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Luigi Amati
Vice President of EBAN
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Luigi Amati has twenty years of experience in Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Since 1993 he is the CEO (and co-founder) of META Group. Between 1987 and 1993 he worked both in Italy and the UK on computational mechanics research activities. Most recent professional experience is on creation and management of Seed funds and mentoring of young Knowledge Intensive companies. He has worked and studied in different countries such as Italy, England, Tunisia, Holland, Argentina, Chile, Spain and Russia. Luigi Amati holds an Engineering Master degree Summa cum Laude at the University of Rome and a Master of Science at Imperial College in London. He is a member of the Venture Capital Committee of the Italian Venture Capital Association, a member of 1generation network and a founder of the Italian Angels for Growth Club in Milan. |
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Paulo Andrez
Vice President of EBAN
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Paulo Andrez chairs the EBAN Research Committee (which produced the first EBAN Co-Investment and Tax Breaks reports, in cooperation with BDO), he is Vice-President of FNABA (Portuguese Business Angels Federation), President of Cascais Business Angels, Member of the Board of DNA Cascais and co-coordinator of Post Graduation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Tourism in ESHTE University. Paulo was chairman of the World Business Angels Leaders Forum (Estoril 2007) that decided to create the World Business Angels Association, and participated under FNABA scope in the design of the first Business Angel co-investment fund in Portugal. In 2010 he also participated in the design and implementation of the first Business Angels Tax Break in Portugal. Paulo Andrez has a background as serial entrepreneur and has created several companies in areas like IT software, training, real estate and industrial resins. In 2000 he participated as entrepreneur (seller) in the IPO of Novabase (the largest IT provider in Portugal listed in Euronext), and from then he became Business Angel, helping entrepreneurs to achieve results. |
Rudi Asselberghs
Policy Analyst
DG Regio
Financial Engineering & Major Projects
European Commission
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Rudi Asselberghs is a policy analyst within Unit D3 "Financial Engineering & Major Projects" of the Directorate-General for Regional Policy (European Commission). In his function he contributes to the co-ordination of Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund interventions, in particular in relation to financial engineering instruments for SMEs; JEREMIE - Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises. |
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Brigitte Baumann
President of EBAN
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Brigitte Baumann is President of the Board of EBAN, the European trade association for Business Angels ,
Seed Funds and other Ealry Stage market players.
Brigitte is also the Founder and CEO of Go Beyond Ltd., the European Early Stage Investing specialists.
Go Beyond offers cross border investment opportunities, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services and training/coaching,
Brigitte is a Business Angel and serves on a number of selection and investment committees. She is on the Certification Board of CTI Start-Up, the Swiss agency promoting technology and innovation. Brigitte Chairs Young Presidents Organization’s www.ypowpo.org global Angel Investing group
Brigitte Baumann has 20 years of experience in bringing new technologies to market in the US and Europe .
She was the CEO and Director of iWORLD Group, a VC backed, global developer of mobile content. She came to iWG from American Express Corporate Services, where she held the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager Internet. There she launched a variety of new internet businesses including online travel (including Expedia.com), e-Procurement, online servicing of cards and online payment. Prior to that, Brigitte spent three years as President for US and Canada of GEMPLUS (now Gemalto), the world’s leader in smart card technology and applications to orchestrate the introduction of smart cards to the US. She moved to GEMPLUS from American Express TRS Inc., where she had spent over six years in different Vice-Presidential/General Manager positions in the UK, France and Switzerland. She also spent five years with McKinsey & Company Inc. as Senior Engagement Manager, based in New York, Paris and Tokyo.
She began her career in manufacturing and sales with Rohm & Haas, a leading specialty chemicals company.
Brigitte holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University, Boston and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.
Born and raised in France, Brigitte and her family now live in Zurich.
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Margaret van Beuningen-McGovern
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Margaret van Beuningen-McGovern is a partner in Pymwymic, the longest running angel investor community in the Benelux and pioneer in impact and sustainable ventures.
Previously, Margaret was an entrepreneur and CEO of three (analog!) media companies on two continents, and helped scale a family enterprise from mom and pop to a multi-million dollar firm. An early advocate of sustainability during 15 years career in the Bay Area, Margaret was a member of Social Venture Network US and of multiple grassroots efforts to bring sustainability mainstream. She moved to Europe to further study sustainable business models, and through that met Frank van Beuningen, founder of Pymwymic, the first social venture fund in Europe.
