Mark Hirschfield

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Mr. Mark Hirschfield is an Investor & serves as Mentor at Techstars. Mr. Hirschfield is an Angel Investor. He serves as board member at Copypress. He also serves as Advisor at Orbital Witness. He is a qualified corporate lawyer with 6 years experience practicing law at leading law firms Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP and Mishcon de Reya. During his legal career, he developed a reputation for being an entrepreneurial internet lawyer advising many successful internet companies. In February 2008, he moved out of private practice to concentrate on growing his internet, property and retail interests. At the early age of 15, Mark founded his first business for which he was awarded a national award of Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999. He has since founded, managed, invested, advised and sold a variety of companies. In early 2012 he exited his investment in Zugo - which grew to become one of the largest distributors for Microsoft's search engine (Bing.com). H maintains several directorships (primarily in the internet and property sectors), makes investments in various projects at seed stage and sits on the board of several start-ups around the world. He holds a Bachelor's of Law in Intellectual Property Law & Internet law from Birmingham University.