Tech Tour Bio Based Industries 2024 Programme[7]

Expert Jury

André Convents

Section Head R&D Europe

Procter & Gamble (United States)

Anna Belousova

Industrial Biotechnology Team
Sofinnova Partners (France)

Annick Verween

Head of biotope
VIB (Belgium)

Arianna Savini

Manager Start-up Scouting & Investments
Henkel (Germany)

Barbara Berckmans

Investment Manager
Agri Investment Fund (Belgium)

Bjorn Heinz

Investment Director
Yara Growth Ventures (Norway)

Bruno Rudnik

Managing Partner
SEF Ventures (Germany)

Carlotta Ficorella

Industrial Deep Tech VC
Matterwave Ventures (Germany)

Christian Lenges

Venture Director
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) (Netherlands)

Claas Heise

Executive Director
NRW Bank (Germany)

Cornelia Baehr

Senior investment manager
b.value AG (Germany)

Deanna Zhang

Director
Circularity Capital LLP (United Kingdom)

Elisabet Sjölund

Head of R&D
Neste (Finland)

Erik Kolehmainen

VP, Corporate Venturing
Metsä Spring Ltd. (Finland)

Ewelina Kuna

Principal, Sustainable Industry
Icos Capital (Netherlands)

Wood-based products & materials

Waste management

Recycling & circular models

Frank Boerboom

Senior Technologist
Danone (France)

Ines Kolmsee

Partner
Matterwave Ventures (Germany)

Ivana Krkljus

Global Strategic and Technical Advocacy, Renewable Carbon Policy
BASF Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)

Jaap Strengers

Impact investing food & agriculture venture capital
Future Food Fund (Netherlands)

Jens Busse

Investment Manager
Evonik Venture Capital (Germany)

Jens Uhlemann

Partnership Manager Envu
Bayer (Germany)

Jisk de Vries

Investment Analyst
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF) (Germany)

Jonas Wilcks

Investment Professional
Pioneer Point Partners (United Kingdom)

Joost Waeterloos

European Technology Scouting Leader
Dow (Belgium)

Jurgen Van Holen

R&D Manager
OLEON (Belgium)

Karl Collins

Director, Open Innovation & Ecosystems EMEA
Bayer | Crop Science (Germany)

Klaas de Boer

Chairman, Board of Directors
QFWventures (United Kingdom)

Lauro Antonio Tonacatl Ojeda

EMEA & APAC Lead
Cargill Inc. (United States)

Aquaculture/algae and marine

Waste management

Recycling & circular models

Maja Diebig-Lorenz

Head of Sustainability and Innovation
INVITE GmbH (Germany)

Mami Fleck

Mitsui & Co. Deutschland (Germany)

Manuel Brunner

Principal, Sustainable Material Innovation & Investments
Minderoo Foundation (Australia)

Marc Leduc

Investment Manager
BASF Venture Capital GmbH (Germany)

Marek Romanowski

Investment Manager
Qemetica (Poland)

Masaki Yano

Venture Partner
Energy & Environment Investment (Japan)

Michinori Muraoka

Investment Manager
Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital (Germany)

Miguel Knudsen

Dealflow Manager
Aqua-Spark (Netherlands)

Nathan De Geyter

Bussiness developer EoW in bioeconomy
Ghent University (Belgium)

Olga Goor

Investment Manager
Brightlands Venture Partners (Netherlands)

Pelin Yilmaz

Investment Director
ICIG Ventures (Germany)

Philipp Kopp

Investment Manager
bmp Ventures (Germany)

Raffaele Giovinazzi

Innovation Ventures
Inter IKEA Group (Netherlands)

Rob Beekers

Director New Business Development
Cargill Bio-industrial Group (Netherlands)

Samuele Ambrosetti

Innovation and Programming manager
Bio-based Industries Consortium (Belgium)

Sandra Joanes

Director
BlueCrow Capital (Portugal)

Sanne van Kouwen

Venture Capital Investor
RaboVentures (Netherlands)

Stefan Schnippering

Venture Associate
Diamond Edge Ventures (United States)

Sunghee Son

Head of Department Business Development TFT
LG Chem Europe GmbH (Germany)

Taha Adnan

Deal Scout
Zaz Ventures (Belgium)

Thomas Mueller-Kirschbaum

Chief Scientist
Circular Valley (Germany)

Till Rösnick

Investment Manager
WEPA Ventures (Germany)

Timothy Wallace

Head, Scouting & Assessment, Ventures & External Innovation
Novonesis A/S (Denmark)

Tom Smets

Investment Analyst
Qbic (Belgium)

Viviana Hermosilla

Innovation and Technical Lead Europe
CMPC Ventures (Chile)

Wouter Van de Putte

Investment Director
Capricorn Partners (Belgium)