Margaret joined Pymwymic in 2008, and now concentrates on international initiatives advocating systemic social change, with a special interest in social enterprise, mobilizing women’s investments, and healthy food systems. She is a founding member of Women Effect Investments, a founding member of Slow Money for Slow Food, and currently serves on the North American Advisory Council for social innovation network The Hub.
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Jeremy Biggs
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Jeremy Biggs is the CEO of Narec Capital, a joint venture between The National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) and Ashberg Ltd, a fully regulated financial services entity. Narec Capital is the UK's renewable energy accelerator, a public / private initiative established to leverage Narec’s unique test asset base in order to de-risk and provide finance for renewable technologies and projects.
Jeremy is also a Founding Director of Ashberg Ltd, which focuses on direct private investments primarily in the areas of renewable energy and sustainability. Jeremy has over 12 years experience of Banking and investment management. He regularly speaks on clean technology investment and the role of private finance.
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Gilles Bindels
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Gilles Bindels is co-Founder at Social Lab.
As consultant in the Social Media, Bindels provides training, strategic consulting, and supervising execution for the clients of the Social Lab. Part of his role is also to ensure the business development & operations management in the Social Lab.
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William Bird
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William Bird is one of the founder partners of BIRD GOËN & Co., a firm that signed a partnership agreement with GEVERS in 2010. William Bird is British and was educated at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK. He has an MA in Natural Sciences including Biology of cells, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.
He has worked in industry in the major activities of development, marketing, product and project management from which he has obtained a wide experience of the requirements and functioning of an industrial company. He is a qualified British, German and European Patent and Trademark Attorney and hence has a unique expertise in both common law and codified legal systems. He has experience of being both a corporate and an independent patent attorney. He also has extensive experience in licensing of IPR and consulting on IP aspects of setting up spin-off companies. Based on these experiences, he is an accredited tutor of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) for licensing and IP asset management.
He is also a lecturer on various aspect of patent law, e.g. at the CEIPI course on European Patent Law, the Vlerick course of Management and Entrepreneurship, and in the ULB PharmEd program.
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David Bizer
Chief Talent Geek,
HackFwd
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David Bizer is HackFwd’s Chief Talent Geek. He ensures HackFwd is finding the 1% of the best talent with the best ideas,and helps HackBoxes grow and develop. David is a pioneer in global internet recruiting with a unique bi-continental background discovering talent from Silicon Valley to the technology hubs of Europe. Over the past 15 years, David has recruited and led recruitment efforts resulting in the hiring of more than 4000 top-caliber candidates across more than 25 countries.
David started his career in staffing at Netscape which was at the time, perhaps the most exciting internet company on the planet. Having learned with the best at Netscape, David then joined Trilogy to lead their European Recruitment efforts, sourcing high caliber Computer Science graduates from top universities in Western Europe. In 2003, David was named the first European recruiter at Google. He hired over 300 candidates in his first 18 months. He then led Google’s staffing efforts across Europe for 20+ sales offices and all technical graduate recruitment.
David holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business from the University of Colorado, Boulder and has served asPresident of AIESEC United States.
David resides in Paris with his wife Julia and his children Alexa and Samuel. The family loves living, and especially eating, in Paris.
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Jacek Blonski
Vice President of EBAN
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Jacek Blonski, Lewiatan Business Angels, Poland
Jacek Blonski is CEO of Lewiatan Business Angels – the largest Business Angels Network in Poland. Prior to Business Angels experience, Jacek worked for Simon Kucher and Partners, Enterprise Investors Corporation- leading PE/VC Fund in the CEE Region and for BMW Group (Poland and Germany).
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Alexis Bogaert
Head of Dexia
Private Equity
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Alexis Bogaert is currently Head of Dexia Private Equity, the private equity division of Dexia Bank Belgium.
He has 12 years of private equity experience with focus on early stage and expansion financing of SME's as well as restructuring and change of management/ownership issues. Previously he worked two years at Dexia's SME credit department focusing on international expansion finance for small enterprises.
Mr. Bogaert has a Masters in Criminology and a Masters in International Politics from Leuven University. In addition he holds a masters in corporate finance and financial accountancy and was part of the 2007 HBS Private Equity executive education program.
