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Eber­hard Ruess

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Eber­hard is a for­mer cor­po­rate Vice Pres­i­dent at the world’s largest Food & Bev­er­age com­pa­ny with 30+ years pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence across Man­u­fac­tur­ing, Sup­ply Chain, Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy and Merg­ers & Acqui­si­tions. This includes 20+ years of oper­a­tional and project expe­ri­ence, man­ag­ing and dri­ving busi­ness trans­for­ma­tions on glob­al scale through Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy.

Till Augn­er

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With eight years of hands-on expe­ri­ence as a ser­i­al entre­pre­neur, I’ve found­ed and led four com­pa­nies through the unpre­dictable jour­ney of start­up life. I’ve seen it all—the exhil­a­rat­ing highs, the chal­leng­ing lows, and every­thing in between. One of my ven­tures faced sig­nif­i­cant hur­dles, offer­ing invalu­able lessons that no text­book could teach. Hav­ing walked the path … Con­tin­ued

Antje Chris­tine Ven­jakob

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Antje is a sci­en­tist, turned entre­pre­neur. After com­plet­ing her PhD and a research stint at Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Berlin and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney, she found­ed a tech start up togeth­er with two col­leagues from uni­ver­si­ty. As a founder Antje was respon­si­ble for fundrais­ing, finance, busi­ness devel­op­ment and busi­ness oper­a­tions. When the start­up was acquired by … Con­tin­ued

Davide Marchi­sio

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Pas­sion­ate leader with a track record of dri­ving dig­i­tal inno­va­tion and cor­po­rate ven­tures. Proven expe­ri­ence in guid­ing orga­ni­za­tions through the full life­cy­cle, from explo­ration to suc­cess­ful ideation and prod­uct devel­op­ment. I bring an entre­pre­neur­ial mind­set and exten­sive expe­ri­ence to con­tribute to the suc­cess of prod­ucts and ven­tures from ideation to go to mar­ket.

Nataly Ulyano­va

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I am the co-founder of Treep­ilya. I have 15 years of legal expe­ri­ence. For­mer part­ner of Deloite. In Treep­ilya I am respon­si­ble for busi­ness devel­op­ment and legal

Pieter van Mid­woud

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Pieter Van Mid­woud is Chief Tree Plant­i­ng Offi­cer at Ecosia. After fin­ish­ing his stud­ies, Pieter devel­oped a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion scheme for for­est car­bon projects and joined Ecosia as their first tree-plan­t­i­ng offi­cer, cre­at­ing a var­ied port­fo­lio of refor­esta­tion efforts. Ecosia, a search engine with mil­lions of users, plants trees world­wide using its ad rev­enue. Over 150 … Con­tin­ued

Pawel Poltorak

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I’m a strate­gic mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­al with exten­sive expe­ri­ence guid­ing star­tups through their go-to-mar­ket strate­gies, com­mu­ni­ca­tion plans, and brand­ing efforts. I’ve led suc­cess­ful cam­paigns and built high-per­­for­m­ing teams across var­i­ous indus­tries, includ­ing SaaS and fin­tech. I’ve dri­ven sig­nif­i­cant growth for mul­ti­ple star­tups, includ­ing lead­ing the go-to-mar­ket strat­e­gy for the SaaS prod­uct LiveBank24 and devel­op­ing com­pre­hen­sive strate­gies … Con­tin­ued

Dash Marko­va

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With ten years of expe­ri­ence in the start­up ecosys­tem, Dash is ded­i­cat­ed to sup­port­ing impact entre­pre­neurs effec­tive­ly. Based in Ger­many, she has built numer­ous start­up pro­grams and accel­er­a­tors both local­ly and in emerg­ing mar­kets such as Sub-Saha­ran Africa, the Mid­dle East, South-East Asia, and Latin Amer­i­ca. Dash has designed around 20, man­aged 5, and launched … Con­tin­ued

Den­nis Stahl

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I have spent more than 15 years work­ing with Pri­vate Equi­ty and Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Funds in spot­ting, devel­op­ing and exe­cut­ing out­stand­ing VCPs. The past 4 years I have launched and grown a Tal­ent Bou­tique focused on ESG & Impact Tal­ent, a place­ment agency and invest­ment club focused on impact star­tups (and funds) and a Purpose/Sustainability … Con­tin­ued

Wari­di Pab­st — Schrob­s­dorff

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I am a for­mer top mod­el and the mas­ter­mind behind Fash­ion Africa 254 and the Mtin­do Pho­tog­ra­phy Book. I was born in Kenya and have been liv­ing in Berlin since 1993. Over the past 25 years, I have built a thriv­ing career in the inter­na­tion­al fash­ion busi­ness by pro­mot­ing African brands and dis­cov­er­ing and sup­port­ing … Con­tin­ued