https://www.gvxchange.com/venture-cloud daily 1.0 2022-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553791883966-WHYDT89PM0L2M234QNQS/shutterstock_1063994879.jpg Venture Cloud https://www.gvxchange.com/videos daily 0.75 2020-03-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/t/5e7cc4df155a067a8bc64be7/1585235167162/ Videos https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/5e7cc4c772887b4f414252d1/5e7cc4df155a067a8bc64be5/1585235167162/ Videos https://www.gvxchange.com/aboutventurecloud daily 0.75 2022-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1665436777404-9IUIRXZLZT3Q5SF65OKQ/Screen+Shot+2022-10-10+at+11.19.05+PM.png Venture Cloud https://www.gvxchange.com/packages-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.gvxchange.com/globalventurejoin daily 0.75 2022-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314119482-NUFLEW5CTGLYQWMVZX4S/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.16.11+PM.png What's Unique Unbabel CMO in 2014 and SVP Software AG. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567946193171-NC01QNM4VAL60SKNP8AT/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+8.49.44+AM.png What's Unique AI leads from Microsoft, Autodesk. (Partner: NorthStar AI January 2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364486806-UVN09HAX40YA4G3WWPK5/fullsizeoutput_33e4.jpeg What's Unique 2018. Felicis Ventures in 2020 raised another 500 million for 7th fund. They invested in Adyen after being showcased in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313173988-M7ZVOZD4JAFV7TU915E7/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.59.59+PM.png What's Unique TechWolf AI for Talent in Antwerp Q1 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312447255-YRWS76Q6LAWZZ3UL38JJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.51.23+PM.png What's Unique 2020 Northstar visited Antwerp GVX8 from UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945479129-3V49MOA6GI322HEL8SAP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.18.38+PM.png What's Unique 2018. Leaders from SAP, Ericsson & Audi on AI in connected industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628014754-VVL16FMW3UGV2EW395J5/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.25.27+PM.png What's Unique 2017 Dutch Ministry (Den Haag) and Cybersec Hub (Krakow) compare notes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945926122-IQOJDNJIMBEEU5LYXAWP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.20.52+PM.png What's Unique 2018. CEO, Travvil with London IP & Warsaw R&D joins GVX in California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553699233689-QB3WIUXSLF8KDVE6PNS0/image-asset.png What's Unique - JAMIE MCGURK ex-Andreessen Horwitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567944588861-8ZQZB825VT9OR8I4S32N/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+7.58.55+AM.png What's Unique 2018 European VCs, Slovenian Blockchain tech, Google and Berkeley alumni in Calistoga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364926819-PWZR3WS2P7OC6F4RRVR1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-16+at+12.37.19+PM.png What's Unique 2015. One of the OGs Mr. Laanen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553699128733-UYR35U2BQJBU995T2863/Tim+cook.jpg What's Unique - Tim cook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311820836-MWWXZHOZ018D6I2BBG8C/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+7.56.52+AM.png What's Unique 2018 VP Unbabel at GVX Weekend Retreat in Calistoga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945375799-LDKZI2VPVO8H4KG6ZJTN/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.17.04+PM.png What's Unique AI Every Time. Small groups share knowledge on applied AI (Picture: AI Roadmap session, San Francisco 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628208733-M16580VPZTT61Q2TII69/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.29.20+PM.png What's Unique 2018 Spanish VC & US Angel syndicate? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628961603-HJRX8KWY4PNIQ7DFXVVO/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.42.09+PM.png What's Unique 2017 Flanders Investment & Trade Agency with Facebook international head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584623953695-WY2NPBAVWXU0MKP67UZG/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.14.07+PM.png What's Unique Antwerp 2020 with micro-gathering (< 50 senior Executives) with international video stream format used since 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945460535-C2ZBK5IQPS8INJTGJYP7/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.14.30+PM.png What's Unique 2018 Amazon, Alexa Fund, Audi, Mind The Bridge and Blockchain startup Chairman (Billon Group). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584624392318-NTAHL6BNX0XVNDVPIC9H/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.25.57+PM.png What's Unique Co-founder Shazam at GVX partner Tech Tour in Lausanne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314049539-HS5HUAQRB8BTRXMEH71D/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.33.14+PM.png What's Unique Managing Partner of Citibank Ventures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313516164-C4YKOS0W2SHWM7L9WQ9P/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.19.54+PM.png What's Unique Andreessen Horowitz (right) spoke as a panelist at GVX several times after meeting in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311722637-UU8TYHHTQWGH7VSJKU4P/Screen+Shot+2019-01-14+at+4.05.12+PM.png What's Unique 2014 Estonian IoT and Data Science leader two years before acquisition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945441842-30ZYDITLCQV7MCWK3X0X/image-asset.png What's Unique GVX Advisor & Director Strategy, IBM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584623981385-W3HMEYN45FIFUYQBHL8O/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.12.22+PM.png What's Unique 2020 H2O.ai EMEA Senior Solutions Engineer & GVX partner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312504239-PVAQGJ11X653CRQ9HYVP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.16.20+PM.png What's Unique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584630087389-HQ0DZ692OO197F45U0G5/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+1.50.43+PM.png What's Unique 2020 President ELU and GVX partner for data science talent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311899394-66PUVZ4OC9UG4QG5861N/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.48.21+PM.png What's Unique 2020 Volta Ventures co-hosted GVX8 in Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553699192837-1HW4G7H3YJUMT5R7MCBL/Nitin+Badjatia.png What's Unique - PRINCE CONSTANTIJN Of the Netherlands, Chairman, Startup Fest Europe 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584624010332-78SE6ZKSVEUE87A31EXL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.12.53+PM.png What's Unique 2020 Head Transformation TP Vision/Philips TV Amsterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314257984-6ODMB3TG9X4MEXYMEFQU/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+12.58.00+PM.png What's Unique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312586712-I68NPW6BCKW6WO7GMMUC/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+10.17.16+AM.png What's Unique AI Data Tour with Autodesk Head of Data Science & CEO Winmax in Tallinn for Northstar AI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312213086-0GB5G49T4SK7Z9PEW6MP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.16.00+PM.png What's Unique 2018 Trigon Ventures and Head BD XTPL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364871089-L7JWJ8YD16KKSQJ9KQXU/Screen+Shot+2020-03-16+at+1.26.54+PM.png What's Unique Calistoga host and CEO data science agency Winmax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584366182048-OOFAYVVRA55LEVIO78P7/Screen+Shot+2020-03-16+at+1.35.34+PM.png What's Unique 2015 Dutch Consulate in Mountain View. One of the OGs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1551347281566-32BHTM6G08ASYU9D2NHJ/Izabela+Albrycht.png What's Unique - IZABELA ALBRYCHT Chairperson, The Kosciuszko Institute & CYBERSEC HUB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567946878828-XR97YGFBO1A6LB38FF5G/Screen+Shot+2019-04-26+at+1.00.19+PM.png What's Unique 2018 XTPL (EY Entrepreneur of Year) met 80 US senior Execs in 5 months then opened their Silicon Valley office with momentum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584623332925-WB7VIXEPE7U2VK6SV54A/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+1.26.44+PM.png What's Unique Eight years of Barista at every gathering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628998057-LE8O3B18KPO43S7BO018/fullsizeoutput_33df.jpeg What's Unique 2015. UC Berkeley entrepreneurship with Bay Area VCs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553792342898-MRKTMW74DU3XMVRAT08T/Eric+Schmidt.jpeg What's Unique - PHILIP INGHELBRECHT Co-Founder, Shazam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628795441-M9X0AAB3Z8KUH38O7J92/fullsizeoutput_33f2.jpeg What's Unique 2018 Andreessen Horowitz & Polish Chairman of Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314309786-1BWURCNLPIG7EAU4LU6A/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+12.51.14+PM.png What's Unique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312104414-KOGB73TDJBT87MRRSBGR/Screen+Shot+2019-01-14+at+12.52.24+PM.png What's Unique 2018 Softbank Director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311432407-AQKY35W5F1GXU5O4KYIZ/Screen+Shot+2016-02-03+at+11.04.52+AM.png What's Unique 2015 Tresorit founded in Budapest. 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https://www.gvxchange.com/image daily 0.75 2017-05-24 https://www.gvxchange.com/about-gvx daily 0.75 2022-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567934073565-RVF57070GFCO9ZQR7W55/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+11.13.55+AM.png About Machine Learning, SaaS, IoT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567933555669-ZF9ZYPZD1IFNYB5VQWSO/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+10.34.53+AM.png About Healthcare & R&D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567936095780-X6HT1ZICKWCZDAQJ5F5Z/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+11.46.03+AM.png About Financial & Data Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567933575276-BBJFVDZY2A3QJ30TX4Y3/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+10.36.30+AM.png About Manufacturing & IoT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567933435344-7N0NPQ464FGPNCC5UN3W/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+10.30.27+AM.png About New Business Models 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Heavy armor “roared out of Holland” and “Hunger Winter” became a reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442632870-NO0XACQ81JSWYHOCYCCP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.55.42+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 99th & 106 Infantry Divisions and 14th Cavalry along front lines near Losheim Gap. 12 SS Panzer Division in the North got snarled at Rocherath-Krinkelt. 1st SS Panzer Division got stuck behind the River Amblève after the engineers of the 291st Engineering Combat Battalion scuttled two tiny bridges. Major George Brooking’s Thunderbolt, aptly named ’The Fickle Finger’, broke through the Fog near Amblève with other American and British planes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584450285672-ALO29HMFBHKXZ1M0XMWI/fullsizeoutput_341d.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap “Larry gets out his army uniform" with his grandkids Gabe and Che. Where are the taped memoirs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090432853-ALFOZZ52F95P53DG1SAW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.05.08+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Benita Core Smith (BA Economics, Univ of Michigan) with her two kids. October 1944. Irish-American smart and fun gal. Larry was deployed to Europe on 28 August 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301823062-XJV0Z07GH39VZW4CI2XF/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.49.15+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213116119-CHQT4VNN5H3B1HS05QS3/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+8.10.47+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Battle of the Bulge December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303560155-6U2BGLG9U8GNFMOUIDY9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.53.27+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Justine, France is two hours from Bastogne. Bastogne is two hours from Remagen site of Ludendorff Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303262707-3KC4298TDI4XKK2II5J6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.05.41+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Paris 29 December 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584088653934-WZ5YCKO8RC66695G499I/Screen+Shot+2020-03-05+at+10.56.48+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Losheim Gap (western border of Germany) & St. Vith (eastern border of Belgium) led to Liege & Antwerp. The 1s SS Panzer, 2nd SS Panzer and 18th SS Division were facing the US 99th, 106th Infantry and 14th/18th Mechanized Cavalry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584300964533-SGCN09OETIZ3V0771RNP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.26.17+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap US Servicemen who were hosted in Wallonia Winter 1944/45. Earl, Joe, Frank, Chester, Isaac, Dan, James, Daniel, Charles, Alfonso, Bob, Larry Smith & Jos Boufflette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549090118-63RHME7JVEENHBX42RPF/fullsizeoutput_3446.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap War record in Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462878638-0Y4NVLVI7LSX0BEXCL0H/fullsizeoutput_342b.