Mr. Bogaert holds board / Investment Committee seats in various companies and funds active in industrial manufacturing & services, Medical Devices/Healthcare, Media and ICT and environmental technology; both in Europe and the US.
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Alex Brabers
Chairman of EVCA's
Strategic Exit
Taskforce and
CEO GIMV
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Alex Brabers (1965) is Executive Vice President of Gimv, responsible for all venture capital investments in the technology sector.
Through his experience of over 15 years in venture capital, Alex brings to Gimv a rich experience in private equity.Alex exited several companies through either trade sales or IPO’s and holds board positions in Telenet, Inside Secure, Nomadesk, Virtensys, OTN Systems and Oree. Previous mandates: Option International, Barconet, Telos, Emme, L&C and Mobistar. Prior to joining Gimv in 1990, Alex worked in the banking industry, first as trader in international money market instruments, later in the strategic planning department. Alex holds a Master in Economics from the University of Louvain.
Gimv is a European investment company with more than 30 years of experience in private equity and venture capital.
The company is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels and currently manages around 1.9 billion EUR (including third party funds).
Gimv invests in buyouts and provides growth financing to established companies. For this Gimv can call upon local teams in Belgium, the Netherland and France, as well as an extended international network of experts. Through its specialized teams, Gimv also invests venture capital to companies operating in the Life Sciences, Technology and Cleantech Industry. Gimv approaches specific activities or certain counties through specialized funds, sometimes in collaboration with experienced partners. Examples of this are Gimv-XL, Gimv Agri+, DG Infra+, and DG Infra Yield.
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Luigi Capello
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Luigi Capello is an entrepreneur and an investor. He co-founded Italian Angels for Growth – IAG – (www.italianangels.net) in 2007 and in 2010 set up LVenture, an investment company, with offices in Rome and San Francisco. The company has realized 10 investment to date.
At the end of 2010 Luigi opened EnLabs, an incubator in Rome. EnLabs is modelled after similar structures operating in Silicon Valley. It is a dynamic place where it is possible to launch an innovative Start-up assisted by EnLabs’ Incubator Program or simply rent a desk.
Over the last three decades Luigi has managed with success Private Equity Funds, worked in Investment Banking and started several companies.
Luigi holds a degree in Economics from LUISS University in Rome and attended ECGC at Stanford University.
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Chiara de Caro
General Manager
EBAN
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Chiara de Caro is the General Manager of EBAN. With a background in youth entrepreneurship, Chiara brings varied experience to her new role. Most recently she worked as Director for YES, The European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, a Brussels-based pan European organization bringing together 16 national federations and representing 40.000 individual entrepreneurs. Prior to this she worked on Events and Communication at EBN, European Business and Innovation Centers Network in Brussels. Holding a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degrees in Political Science from the University of Perugia (Italy), Chiara furthered her studies in International Politics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). |
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20 year experience in banking, insurance, financial guarantee and multilateral institutions, especially in structured finance
Currently Head of Product Development at EIF - European Investment Fund (EIB Group)
Previously Managing Director at CIFG and senior positions at AGF (Allianz Group), Standard & Poor’s and Credit Lyonnais
Graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP-EAP), France |
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Carlos Fontão de Carvalho
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Mr. Fontão de Carvalho is Senior Partner of BDO in Portugal, responsible for the Specialist Advisory Services and the BDO Angolan Office.
Member of staff of BDO since 1983, his experience include audit and consultancy services through the participation in several works in Portugal, Mozambique, São Tomé e Principe, Cape Verde and Angola and in several sectors in about one hundred clients.
His activity in BDO was suspended for other important experiences. From January 2006 to February 2007 he was vice-president of the Lisbon Municipality and president of the Lisbon Tourism Association. During four years, from 1998 to 2001 he was deputy mayor in Lisbon responsible for financial area and trade affaires of Lisbon Municipality. From 2001 to 2002 he was also president of the Agency for Baixa/Chiado Promotion. From 1999 to 2001 he was member of board of Sociedade Parque Expo, SA. From 1998 to 2002 he was member of board of MARL - Mercado Abastecedor da Região de Lisboa.
He was also experience in start-up activities, being involved in the foundation of two companies, a book publisher and a book distributor.
