Speakers & Moderators' Profiles
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Luigi Amati, CEO and co-founder, META Group 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 has worked both in Italy (Rome - La Sapienza) and the UK (Imperial College) 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 board member of the European Business Angels Network Association, 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, Chair of EBAN’s Research Committee Debate about BAN management tools Paulo Andrez has a background as serial entrepreneur since his 18 years old, and 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 that is listed in Euronext, with turnover that exceeds 250 M€), and from then he became Business Angel, helping entrepreneurs to achieve results. In 2006 he founded the Cascais Business Angel Network and in 2007 he was co-founder of FNABA (Portuguese Business Angels Federation). Since then, he has helped to raise the awareness of Business Angel community in Portugal : was chairman of the World Business Angels Leaders Forum (Estoril 2007) that decided to create the World Business Angels Association, participated under FNABA scope in the first Business Angel co-investment fund and was speaker in many events.
In 2007 he helped to found DNA Cascais (www.dnacascais.pt) , one of the most successful Public Entrepreneurship Agencies in Portugal that in 3 years has helped to raise money and support to 100 innovative start ups that were created. Paulo Andrez studied Computer Engineering and holds an MBA (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). At present, he is a business angel in several projects, coordinates DNA Cascais, the EBAN Research Committee and the first Portuguese Post Graduate Program in Tourism Entrepreneurship under ESHTE University. |
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Sofia Avdeitchikova, Ramböll/CIRCLE Developing business angel policy in different national contexts – some important considerations Sofia Avdeitchikova has a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Venture Finance from Lund University. Her doctoral dissertation focused on informal venture capital investors in Sweden, particularly the heterogeneity of the investment behavior and the geographical aspects of informal venture capital investing. Since 2008 Sofia works as consultant within Business and Industry Analysis at Ramböll in Stockholm, mainly with analyzing and developing institutional conditions for business in Sweden. She is also a post doctoral research fellow in Entrepreneurship and Venture Finance at CIRCLE, Lund University.
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Brigitte Baumann, President of EBAN and CEO Go Beyond Ltd EBAN update on market statistics and trends Brigitte is President of the Board of EBAN and is also the Founder and CEO of Go Beyond Ltd. She is a Business Angel and serves on a number of selection and investment committees. Brigitte is on the Certification Board of CTI Start-Up, the Swiss agency promoting technology and innovation and she Chairs Young Presidents Organization’s 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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Mark Boggett, Investment Director / Managing Partner, Seraphim Capital (UK) Session 2: Different investment tools used by early stage investors and why Mark is one of the Managing Partners of Seraphim Capital. He works in an executive capacity as the funds' Investment Director, and has led all the investments the Fund has made to date. He is an active investor in technology across all sectors and stages serving on numerous boards throughout his venture career.
Prior to Seraphim he was the Investment Director of London Seed Capital and three further venture EIS funds. During this time, Mark built up a portfolio of 18 early stage companies across a wide range of sectors. He initially trained as an equity analyst and fund manager at Williams de Broe and Brewin Dolphin before moving into venture.
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Dr. Peter F. Bougdanos Session 1: Preparing for Exits
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Andrzej Brud, Business Coach and Investment Manager, Chalmers Innovation Case studies: top performing investments and their management teams Andrzej has 25 years of experience from business development and financing of different company phases. The last 10 years he has been working with seed financing of knowledge based companies. Andrzej has been involved in start-up and structuring of more than 50 companies and has been following many of them from the idea to the exit.
Chalmers Innovation Business Incubator offers services in order to shorten time to market for start-up technology based companies. Since the start of operations in 1999, Chalmers Innovation has been involved in more then 90 technology based companies. Since 2008 is Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund with committed capital of 110 MSEK affiliated to Chalmers Innovation.
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Alina Chateau, Business Angel Session 1: Preparing for Exits Alina got a French master degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and started her career with the Swedish group ABB as country sales manager. She then moved to the USA, where she first completed an MBA at Stanford University and then joined a high flyer Silicon Valley player as marketing manager. Back to France after 7 years in the USA, she founded a telecommunication firm, Intercall. The company went public in 1998 and was sold to Tiscali in 2001. She then started a Business Angel career. She has invested between 100 000 € and 700 000 € in 14 different companies (Software, TV production, Internet stores, Music on line, Tourism, offshore telemarketing, telecommunications, luxury). As of now, 2 have been sold with reasonable profit, 3 have been busted, 2 are in real bad shape, 3 are really uncertain, 4 are very promising).