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Peiper joined the scouts in 1926 with his brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584793567330-RBHQ21EACZU8L20HG1JY/Screen+Shot+2020-03-06+at+3.33.39+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Chart: AI Adoption. We are in the early days of proliferation of data science and AI. Only 13% of the 4,000 startup population at the 2020 CES claims to do something ‘related to AI’. But trust and maturity in AI is low. People worry about transparency and impact on society, mostly in areas that extend beyond the typical scope of a startup. Research: GVX Global AI panel 2019/20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584719592995-9E8AE85NE3MXV5AFSME8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+4.48.46+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap US Postage of L’Arc de Triomphe in honor of the US service members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584555089332-8Q22VYVFJIACT0GWNPY1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.10.43+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Antwerp Port was retaken in tact by Belgian freedom fighters and liberated partly in early September 1944. It would take two more months before Allies could unload supplies, with more than 12,000 casualties to Allies which included Canadian, Polish and British forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301909216-KXY1GZP87W7Y9SMD1FH8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.48.50+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Justine Church in France and Memorial to the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71, WW1 and WW2. Morning 29 December 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584711524349-5I55HKXQ8EUEJOD41KQP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.36.52+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213182796-PAPYHEMHK547OC3955AA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+8.03.29+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Call of Duty Ardennes 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584093545137-TMXGYLZW602WUSA6TES3/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.51.45+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Most of the Antwerp station needed to be rebuilt after it was destroyed by V-2 rockets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584453943777-PROBBI67Z6O82CO2BRQB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+3.03.53+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 135,000 Allied soldiers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Norway and the United States spent five weeks fighting 90,000 Germans. 12,000 Allied casualties, half Canadian, and similar numbers of Germans in one of the brutal fights of WW2. Men on both sides suffered from battle exhaustion and would go catatonic, curling up in fetal positions — much of the reasons being futility and feeling they had “nothing to look forward to”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Scheldt) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090235961-JIH65D58VWPX9TI90YGZ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.03.06+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 1947 June. Johan’s grandsons George (left), David & Larry (right) Smith in Lake Odessa, Michigan. Larry had just returned from the War. His grandfather Johan Schmidt had moved from Stuttgart in 1868 with his two brothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549152960-DRSBS6RUIAZWA18OA44P/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+5.30.10+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Citation for Bronze Star at Poteau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303723362-12ZWPF6KMF2CGE7U7TGW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.55.48+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Versailles site of the signing of the Armistice of 28 June 1919. The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The terms would lead to resentments and sizeable reparation payments to France and Great Britain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213326407-65P6BIHLR7HMHHFYCCZ9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.46.00+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296656221-NKH1WC0XCIA9A3SZ0ARS/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.21.29+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Allied Soldiers Man a Dug-In Mortar Emplacement near St. Vith, Belgium. National Archives Identifier 16730734 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303436911-5NSRO6R1CTODQ7BQVXEA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.57.46+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Kid #2 in Paris with the spoils of chocolate rewards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584123658720-PL2SGRB2SPIT05KTSE60/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+7.13.46+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Boufflette family still has the patch of parachute with signatures of US service members who were hosted in Villers-l'Evêque in Winter 1944. From California, Ohio, Maryland, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, New York, Belgium and Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095859250-X5B4NUREE1INOPZ4B91S/GVX8+Grandpa+Bridge.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap After the War, Larry with three of his five children (Aunt T on the left, my mother in middle and eldest son) on Lake Michigan. What did Larry think as he passed beneath this bridge after helping secure Ludendorff in March 1945? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462837482-2O17TXH1NTONN3LOSI6W/fullsizeoutput_3429.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap “Waarom het zo lang duurde voor heel Nederland bevrijd was?”" asks Dutch magazine Historie (Quest) in its nr. 2 edition 2020. (English translation: “Why did it take so long before the whole of the Netherlands was liberated?”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584556719166-ENH7RCK1081TMTHA665D/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.37.48+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters hit #1 on 24 December 1944 with “Don’t fence me in”. [click to play]. 1942’s “White Christmas” is still a cherished winter treat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585056466291-LCBVLH1Q4H33HTVVLMS9/fullsizeoutput_346c.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap In January 1945, 20 Pershing M26s were offloaded at the Port of Antwerp after advocacy by R&D General Barnes and George Marshall (future architect of the Marshall Plan). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296874970-AROVX40427LK9ISQ8ST6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.26.43+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Wreckage in St. Vith, Belgium. National Archives Identifier 16730732 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095973673-6E3I57W4L0KFOJWTL4GP/GVX8+Grandpa+Truck.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Larry and his daughter Bonnie. Spring 1949 Friday afternoon. Out of work early and driving some furniture up to the cottage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213362021-PJXVC8PYSMCVMV8VJ553/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.45.09+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Call of Duty Ardennes Ambush & Ludendorff Bridge Campaign. [Click to view] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442095206-7YX52ELU14FGI5XGVY7U/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.41.58+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Larry in Texas before deployment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442795693-0MY1VRPQGMBQGVBKK3SH/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.59.02+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Larry (right) with his brother George and eldest Terry. 1942 Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584787877746-MPFPXA9V6PLPOUNZWC3H/fullsizeoutput_3460.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, 1944/45. The bridge collapsed on 17 March 1945 but by then two pontoon bridges, at great human cost, had been built by the engineers of the 291st — the same engineering group which had scuttled key bridges in the Ardennes near St. Vith a few months earlier while facing Peiper’s 1st SS Panzers. Over the next 10 days, 25,000 soldiers, 2,500 vehicles and equipment were shuttled across the pontoons in what would later be called “Miracle of Remagen”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584123626385-V7VWHFR9PFV0EPW5Z1XU/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+7.11.18+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Villers-l'Evêque 27 December with the Grandchildren of Fernand and Therese Boufflette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090923546-N0AN8DOU6L0Y3SNNFCC0/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.14.37+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Grandpa Larry knew how to Mind the Gap. And he also liked to relax in Summer. Here with daughter, my Mom (in Lake Jordan). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584298040879-569JPRY6ANNBZU7NN7U1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.45.45+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap A frozen Christmas Day in the Battle of the Bulge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584710745857-VZVVJNM7NVFLOOA0IZ0I/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.15.58+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Le Royale Cafe on top floor has nice bier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301794386-BBNP82UQRD1QZ7QOJM6Q/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.49.29+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584118597257-6HRE45V54GA4ZL5M6AZN/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.44.27+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Repairs being made by engineer to the Ludendorff Bridge 7 May 1944. 28 engineers lost their lives when the bridge unexpectedly collapsed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584299022782-8P87EXIMZT172DIBXTE9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.01.55+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121876651-GB439EIBDW2E0SOAZBHA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.46.51+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap In Paris with the Great Grandkid of Larry and Bennie Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584118679181-6719WFWWZOS2OBSWI4S2/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.46.31+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296686682-JBUCLV8C7ORLIG2BSMGV/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.20.34+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Body of Allied soldier from Malmedy, Belgium 17 December 1944. From: JAG Law Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462907824-PNNEXNR25K0R9Z2GJ65Z/fullsizeoutput_342c.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 2020 magazine on stands in Holland. Still asking the painful question “Why it took so long before the whole of the Netherlands was free.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584098079155-5CFVC2L58EZ06FKP7C4N/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+12.12.45+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap The Wallonia farm Fernand rebuilt after WW1 for Thérèse & the Boufflette family. Grandpa Larry and two US servicemen stayed their in the Winter 1944 75 years ago. Taken: Villers-l'Evêque 27 Dec 2019. Boufflette and Smith grandkids with three Smith great grandkids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585056242629-I3NRQ9TTJ9U3TW0JOA2M/fullsizeoutput_3470.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584295518748-SVMPIW2WN2ZQ95KKYXHH/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.04.31+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Another Fine Example of Modern Engineering, 1919, Image Courtesy of Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584788691567-YXD3CX35FZ2APNF4BIMM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-21+at+12.03.22+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584980713099-UE1Z7IQ9Z887LB2WGV3A/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+5.22.56+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095798450-E7D502YSZ2MQC5943SEB/GVX8+Grandpa+Elevators+3+at+10.40.47+AM.jpg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap After the railroads went through Central Michigan in the 1880s, the Smith Brothers built a local business helping connect regional farms to the commodity markets in Chicago. Sunfield elevator expansion pictured here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584560680339-N73VH8UC1J9QEFTJ0HT8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+8.42.46+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap The 1st SS Panzer division traversed more than 30 kilometers from Losheim Gap to Amblève. 32nd & 18th squadrons from the 14th Cavalry Group Command Posts fell back from Manderfeld to Poteau (5 houses) and finally Petit-Thier. On Christmas Eve Peiper arrived back at Losheim with 775 men on foot after 8 days pacing the territory. [click to view map] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585056360376-XIY5MPKV63Q7G7A1BIZ7/fullsizeoutput_346a.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 4 to 5 Shermans were needed to engage a Tiger, assuming they “saw it first”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584448991382-GZ3YB1NJ9NR6OJYOKDXL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.41.56+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584453983481-IXQNNF6NEHTHHJ9DVCKR/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+2.54.14+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Antwerp was liberated 4 September but by 30 September the tip of Belgium and the south western Netherlands remained in German hands. Beginning October 2 and lasting five weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557825159-4SKWO8J8BZAQC0WTRW29/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.55.55+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Arial view of Allied vehicles with shelling in the Ardennes Winter 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584122036944-PPJJRUBMA6STJ4VVAMN6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.52.54+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Paris at last by Odyssey 532 kilometers in six hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584093263884-DPVIHF8M91FUCYPEGEYB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.53.43+AM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Antwerp Central Station is voluminous and the pub Le Royale Cafe is below and to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121698246-5CC15ZNJ3F0G6CEDBIHA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.45.00+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen no longer spans the Rhine. But it is a stunning view worthy of a visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584119617734-5UD137V2JDGGK5USDRJB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.46.02+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301875831-1T8U28IXYBSQC6FBEDBJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.47.59+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584813206984-1A2SWF06VC1P4VUW4OTM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-21+at+6.49.05+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 5 kilometers from Ludendorff. Larry J. Smith (Major) second from right, in Bodendorf a stones throw from Remagen, with his Colonel of the same name and senior staff. Funny coincidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584447971667-OY1Q1AU3HW4ZAVE0OQGC/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.13.04+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584457492008-YRZ5F5CJWHMAHA3YRTE8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+4.03.20+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Allies stormed beaches near Middelburg along the southern Dutch coast using “Buffaloes”, amphibious assault vehicles on 7 and 8 November. After two weeks of clearing mines, the Port of Antwerp became the lifeline for friends like Major Smith of 14th Cavalry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584447931777-3GYGANRRD20A2TZZYOEP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.23.35+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584104394755-RB7MUBZSYOSGDTKCYQDY/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+1.54.32+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap The 1916 appearance of the first tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme in France) on 15 September 1916, represents a technological surprise. (Image courtesy of Imperial War Museums & Armin D.