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Bart Van Coppenolle
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Bart Van Coppenolle serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Metris International Holding N.V. and has been its Executive Director since June 27, 2000. Mr. Van Coppenolle Co-Founded Metris and heads it since its inception and was chairman of the board of directors until November 20, 2006.
Before founding Metris, he was an engineering researcher at K.U. Leuven. He is also director at Optidrive NV and Leuven Inc.
He holds degrees in production engineering and philosophy.
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Anna Danti
Policy Officer
European Commission
DG Enterprise and Industry
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Anna Danti is Policy Officer at DG Enterprise and Industry
After obtaining my MBA from UK, I joined the European Commission on 1996 and since then I worked for eleven years in DG Research as Scientific officer mainly in the area of European Research cooperation.
On May 2007, I joined DG Enterprise and Industry, Directorate E which is dealing with the promotion of the SMEs competitiveness.
The Commission is working towards developing entrepreneurship and SME policy in the EU and collaborates with the Member States and stakeholders in specific SME policy areas.
I am the policy officer responsible for the promotion of female entrepreneurship in Europe. We work towards promoting and supporting female entrepreneurship and encouraging more women to become entrepreneurs. Within the Small Business Act the Commission proposes specific actions on female entrepreneurship.
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Joseph de Gheldere
CEO of BeAngels
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Joseph de Gheldere is CEO of BeAngels, one of the leading Business Angels Networks in Belgium and was recently appointed as Board Member of EBAN.
Joseph was Executive Advisor at BvD-it Services, Partner at IBM, at PwC Consulting and PwC MCS Belgium and
also partner at KPMG Consulting.
He is graduated by the University of Liège and hods an MBA on International Finance from the University of Dallas (Texas).
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Patrick De Smedt
Deputy Head of Unit
Unit Business Cooperation and Support Network, DG Enterprise & Industry
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Patrick De Smedt is Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission in charge of the policy aspects for the Enterprise Europe Network. He joined the Commission in 2004 as IT Planning and Programming Team Leader and moved to the unit in charge of the Euro Center Network in 2006. He was involved in the creation and development of the Enterprise Europe Network as Policy Officer since its start in 2008.
Before joining the Commission, he has been working for 20 years in different multinational companies in the IT and telecommunications sector.
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Razvan Emanoil
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Razvan Emanoil worked as an attorney in the Brussels office of the UK law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP from 2001 to 2008. Prior to joining CMS DeBacker on 1 January 2009, he was a senior associate at Lydian Lawyers.
His areas of expertise include corporate and corporate finance law, with special focus on private equity, acquisition finance, capital markets, corporate governance and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, but also international non-profit associations.
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Philippe Gluntz
Vice President of EBAN
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Philippe Gluntz, Chairman (Hon.) of ADP Europe and Chairman (Hon.) of HR Outsourcing Association Europe, President of France Angels, Vice-President of Paris Business Angels, Professor of Corporate Strategy and Consultant in Strategy.
Philippe Gluntz is now Chairman of France Angels, the French Association of Business Angels, Board Member of several IT companies, and is heavily involved in the Venture Capital market, on top of his academic teaching. He is also a Director of “l’Institut de l’ Entreprise”, a private “Think Tank”, sponsored by most of the Global Companies Headquartered in France. |
Nelson Gray
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Nelson Gray is a Director of LINC Scotland. Following the sale of his own business in Nelson became an educator, angel investor, mentor, non executive director and Fund Manager. He was the gatekeeper for Scotland’s leading business angel syndicate, Archangel (established in 1992) and has invested in 21 companies personally. As a fund manager was responsible for funding over 50 Scottish SME’s. He was the locum Fund Manager for Clyde Blowers Capital IM LLP, a £250 million venture capital fund. A Director of LINC Scotland, the Scottish angel capital association established in 1993. Nelson has provided advice on the establishment and structuring of early stage investment funds and angel groups both in Scotland and overseas, advising on the effective promotion of innovation and commercialisation within universities, the establishment of local investment communities and the promotion of an entrepreneurial culture.
In April 2008 Nelson was awarded the tile “Business Angel of the Year 2008” by EBAN. |
Cedric Guyot
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Cedric Guyot focuses on corporate reorganisations, strategic alliances, joint ventures, issue of securities, shareholders relations including shareholders litigations, private placement , etc.
