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Canelle Mengual

Canelle is supporting PHINEO Startups as a Senior Program Manager. From the outset of her career, she’s been driven by the desire to contribute to positive change. With a varied background covering sustainable food, innovative work practices, and the energy and mobility sectors, she brings a wealth of experience to the team. As an Expert at the … Continued

Michelle Rudolph

Michelle is supporting PHINEO Startups as a program manager. Previously, she worked for McKinsey & Company in Berlin as a Senior Consultant where she worked for various clients across industries in Europe. Her work in consulting enables her to apply a structured approach to problem-solving to the different needs of PHINEO’s impact startups. Michelle studied … Continued

Jacob Künzer

Jacob is currently doing his masters in sociology, focusing on social and political aspects of Europeanization. In the past years he has gained work experience in the NGO world. Furthermore, as a scientific researcher, he worked in different research projects, such as sociology of socialization or inclusion for marginalized groups. He believes that impact startups … Continued

Netsai Ndaza

Netsai is supporting PHINEO Startups as a program manager. She has worked in the field of higher education for the past 10 years in various program management positions. Therefore, Netsai had organized programs for business schools such as ESMT, coordinated an anti-racism program for the German Commission for UNESCO, and designed C-level executive education programs … Continued

Lisa Götz

Lisa has an academic background in sociology and law (M.A.). Through her studies, she developed a major interest in global social inequalities and crises, with a particular focus on finding ways to overcome them. Her work experience as a scientific researcher in the fields of migration, inequalities, and organizational sociology have led her to investigate … Continued

Jonas Wegener

Jonas co-founded the digital agency elbududler. He has been working for over 13 years as CEO of various companies in the digital industry and was involved in more than 200 digital projects: from online stores to mobile apps. But above all, social media!He is sharing this experience as a lecturer at the Good School in … Continued

Sebastian Neumann

Sebastian is Head of Phineo Startups. He has built the impact startup incubator and accelerator from the ground up as a new division of PHINEO gAG. Driven by the notion that the world’s crises are interconnected and his belief in the innovative power of impact entrepreneurs to solve those crises, he seeks to move the … Continued

Franka Ismer

Franka is developing the program for the Incubator with the goal of empowering startups to develop system-changing solutions to social and environmental crises. Her motivation is to help measurable regenerative entrepreneurship go mainstream. Her background is as a systemic organizational developer. With her organization she has guided many national and international companies towards a new … Continued

Viviana Köhrbrück

Viviana has an academic background in political science with a focus on international relations and development cooperation. During and after her studies, she worked with the NGO Global Perspectives Initiative to promote a stronger dialogue at eye level between Africa and Europe in order to achieve sustainable and balanced global development and international responsibility in … Continued