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213231179-NHTWGMU2543A8WH3EMVO/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.57.16+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap German soldier believed to be Walter Armsbrusch of 1st SS Panzergrenadier Regiment, 1. SS-Pz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584304755136-TTM6WHS1MOJGDC9T04L8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.37.20+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 1940 plans for Losheim Gap and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121795211-IVECOVFF2WGP1CBGS1XC/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.45.58+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Bastogne, Belgium 27 December 2019. 75th Year Anniversary. Restaurant ‘Nuts’ is behind the Christmas tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584307037994-RHJ188VZGK5CYQY7CLBL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+10.15.51+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 17 hour GVX Losheim Artificial Intelligence Tour for next Winter holiday (4-days). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301540376-ZH46F5OP00EOTVY7KXBK/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.43.21+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Let’s paint! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584450310900-BU1E4TPQ1J0381KAH8I6/fullsizeoutput_3420.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Larry went on to join the Cossack Cavalry. Not really. But he still rode horses after retiring from Smith Brothers. 1980 in Michigan. https://www.realmofhistory.com/2018/08/29/facts-cossacks-don-zaporozhian/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557869566-H17FSV94WEZ28XIRE8RR/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.52.21+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap The Ardennes was considered sleepy and used for new or tired troops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301581145-63W6BL3AWN7Y3FWPO7EZ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.33.23+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Staying at a Farm in Sassen, Germany an hour East of St. Vith. This is the region which in early part of December 1944 saw a build up of machines and men. 28 December 2019. 75th Remembrance Tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303392378-VOSU75I1N6S3SBUKCBR8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.02.01+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap After circling l'Arc de Triomphe a couple of times we headed home to Holland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584298012263-Y5TV4U4MLUWZJIMENV4S/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.45.14+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584711570350-AV8Q3BTOD6Y642VZJO6O/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.36.43+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584197952682-U2531AU5JU292BWFZUSW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+3.22.10+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Proposed US Army Postage Stamp of Ludendorff Bridge 1945. The stamp was later changed to the Arc de Triomphe to celebrate Paris liberation August 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557154065-DDHY4UQAGGX1M267YTJG/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.44.24+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 1944 rendition of Clement C. Moore’s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (first written in 1823). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584443857024-UFFDK325B07YOZB50FQ9/037+63-618+%281%29.jpg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap An Ambush near Poteau. 17/18 December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584446777442-VMTOYEMI5LA7UEWLZ5DX/40_2+63-697+%281%29.jpg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Walter Armsbrusch 1 SS-Pz of “Where’s Wally” notoriety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584443891961-5ZQKQXEKONENKDX0206F/38_3+63-693+%281%29.jpg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Near Poteau 17/18 December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584098320771-G8BGQI2O72I5ZRXQCJXA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+12.16.15+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Wallonia farm that hosted Larry in Winter 1944. Boufflette and Smith women 75 Year Remembrance. Taken: 27 Dec 2019. Soup has been enjoyed already. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584294842175-F0DS71S3OI2AD6PEJGA3/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+6.51.52+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584444656967-B12P1OGHFHYP8UHH5UCQ/fullsizeoutput_33a8.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585055998073-9AP4L9JFF2KAN17Y2WQ9/fullsizeoutput_346e.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco used the incomplete Lincoln Highway. The Transcontinental Motor Convoys were early 20th century vehicle convoys used to promote idea of more infrastructure spend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584310201281-23GKHCPP12R2W5EJ2ERD/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+11.08.54+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Tunnel between homes at Boufflette farm where Larry stayed in Winter 1944/45. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549058799-12ZPPNTZBBHOT1TVD21W/fullsizeoutput_3433.jpeg 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Civic record in America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584710783329-Z7HF8N7QBLKNCKGB9OER/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.14.28+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Cresco venue 3 minute walk from Antwerp Centraal station. Antwerp 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303344745-HNTXUGNEBA9SWH2AWFQ7/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.03.39+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584300938774-Z6VODDP319VTFJZDIBRY/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.25.14+PM.png 2GVX Remembrance: Find Your Losheim Gap Boufflette Family farm at dusk 27 December 2019. https://www.gvxchange.com/scaleup-us-form-1 daily 0.75 2019-03-31 https://www.gvxchange.com/data-innovation-form daily 0.75 2019-03-31 https://www.gvxchange.com/track-record daily 0.75 2022-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566344750433-1RQHVCXEX80ANDGH44DV/image-asset.png Track Record Lynn Marie - Director, Digital Marketing Strategy, First Republic. 3 year GVX expert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566344897102-LSJC7FLPHJ20JLT5OPV5/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+4.47.31+PM.png Track Record Sriram - Vice President, Data Analytics, Charles Schwab. 5 year GVX expert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584632811815-D33FGCWZI0W90CT7ZB1F/fullsizeoutput_3453.jpeg Track Record Nupur - Senior Director Global Services Strategy Motorola Solutions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566345009970-TIFDOQBUR0I0VMLE6MQB/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+4.49.29+PM.png Track Record Nitin - Global Head Product Strategy, ServiceNow. 5 year GVX expert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566340222831-CDY4IRW7C2SEXI0FXYQ5/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+3.28.30+PM.png Track Record Charis - Principal Data Scientist, AutoDesk. 4 year panel member https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566340081052-EW5EFCRHCMAIHW89ASTD/image-asset.png Track Record Bob - Expert in Residence for AI, Harvard & UCSF Medical Center (ex-Intel Chief Data Officer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566340276063-9ZYAEKTA2SFGYNUTPV1C/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+3.30.50+PM.png Track Record George - Global Head Market Strategy and Insights , Equinix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566344700262-HIZGVCDI0FXAWILG43OW/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+4.44.05+PM.png Track Record Kushal - Senior TPM Micro-mobility, Uber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584630342063-DGROT99Q0TM1DIJXBM1E/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+4.05.11+PM.png Track Record Kim - Digital Transformation lead TP Vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566344846583-XOZY38YJ60ME6K93OA54/image-asset.png Track Record Praveen - Principal Product Manager - Search Science, eBay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566340336641-3GHRVE1TBLDTDMEMCGDC/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+3.31.51+PM.png Track Record Raj - VP Technology eCommerce and Big Data, Kohls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566339999280-KYOL3RWQHKHMWH4VJFST/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+3.25.44+PM.png Track Record Arash - Senior Director and Head of AI, FICO https://www.gvxchange.com/how-to-be-a-member daily 0.75 2020-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578495986981-7EU5HNX8S1CCS0J6ZHHJ/image.jpg How to be a Member AI Tour delegate on NorthStar AI panel with visitors from NVIDIA, Microsoft Natural Language, Head of Department University of Tallinn and Bolt Chief Data Scientist, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578495817042-S9Z9VZQHKRJ46QW9GDZ7/image.jpg How to be a Member AI Tour Estonia delegate Charis Kaskiris (right), Autodesk Principal Data Scientist, arriving in Tallinn Estonia Airport with data science leaders from Microsoft Natural Language, Google Deepmind and NorthStar AI hosts. January 2019. https://www.gvxchange.com/growwithai daily 0.75 2022-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587217704846-EUGEPL8DZJVCS057C79V/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+12.48.53+PM.png Hybrid Events NAF NorCal Business Exchange is where GVX got its roots. The event session was held as a Tribute to Alfred Peet (1920 to 2007), founder of Peet's Coffee and Tea, at HP with The Northern California chapter of the Netherland America Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566408370959-L386CCD8P0XFDCM0O5BC/image-asset.png Hybrid Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1570532340128-S53A546LDQ1RZ9CPSLK3/image-asset.png Hybrid Events AI in Business working groups with SAP, Softbank, IBM, Adobe, Almaz Capital and startup CXOs. (San Francisco 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566408110544-5HDSQW5VUAH3XK6KZFA4/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+7.58.55+AM.png Hybrid Events Executive Retreat in Calistoga with leaders from Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, France, UK and the US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587465367570-Q3OIWTY64F6E8QZYOBED/2020-04-21+10.33.24.jpg Hybrid Events Use Your Imagination, Knowledge & Networks to Transform & Grow in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584621258576-MWAMN8KZ3A668BT0CZYU/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+1.27.26+PM.png Hybrid Events 2020 Antwerp GVX 8 with Live participation from Germany, the US & Canada with TP Vision/Philips TV, Royal Haskoning, Uber (ex), Northzone, Fortino Capital and 20 CXOs. Co-hosts: Cresco Law, European Leadership University, H2O.ai and Global Venture Exchange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587209776286-L270QJ4D0UAU9OE3DQWF/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.23.17+PM.png Hybrid Events CEO of Danish eye tracking startup The Eye Tribe at GVX 2014. Two years later they merged with VR market leader Oculus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584621292782-46M29T5N9DG1AK5J43TQ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+1.28.44+PM.png Hybrid Events CEO data science meets talent platform Techwolf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587209395141-GS7GCJIMQ9K4NQGZ55FD/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.24.58+PM.png Hybrid Events Managing Director International Venture Club & Tech Tour (Brussels, Sofia) was instrumental to us in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584366045630-71LPZBBBPHW2NLC70270/fullsizeoutput_33df.jpeg Hybrid Events VC Council (center) and UC Berkeley instructor/Co-Chair (right). More than 100 UC Berkeley MBAs have contributed to GVX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566408313583-V2FNBLHPGRECS6W7LIOY/image-asset.png Hybrid Events Calistoga Retreats 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587218566165-9NJY06AER34K2XTD0B5V/Screen+Shot+2020-04-18+at+3.57.52+PM.png Hybrid Events 2013 Inaugural even in Mountain View (from left): Haas MBA (Spain), iMinds Venture Lead (now with SmartFin Capital), Berkeley Venture Capital Executive Program Director, Chris, iMinds Managing Director (today w SmartFin Capital), Haas MBA (France, Startup CEO), Haas MBA (US, VC), Haas MBA (Belgium, Salesforce Exec), CEO CoffeeShop (5 time California GVX sustainer), Haas MBA (The Netherlands, Deloitte), Haas MBA (Italy, Microsoft XBox). iMinds from Gent, Belgium, reached World’s fourth best business accelerator two years later (Source: UBI Global rankings, 2015). Not pictured: The Ministry Economic Affairs of The Netherlands and City of Amsterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587219486199-7H57OJXLS4B7QNLZQI4P/Screen+Shot+2020-04-18+at+4.16.18+PM.png Hybrid Events 20 Senior Corporate Execs including SVP Adobe, GE, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments & European CXOs Shazam and Adyen (prior to their first external funding round) to Fenwick & West in Mountain View. