European Venture Contest Final 2018

Participants

Daniel Adler

Project Manager

City of Dusseldorf (Germany)

Daniela Arruda Costa

Investment Analyst
Capricorn Partners (Belgium)

Adrian Bannera

Intern
City of Dusseldorf (Germany)

Selma Baouch

Advocaat
AKD N.V. (Netherlands)

Healthcare

Jakob Biesterfeldt

Executive Director
Cogniance (Denmark)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Christophe Bodin

Director
CBO Consulting (Belgium)

Romain Bouttier

Project officer
EASME (Belgium)

Michael Brandkamp

Chief Executive Officer
High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) (Germany)

Healthcare

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Cleantech

Eduardo Bundyra

Private Equity Investor
Essex Innovation (Switzerland)

Jens Busse

Investment Manager
Evonik Venture Capital (Germany)

Roel Callebaut

Investment Manager
Finindus NV (Belgium)

Laura Cerni

Cluster Manager
Smart Health Cluster FVG (Italy)

Healthcare

Frank Claassen

Managing Partner
Newion Partners BV (Netherlands)

Luca Colciago

General Partner
Kreos Capital (United Kingdom)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Cleantech

Claudia Colciago

Investment Associate
MTIP (Switzerland)

Healthcare

Fabrizio Conicella

General Manager
Bioindustry Park Silvano Fumero Spa (Italy)

Alessia de Marinis

Corporate Relationship Manager
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. (Italy)

Nathalie Debaes

Central Outreach Coordinator & Project Finances
ACTPHAST 4.0 (Belgium)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Christian Dinnus

Consultant
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry of the State of North Rhine-Westfalia (Germany)

Olivier Edwards

Senior Counsel, Co-Chair of the Silicon Valley Europe Desk
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (France)

Ulrich Eisele

Managing Director
Fluxunit - ams OSRAM Ventures (Germany)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Ariunsaikhan Enebish

Assistant
NRW.INVEST GMBH (Germany)

Debora Facchini

Communication and External Relations Dept. Manager
Aster S. Cons. P.A. (Italy)

François Feige

General Partner
Brightlands Innovation Factory (Netherlands)

Rolf Fellmann

Managing Director
fellmann Sales Performance & Solution (Germany)

Donata Folesani

project manager
Aster S. Cons. P.A. (Italy)

Nils-Olof Forsgren

CEO
Uminova Innovation (Sweden)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Klemens Gaida

CEO
Digital Innovation Hub Düsseldorf / Rheinland (Germany)

Patrick Gao

Partner
CENTI Group (United Kingdom)

Paul Gillespie

Partner
SH Gillamor Stephens (United Kingdom)

Thomas York Goetz

Weigel Corporate Finance (Switzerland)

Sebastian Grabert

Director – Germany Representative
Euronext (Germany)

Sven Greulich

Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Germany)

Yoshifumi Harada

General Manager Designate
Teijin Pharma Ltd (United Kingdom)

Healthcare

Philippe HERBERT

KREAXI (France)

Ralph Hunnekens

LIOF Industriebank NV (Netherlands)

Natasha Jaeger

Technology Scout, Samsung Electronics Open Innovation
Samsung Electronics (Germany)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Raffael Johnen

AuxMoney (Germany)

Guilherme Johnston

Global Resilient Cities Coordinator and Program Manager
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (Germany)

Cleantech

Katja Keinert

BIO.NRW (Germany)

Erkan Kilicaslan

Partner
IRIS (France)

Felix Klatt

PR Manager
AuxMoney (Germany)

Leon Klinkers

CEO Brightlands Innovation Factory
Brightlands Innovation Factory (Netherlands)

Ralf Knoll

Owner / Management Consultant
KNOLL - Engineering & Consulting (Germany)

Dieter Kraft

Managing Director
TRUMPF Venture (Germany)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Cleantech

Petri Laine

Managing Partner
Innovestor Ventures (Finland)

Kira Loew

Business Service
City of Dusseldorf (Germany)

Parul Madan

Founder & Director
e-navik (Germany)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Elena Matekina

Head of Business Unit
NRW.INVEST GMBH (Germany)

Lars Mattson

Business Development
City of Aarhus (Denmark)

Sara Medina

International Consultant
SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (Portugal)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

Thomas Merilaht

Account Manager
PitchBook (United Kingdom)

Laura Meriläinen

Specialist - Business Development and Financing
BusinessOulu (Finland)

Healthcare

Dimitar Mitkov

Sales Executive
Out2Bound (Bulgaria)

Bernhard Mohr

Managing Director
Evonik Venture Capital (Germany)

Healthcare

Food and nutrition

Matthias Morgenstern

City of Dusseldorf (Germany)

Natalia Mühlemann

Global Business Manager - Medical Devices
Nestlé Health Science (Switzerland)

Healthcare

Audrey Ncube

UriCell (Germany)

Dr. Andreas Pinkwart

Minister
Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)

Meike Rabanus

Head of Section for Start-ups and SME
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry of the State of North Rhine-Westfalia (Germany)

Joachim Rautter

Investment Manager
Peppermint Venture Partners (Germany)

Healthcare

Ruggero Recchioni

Head of Industry Innovation
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. (Italy)

Cleantech

Philip Saliba

Equity Research Analyst
HSBC Trinkhaus & Burkhardt KGaA (Germany)

Rick Salmon

Founder
Voiceable (Norway)

Michael Schatzschneider

Director
Euronext Germany, Frankfurt (Germany)

Wolfgang Scheffler

City of Dusseldorf (Germany)

Tobias Schibbe

BIO.NRW (Germany)

Adrian Schmidt

Kauz Linguistic Technologies (Germany)

Ulrich Schmitt

Investment manager
High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) (Germany)

Christian Schroeder

Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Germany)

Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein

Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Germany)

Katrin Siebenbürger Hacki

PHARE 7 Management Solutions (Switzerland)

Healthcare

Christoph Sommer

Project Manager
NRW.INVEST GMBH (Germany)

Ylan Steiner

Partner
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (United Kingdom)

William Stevens

Group Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe (Belgium)

Martin Storb

Vice President - New Business Development
JSP International GmbH (Switzerland)

Cleantech

Lasse Sørensen

Startup Consultant
Copenhagen Business Hub (Denmark)

Food and nutrition

Heribert Uhl

Senior Investment Director
Bosch Ventures (Germany)

Cleantech

Fabiane Valente

EurA AG (Portugal)

Marcel van Berkel

CEO
Circular Biobased Delta (Netherlands)

Food and nutrition

Patrick van der Meer

Commercial Manager Pilot Plants
Brightlands Innovation Factory (Netherlands)

Andre van Hall

Director
BioCampus Cologne (Germany)

Miriam Verhees

LIOF Industriebank NV (Netherlands)

Fabian von Samson-Himmelstjerna

Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Germany)

Paul Webber

Partner & Senior Advisor
3k (Germany)

Winfried Weigel

Managing Director
Clean Tech Capital (Switzerland)

Digital Technology & Nanotech

IORI YOSHIDA

Regional Director Corporate Venturing
AGC Inc (Germany)

John Zai

Founder and CEO
CENTI Group (United Kingdom)

Zdravko Zdravkov

Sales Executive
Out2Bound (Bulgaria)

Andre Zimmermann

Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Germany)

Arndt-Hendrik Zinn

Zolitron Technology (Germany)

Henry Zubaida

Associate
Gilde Healthcare Partners (Netherlands)