Cedric has an extensive M&A experience, both domestic and cross-border. He is pro-active and business minded. He is the kind of lawyer “who makes the deal happen”. |
Dr. Jochen Haller
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Dr. Jochen Haller studied business administration at the University of Mannheim. After his doctorate he worked in different leading positions for young technology companies, which were mostly venture capital financed. His main focus has been corporate strategy and finance. As COO of exchangeBA AG he is in charge of the matching process.
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Valerie Herdlicka
Head of Gevers IP-VAL
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Valerie Herdlicka is Head of Gevers IP-VAL. Valérie focuses on finding financially rewarding answers to strategic issues by combining the analysis of brand value creation with creative and strategic thinking. She has managed various international projects requiring a strong intercultural sensitivity.
Valérie has devoted her entire career to brand valuation services, working for consultancies in Germany, Belgium and France. Before settling down in Belgium, Valerie has been the head of Interbrand’s brand valuation department for the French speaking markets.
She is member of the ‘Ecole francaise de l’immateriel’, and is member of a multidisciplinary expert group working for the French government on the creation of a repository for management and valuation of intangible assets.
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You-Ha Hyun
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You-Ha Hyun is an Investment Manager and as a member of the venture capital team at EIF he is involved in various VC fund investments across Europe and in different sectors. He is also part of the project team at EIF being responsible in developing and executing the product focusing on co-investment activities with Business Angels.
Prior to that, he was as part of the investment management team at Generali responsible for private equity fund investments spanning over the different strategies and regions in the private equity universe.
Before joining Generali, he was with KPMG Corporate Finance in Germany where as a member of the Consumer Industrials team he was involved in various buy- and sell-side transactions.
You-Ha Hyun started his career at Deutsche Bank. |
Frédéric de Laminne
Director Business Development
Head of Listing Brussels
Euronext Brussels
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Frédéric de Laminne is a civil engineer from the University of Liège and holds a master Degree in Business Administration from Cornell University (New York) and a certificate in international tax from Solvay Business School.
After a training period at Morgan Bank and his military service, he has worked for 15 years with Generale Bank (now BNP Paribas Fortis) where he hold various functions, mainly in investment banking: financial engineering, research, sales,...
In 1999, he left the bank to launch and co-manage E-Capital, a 35 m€ venture capital fund investing in early-stage companies.
In 2003, he joined Euronext Brussels as Director Issuers & Listing responsible for the relations with listed companies and for the business development in Belgium.
In the last 8 years, he participated in the launch of several new markets such as Alternext and the Free Market. He was involved in over 100 IPOs in Brussels and abroad. Among other assignments, he was part of the Working Group that drafted the Belgian Code of Corporate Governance and is a regular lecturer at the ULB on corporate governance. |
Gunnar Magnusson
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Gunnar Magnusson has been working as a Project Officer/Economist for the European Commission’s MEDIA Programme since 2009. His main focus in the Commission has been on Access to finance, i.e. working on EU policies which will enable professionals in the cultural and creative sectors to have easier access to credits and other sources of financing. Within the Access to finance file, his responsibility has been the preparation and implementation of the MEDIA Production Guarantee Fund which is being used to guarantee 50-55% of the loans granted by local banks to film producers in order to reduce their risk and increase their lending activities in favor of the film sector.
Additionally, Gunnar has participated in a working group which is preparing the new MEDIA Programme (post-2013) where his role has been to supervise the development of new financial instruments for SMEs in the cultural and creative sectors. Gunnar has previous experience from the private financial sector, mainly in asset management.
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Jean David Malo
Research Programmes
and Capacity
Head of Unit
DG Research
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Jean-David Malo graduated from the Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (Paris) and the University of California (Berkeley).
He started his career as Head of internal control management in the Comité Professionnel de la Distribution de Carburants in France before joining ARMINES, a body managing contractual research and innovation for French engineering schools (Ecoles des MInes, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, …), where he created, developed and managed the European Affairs Directorate. He joined the European Commission in January 2001. In the Directorate General for Research, he participated actively to a number of developments on the design of funding instruments, rules for participation, funding schemes, etc, both for FP6 and FP7. From 2003 to 2006, he was the assistant of Director Robert-Jan SMITS. After heading the unit in charge of the regional aspects of FP7, ie. the "Regions of Knowledge" and "Research Potential" programmes, from 2006 to 2010, he is now managing a newly created unit in DG Research and Innovation, the main objective of which is to contribute to increase private finance and close market gaps in investing in research and innovation by expanding the scope and scale of existing EU innovative financial instruments (like the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility) and by developing new ones in the fields of debt (including guarantees) and equity financing.