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587203334909-OQHEP0PZ2O6OR8S73MT8/Screen+Shot+2020-04-16+at+4.20.26+PM.png Hybrid Events 22 October 2007 Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley Laureate Historian "The First Modern Economy: Success, Failures and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1587211036115-31WIKD6XBN35WZ06RM6M/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.14.27+PM.png Hybrid Events 2014 with CXOs from Slovenia, France, Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium joined The World Bank, Software AG, Telefonica, IBM, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Facebook and other industry leaders. https://www.gvxchange.com/gvxchange-workshops daily 0.75 2020-02-13 https://www.gvxchange.com/expert-benefits daily 0.75 2022-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578494225357-J6ZPBM4WE1LFK8DSDO9J/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-08-21%2Bat%2B7.58.55%2BAM.jpg Benefits for Experts Calistoga Retreat during 7th Global Venture Forum https://www.gvxchange.com/meet-peers daily 0.75 2022-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578499298770-OY2RA3OEZVEMBKDS1YU3/IMG_4780.jpg Meet Peers CEO Chuck Robbins showcases Grow with AI tech at Cisco’s partner conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1566674222286-SRD7J2KM6LMP48FB44Y6/Screen+Shot+2019-08-24+at+12.16.11+PM.png Meet Peers Microsoft Ventures co-hosts micro-gatherings in San Francisco Reactor 2016, 2017 and 2018 with Facebook, Samsung and SAP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585237356586-BHD6JHBCJEJ0C9D2N195/20200306_GlobalVentureExchange_Online-09629.jpg Meet Peers European Leadership University (Amsterdam) and Cresco Law (Antwerp) on AI Grow with AI micro-gathering in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585236838801-Z179XUCJOH8F18Y0C1BC/Screen+Shot+2020-03-16+at+1.28.09+PM.png Meet Peers US and Europe ex-CEOs of NLP (Q-go) and audio AI pioneer Shazam Co-founder explain how they built category leading AI companies. https://www.gvxchange.com/human-capitalism daily 0.75 2019-09-03 https://www.gvxchange.com/ai-tours daily 0.75 2020-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578493198318-YJNM8EZHK10OVYWIZQDL/2019-12-29%2B17.03.36.jpg AI Tours W. Europe. (Picture: Palace of Versailles FR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578492875314-8XV3AQSXNA9TFKXG8PVJ/2019-01-22%2B22.36.13.jpg AI Tours DACH AI Tour during Davos 2019 and Blockbase. (Picture: Davos Blockbase Co-founder with Tim Cook, 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578492216608-OP44HCC5L7WXNKXNIB2R/2019-12-30%2B14.26.30.jpg AI Tours W. Europe. (Picture: L’Arc de Triomphe, Paris FR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1578492010157-MYPGOVMB9CFGQOBUTCZQ/2019-10-09+12.13.32.jpg AI Tours Benelux AI Tour during World Summit Ai in Amsterdam. (Picture: World Summit AI, Amsterdam 2019) https://www.gvxchange.com/gvx-find-your-losheim-gap-abridged daily 0.75 2022-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584123658720-PL2SGRB2SPIT05KTSE60/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+7.13.46+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Boufflette family still has the patch of parachute with signatures of US service members who were hosted in Villers-l'Evêque in Winter 1944. From California, Ohio, Maryland, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, New York, Belgium and Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301875831-1T8U28IXYBSQC6FBEDBJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.47.59+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303436911-5NSRO6R1CTODQ7BQVXEA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.57.46+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Kid #2 in Paris with the spoils of chocolate rewards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549152960-DRSBS6RUIAZWA18OA44P/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+5.30.10+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Citation for Bronze Star at Poteau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584098320771-G8BGQI2O72I5ZRXQCJXA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+12.16.15+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Wallonia farm that hosted Larry in Winter 1944. Boufflette and Smith women 75 Year Remembrance. Taken: 27 Dec 2019. Soup has been enjoyed already. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584300964533-SGCN09OETIZ3V0771RNP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.26.17+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) US Servicemen who were hosted in Wallonia Winter 1944/45. Earl, Joe, Frank, Chester, Isaac, Dan, James, Daniel, Charles, Alfonso, Bob, Larry Smith & Jos Boufflette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213362021-PJXVC8PYSMCVMV8VJ553/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.45.09+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Call of Duty Ardennes Ambush & Ludendorff Bridge Campaign. [Click to view] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584556719166-ENH7RCK1081TMTHA665D/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.37.48+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters hit #1 on 24 December 1944 with “Don’t fence me in”. [click to play]. 1942’s “White Christmas” is still a cherished winter treat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303723362-12ZWPF6KMF2CGE7U7TGW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.55.48+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Versailles site of the signing of the Armistice of 28 June 1919. The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The terms would lead to resentments and sizeable reparation payments to France and Great Britain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121698246-5CC15ZNJ3F0G6CEDBIHA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.45.00+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen no longer spans the Rhine. But it is a stunning view worthy of a visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303344745-HNTXUGNEBA9SWH2AWFQ7/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.03.39+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585055998073-9AP4L9JFF2KAN17Y2WQ9/fullsizeoutput_346e.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco used the incomplete Lincoln Highway. The Transcontinental Motor Convoys were early 20th century vehicle convoys used to promote idea of more infrastructure spend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584300938774-Z6VODDP319VTFJZDIBRY/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.25.14+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Boufflette Family farm at dusk 27 December 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584444656967-B12P1OGHFHYP8UHH5UCQ/fullsizeoutput_33a8.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584119617734-5UD137V2JDGGK5USDRJB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.46.02+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584298040879-569JPRY6ANNBZU7NN7U1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.45.45+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) A frozen Christmas Day in the Battle of the Bulge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584711570350-AV8Q3BTOD6Y642VZJO6O/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.36.43+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584453943777-PROBBI67Z6O82CO2BRQB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+3.03.53+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 135,000 Allied soldiers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Norway and the United States spent five weeks fighting 90,000 Germans. 12,000 Allied casualties, half Canadian, and similar numbers of Germans in one of the brutal fights of WW2. Men on both sides suffered from battle exhaustion and would go catatonic, curling up in fetal positions — much of the reasons being futility and feeling they had “nothing to look forward to”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Scheldt) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296656221-NKH1WC0XCIA9A3SZ0ARS/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.21.29+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Allied Soldiers Man a Dug-In Mortar Emplacement near St. Vith, Belgium. National Archives Identifier 16730734 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121876651-GB439EIBDW2E0SOAZBHA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.46.51+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) In Paris with the Great Grandkid of Larry and Bennie Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584719592995-9E8AE85NE3MXV5AFSME8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+4.48.46+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) US Postage of L’Arc de Triomphe in honor of the US service members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585415015643-EE3OGDQOO4S46GAG50NJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+1.32.42+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Chris (GVX), Olivier (Cresco Law), Adilson (GVX) & Alper (European Leadership University). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584447931777-3GYGANRRD20A2TZZYOEP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.23.35+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584123626385-V7VWHFR9PFV0EPW5Z1XU/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+7.11.18+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Villers-l'Evêque 27 December with the Grandchildren of Fernand and Therese Boufflette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557825159-4SKWO8J8BZAQC0WTRW29/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.55.55+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Arial view of Allied vehicles with shelling in the Ardennes Winter 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090432853-ALFOZZ52F95P53DG1SAW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.05.08+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Benita Core Smith (BA Economics, U of M with her two daughters, October 1944 a month after Larry landed at Omaha Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090235961-JIH65D58VWPX9TI90YGZ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.03.06+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 1947 June. Johan’s grandsons George (left), David & Larry (right) Smith in Lake Odessa, Michigan. Larry had just returned from the War. His grandfather Johan Schmidt had moved from Stuttgart in 1868 with his two brothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549090118-63RHME7JVEENHBX42RPF/fullsizeoutput_3446.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) War record in Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296874970-AROVX40427LK9ISQ8ST6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.26.43+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Wreckage in St. Vith, Belgium. National Archives Identifier 16730732 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095798450-E7D502YSZ2MQC5943SEB/GVX8+Grandpa+Elevators+3+at+10.40.47+AM.jpg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) After the railroads went through Central Michigan in the 1880s, the Smith Brothers built a local business helping connect regional farms to the commodity markets in Chicago. Sunfield elevator expansion pictured here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584813206984-1A2SWF06VC1P4VUW4OTM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-21+at+6.49.05+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 5 kilometers from Ludendorff. Larry J. Smith (Major) second from right, in Bodendorf a stones throw from Remagen, with his Colonel of the same name and senior staff. Funny coincidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584453983481-IXQNNF6NEHTHHJ9DVCKR/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+2.54.14+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Antwerp was liberated 4 September but by 30 September the tip of Belgium and the south western Netherlands remained in German hands. Beginning October 2 and lasting five weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584093545137-TMXGYLZW602WUSA6TES3/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.51.45+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Most of the Antwerp station needed to be rebuilt after it was destroyed by V-2 rockets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584098079155-5CFVC2L58EZ06FKP7C4N/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+12.12.45+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) The Wallonia farm Fernand rebuilt after WW1 for Thérèse & the Boufflette family. Grandpa Larry and two US servicemen stayed their in the Winter 1944 75 years ago. Taken: Villers-l'Evêque 27 Dec 2019. Boufflette and Smith grandkids with three Smith great grandkids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462837482-2O17TXH1NTONN3LOSI6W/fullsizeoutput_3429.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) “Waarom het zo lang duurde voor heel Nederland bevrijd was?”" asks Dutch magazine Historie (Quest) in its nr. 2 edition 2020. (English translation: “Why did it take so long before the whole of the Netherlands was liberated?”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442632870-NO0XACQ81JSWYHOCYCCP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.55.42+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 99th & 106 Infantry Divisions and 14th Cavalry along front lines near Losheim Gap. 12 SS Panzer Division in the North got snarled at Rocherath-Krinkelt. 1st SS Panzer Division got stuck behind the River Amblève after the engineers of the 291st Engineering Combat Battalion scuttled two tiny bridges. Major George Brooking’s Thunderbolt, aptly named ’The Fickle Finger’, broke through the Fog near Amblève with other American and British planes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584307037994-RHJ188VZGK5CYQY7CLBL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+10.15.51+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 17 hour GVX Losheim Artificial Intelligence Tour for next Winter holiday (4-days). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584788691567-YXD3CX35FZ2APNF4BIMM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-21+at+12.03.22+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557869566-H17FSV94WEZ28XIRE8RR/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.52.21+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) The Ardennes was considered sleepy and used for new or tired troops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296686682-JBUCLV8C7ORLIG2BSMGV/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.20.34+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Body of Allied soldier from Malmedy, Belgium 17 December 1944. From: JAG Law Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549058799-12ZPPNTZBBHOT1TVD21W/fullsizeoutput_3433.