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Anthony Clarke, EBAN member of the Executive Committee and Chairman Emeritus 2009-2010 Anthony Clarke is Managing Director of GLE Growth Capital specialising in providing early-stage equity finance for high growth businesses. GLE Growth Capital includes the London Business Angels Network and its sister angel co-investment fund London Seed Capital. Anthony is also Managing Director of the UK’s first Enterprise Capital Fund, the £30 million Seraphim Capital Fund, and of GLE Limited. He is also member of the Executive Committee and Chairman Emeritus of EBAN and Chairman of the British Business Angel Association (BBAA). Anthony also holds a position on the Board of Catalyst (Council for Advancement of Science and Industry for London). Anthony qualified as a Chartered Secretary in 1977 and as a Chartered Accountant in 1980 whilst with Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now PWC).Thereafter, he worked on a full time basis as a Finance Director and Chief Executive of a number of small and medium sized enterprises and since 1995 he has been a business angel investor / non-executive director of many early stage businesses prior to joining the GLE Group in 2002.
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Cristina Sousa Dias, Senior Manager of BDO (PT) Presentation of EBAN-BDO Report on Stimulating the early stage investment market in Europe through fiscal incentives and co-investment funds |
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Joseph De Gheldere, CEO, Be Angels Joseph de Gheldere is a Business Angel and the CEO of Be Angels S.A., one of the two Business Angels Networks based in Belgium. He is also member of the Board of EBAN. He is a serial entrepreneur and a serial Business Angel, having invested time and energy in several venture projets over recent years. Founder of the Consulting Firm, Peat Marwick Consulting in Belgium and Luxembourg, Joseph has been Partner with KPMG Consulting as well as PwC Consulting and more recently Executive with IBM Business Consulting Services. Over the last 25 years in Consulting, Joseph has been active in various industries ranging from Metal to Financial Services, from Aerospace to Utilities, from Chemicals to Consumer Products and from Food and Beverages to Oil and Gas. Since 2005, he has been acting as independent advisor at Executive level to Companies in various sectors. Joseph de Gheldere holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Dallas, Texas and a CPA from State University of New York. |
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John Elvesjö, Executive Vice President, Tobii Technology Key note speech; A Nordic start-up – Now a global fast growing corporation John Elvesjö is an innovator and serial entrepreneur with a background from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. John has founded and run several innovative companies and is now Executive Vice President of Tobii Technology. John’s innovations and companies have been very successful and have achieved several awards such as Entrepreneurial Company of the Year and Environmental Innovation Award. Tobii Technology is a world leader in hardware and software solutions for eye tracking. Eye tracking enables a computer to tell exactly where a person is looking. Using radical innovations in technology, Tobii’s mission is to bring eye tracking into broader use in applications such as eye control interfaces for computers, design testing and medical diagnostics. The company was founded in 2001 and has continuously shown very rapid year-to-year revenue growth - in 2007, Tobii was awarded price as Sweden's fastest growing technology company. Tobii is based in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in the US, Germany and Norway. The products are sold through resellers and partners worldwide.
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Lukasz Gadowski, Partner, Team Europe Ventures (D)
Case studies: top performing investments and their management teams
For more information about Lukasz and Team Europe Ventures, please visit the web site www.teameurope.net.Lukasz is an active internet investor since 2006 (examples: Amiando, Rapleaf, Dawanda, Imedo, ePuls, aviary) and started to incubate companies in 2008 (examples: Brands4freinds, Misterspex, kaeuferportal, Madvertise, Sponsorpay). In 2002 Lukasz Gadowski founded Spreadshirt.com while being a student. Later he was the co-founder of the Social Network “StudiVZ” (sold to Holtzbrinck in 2007, today Germanies largest website). Lukasz was distinguished with numerous awards for his entrepreneurial work. Teaming up with Kolja Hebenstreit, Pawel Chudzinski and Steffen Hoellinger Lukasz recently co-founded Berlin based ‘Team Europe Ventures’, an early/ seed stage investor and incubator. Team Europe Ventures is focused on Internet and mobile investments. |
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Martin Gemvik, Investment Manager, Sting Capital Session 2: Different investment tools used by early stage investors and why Martin Gemvik was the founder of one of Sweden’s first venture capital financed IT companies. During the early 90s Martin co-founded one of the first private venture capital firms for early stage investments in Sweden; FöretagsByggarna. From 2003 to 2007 Martin has been working at several venture capital funds on behalf of 6th AP Fund. From 2007 Martin is Investment Manager and Head of Sting Capital, a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments. Martin has also been on the board of the Swedish Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.