The EU state aid framework, tax incentive schemes and philanthropic funding are also areas covered by the work of the unit.
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Pierre Marro
Strategy for ICT Research & Innovation
DG INFSO
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Pierre Marro is Administrative Officer at the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission.
Within the unit "Strategy for ICT Research and Innovation", he is more particularly in charge of the ICT Policy Support Programme, an EU funding programme supporting ICT based innovation; his tasks also include policy and support actions for innovative SMEs, as well as access to finance aspects.
Before joining the European Commission services in 1999, Pierre was project manager in the Naval Defence industry.
Pierre is an ICT engineer and is graduated in Business Administration.
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Maurice Olivier
Co-founder and General Partner of BAMS Angels Fund
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Maurice Olivier is a Co-founder and Chairman of BAMS ANGELS FUND, a
Belgian-based late early stage/early growth fund, and a Partner of BLUEOCEAN VENTURES, a Geneva-based high-technology seed fund. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of HEC Management School - University of Liege, where he also teaches strategy and entrepreneurship.
Before 2001, M. Olivier was SVP Europe and India with Cambridge Technology
Partners, Inc. a global e-business systems integrator. Prior to that, M. Olivier spent 17 years with the strategy and technology consultancy of Arthur D. Little, most recently as SVP Europe and Asia
Maurice Olivier holds an MS in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management, and an MS in Engineering from the University of Liege (Belgium).
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Aurelio Politano
Seconded National Expert, DG Environment
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Aurelio Politano is a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission (DG Environment), he follows, in close cooperation with other DGs and the European Investment Bank group, the coordination and implementation of the budget allocated to financial facilities (Venture Capital in particular) under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) to support eco-innovative investment funds/SMEs. He is also involved for DG ENV in the design of new financial facilities in the context of next Multiannual Financial Framework.
He has previously worked as auditor, consultant and controller in the private and public sector and holds an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Business School.
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Katja Reppel
Deputy Head of Unit
for industrial innovation
policy development,
DG Enterprise and Industry
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Katja Reppel is Deputy Head of Unit for industrial innovation policy development in DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission.
Before taking over her current assignment in 2008, she held positions in DG Employment, DG Enterprise and Industry and DG Regional Policy of the European Commission and was seconded to the innovation department of the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology. She is a lawyer of German nationality who worked for six years in the Council of Europe before joining the European Commission in 1999.
In the past eight years she worked on innovation policy, SME policy, the Lisbon and Europe 2020 strategies, development and implementation of the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, innovation in regional development programmes and innovation policy governance. She is a co-author of the 2008 "practical guide to EU funding opportunities for research and innovation".
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Christian Saublens
Executive Manager
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Christian Saublens is Belgian and has an experience of more than 30 years in lobbying the European Community authorities.
He is the Executive Manager of EURADA, the European Association of Development Agencies. The association has approximately 140 members operating in more than 20 countries.
Christian helped the creation of EBAN, the European network promoting the stimulation of informal venture capital at regional or national level.
He is now trying to find sustainable business models for the IRE Network (Innovating Regions in Europe).
Christian has written several papers regarding the impact of EU regulations on regional development and the role of development agencies in Europe. |
Arvydas Strumskis
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Arvydas Strumskis is Managing Partner of the Business Angel Fund I, private equity investment fund (main investor is European Investment Fund). He is Board Member of UAB “E-ruditus”, information technology company (Fund portfolio) and Chairman of UAB “Art21”, information technology company (Fund portfolio). His role as chairman and board member in portfolio companies goes back to 2001 in multiple portfolio companies.
From 1999 to 2005, Strumskis was Investment director of Scandinavian Baltic Development Co (UK) Ltd, the Fund Manager of Baltic Post Privatization Fund (EBRD as main sponsor) and Partner at SBD Ltd.
In the 90’s he served in international management consulting companies such as SIAR – BOSSARD and GEMINI CONSULING where he was general director and managing consultant.
Strumskis has got his MS degree from Vilnius University and is graduated by the International Business School
(one year part time Executive Leadership Development Program by Cap Gemini Group, Paris).