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Civic record in America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213231179-NHTWGMU2543A8WH3EMVO/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.57.16+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) German soldier believed to be Walter Armsbrusch of 1st SS Panzergrenadier Regiment, 1. SS-Pz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584443891961-5ZQKQXEKONENKDX0206F/38_3+63-693+%281%29.jpg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Near Poteau 17/18 December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584298012263-Y5TV4U4MLUWZJIMENV4S/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.45.14+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584299022782-8P87EXIMZT172DIBXTE9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.01.55+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301823062-XJV0Z07GH39VZW4CI2XF/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.49.15+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584457492008-YRZ5F5CJWHMAHA3YRTE8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+4.03.20+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Allies stormed beaches near Middelburg along the southern Dutch coast using “Buffaloes”, amphibious assault vehicles on 7 and 8 November. After two weeks of clearing mines, the Port of Antwerp became the lifeline for friends like Major Smith of 14th Cavalry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584443857024-UFFDK325B07YOZB50FQ9/037+63-618+%281%29.jpg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) An Ambush near Poteau. 17/18 December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584093263884-DPVIHF8M91FUCYPEGEYB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.53.43+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Antwerp Central Station is voluminous and the pub Le Royale Cafe is below and to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213326407-65P6BIHLR7HMHHFYCCZ9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.46.00+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121795211-IVECOVFF2WGP1CBGS1XC/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.45.58+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Bastogne, Belgium 27 December 2019. 75th Year Anniversary. Restaurant ‘Nuts’ is behind the Christmas tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584555122584-IIZVCTSFLZ9ZLQ5IWASV/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.10.07+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584450285672-ALO29HMFBHKXZ1M0XMWI/fullsizeoutput_341d.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) “Larry gets out his army uniform" with his grandkids Gabe and Che. Where are the taped memoirs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584710783329-Z7HF8N7QBLKNCKGB9OER/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.14.28+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Cresco venue 3 minute walk from Antwerp Centraal station. Antwerp 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462878638-0Y4NVLVI7LSX0BEXCL0H/fullsizeoutput_342b.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Peiper joined the scouts in 1926 with his brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584555089332-8Q22VYVFJIACT0GWNPY1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.10.43+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Antwerp Port was retaken in tact by Belgian freedom fighters and liberated partly in early September 1944. It would take two more months before Allies could unload supplies, with more than 12,000 casualties to Allies which included Canadian, Polish and British forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557154065-DDHY4UQAGGX1M267YTJG/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.44.24+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 1944 rendition of Clement C. Moore’s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (first written in 1823). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584711524349-5I55HKXQ8EUEJOD41KQP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.36.52+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301909216-KXY1GZP87W7Y9SMD1FH8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.48.50+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Justine Church in France and Memorial to the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71, WW1 and WW2. Morning 29 December 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584118679181-6719WFWWZOS2OBSWI4S2/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.46.31+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462907824-PNNEXNR25K0R9Z2GJ65Z/fullsizeoutput_342c.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 2020 magazine on stands in Holland. Still asking the painful question “Why it took so long before the whole of the Netherlands was free.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095859250-X5B4NUREE1INOPZ4B91S/GVX8+Grandpa+Bridge.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) After the War, Larry with three of his five children (Aunt T on the left, my mother in middle and eldest son) on Lake Michigan. What did Larry think as he passed beneath this bridge after what he say in Remagen in March 1945? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584447971667-OY1Q1AU3HW4ZAVE0OQGC/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.13.04+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585414238735-JO2CESQY8CT1S9863YA2/Screen+Shot+2020-03-28+at+5.16.13+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Carl Wouters, Historian for the 106th Infantry Division Association connecting the 75th Remembrance to the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213182796-PAPYHEMHK547OC3955AA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+8.03.29+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Call of Duty Ardennes 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301581145-63W6BL3AWN7Y3FWPO7EZ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.33.23+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Staying at a Farm in Sassen, Germany an hour East of St. Vith. This is the region which in early part of December 1944 saw a build up of machines and men. 28 December 2019. 75th Remembrance Tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584446777442-VMTOYEMI5LA7UEWLZ5DX/40_2+63-697+%281%29.jpg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Walter Armsbrusch 1 SS-Pz of “Where’s Wally” notoriety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584104394755-RB7MUBZSYOSGDTKCYQDY/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+1.54.32+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) The 1916 appearance of the first tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme in France) on 15 September 1916, represents a technological surprise. (Image courtesy of Imperial War Museums & Armin D.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090923546-N0AN8DOU6L0Y3SNNFCC0/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.14.37+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Grandpa Larry knew how to Mind the Gap. And he also liked to relax in Summer. Here with daughter, my Mom (in Lake Jordan). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301540376-ZH46F5OP00EOTVY7KXBK/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.43.21+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Let’s paint! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462794010-K2Q7R2WP4VBBEDYIY6ZS/fullsizeoutput_3427.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) After the 5-week bloody Battle of Scheert, the Allies made hard earned progress but at 5:30am on 16 December everything changed. Heavy armor “roared out of Holland” and “Hunger Winter” became a reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584197952682-U2531AU5JU292BWFZUSW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+3.22.10+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Proposed US Army Postage Stamp of Ludendorff Bridge 1945. The stamp was later changed to the Arc de Triomphe to celebrate Paris liberation August 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585411811809-BNE6LND70IWNJSH6P9W5/20200306_GlobalVentureExchange_Online-09629.jpg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) GVX, European Leadership University & Cresco Law with H2O.ai and Volta Ventures hosting GVX 8 in Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584787877746-MPFPXA9V6PLPOUNZWC3H/fullsizeoutput_3460.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, 1944/45. The bridge collapsed on 17 March 1945 but by then two pontoon bridges, at great human cost, had been built by the engineers of the 291st — the same engineering group which had scuttled key bridges in the Ardennes near St. Vith a few months earlier while facing Peiper’s 1st SS Panzers. Over the next 10 days, 25,000 soldiers, 2,500 vehicles and equipment were shuttled across the pontoons in what would later be called “Miracle of Remagen”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584310201281-23GKHCPP12R2W5EJ2ERD/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+11.08.54+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Tunnel between homes at Boufflette farm where Larry stayed in Winter 1944/45. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585056242629-I3NRQ9TTJ9U3TW0JOA2M/fullsizeoutput_3470.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584118597257-6HRE45V54GA4ZL5M6AZN/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.44.27+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Repairs being made by engineer to the Ludendorff Bridge 7 May 1944. 28 engineers lost their lives when the bridge unexpectedly collapsed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584710745857-VZVVJNM7NVFLOOA0IZ0I/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.15.58+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Le Royale Cafe on top floor has nice bier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584560680339-N73VH8UC1J9QEFTJ0HT8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+8.42.46+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) The 1st SS Panzer division traversed more than 30 kilometers from Losheim Gap to Amblève. 32nd & 18th squadrons from the 14th Cavalry Group Command Posts fell back from Manderfeld to Poteau (5 houses) and finally Petit-Thier. On Christmas Eve Peiper arrived back at Losheim with 775 men on foot after 8 days pacing the territory. [click to view map] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584980713099-UE1Z7IQ9Z887LB2WGV3A/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+5.22.56+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301794386-BBNP82UQRD1QZ7QOJM6Q/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.49.29+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585056466291-LCBVLH1Q4H33HTVVLMS9/fullsizeoutput_346c.jpeg 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) In January 1945, 20 Pershing M26s were offloaded at the Port of Antwerp after advocacy by R&D General Barnes and George Marshall (future architect of the Marshall Plan). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213116119-CHQT4VNN5H3B1HS05QS3/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+8.10.47+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Battle of the Bulge December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442795693-0MY1VRPQGMBQGVBKK3SH/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.59.02+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Larry (right) with his brother George and eldest Terry. 1942 Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584448991382-GZ3YB1NJ9NR6OJYOKDXL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.41.56+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442095206-7YX52ELU14FGI5XGVY7U/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.41.58+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Larry in Texas before deployment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303602328-GCSP4POUW48P7TNIWHWT/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.54.42+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Justine to Paris is two hour drive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584122036944-PPJJRUBMA6STJ4VVAMN6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.52.54+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Paris at last by Odyssey 532 kilometers in six hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095973673-6E3I57W4L0KFOJWTL4GP/GVX8+Grandpa+Truck.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Larry and his daughter Bonnie. Spring 1949 Friday afternoon. Out of work early and driving some furniture up to the cottage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584088653934-WZ5YCKO8RC66695G499I/Screen+Shot+2020-03-05+at+10.56.48+AM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Losheim Gap (western border of Germany) & St. Vith (eastern border of Belgium) led to Liege & Antwerp. The 1s SS Panzer, 2nd SS Panzer and 18th SS Division were facing the US 99th, 106th Infantry and 14th/18th Mechanized Cavalry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303262707-3KC4298TDI4XKK2II5J6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.05.41+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Paris 29 December 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303392378-VOSU75I1N6S3SBUKCBR8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.02.01+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) After circling l'Arc de Triomphe a couple of times we headed home to Holland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303560155-6U2BGLG9U8GNFMOUIDY9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.53.27+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) Justine, France is two hours from Bastogne. Bastogne is two hours from Remagen site of Ludendorff Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584304755136-TTM6WHS1MOJGDC9T04L8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.37.20+PM.png 3Americans Find Your Losheim Gap (Copy) 1940 plans for Losheim Gap and more. https://www.gvxchange.com/losheim-gap-onion-soup daily 0.75 2022-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095973673-6E3I57W4L0KFOJWTL4GP/GVX8+Grandpa+Truck.