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Philippe Gluntz, Member of the EBAN Executive Committee, President of France Angels, and Vice-President of Paris Business Angels
Break-out 4: Debate about BAN management tools Philippe Gluntz, a French Citizen, is graduated from Ivy League “Ecole Polytechnique” and “Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées”. He also graduated from “ l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris” in Economics and holds a PhD in Management from Vanderbilt University ( USA ). Philippe Gluntz spent most of his career as C.O.O. then C.E.O. of computer services companies, singularly of GSI, European leader in IT and payroll outsourcing, that he started up with close friends in the mid seventies, and eventually sold in 1995 to ADP Employer Services, for which he served as C.E.O. for Europe and Corporate Vice-President until 2002, when he was appointed non executive Chairman , and started to invest as a Business Angel in several start-ups in the IT and Telecom sectors.
He has also been in charge of one the largest mergers of the 80’s, between Alcatel-CIT (France) and I.T.T. Telecom (USA), leading to the creation of the current Alcatel Group (13 Billion USD and 120000 employees at that time), of which he has been the C.O.O. from 1986 to 1991. Philippe Gluntz is now Chairman of France Angels, the French Association of Business Angels, as well as Paris 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. |
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Tiphaine Hue, Simon et Associés Panel debate: How to organize business angel investments for a win-win smooth transition to VCs Tiphaine Hue is graduated from the University Paris X – Nanterre (DESS de Droit du Commerce International) and the American University – Washington DC (LLM of International Legal Studies). She joined last year the law firm Simon Associés in order to co-manage the Corporate Department in Paris (www.simonassocies.com). Over the last 10 years, Tiphaine Hue has assisted her clients in Private Equity and M&A transactions. In this respect, she has assisted entrepreneurs, VC’s and business angels in various deals. She has participated in the negotiation of the main term and conditions as well as the pertaining documentation (investment agreements, shareholders agreements, share purchase agreements, etc ...) of these transactions. Tiphaine Hue participates in several working commissions (good practices and financing) of France Angels and AFIC. |
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Hannu Jungman, Veraventure (FIN)
Session 2: Different investment tools used by early stage investors and why
Hannu Jungman is manager at Veraventure, a goverment backed early stage venture capital company. Before joining Veraventure he has worked several years with startups, university spin-offs and investors. He started his professional career at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) where he worked as teacher and researcher of growth venturing. Later on he was managing TUT's spin-off activities at Tamlink Ltd and founded a management consulting company Prodia Ltd. At Veraventure, Mr. Jungman is responsible for investments in mobile and web companies and managing business angel network InvestorExtra. He has a master's degree from Tampere University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
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Jennifer Thayer Naylor, Golden Seeds (US) Attracting more women angels to the European market |
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John Nogrady, Director, Emerging Business Team John Nogrady is Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. John has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector and started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, as a software engineer working on VMS operating system. Throughout his career, John has been involved in founding and building several startups. His positions have included Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at PrizePoint Entertainment, which was acquired by Uproar in 1999. John was Director of Engineering at PointCast, where he was responsible for building out the data center and distribution servers for the PointCast network including the management of the Development and Information System teams. Prior to that, he held the position of Senior Software Architect at BluePoint Technologies, which was acquired by Adobe Systems, where John held the position of Manager of Pacific Rim Display Products. Just before joining Microsoft in 2003, John was director of business technology at WebMethods, where his responsibilities included the technical relationship management of SAP AG. John serves as an advisory to several early stage technology companies and is an active advisory board member for the University of California Davis Office of Research. John is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science. |
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Hans Otterling, Partner, Northzone Ventures Panel debate: How to organize business angel investments for a win-win smooth transition to VCs Northzone Ventures has backed early stage Nordic technology winners since its inception in 1996. With seven Partners based in Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen, Northzone has the largest early stage technology team in the Nordics. In total Northzone has invested in some 60 companies – of which still active in more than 30 companies. Among the portfolio companies are Spotify, Tobii, EPiServer and Funcom.
