Media, Telecom & Gaming MARTIN VARSAVSKY | FON Founder & CEO SPEAKER BIO Martin is the founder and CEO of fon. In 2014 Martin joined the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer, the largest media company in Germany. In 1998 he started Jazztel Telecomunicaciones, Spain’s second largest publicly traded telecom operator. In 1999 he founded Ya.com, Spain’s third largest Internet web site/DSL provider that includes the second largest Spanish language web agency viajar.com. Martin Varsavsky received his B.A. from New York University and holds a M.A. in International Affairs and a M.A. in Business Administration from Columbia University KEY CORPORATE FACTS& KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters Madrid, Spain Fon was founded in February 2006 by serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky with the goal of Office Locations London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo blanketing the world with WiFi. Today the company is a global WiFi leader with over 12 million hotspots in more than 100 countries. Fon has offices in Madrid, London, Tokyo and New York. Founded 2006 Its partners include Belgacom (Belgium), BT (UK), Hrvatski Telekom (Croatia), KPN (Netherlands), Oi (Brazil), MTC (Russia), Netia (Poland), SFR (France), SoftBank (Japan) and No of Employees 150 ZON(Portugal). Active Markets Worldwide Business Overview Wi-Fi network Selected Vodafone, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Softbank, Clients/Partners Proximus, OI, KPN, Telstra, NOS Global Wifi Spots 12m KPI #2 The largest WifiNetwork in the world Key Investors kype, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, BT, Google, Coral Group, Atomico Website fon.com 22
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