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Larry and his daughter Bonnie. Spring 1949 Friday afternoon. Out of work early and driving some furniture up to the cottage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213116119-CHQT4VNN5H3B1HS05QS3/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+8.10.47+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Battle of the Bulge December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303262707-3KC4298TDI4XKK2II5J6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.05.41+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Paris 29 December 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584119617734-5UD137V2JDGGK5USDRJB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.46.02+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090432853-ALFOZZ52F95P53DG1SAW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.05.08+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Benita Core Smith (BA Economics, U of M with her two daughters, October 1944 a month after Larry landed at Omaha Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584104394755-RB7MUBZSYOSGDTKCYQDY/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+1.54.32+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged The 1916 appearance of the first tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme in France) on 15 September 1916, represents a technological surprise. (Image courtesy of Imperial War Museums & Armin D.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213182796-PAPYHEMHK547OC3955AA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+8.03.29+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Call of Duty Ardennes 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584555122584-IIZVCTSFLZ9ZLQ5IWASV/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.10.07+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584093545137-TMXGYLZW602WUSA6TES3/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.51.45+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Most of the Antwerp station needed to be rebuilt after it was destroyed by V-2 rockets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585415015643-EE3OGDQOO4S46GAG50NJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+1.32.42+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Chris (GVX), Olivier (Cresco Law), Adilson (GVX) & Alper (European Leadership University). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584788691567-YXD3CX35FZ2APNF4BIMM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-21+at+12.03.22+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090235961-JIH65D58VWPX9TI90YGZ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.03.06+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 1947 June. Johan’s grandsons George (left), David & Larry (right) Smith in Lake Odessa, Michigan. Larry had just returned from the War. His grandfather Johan Schmidt had moved from Stuttgart in 1868 with his two brothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121698246-5CC15ZNJ3F0G6CEDBIHA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.45.00+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen no longer spans the Rhine. But it is a stunning view worthy of a visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584560680339-N73VH8UC1J9QEFTJ0HT8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+8.42.46+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged The 1st SS Panzer division traversed more than 30 kilometers from Losheim Gap to Amblève. 32nd & 18th squadrons from the 14th Cavalry Group Command Posts fell back from Manderfeld to Poteau (5 houses) and finally Petit-Thier. On Christmas Eve Peiper arrived back at Losheim with 775 men on foot after 8 days pacing the territory. [click to view map] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584300938774-Z6VODDP319VTFJZDIBRY/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.25.14+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Boufflette Family farm at dusk 27 December 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584813206984-1A2SWF06VC1P4VUW4OTM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-21+at+6.49.05+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 5 kilometers from Ludendorff. Larry J. Smith (Major) second from right, in Bodendorf a stones throw from Remagen, with his Colonel of the same name and senior staff. Funny coincidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095859250-X5B4NUREE1INOPZ4B91S/GVX8+Grandpa+Bridge.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged After the War, Larry with three of his five children (Aunt T on the left, my mother in middle and eldest son) on Lake Michigan. What did Larry think as he passed beneath this bridge after what he say in Remagen in March 1945? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584711570350-AV8Q3BTOD6Y642VZJO6O/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.36.43+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303392378-VOSU75I1N6S3SBUKCBR8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.02.01+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged After circling l'Arc de Triomphe a couple of times we headed home to Holland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301794386-BBNP82UQRD1QZ7QOJM6Q/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.49.29+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549152960-DRSBS6RUIAZWA18OA44P/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+5.30.10+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Citation for Bronze Star at Poteau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585411811809-BNE6LND70IWNJSH6P9W5/20200306_GlobalVentureExchange_Online-09629.jpg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged GVX, European Leadership University & Cresco Law with H2O.ai and Volta Ventures hosting GVX8 in Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584090923546-N0AN8DOU6L0Y3SNNFCC0/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.14.37+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Grandpa Larry knew how to Mind the Gap. And he also liked to relax in Summer. Here with daughter, my Mom (in Lake Jordan). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584446777442-VMTOYEMI5LA7UEWLZ5DX/40_2+63-697+%281%29.jpg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Walter Armsbrusch 1 SS-Pz of “Where’s Wally” notoriety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462794010-K2Q7R2WP4VBBEDYIY6ZS/fullsizeoutput_3427.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged After the 5-week bloody Battle of Scheert, the Allies made hard earned progress but at 5:30am on 16 December everything changed. Heavy armor “roared out of Holland” and “Hunger Winter” became a reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584443891961-5ZQKQXEKONENKDX0206F/38_3+63-693+%281%29.jpg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Near Poteau 17/18 December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584123658720-PL2SGRB2SPIT05KTSE60/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+7.13.46+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Boufflette family still has the patch of parachute with signatures of US service members who were hosted in Villers-l'Evêque in Winter 1944. From California, Ohio, Maryland, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, New York, Belgium and Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303344745-HNTXUGNEBA9SWH2AWFQ7/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.03.39+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303723362-12ZWPF6KMF2CGE7U7TGW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.55.48+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Versailles site of the signing of the Armistice of 28 June 1919. The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The terms would lead to resentments and sizeable reparation payments to France and Great Britain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462878638-0Y4NVLVI7LSX0BEXCL0H/fullsizeoutput_342b.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Peiper joined the scouts in 1926 with his brother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301875831-1T8U28IXYBSQC6FBEDBJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.47.59+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585055998073-9AP4L9JFF2KAN17Y2WQ9/fullsizeoutput_346e.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco used the incomplete Lincoln Highway. The Transcontinental Motor Convoys were early 20th century vehicle convoys used to promote idea of more infrastructure spend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1588165267264-T85EXH911LPM09ZHX3U0/Screen+Shot+2020-04-29+at+3.00.10+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged VERNON V 548 FARM CALCULATOR MADE BY THE VERNON COMPANY NEWTON, IOWA AROUND 1948. THE ADVERTISING FOR 'SMITH BROTHERS VELTE & CO. ELEVATORS AT LAKE ODESSA - WOODLAND AND WOODBURY, MICHIGAN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296686682-JBUCLV8C7ORLIG2BSMGV/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.20.34+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Body of Allied soldier from Malmedy, Belgium 17 December 1944. From: JAG Law Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584711524349-5I55HKXQ8EUEJOD41KQP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.36.52+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442632870-NO0XACQ81JSWYHOCYCCP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.55.42+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 99th & 106 Infantry Divisions and 14th Cavalry along front lines near Losheim Gap. 12 SS Panzer Division in the North got snarled at Rocherath-Krinkelt. 1st SS Panzer Division got stuck behind the River Amblève after the engineers of the 291st Engineering Combat Battalion scuttled two tiny bridges. Major George Brooking’s Thunderbolt, aptly named ’The Fickle Finger’, broke through the Fog near Amblève with other American and British planes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442095206-7YX52ELU14FGI5XGVY7U/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.41.58+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Larry in Texas before deployment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584300964533-SGCN09OETIZ3V0771RNP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.26.17+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged US Servicemen who were hosted in Wallonia Winter 1944/45. Earl, Joe, Frank, Chester, Isaac, Dan, James, Daniel, Charles, Alfonso, Bob, Larry Smith & Jos Boufflette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584719592995-9E8AE85NE3MXV5AFSME8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+4.48.46+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged US Postage of L’Arc de Triomphe in honor of the US service members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584787877746-MPFPXA9V6PLPOUNZWC3H/fullsizeoutput_3460.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, 1944/45. The bridge collapsed on 17 March 1945 but by then two pontoon bridges, at great human cost, had been built by the engineers of the 291st — the same engineering group which had scuttled key bridges in the Ardennes near St. Vith a few months earlier while facing Peiper’s 1st SS Panzers. Over the next 10 days, 25,000 soldiers, 2,500 vehicles and equipment were shuttled across the pontoons in what would later be called “Miracle of Remagen”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301909216-KXY1GZP87W7Y9SMD1FH8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.48.50+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Justine Church in France and Memorial to the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71, WW1 and WW2. Morning 29 December 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584310201281-23GKHCPP12R2W5EJ2ERD/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+11.08.54+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Tunnel between homes at Boufflette farm where Larry stayed in Winter 1944/45. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462907824-PNNEXNR25K0R9Z2GJ65Z/fullsizeoutput_342c.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 2020 magazine on stands in Holland. Still asking the painful question “Why it took so long before the whole of the Netherlands was free.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584095798450-E7D502YSZ2MQC5943SEB/GVX8+Grandpa+Elevators+3+at+10.40.47+AM.jpg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged After the railroads went through Central Michigan in the 1880s, the Smith Brothers built a local business helping connect regional farms to the commodity markets in Chicago. Sunfield elevator expansion pictured here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584462837482-2O17TXH1NTONN3LOSI6W/fullsizeoutput_3429.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged “Waarom het zo lang duurde voor heel Nederland bevrijd was?”" asks Dutch magazine Historie (Quest) in its nr. 2 edition 2020. (English translation: “Why did it take so long before the whole of the Netherlands was liberated?”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584307037994-RHJ188VZGK5CYQY7CLBL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+10.15.51+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 17 hour GVX Losheim Artificial Intelligence Tour for next Winter holiday (4-days). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584710745857-VZVVJNM7NVFLOOA0IZ0I/Screen+Shot+2020-03-20+at+2.15.58+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Le Royale Cafe on top floor has nice bier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584197952682-U2531AU5JU292BWFZUSW/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+3.22.10+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Proposed US Army Postage Stamp of Ludendorff Bridge 1945. The stamp was later changed to the Arc de Triomphe to celebrate Paris liberation August 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585056466291-LCBVLH1Q4H33HTVVLMS9/fullsizeoutput_346c.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged In January 1945, 20 Pershing M26s were offloaded at the Port of Antwerp after advocacy by R&D General Barnes and George Marshall (future architect of the Marshall Plan). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584118597257-6HRE45V54GA4ZL5M6AZN/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.44.27+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Repairs being made by engineer to the Ludendorff Bridge 7 May 1944. 28 engineers lost their lives when the bridge unexpectedly collapsed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557154065-DDHY4UQAGGX1M267YTJG/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.44.24+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 1944 rendition of Clement C. Moore’s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (first written in 1823). