Tech Tour Bio Based Industries 2024 Programme[7]

Expert Jury

Anna Belousova

Industrial Biotechnology Team

Sofinnova Partners (France)

Annick Verween

Head of biotope
VIB (Belgium)

Arianna Savini

Manager Start-up Scouting & Investments
Henkel Tech Ventures (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)

Carmen Cheung

Investment Manager
Pioneer Point Partners (United Kingdom)

Claas Heise

Executive Director
NRW Bank (Germany)

Cornelia Baehr

Senior investment manager
b.value AG (Germany)

Erik Kolehmainen

VP, Corporate Venturing
Metsä Spring Ltd. (Finland)

Frank Boerboom

Danone (France)

Ines Kolmsee

Partner
Matterwave Ventures (Germany)

Jaap Strengers

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

Jens Busse

Investment Manager
Evonik Venture Capital (Germany)

Jisk de Vries

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

Joost Waeterloos

European Technology Scouting Leader
Dow (Belgium)

Karl Collins

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

Klaas de Boer

Chairman, Board of Directors
QFWventures (United Kingdom)

Maja Diebig-Lorenz

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)

Masaki Yano

Venture Partner
Energy & Environment Investment (Japan)

Miguel Knudsen

Dealflow Manager
Aqua-Spark (Netherlands)

Nathan De Geyter

Bussiness developer EoW in bioeconomy
Ghent University (Belgium)

Nikolaus Raupp

Investment Manager
High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) (Germany)

Paul Maurens

Venture Capital Associate
Omnes Capital (France)

Pelin Yilmaz

Investment Director
ICIG Ventures (Germany)

Peter van Gelderen

General Partner
Icos Capital (Netherlands)

Philipp Kopp

Investment Manager
bmp Ventures (Germany)

Rob Beekers

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

Sandra Joanes

Director
BlueCrow Capital (Portugal)

Sanne van Kouwen

Venture Capital Investor
Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund (Netherlands)

Sara Vandenwijngaert

Junior Partner
Qbic (Belgium)

Sergio Barbarino

Research Fellow
Procter & Gamble Belgium (Belgium)

Stefan Schnippering

Venture Associate
Diamond Edge Ventures (United States)

Stefan Mård

General Partner at Climentum Capital
Climentum Capital (Denmark)

Sunghee Son

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

Till Rösnick

Investment Manager
WEPA Ventures (Germany)

Timothy Wallace

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

Vivian Titze

Venture Development Manager
Henkel dx Ventures (Germany)

Viviana Hermosilla

Innovation and Technical Lead Europe
CMPC Ventures (Chile)