Tech Tour Bio Based Industries 2024 Programme[7]

Participants

Albert Fischer

Managing Director

Yellow&Blue Investment Management (Netherlands)

Allan Dam Nielsen

Advisor & Board professional
DAM Consulting ApS (Denmark)

Andreas Jaritz

CMO/CIO
FreyZein Next-Gen Textiles GmbH (Austria)

Recycling & circular models

Forestry and pulp & paper based products

André Convents

Section Head R&D Europe
Procter & Gamble (United States)

Anett Lund-Nielsen

Advisor, Business Angel, Board Member
Keystones (Denmark)

Anike von Gagern

Founder and MD
foom GmbH (Germany)

Waste management

Recycling & circular models

Agriculture

Anna Belousova

Industrial Biotechnology Team
Sofinnova Partners (France)

Anna Handschuh

Managing Director
Future Affairs Consulting (Netherlands)

Annick Verween

Head of biotope
VIB (Belgium)

Anouk Kruijff

Paques Biomaterials B.V. (Netherlands)

Recycling & circular models

Bio-based chemicals and materials

Arianna Savini

Manager Start-up Scouting & Investments
Henkel (Germany)

Barbara Berckmans

Investment Manager
Agri Investment Fund (Belgium)

Bart Tambuyser

Managing Director
CARBOGANIC (Belgium)

Wood-based products & materials

Bjorn Heinz

Investment Director
Yara Growth Ventures (Norway)

Bruno Rudnik

Managing Partner
SEF Ventures (Germany)

Burkhard Ohs

Manager
Neste (Finland)

Caglar Urcan

General Partner
212 NexT VC (Turkiye)

Carlotta Ficorella

Industrial Deep Tech VC
Matterwave Ventures (Germany)

Carmen Cheung

Investment Manager
Pioneer Point Partners (United Kingdom)

Carsten Gerhardt

Chairman Circular Valley Foundation
Circular Valley (Germany)

Chiara Molena

Managing Director and Co-Founder
EDERA Lab (Netherlands)

Wood-based products & materials

Aquaculture/algae and marine

Waste management

Christian Lenges

Venture Director
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) (Netherlands)

Claas Heise

Executive Director
NRW Bank (Germany)

Cornelia Baehr

Senior investment manager
b.value AG (Germany)

Davide Barana

Co-Founder
CarboRefine AG (Switzerland)

Recycling & circular models

Agriculture

Forestry and pulp & paper based products

Deanna Zhang

Director
Circularity Capital LLP (United Kingdom)

Dimitri Verweire

Entrepreneur in Residence
VIB (Belgium)

Dirk Carrez

Executive Director
Bio-based Industries Consortium (Belgium)

Elisabet Sjölund

Head of R&D
Neste (Finland)

Erik Kolehmainen

VP, Corporate Venturing
Metsä Spring Ltd. (Finland)

Ewelina Kuna

Principal, Sustainable Industry
Icos Capital (Netherlands)

Wood-based products & materials

Waste management

Recycling & circular models

Fabio Paltenghi

COO/CFO
SenseUP GmbH (Germany)

Agriculture

Bio-based chemicals and materials

Frank Boerboom

Senior Technologist
Danone (France)

Hans Bernhard Meyer

CEO
Cofimore Holdings (Belgium)

Ina Dimova

Project Manager
Tech Tour (Bulgaria)

Ines Kolmsee

Partner
Matterwave Ventures (Germany)

Isaac Berzin

Founder & CTO
VAXA Technologies (Iceland)

Iva Tsigularova

Project Manager
Tech Tour (Bulgaria)

Ivana Krkljus

Global Strategic and Technical Advocacy, Renewable Carbon Policy
BASF Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)

Jaap Strengers

Impact investing food & agriculture venture capital
Future Food Fund (Netherlands)

Jens Busse

Investment Manager
Evonik Venture Capital (Germany)

Jens Uhlemann

Partnership Manager Envu
Bayer (Germany)

Jerusa Roeder

Global Sustainability Innovation and Technology Manager
Braskem (Germany)

Jim Totty

Managing Director
Viridis Capital (United Kingdom)

Jisk de Vries

Investment Analyst
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) (Germany)

Jonas Wilcks

Investment Professional
Pioneer Point Partners (United Kingdom)

Joost Waeterloos

European Technology Scouting Leader
Dow (Belgium)

Jurgen Van Holen

R&D Manager
OLEON (Belgium)

Karen Hamann

Managing director
Institute for Food Studies & Agroindustrial Development IFAU (Denmark)

Karl Collins

Director, Open Innovation & Ecosystems EMEA
Bayer | Crop Science (Germany)

Klaas de Boer

Chairman, Board of Directors
QFWventures (United Kingdom)

Korbinian Kraemer

Program Lead API
Bayer (Germany)

Laura Schwery

Business Development Manager
CleantechAlps (Switzerland)

Lauro Antonio Tonacatl Ojeda

EMEA & APAC Lead
Cargill Inc. (United States)

Aquaculture/algae and marine

Waste management

Recycling & circular models

Lucyna Wlodarczyk-Gruber

Marketing Specialist
BioContently (Germany)

Maja Diebig-Lorenz

Head of Sustainability and Innovation
INVITE GmbH (Germany)