www.northzone.se |
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Claude Rameau, Business angel (FR) Break- out 2: Attracting more women angels to the European market Having started his career as a consultant in the management of innovation, he joined later INSEAD (Fontainebleau) He was successively: Professor in the fields of Managerial Economics and Decision Making; Associate Dean for Executive Education (1972-1981); Dean of INSEAD (1981-1993). He is, since 1994, Vice-Chairman of the Board of INSEAD. For four years (1994-1997) he became Vice-President of EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) in Brussels. Since 1994, he became a “Business Angel” and invested (in seed capital) in innovative new businesses in France, UK, USA and Czech Republic. He was in 2001 founding member of France Angels, the French Federation of Business Angels Networks: he became Co-President of France Angels, and in 2004 EBAN Vice President. He is a member of the board of several companies and academic Institutions in Europe and Asia. |
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Marie Reinius, Managing Director, Swedish Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (SVCA) Moderator of the Morning session - Welcome to Stockholm and short SVCA briefing |
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Deniz Sezgin, METUTECH-BAN Presentation of the next EBAN Congress, Istanbul Deniz Sezgin born in 1968 Ankara-Turkey. After her graduation from college, from 1990 to 2006 she worked for Kocbank, Denizbank, HİFAŞ Hannover Fairs-İnterpro and Umut Danismanlik, in the department of consumer banking, private banking, private investment consulting and organisational consulting. She works as the Administrative Officer at METUTECH-BAN (Association for Business Angels Network established by METUTECH) which was founded for bringing together technology investors as an association and it aims to introduce the technology-based entrepreneurs with the investor business angels who are members of the network. |
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Madeleine Sparre, Senior Partner, Dedicera AB Attracting more women angels to the European market Madeleine is co-founder of Dedicera. She works with analysis and gives strategic advice to businesses that wish to improve their knowledge within the areas of entrepreneurship and venture capital. Madeleine has worked as a research consultant since the early 1990’s and has an extensive experience of the public sector as well as multinational companies. Further more Madeleine has gathered experience and knowledge of growth companies and the challenge of funding one as co-founder of Orange Interactive Research, a company that developed one of the first on-line research tools in the world.
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Ricard Söderberg, Active Venture Partners Case studies: top performing investments and their management teams Ricard is one of the founding partners of Active Venture Partners since its inception in 2002. He is elemental in solving structural challenges, ensuring solid organisational stantards and assisting in the financial planning for our portfolio companies. He is currently on the board of European Telemedicine Clinic, Golden Gekko and Companía General de Inversiones. Prior to Active Venture Partners, in 1996, Ricard started his career within the fixed income markets for Credit Suisse in London and New York. He was covering all the main Central Banks globally as clients and later focused on the Scandinavian markets. In 1998, he was part of setting up the Merrill Lynch office in Barcelona heading the active portfolio management department and also involved in the fundraising of private equity funds from Spain and the US. In 2001 he joined the UBS Barcelona office as an Associate Director until he left to set up Active Venture Partners in 2002. Ricard was born in Sweden and has lived and worked in Sweden, England, United States, France, Gibraltar and Spain. He graduated from the European Business School London in 1995. |
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Dušan Stojanović, Business Angel Moderator, session 1: Preparing for Exits Dušan Stojanović is a full-time business Angel in France, Sweden and Croatia. A European with a Swedish passport, Dušan worked between 1995 - 2005 primarily at GE Capital and Monabanq.com Internet Bank (France) within e-payments/e-commerce and his own ventures before becoming a business angel in 2005. Dušan has studied at Gothenburg School of Economics, Sweden. He then went on with GE training by finalising the GE FMP (Financial Management Programme) 2 year programme. He speaks 6 languages (French, English, Swedish, Serbo-Croat, German and Czech) and recently started to learn Mandarin. He is today one of the rare full-time cross-border business angels in Europe with 8 investments in 3 countries (France, Sweden and Croatia) and board member of Paris Angels Capital, a business angel fund. About to kick off TGV – True Global Ventures, a fund for serial entrepreneurs and serials angels as investors from 11 different countries. Results: Solid track record as a business angel with 2 full exits and 2 partial exits out of 8 investments.
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Leila Swärd Ramberg, Partner and co-founder of Theia Investment AB Attracting more women angels to the European market Leila Swärd Ramberg, partner and co-founder of Theia Investment AB, has a background in business law and as strategic purchasing manager at Ericsson. She has also had start-ups within trade and real estate and has been running her own investment business for a number of years. Leila has several board assignments; one of which is listed on the Swedish stock market; HiQ International , a mid size company GP Lastbilsbolaget AB and a number of entrepreneurial companies. Her background is a BSc in law from Uppsala University. |
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Fredrik Uhrström, Boardmember, EpiServer Panel debate: How to organize business angel investments for a win-win smooth transition to VCs |
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Daniel Wild, Business Angel Session 1: Preparing for exits Daniel Wild is founder and CEO of Tiburon Partners AG, an Internet and mobile seed venture capital and founder and managing director of Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH, a private seed fund and holding company, currently invested in 40 companies, the majority of which are in the technology sector. Daniel allowed twelve successful exits since 2004 including Xing , Studivz, Lokalisten and others including Lifebond and Hometown Commercial Capital. He is also founder and executive director of Getmobile AG and Getmobile-Europe PLC, an E-Commerce Company selling mobile phones with contracts in Germany, with an approximate revenue of € 100 m in 2008. Daniel Wild has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Diplomkaufmann), from the University of Trier, Germany and an MBA from East Carolina University. |
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