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584088653934-WZ5YCKO8RC66695G499I/Screen+Shot+2020-03-05+at+10.56.48+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Losheim Gap (western border of Germany) & St. Vith (eastern border of Belgium) led to Liege & Antwerp. The 1s SS Panzer, 2nd SS Panzer and 18th SS Division were facing the US 99th, 106th Infantry and 14th/18th Mechanized Cavalry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303560155-6U2BGLG9U8GNFMOUIDY9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.53.27+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Justine, France is two hours from Bastogne. Bastogne is two hours from Remagen site of Ludendorff Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213326407-65P6BIHLR7HMHHFYCCZ9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.46.00+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549058799-12ZPPNTZBBHOT1TVD21W/fullsizeoutput_3433.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Civic record in America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584298012263-Y5TV4U4MLUWZJIMENV4S/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.45.14+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584442795693-0MY1VRPQGMBQGVBKK3SH/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+11.59.02+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Larry (right) with his brother George and eldest Terry. 1942 Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213362021-PJXVC8PYSMCVMV8VJ553/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.45.09+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Call of Duty Ardennes Ambush & Ludendorff Bridge Campaign. [Click to view] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584123626385-V7VWHFR9PFV0EPW5Z1XU/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+7.11.18+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Villers-l'Evêque 27 December with the Grandchildren of Fernand and Therese Boufflette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584122036944-PPJJRUBMA6STJ4VVAMN6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.52.54+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Paris at last by Odyssey 532 kilometers in six hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584098320771-G8BGQI2O72I5ZRXQCJXA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+12.16.15+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Wallonia farm that hosted Larry in Winter 1944. Boufflette and Smith women 75 Year Remembrance. Taken: 27 Dec 2019. Soup has been enjoyed already. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584450285672-ALO29HMFBHKXZ1M0XMWI/fullsizeoutput_341d.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged “Larry gets out his army uniform" with his grandkids Gabe and Che. Where are the taped memoirs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584447971667-OY1Q1AU3HW4ZAVE0OQGC/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.13.04+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584453983481-IXQNNF6NEHTHHJ9DVCKR/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+2.54.14+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Antwerp was liberated 4 September but by 30 September the tip of Belgium and the south western Netherlands remained in German hands. Beginning October 2 and lasting five weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584457492008-YRZ5F5CJWHMAHA3YRTE8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+4.03.20+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged The Royal Marines stormed beaches near Middelburg, ancestral home of Franklin Roosevelt’s family, along the southern Dutch coast using “Buffaloes”, amphibious assault vehicles on 7 and 8 November. After two weeks of clearing mines, the Port of Antwerp became the lifeline for friends like Major Smith of 14th Cavalry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557869566-H17FSV94WEZ28XIRE8RR/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.52.21+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged The Ardennes was considered sleepy and used for new or tired troops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584304755136-TTM6WHS1MOJGDC9T04L8/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+9.37.20+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 1940 plans for Losheim Gap and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303436911-5NSRO6R1CTODQ7BQVXEA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.57.46+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Kid #2 in Paris with the spoils of chocolate rewards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584299022782-8P87EXIMZT172DIBXTE9/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.01.55+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584443857024-UFFDK325B07YOZB50FQ9/037+63-618+%281%29.jpg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged An Ambush near Poteau. 17/18 December 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296656221-NKH1WC0XCIA9A3SZ0ARS/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.21.29+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Allied Soldiers Man a Dug-In Mortar Emplacement near St. Vith, Belgium. National Archives Identifier 16730734 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585056242629-I3NRQ9TTJ9U3TW0JOA2M/fullsizeoutput_3470.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584444656967-B12P1OGHFHYP8UHH5UCQ/fullsizeoutput_33a8.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584448991382-GZ3YB1NJ9NR6OJYOKDXL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.41.56+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584093263884-DPVIHF8M91FUCYPEGEYB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+10.53.43+AM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Antwerp Central Station is voluminous and the pub Le Royale Cafe is below and to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301540376-ZH46F5OP00EOTVY7KXBK/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.43.21+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Let’s paint! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584447931777-3GYGANRRD20A2TZZYOEP/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+1.23.35+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301823062-XJV0Z07GH39VZW4CI2XF/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.49.15+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584296874970-AROVX40427LK9ISQ8ST6/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.26.43+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Wreckage in St. Vith, Belgium. National Archives Identifier 16730732 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121876651-GB439EIBDW2E0SOAZBHA/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.46.51+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged In Paris with the Great Grandkid of Larry and Bennie Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584980713099-UE1Z7IQ9Z887LB2WGV3A/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+5.22.56+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584298040879-569JPRY6ANNBZU7NN7U1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+7.45.45+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged A frozen Christmas Day in the Battle of the Bulge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584303602328-GCSP4POUW48P7TNIWHWT/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.54.42+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Justine to Paris is two hour drive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584549090118-63RHME7JVEENHBX42RPF/fullsizeoutput_3446.jpeg 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged War record in Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584710783329-Z7HF8N7QBLKNCKGB9OER/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.14.28+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Cresco venue 3 minute walk from Antwerp Centraal station. Antwerp 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584556719166-ENH7RCK1081TMTHA665D/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.37.48+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters hit #1 on 24 December 1944 with “Don’t fence me in”. [click to play]. 1942’s “White Christmas” is still a cherished winter treat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584555089332-8Q22VYVFJIACT0GWNPY1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.10.43+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Antwerp Port was retaken in tact by Belgian freedom fighters and liberated partly in early September 1944. It would take two more months before Allies could unload supplies, with more than 12,000 casualties to Allies which included Canadian, Polish and British forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584118679181-6719WFWWZOS2OBSWI4S2/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+5.46.31+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584301581145-63W6BL3AWN7Y3FWPO7EZ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-15+at+8.33.23+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Staying at a Farm in Sassen, Germany an hour East of St. Vith. This is the region which in early part of December 1944 saw a build up of machines and men. 28 December 2019. 75th Remembrance Tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584557825159-4SKWO8J8BZAQC0WTRW29/Screen+Shot+2020-03-18+at+7.55.55+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Arial view of Allied vehicles with shelling in the Ardennes Winter 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1585414238735-JO2CESQY8CT1S9863YA2/Screen+Shot+2020-03-28+at+5.16.13+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Carl Wouters, Historian for the 106th Infantry Division Association connecting the 75th Remembrance to the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584213231179-NHTWGMU2543A8WH3EMVO/Screen+Shot+2020-03-14+at+4.57.16+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged German soldier believed to be Walter Armsbrusch of 1st SS Panzergrenadier Regiment, 1. SS-Pz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584121795211-IVECOVFF2WGP1CBGS1XC/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+6.45.58+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged Bastogne, Belgium 27 December 2019. 75th Year Anniversary. Restaurant ‘Nuts’ is behind the Christmas tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1588414303830-7VLE98HPG2E3RX4OXDKN/Screen+Shot+2020-05-02+at+12.10.49+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged "To Henri de Thier dit Du Mont born in Villers-l'Évêque in 1610 Maister of the chapel of Louis XIV -1663 author of the famous Royal Mass who died in Paris in 1684 CVPC A = MCMXXXII". Villers-l'Évêque was 15 minutes from city center of Liege. Wikipedia: “The name Liege is Germanic in origin and means "people". The word is found in Dutch lui(den), lieden, Old English lēod (English lede), Icelandic lýður ("people"), Lithuanian as liaudis ("people"), in Ukrainian as liudy ("people"), in Russian as liudi ("people"), in Latin as Leodicum or Leodium.[7]” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584098079155-5CFVC2L58EZ06FKP7C4N/Screen+Shot+2020-03-13+at+12.12.45+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged The Wallonia farm Fernand rebuilt after WW1 for Thérèse & the Boufflette family. Grandpa Larry and two US servicemen stayed their in the Winter 1944 75 years ago. Taken: Villers-l'Evêque 27 Dec 2019. Boufflette and Smith grandkids with three Smith great grandkids. From where we stand we look directly at Notre-Dame Church of Villers-l'Evêque. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584453943777-PROBBI67Z6O82CO2BRQB/Screen+Shot+2020-03-17+at+3.03.53+PM.png 1GVX Find Your Losheim Gap Abridged 135,000 Allied soldiers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Norway and the United States spent five weeks fighting 90,000 Germans. 12,000 Allied casualties, half Canadian, and similar numbers of Germans in one of the brutal fights of WW2. Men on both sides suffered from battle exhaustion and would go catatonic, curling up in fetal positions — much of the reasons being futility and feeling they had “nothing to look forward to”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Scheldt) https://www.gvxchange.com/2020-cxoletter daily 0.75 2020-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584623981385-W3HMEYN45FIFUYQBHL8O/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.12.22+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2020 H2O.ai EMEA Senior Solutions Engineer & GVX partner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314309786-1BWURCNLPIG7EAU4LU6A/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+12.51.14+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2016. GVX Co-chaired VIPs and After Party with 100 European VCs: Atomico, Northstar, DN Capital, Prime Ventures, Open Ocean, Volta Ventures, Giza Venture Partners, Credo Ventures and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314217039-D887CO4KC009NUAQ511I/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+12.37.16+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584624010332-78SE6ZKSVEUE87A31EXL/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.12.53+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2020 Head Transformation TP Vision/Philips TV Amsterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313173988-M7ZVOZD4JAFV7TU915E7/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.59.59+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter TechWolf AI for Talent in Antwerp Q1 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314257984-6ODMB3TG9X4MEXYMEFQU/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+12.58.00+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2016. Founders from Uber, TomTom, Booking.com, AirBnB, Adyen, CEO Apple, CEO Google joined Startup Fest Europe during Dutch Presidency of the EU. GVX Co-chaired VIP Investor Marketplace selecting 50 European Scaleups to meet 100 VCs from around the world, then Co-hosted the After Party at Zohu Hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313031608-28TU2AKP311WJCVEBX8R/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+2.17.58+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2016. Hand delivered invitation to Marc Andreessen & Brent Horowitz on Sandhill Road from Startup Fest Europe Chair Prince Constantijn of The Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628961603-HJRX8KWY4PNIQ7DFXVVO/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.42.09+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2017 Flanders Investment & Trade Agency with Facebook international head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313898650-QQD42L5FV1NNEHSTL2AJ/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.29.36+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Consul General and GVX2 Host from Dutch Consulate in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313444306-68KOWVYET5CVMWZBY63C/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.23.17+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Eye Tribe in 2014, two years before their exit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584624392318-NTAHL6BNX0XVNDVPIC9H/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.25.57+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Co-founder Shazam at GVX partner Tech Tour in Lausanne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313569303-1RB62TGI5N57TX9FMDPH/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.26.03+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Allied for Startups Managing Director with GVX AI analyst, exchange students from École Polytechnique (ParisTech) studying at Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley) with Co-chair GVX. