvan has founded two other successful software development companies serving Motorola, NASA, the Naval SurfaceWarfare Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ingersoll Rand, Hewlett Packard and others.  He is a recognized expert in the field of e-commerce, security for online financial transactions and database management.  Dr. Razvan has authored various patents, is a noted speaker and educator and is active in many community philanthropic organizations.

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