As part of the public activities he has been elected the President of the National Association of Management Consultants of Lithuania. Since 1998 Mr. A.Strumskis has been an active member of Vilnius Old Town Rotary Club.
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Ramón Suárez
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Ramón Suárez is new media marketer & entrepreneur, Betagroup Coworking Brussels founder, startup promoter,
Founder Institute Brussels director, Startup Weekend Brussels organizer, webmissioner, Internet addict, blogger,
chocolate ambassador, Brussels lover. |
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Walter Van Uytven
Director BeCloud
Belgacom
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Walter Van Uytven is the CEO of Belgacom Bridging ICT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belgacom, wich is the basis for a new network of ICT Expert partners.
Besides providing an innovative IT/Cloud and telecom offer, the company provides the necessary support to new partners via a support platform. Walter is also the director of Becloud, a new division within the Belgacom Group and responsible for all datacenter and cloud activities. Before his move to the Belgacom Group in 2009 he was the founder and CEO of Biass, the Belgian Informatics Association, an ICT association of 35 Belgian ICT integrators in the Midmarket. |
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Patrick Van Roey
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Patrick Van Roey is an active Business Angel. He is Non executive director of Software4family, a company which is specialized in software for families to help them follow up their personal health and Goedenavond bv an impresario, booking artist and organizing events.
As strategic manager he coaches several mid sizes to small companies with restructuring their sales, hr or finance organization and to guide them towards a merge or acquisition.
Previously he owned from 1998 to 2008 an international ERP consulting firm BnV which was sold in 2008 to Business & Decision (BND).
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Reginald Vossen
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Reginald Vossen is CEO of BAN Vlaanderen, one of the leading Business Angels Networks in Belgium. He is also Managing Director of Ark Angels Fund (co-investment fund), Partner of Officenter Holding and Partner of Bizidee, a Flemish Business Plan competition.
Prior to the merger of the Flemish BANs, Reginald was Manager of Limburg BAN. He was also Chief of Staff Provincial Economic Executive at Provinciebestuur Limburg where he organised new economic projects for the region of the Belgian Province of Limburg.
Reginald holds a Master from the University of Hasselt.
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Alan Walker
Director of Business Development (Industry), Narec Capital
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Alan Walker is Director of Business Development (Industry), Clean Tech Engineering specialist, and Narec Incubation Lead. He is got 25 Years engineering experience. |
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts is the Director of Halo, the Northern Ireland Business Angel Network where he draws upon his previous experience both as entrepreneur and as a business angel. Winning a scholarship, he graduated from Queens University as an engineer with first class honours.
Soon with a fellow engineer he started a NI company funded by angel investment developing automatic test equipment.
Alan led the successful re-branding of the company as Yelo Ltd leading to 5 years of solidly rising sales and its acquisition by a Canadian PLC.
After a period as General Manager of Mindready NI Ltd, he worked in a start-up venture and was a business angel before moving to the NI Science Park as Director of Halo in 2009. Halo has grown from 35 to 120 angels who have invested nearly £2m in NI start-up companies since he took over.
In 2010 Halo was named British Business Angels Association Angel Network of the Year.
Alan is an elected Vice President and Trustee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology – the largest professional engineering organisation in Europe. As a business this organisation has a turnover of £50m pa and employs 400 staff.
Alan is married with 2 daughters at university. In his spare time Alan is an experienced windsurfer in the pursuit of which he is systematically trying to break every bone in his body.
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Karsten Wenzlaff
Founder of the Institute of Communication in
Social Media (ikosom)
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Karsten Wenzlaff is the founder of the Institute of Communication in
Social Media (ikosom), based in Berlin, Germany. The institute has
analysed the market evolution of social payments, crowdfunding and
crowdsourcing and written reports on the legal frameworks of
crowdfunding. Karsten Wenzlaff is a graduate of the University of
Cambridge (UK) and his thesis dealt with Financial Market Regulation
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Joris Wille
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Joris Wille is the General Manager of Sofware4Family. Software4Family is a young company created in December 2008. The company is based in Belgium and is involved in the development and sale of family software's. Software4Family produces an “all-in-one” Family Management System (FMS), for the whole family to enjoy. In a beneficial and effective way, it will help your family manage different everyday household task like, budget, health, cooking, energy... Goliath is the ideal support to help families stay organized! |
Lisa Wright
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Lisa Wright has been working in the information industry for over fourteen years and has a detailed knowledge of both company financial information and M&A data. She holds a post graduate qualification in Business and Management from Salford University and is currently taking the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments qualifications.