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314170023-ZQFKAEXS6I6JIBUTJKBB/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+12.52.11+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2016. Chairman Startup Fest Europe during Dutch EU Presidency with over 10,000 attendees, including delegations from China and Visegrad 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311899394-66PUVZ4OC9UG4QG5861N/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.48.21+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2020 Volta Ventures co-hosted GVX8 in Antwerp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313364719-JHNJ6VVV7CSW98RLAMZJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.57.19+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2020 Royal Haskoning. Also spoke in 2007 at our inaugural Dutch-Silicon Valley gathering on Water Innovation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567946193171-NC01QNM4VAL60SKNP8AT/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+8.49.44+AM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter AI leads from Microsoft, Autodesk. (Partner: NorthStar AI January 2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1551347281566-32BHTM6G08ASYU9D2NHJ/Izabela+Albrycht.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter - IZABELA ALBRYCHT Chairperson, The Kosciuszko Institute & CYBERSEC HUB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311432407-AQKY35W5F1GXU5O4KYIZ/Screen+Shot+2016-02-03+at+11.04.52+AM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2015 Tresorit founded in Budapest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567946878828-XR97YGFBO1A6LB38FF5G/Screen+Shot+2019-04-26+at+1.00.19+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 XTPL (EY Entrepreneur of Year) met 80 US senior Execs in 5 months then opened their Silicon Valley office with momentum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364406874-237E3WTZUJ9NTMLOM2TH/fullsizeoutput_33e8.jpeg 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2016 Earlybird portfolio company closes Cisco partnership through GVX network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312104414-KOGB73TDJBT87MRRSBGR/Screen+Shot+2019-01-14+at+12.52.24+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 Softbank Director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584624028452-DA0TMMNA3WJGX9D4WYES/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.13.26+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2020. Senior Transformation leads from Royalhaskoning & TP Vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567944588861-8ZQZB825VT9OR8I4S32N/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+7.58.55+AM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 European VCs, Slovenian Blockchain tech, Google and Berkeley alumni in Calistoga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364486806-UVN09HAX40YA4G3WWPK5/fullsizeoutput_33e4.jpeg 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018. Felicis Ventures in 2020 raised another 500 million for 7th fund. They invested in Adyen after being showcased in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313606504-7OJK6MQUPL3LQGFV4V2I/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.14.27+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Belgian Scaleup Posios before their exit and rebirth as a world leading mobility player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553699192837-1HW4G7H3YJUMT5R7MCBL/Nitin+Badjatia.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter - PRINCE CONSTANTIJN Of the Netherlands, Chairman, Startup Fest Europe 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945479129-3V49MOA6GI322HEL8SAP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.18.38+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018. Leaders from SAP, Ericsson & Audi on AI in connected industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584630087389-HQ0DZ692OO197F45U0G5/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+1.50.43+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2020 President ELU and GVX partner for data science talent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311820836-MWWXZHOZ018D6I2BBG8C/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+7.56.52+AM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 VP Unbabel at GVX Weekend Retreat in Calistoga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590311722637-UU8TYHHTQWGH7VSJKU4P/Screen+Shot+2019-01-14+at+4.05.12+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2014 Estonian IoT and Data Science leader two years before acquisition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312213086-0GB5G49T4SK7Z9PEW6MP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.16.00+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 Trigon Ventures and Head BD XTPL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312447255-YRWS76Q6LAWZZ3UL38JJ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.51.23+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2020 Northstar visited Antwerp GVX8 from UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628014754-VVL16FMW3UGV2EW395J5/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.25.27+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2017 Dutch Ministry (Den Haag) and Cybersec Hub (Krakow) compare notes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553792342898-MRKTMW74DU3XMVRAT08T/Eric+Schmidt.jpeg 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter - PHILIP INGHELBRECHT Co-Founder, Shazam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584366182048-OOFAYVVRA55LEVIO78P7/Screen+Shot+2020-03-16+at+1.35.34+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2015 Dutch Consulate in Mountain View. One of the OGs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584623332925-WB7VIXEPE7U2VK6SV54A/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+1.26.44+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Eight years of Barista at every gathering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364926819-PWZR3WS2P7OC6F4RRVR1/Screen+Shot+2020-03-16+at+12.37.19+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2015. One of the OGs Mr. Laanen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584623870991-8J5EMEL7RC46TZYGUM08/image-asset.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Steering group lead for 2020 Intercontinental Cloud Convoy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364788775-7LZCSKWURCJSGCWOP8I9/fullsizeoutput_33e6.jpeg 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 Estonian Mafia as perennial GVX partner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313516164-C4YKOS0W2SHWM7L9WQ9P/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.19.54+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Andreessen Horowitz (right) spoke as a panelist at GVX several times after meeting in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313951923-0INTN6OXP1F326QKPCQV/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.22.25+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter European Institute of Technology, Senior Executive from Autodesk and World Bank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313110035-CB5XAPECHHI39HZ6UKWV/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.57.44+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Mindspeller for AI branding in Antwerp Q1 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628795441-M9X0AAB3Z8KUH38O7J92/fullsizeoutput_33f2.jpeg 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 Andreessen Horowitz & Polish Chairman of Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628208733-M16580VPZTT61Q2TII69/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+3.29.20+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 Spanish VC & US Angel syndicate? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313659710-X6JTKTM5AD6CY2XXT5FR/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.24.58+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Managing Director of Tech Tour, an early supporter of GVX and Europe’s most active VC community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584364871089-L7JWJ8YD16KKSQJ9KQXU/Screen+Shot+2020-03-16+at+1.26.54+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Calistoga host and CEO data science agency Winmax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584628998057-LE8O3B18KPO43S7BO018/fullsizeoutput_33df.jpeg 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2015. UC Berkeley entrepreneurship with Bay Area VCs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312504239-PVAQGJ11X653CRQ9HYVP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.16.20+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945441842-30ZYDITLCQV7MCWK3X0X/image-asset.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter GVX Advisor & Director Strategy, IBM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1584623953695-WY2NPBAVWXU0MKP67UZG/Screen+Shot+2020-03-19+at+2.14.07+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Antwerp 2020 with micro-gathering (< 50 senior Executives) with international video stream format used since 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314049539-HS5HUAQRB8BTRXMEH71D/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.33.14+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Managing Partner of Citibank Ventures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945460535-C2ZBK5IQPS8INJTGJYP7/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.14.30+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018 Amazon, Alexa Fund, Audi, Mind The Bridge and Blockchain startup Chairman (Billon Group). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553699128733-UYR35U2BQJBU995T2863/Tim+cook.jpg 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter - Tim cook CEO, Apple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945926122-IQOJDNJIMBEEU5LYXAWP/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.20.52+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter 2018. CEO, Travvil with London IP & Warsaw R&D joins GVX in California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590312586712-I68NPW6BCKW6WO7GMMUC/Screen+Shot+2019-08-21+at+10.17.16+AM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter AI Data Tour with Autodesk Head of Data Science & CEO Winmax in Tallinn for Northstar AI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1567945375799-LDKZI2VPVO8H4KG6ZJTN/Screen+Shot+2019-09-08+at+2.17.04+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter AI Every Time. Small groups share knowledge on applied AI (Picture: AI Roadmap session, San Francisco 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313839810-8APY4OW4C49KR3AONH7X/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+1.59.06+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Head of Telefonica Ventures US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1553699233689-QB3WIUXSLF8KDVE6PNS0/image-asset.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter - JAMIE MCGURK Operating Partner, Andreessen Horwitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590314119482-NUFLEW5CTGLYQWMVZX4S/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+2.16.11+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Unbabel CMO in 2014 and SVP Software AG. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c77a413840b1643b3306089/1590313266952-K8T8ST6AS8GMHBUJ8EKQ/Screen+Shot+2020-03-30+at+9.59.36+PM.png 2020 Scaleup CXO Letter Chatlayer for AI communications in Antwerp Q1 2020. https://www.gvxchange.com/faq-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.gvxchange.com/european-escapade-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497042784132-FY092E0J3BP9WM2Y08M1/camp_074.jpg European Escapade https://www.gvxchange.com/foodies-vacation-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497042891895-GKUFLDWK7VB41M4GV70F/camp_221.jpg Foodies Vacation https://www.gvxchange.com/weekend-retreat-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497042929567-0HF2C8ZEA0Z9IQVJDH8M/grilling.jpg Weekend Retreat https://www.gvxchange.com/description-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.gvxchange.com/description-2-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.gvxchange.com/description-3-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.gvxchange.com/packages-1-fairfield daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.gvxchange.com/packages-1-fairfield/weekend-retreat-xlcyw monthly 0.5 2017-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043328283-YJAHEK8M2FWFVFZGEUKQ/grilling.jpg Packages - Weekend Retreat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043307184-T1HIKVYXMYBQZAAS26AH/camp_1530.jpg Packages - Weekend Retreat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043305322-B8YU0HY0YJSUGS9JKTAC/camp_1722.jpg Packages - Weekend Retreat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043359114-KQ2A10EBUUHDS4HOERTB/camp_2498.jpg Packages - Weekend Retreat https://www.gvxchange.com/packages-1-fairfield/foodies-vacation-g7ryh monthly 0.5 2017-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043113003-RDDN01OHL77ZJRRQ4OYU/camp_221.jpg Packages - Foodies Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043152643-J88AFFMEXKKZK7JUI66J/camp_2428.jpg Packages - Foodies Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043200752-TT1HVXCO9JDPFQL22E0X/camp_2788.jpg Packages - Foodies Vacation https://www.gvxchange.com/packages-1-fairfield/european-escapade-sybzf monthly 0.5 2017-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497042982756-RSCC1BPKKFBPSS56SXHA/camp_074.jpg Packages - European Escapade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043020171-PSDQEJ8QSY2GYUMALHLM/camp_674.jpg Packages - European Escapade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043047891-64MWNXOOU2APVLP12F04/camp_267.jpg Packages - European Escapade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5923016644024315f6b579cc/1497043087550-G5PFE34BKIWDEYHWU7JE/camp_320.jpg Packages - European Escapade