Speakers

Avid Larizadeh Duggan, OBE, is a Senior Managing Director of Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG). Avid has been active in the startup ecosystem as a developer, product manager, founder and investor for over 20 years. She is a co-founder of The Operator Network, a group of C-level public company executives and seasoned operators who want to mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs by offering operating advice alongside personal investment capital. Prior to TVG, she was the COO of Kobalt Music Group and the cofounder of Boticca (acquired by Wolf & Badger.) She started her investing career at Accel Partners and was a General Partner at GV (Google Ventures). Avid is a NED on the board of Barclays Bank UK and serves on the Harvard Business School European Advisory Board. She has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and was appointed Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to the economy, business and education. Avid earned her B.S. and M.S. in engineering at Stanford University, where she was a Mayfield Fellow. She also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a Kauffman Fellow.