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November 22, 2007
Puzzler Winners- Latin Lovers
Earlier this week the Puzzler asked what modern day cities are referred to when you hear these Latin place names along with some clues. Here are the answers:
Revalia - Tallin
Turicum - Zürich
Lutetia - Paris
Emona - Ljubjana
Holmia - Stockholm
Thank-you to all the alarm:clock readers for taking the time to write and take part in the quiz this week. Responses came from as far away as Zagreb, and as nearby as Zürich.
Despite several geographies being represented by participants, both winners, the first and fourth to write in, are from Germany.
They are Ulf Morys, who heads up sales in central and northern Europe for Advanced Mobile Applications Ltd, one of the latest ventures from the French Guillemot brothers, and Falk Müller-Veerse, the managing partner at Cartagena Capital, a corporate finance advisory headquartered in Munich.
Morys, a self-confessed gadget-happy startup junky, said he was happy to put his dusty high school Latin knowledge to use.
Based in Düsseldorf, this is the second Guillemot venture that Morys has worked for. Prior to AMA, which Morys said is pre-IPO (and knowing a little bit about the track record of the Guillemots - they've already floated three tech companies, we'd say that his is probably a fair assessment), he built and led the local Gameloft branch. Developping the market in Germany and adjacent countries kept him busy there for 6 years.
He makes the mobile entertainment sector sound attractive, pointing out that the field exploits IT, telecommunications, and media knowledge. "In terms of high-pace startup industries, this covers pretty much everything except bio and nano tech," wrote Morys. His firm's website is here.
Falk Müller Veerse was the fourth to write in, saying that he thinks that Mandarin should be a language option for kids instead, or at least as well as, Latin and English. His company, which has expanded lately with partners in France, UK, Finland and the US, works for venture-funded businesses in the wireless, telecom, software and digital media markets, advising them on trade sales and fundraising.
Your alarm:clock euro adds an interesting nugget to his profile: Cartagena advised the only founder in Europe to sell his mobile sector venture to the Walt Disney company.
Prior to his career in corporate finance, Veerse worked on the investment side for Durlacher, now part of Panmure Gordon, and Mobile Application Holding, after working for firms Nokia, Gartner and LogicaCMG. More on Cartagena here..
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