Anat Bar Gera, Chairperson of YooMee Africa

Speaker Event

14.04.2015, 18.30 - 21.00 h

NEW DATE!

Anat Bar Gera, Co- founder and Chairperson of YooMee Africa, Serial Entrepreneur, speaks about her personal career, women in entrepreneurship and bringing fast speed Internet to Africa

Anat is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of several international telecommunications and internet companies, with numerous successful exits. At present, she is the Co-founder and Chairperson of YooMee Africa.

YooMee Africa provides fast speed wireless Internet connectivity to the people and businesses of sub-Saharan Africa, deploying state of the art 4G LTE network.

Among other companies, Anat was a co-founder and the CEO of surfEU, a pan European ISP, which gained 1.5 million subscribers within less than 2 years, and was successfully acquired by Tiscali in 2001.

Anat presents regularly in international conferences. She gave a TED talk in Silicon Valley about the magical effect of the internet on Africa, and spoke lately in the United Nations Conference of World Investment Forum.

She is a member of several Boards and Councils including the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Telecommunications; Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, INSEAD; UNICEF Swiss National Board; Swiss Technion Society Board and the Swiss Council of INSEAD;

She was awarded as a Leading Entrepreneur by INSEAD.

Anat holds an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, and an LL.B. She is married, has 3 children and lives in Zurich.


Program:
Door opening at 18:30 h
Speech 19:00 h
Networking & Champagne following the speech, offered by Victorinox



Seats are limited, first come, first serve!
Registration deadline 10.04.2015

Venue:
Victorinox Flagship Store
Rennweg 58
CH 8001 Zürich