Lisa Wright joined Zephus.com, a provider of M&A data, as Commercial Director in 2001 to manage the transition of its original business model from free to fee paying and to seek new revenue streams. Part of this transition was Lisa’s instigation of discussions with Bureau van Dijk (BvD), the leading publisher of business information, regarding a co-published analytical M&A information product, Zephyr, which was successfully launched 2002. When the opportunity arose for BvD to acquire Zephus, Lisa participated in the sale process.
Lisa is now BvD’s managing director for M&A products globally and oversees the research process for Zephyr. She is BvD’s product expert in M&A and acts in an advisory role to the group’s sales teams worldwide.
Lisa writes a regular blog on BvD’s recently launched M&A Portal, providing an insight on current deals and emerging trends. Other written contributions include an article in “Mergers and Acquisitions – A Practical Guide for Private Companies and their UK and Overseas Advisors” published by Kogan Page
Lisa is frequently asked to speak at international events on M&A trends both global and regionally.
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Heinz Zourek
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Heinz Zourek was appointed Director General in DG Enterprise and Industry on 9 November 2005. From May 2001 till August 2005 he has been Deputy Director-General in DG Enterprise and Industry, in charge o the Directorates of Regulatory policy, Innovation policy, Promotion of SMEs’ competitiveness, and
Aerospace, security, defence and equipment. From September 1995 to April 2001 he was Deputy Director-General of the Internal Market DG.
His main responsibilities were free movement of goods and services, public procurement, regulated professions, industrial and intellectual property rights and postal services. He also was in charge of the infringement procedures and parliamentary affairs as horizontal task for the whole DG.
From 1993 to 1995 Heinz Zourek was a member of the College of the EFTA Surveillance Authority created by the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA). His portfolio contained state aids and monopolies, public procurement and free movement of persons.
Between 1990 and 1993 he worked for the Confederation of Austrian Trade Unions as Director of the Economic Policy Department.
Mr. Zourek started his professional life in the Chamber of Labour in Vienna where he became Director of the department for "External Trade and European Integration".
He was born in December 1950 in Vienna and qualified as an economist at Vienna University.
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José Zurstrassen
Co founder
Skynet and Keytrade Bank.
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José ZURSTRASSEN is the cofounder of Skynet and Keytrade Bank.
En 1994, il débute comme ingénieur–système chez Scorpio Network Services, pour devenir très vite ingénieur de projet en charge de programmes d’envergure destinés à des institutions bancaires et commerciales (EuroClear et Crédit Lyonnais entre autres). Dans le même temps, il réalise une banque de données textile pour la Commission européenne.
En 1995, il fonde Skynet, un fournisseur de services Internet, avec son frère et un ami. Il en est directeur technique (1995) et directeur général (1995-1996). En 1996 Belgacom en devient actionnaire, d’abord minoritaire, puis rachète Skynet en 1997 pour en faire Belgacom Skynet le premier prestataire de service Internet en Belgique.
En 1998, José fonde KEYTRADE avec les mêmes partenaires, une société de courtage en ligne dont il est directeur technique et administrateur délégué. Keytrade est introduite en bourse en décembre 1999, absorbe Real-Bank en 2002 et change de statut pour devenir elle-même une banque. Keytrade a été revendue au Crédit Agricole de Belgique en 2006.
Depuis 2001, José se passionne pour l’enseignement de l’entrepreneuriat à l’Ecole de Commerce Solvay de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles et donne régulièrement des conférences et séminaires avec l’objectif avoué de relancer l’envie d’entreprendre en Belgique.
Il préside ou a présidé de nombreuses organisations dont le YPO Brussels, le TEDxBrussels et est membre du conseil d’administration de nombreuses sociétés, cotées et non-cotées.
Il investit régulièrement son argent, son énergie et sa compétence dans des entreprises naissantes. On peut citer Borderlinx, Mondial Telecom, Younited, VirtualDesk, ThinFactory, EarlyTracks, 21Net, NewTree, SelfSun, ... Et encore de nombreux projets en cours de développement.
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