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December 13, 2007
Puzzler Winners: Barcelona Buffs
Last week the Puzzler asked you to identify a European city that offers somewhat warmer weather than Zurich (between three and five degrees on the Celsius scale), is home to some interesting startups and a nice urban lifestyle. The answer is:
Barcelona
The Agbar tower clue was the hint that clinched it for most of you that wrote in. Thanks to all of you who participated from Croatia to Cologne and California! The first to write in was Farley Duvall of Red Herring, and the ninth in the inbox was Hussein Kanji of Accel Partners in London.
Duvall (pictured above) wrote "Fractus was a 2006 Red Herring 100 Winner, so we know them, and Barcelona, well!"
Kanji wrote: "Barca is one of my favorite cities in Europe, and I get out there once a quarter, and always eat at cal pepe." He is the new young guy at accel (picture right) and the most recent hire for the London team, although he's been there for two years now.
Farley Cash Duvall, is the MD EMEA for Red Herring. He also is active in organizing ETRE.
He's an entrepreneur and business development executive who we run into often as he's also based in Zurich and we go to a lot of the same confabs that he goes to. In his own words: With almost 20 years of experience in the IT industry, spent in the US, Asia and Europe, Farley has developed an extensive network of business contacts and long track record of dealmaking experience. ... Staying abreast of technology trends and acting as a venture catalyst take up his spare time."
Kanji joined Accel Partners as an associate in 2007 after having worked as a part-time associate for the past couple of years while studying for his MBA. A background in Silicon Valley and in enterprise software and consumer internet products influences his venture capital work. He is currently involved with the Accel's investments in Dapper, Netvibes, Njini and The Cloud.
Prior to joining Accel, Hussein held several roles at Microsoft Corporation, where he was involved in a leadership program won for his work on its speech recognition business. More bio here.
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