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