Speakers 2021
Just a Few of Our Great Speakers!
Paolo Gentiloni
Commissioner for Economy, European Commission
Maive Rute
Deputy Director-General, European Commission, DG GROW
Giorgio Chiaron Casoni
Director of InvestEU and Financial Institutions, DG for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
Myrtha Casanova
Founder and President of European Institute for Managing Diversity
Peter Jungen
Chairman of Peter Jungen Holding GmbH, EBAN President Emeritus
Cornelius Boersch
Entrepreneur, Business Angel and Founder of Mountain Partners AG
Philippe Auvray
Co-founder and CEO at Neurallys
Fadi Barbara
PhD Student at Computer Science Department, University of Turin
Astrid Bartels
Head of Unit, DG GROW, SME Access to Finance, European Commission
Guido Boella
Professor at Computer Science Department, University of Turin
Simone Brighina
CEO at Motoblockchain
Raffaele Buompane
Senior Advisor at EBN
Alfonso Cortés Izurdiaga
R&D Public Funding Programmes Senior Specialist at COSENTINO
Angelo Dalli
Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, General Partner at 111
Phong Dao
CEO & Co-Founder at iVE.ONE
Emmanuelle Deponge
Venture Partner at GO CAPITAL
Tarek A. El Kady
Executive Chairman of KD Group, founder of Techne, Alex Angels & The Mediterranean Business Angels
Thiago de Faria
Senior Startup Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Manuel Fernandez-Grela
Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela
Alex Grech
Strategist, Consultant and Professor of New Media at University of Malta
Maria Hala
Business Angel, Founder and CEO of joinHERbusiness
Meri Helleranta
Member of EBAN Impact Committee
Mikkel Hesselgren
Senior Vice President of Fund of Funds at Vækstfonden
Elias Iosif
Senior Researcher at the Blockchain Initiative Institute For the Future at University of Nicosia
Janne Jormalainen
President of European Business Angel Network
Panayiotis Ketikidis
Member of the Board at EBAN
Edna Lazar
Director Exploration at Edwards Lifesciences
Gilles Le Cocguen
Head of EuroQuity at Bpifrance
Nigel Lewis
Managing Director at Veinsense
Reima Linnanvirta
Chair of the Board at FiBAN
Gloria Lorenzo
Co-founder of WA4STEAM, Senior Director of Software Development at Oracle and Angel Investor
Soulla Louca
Professor in the Department of Digital Innovation and Director at the Institute for the Future, University of Nicosia
Ricardo Luz
Founder & Emeritus President of Invicta Angels, EBAN Board Member
Sebastian Markowsky
Partner and Head of Corporate Finance at BV Ventures AG
Colin Mason
Professor of Entrepreneurship at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Ilona Mooney
CEO at Work Ahead
Korina Papadopoulou
Product Development Manager at Gnomon Informatics SA
Elena Pasquali
CEO at EcoSteer
Iraklis Paraskakis
Senior Research Officer at South East European Research Centre and Coordinator of Information & Knowledge Management Research Cluster
Jeremie Pige
Head of the Innovation Hub for Eastern Africa at World Food Programme
Wolfgang Rams
Co-Founder & COO AfricaGreenTec AG
Petri Rinne
CEO at Rinne & Partners
Kaidi Ruusalepp
Founder & CEO at Funderbeam
Caroline A. Sai
Operations Manager, Angels Santé, EIT Health Investor Network Leader
Joachim Schwerin
Principal Economist, European Commission, DG GROW
Tobias Seidl
Founder of Nia Health
Tiago Simões de Almeida
Executive Board Member at Banco Português de Fomento
Nicolai van der Smagt
Senior Solutions Architect Startups at AWS
Ian Sosso
Angel of the Year 2018, Founder and Managing Partner of Monte Carlo Capital
Dušan Stojanović
Founding Partner and Director at True Global Ventures 4 Plus
Martin Ulbrich
Senior Expert, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Georgios Vagenas
Co-founder of Bluechain Technology
Mindaugas Valiulis
Policy Officer at European Commission
Jonathan Ward
CEO at Genome Biologics
Giada Zanatta
Business Development Director at Ecosteer