Mami Fleck

Mitsui & Co. Deutschland (Germany)

Manuel Brunner

Principal, Sustainable Material Innovation & Investments
Minderoo Foundation (Australia)

Marc Leduc

Investment Manager
BASF Venture Capital GmbH (Germany)

Marcel van Berkel

CEO & Lead Project Manager
VanBerkel Consultancy BV (Belgium)

Marco Tibaldi

Chemistry for Energy and Sustainability | Innovation | Business Development
Amsterdam Chemistry Network (Netherlands)

Marek Romanowski

Investment Manager
Qemetica (Poland)

Margot Muller

Co-Founder
Corium Biotech (Portugal)

Recycling & circular models

Bio-based chemicals and materials

Maria Georgieva

Project Manager Healthtech
Tech Tour (Bulgaria)

Marie Asano

Partner
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) (Germany)

Maryam Asadi

Investment Manager
Emerald Technology Ventures (Switzerland)

Masaki Yano

Venture Partner
Energy & Environment Investment (Japan)

Mashrukh Talukder

Business Developer
Tech Tour (Belgium)

Michinori Muraoka

Investment Manager
Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital (Germany)

Miguel Knudsen

Dealflow Manager
Aqua-Spark (Netherlands)

Milena Garthley

Project Manager, Innovation Programmes
Tech Tour (Bulgaria)

Nathan De Geyter

Bussiness developer EoW in bioeconomy
Ghent University (Belgium)

Nerea San Juan

IKEA Group (Sweden)

Waste management

Recycling & circular models

Bio-based chemicals and materials

Nikolaus Raupp

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

Olga Goor

Investment Manager
Brightlands Venture Partners (Netherlands)

Oliver Busch

Vice President Strategy & Sustainability
Evonik Oxeno (Germany)

Oliver Thimm

Global Innovation Lead
Royal Agrifirm Group (Netherlands)

Paul Maurens

Venture Capital Associate
Omnes Capital (France)

Pelin Yilmaz

Investment Director
ICIG Ventures (Germany)

Peter van Gelderen

General Partner
Icos Capital (Netherlands)

Philipp Kopp

Investment Manager
bmp Ventures (Germany)

Philipp Rittershaus

Corporate Innovation & Startup Coaching
RootCamp GmbH (Germany)

Raffaele Giovinazzi

Innovation Ventures
Inter IKEA Group (Netherlands)

Rhiannon Rees

CEO & Founder
PlantSea (United Kingdom)

Riccardo Aimerito

Co-founder & Partner
ERA Kapital (Italy)

Rob Beekers

Director New Business Development
Cargill Bio-industrial Group (Netherlands)

Roger Ottenheym

CEO
Mevaldi b.v. (Netherlands)

Samuele Ambrosetti

Innovation and Programming manager
Bio-based Industries Consortium (Belgium)

Sandra Joanes

Director
BlueCrow Capital (Portugal)

Sanne van Kouwen

Venture Capital Investor
RaboVentures (Netherlands)

Sara Vandenwijngaert

Junior Partner
Qbic (Belgium)

shai shahal

Co-Founder
PolyGreen Ltd. (Israel)

Wood-based products & materials

Waste management

Forestry and pulp & paper based products

Stefan Schnippering

Venture Associate
Diamond Edge Ventures (United States)

Stefan Mård

General Partner at Climentum Capital
Climentum Capital (Denmark)

Stephan Decher

Managing Partner
Zaz Ventures (Belgium)

Stuart Askew

Senior Director Open Innovation
Procter & Gamble (Belgium)

Sunghee Son

Head of Department Business Development TFT
LG Chem Europe GmbH (Germany)

Taha Adnan

Deal Scout
Zaz Ventures (Belgium)

Tanja Meyer

European Project Coordinator
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Belgium)

Theis Malmborg

Co-Founder and Partner
Noon Ventures (Denmark)

Thomas Mueller-Kirschbaum

Chief Scientist
Circular Valley (Germany)

Till Rösnick

Investment Manager
WEPA Ventures (Germany)

Timothy Wallace

Head, Scouting & Assessment, Ventures & External Innovation
Novonesis A/S (Denmark)

Tobias Klement

Deputy Cluster Manager
Cluster Industrial Biotechnology CLIB (Germany)

Tom Smets

Investment Analyst
Qbic (Belgium)

Tomasz Ciamulski

CEO/Founder
FibriTech (Poland)

Wood-based products & materials

Forestry and pulp & paper based products

Agriculture

Torsten Arendrup

Startup Mentor
Coop Garage amba (Denmark)

Vicki O'Brien

Director
Strategic Allies (United Kingdom)

Viviana Hermosilla

Innovation and Technical Lead Europe
CMPC Ventures (Chile)

William Taul Madsen

Associate
Noon Ventures (Denmark)

William Stevens

Group Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe (Belgium)

Willis Muganda

Renewable Raw Materials
BASF Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)

Winfried Weigel

Managing Director
Clean Tech Capital (Switzerland)

Wouter Van de Putte

Investment Director
Capricorn Partners (Belgium)

Yulia Bashirova

Open Innovation with Startups, Universities, Corporates, VCs, Ecosystems
AB InBev (Belgium)

Zhigang Qian

Managing Director
Boxing Venture (China)