| Peter
Gardner, Deputy Head of Communications Sector Investments,
At 3i Peter is responsible for overseeing the portfolio of over 100 communications investments, a role that has involved looking at 750 business plans over the last six years. Peter joined 3i in 1997 after 30 years in the IT and communications industry. Peter started his career with IBM, and then after a number of years in academia formed his own VC backed IT and Communications business in the early 1980's. After selling this business, he did a turn around of LRT, the network tools company, and then joined Cristie to develop their IT and Telecomms subsidiaries, ending up as Group CEO. |
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| Sabine
Kaiser, Investment Director Healthcare,
Sabine Kaiser, investment director in the healthcare team of 3i, focuses on investments in the biotech and medical devices industries. She is currently a board member of Erlangen based ophtalmology company HumanOptics AG. Sabine has been in Venture Capital since early 1999, then at Technologieholding VC GmbH. Prior to that, she was working as an engagement manager for McKinsey&Co. at the Munich office, consulting clients in industries such as consumer and pharmaceuticals as well as the public sector. Sabine holds a Master of Science in Human Biology from the University of Marburg and has been engaged in biochemical research in institutions such as the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology of Oxford and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In addition she holds a Master’s degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and has been working on policy issues such as interregional integration in Europe and Latin America. |
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| Max
Burger-Calderon, Partner, Max Burger-Calderon is a graduate in economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and he also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Max began his career at Dresdner Bank in Singapore and later joined The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Munich. After leaving BCG, he managed the successful turnaround of a family-owned tobacco company. In 1986, he co-founded CFP - Corporate Finance Partners AG with Michael Hinderer in Zurich and was a co-founder of the Munich and Madrid office of CFP. CFP became a member of Apax Partners in 1989. At Apax Partners, Max is a Partner focusing on business development, particularly in the areas of leveraged transactions, information technology, MBO and MBIs. He sits on a number of boards and is a member of the executive committee of the European Venture Capital Association EVCA. Max is Chairman 2002 - 2003 of the EVCA |
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| Vijay
K. Sondhi, Managing Director, Vijay has spent over twelve years in Europe working with startups and high-tech companies in numerous positions, including software engineer, product manager, sales/marketing executive, CFO and co-CEO. He started his high-tech career working for Munich-based startup Fidelio Software GmbH in 1989, where he later became CFO and assisted in selling the company in a trade sale. At that point the company had over 450 employees and revenues in excess of EUR 45 million. He also worked at SAP AG as a strategic project consultant reporting directly to one of the founders. His most recent executive position was at IXOS Software AG where he started in 1997 as CFO and executed the first dual listing of a German company on both NASDAQ and Neuer Markt. He left IXOS in July 2000, at which time the company had 1,000 employees and revenues of over EUR 100 million. Vijay served as a strategic advisor at WarburgPincus in Munich during 2000-2001, advising on Information Technology venture capital investments throughout Europe. Vijay received an M.B.A. from Columbia University, New York and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. |
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| Thomas
Puetter, CEO, Thomas was born in 1958 and is married with 3 children. Since 1998 Chief Executive for Allianz Capital
Partners GmbH Munich Prior to his current positions Thomas worked in international finance with Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, London 1980-85, Deutsche Bank Capital Markets and Swiss Bank Corporation International Ltd, London 1985-88. Prior to joining Allianz he was Chief Financial Officer of the Matuschka Group, 1988-1992 and Executive Director Goldman Sachs International responsible for German speaking Region Private Equity Business and Investment Banking Services, London 1992-1998. |
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| Christoph
Bellmer , Managing Director - Munich Christoph Bellmer joined the management team of b-business partners in Munich in 2002. He brings significant cross-functional experience in Sales, IT and Business Development from the General Electric company GE CompuNet. At GE CompuNet he held various general management positions. Most recently he was a Member of the Board with responsibilities for Sales. Christoph Bellmer holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Munich. |
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| Katrin
Horstmann, Managing Director, Katrin Horstmann joined b-business partners 2001 as Managing Director. She brings exceptional operational experience from GE CompuNet and GE Capital IT Solutions, where she was responsible for the business development and operation of the "All Area Networks" business. Before joining General Electric (GE), she worked for McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Previously, she held various management positions at IBM's development laboratory in Germany. Katrin Horstmann holds a Master of Mathematics from the University of Hamburg. |
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| Dr.
Holger Frommann, Managing Director, Dr. Holger Frommann was born in 1954 in Halle/Saale (Germany) and is the Managing Director of the Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften – German Venture Capital Association e.V. (BVK), Berlin. Prior to this he had been involved in the field of science and research while teaching for example at the University of Halle/Saale until 1990. His wide experience and knowledge of the German Venture Capital / Private Equity market enabled him to contribute to various articles and books. Dr. Fromman is married and has two daughters. |
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| Michael
Wand, Director, Current Role at Carlyle: Michael Wand leads CEVP’s investment in infrastructure software in Europe. His focus areas are business intelligence, analytics, wireless infrastructure, security and embedded systems. Michael is responsible for CEVP’s investments in SmartTrust and Apama. Experience prior to joining Carlyle: Before joining Carlyle in April 2001 Michael worked for about 10 years in investment banking, the last 7 years in the technology sector. As a Managing Director he was responsible for the European software and Internet research team at Deutsche Bank in London from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that he worked as a European software analyst for Paribas in London and BHF-Bank in Frankfurt (Germany). During his banking career Michael discovered and took public technology innovators such as Autonomy, Baltimore Technologies, Brokat and nCipher. Educational Background: Michael received his MBA from Mannheim University (Germany) and University of Texas at Austin. He holds a BA degree in economics and business administration from Mannheim University (Germany). Board Seats: SmartTrust, Apama |
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| Soren
Hein, Partner, Soren has held several positions first with Siemens AG and then with its semiconductor spin-off, Infineon Technologies AG, during an eight-year career in Munich. Since 1999, Soren was Vice President of Technology and Innovation with the Wireless Systems division of Infineon, covering GSM, Bluetooth, WLAN and RFID technologies. In this position he was responsible for manufacturing technology definition and development, system architecture, IP management and screening for promising start-up companies and their technologies. Previously he was Director of Marketing for the Embedded-DRAM ASIC group. He also spent two years in Central R&D. Soren holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from INSEAD. He is the author of several patents and scientific articles as well as a book. Soren speaks fluent Danish, English and German. Soren is a member of the Board of Directors of Tak'Asic. |
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| Timothy
Draper, Managing Director, Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mr. Draper serves on the boards of Chroma Graphics, Homestead, MailFrontier, PLX Technologies (PLXT), and Phosistor. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and Four11. Previous successes included Parametric Technology (PMTC), Tumbleweed Communications (TMWD), GoTo.com (OVER), Digidesign (AVID), Preview Travel (TVLY), Four11 (YHOO), Combinet (CSCO), and Redgate (AOL). Mr. Draper launched the Draper Affiliate Network, a group of regional early-stage venture capital funds, including Zone Ventures in Los Angeles, Draper Atlantic in Reston, VA, Draper Triangle in Pittsburgh, PA, Wasatch Ventures in Salt Lake City, UT, Timberline Ventures in Portland, OR, Polaris Fund in Anchorage, AK, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham in New York. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. As an advocate for entrepreneurs, he has been published in The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, Upside, The Red Herring, and the Congressional Record. Mr. Draper is also the creator of Tim Draper's BizWorld, a course used to train young entrepreneurs. He served on the California State Board of Education and launched a state wide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election in November of 2000. |
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| Holger
Heims, Managing Partner, Holger Heims is Managing Partner of DVC Deutsche Venture Capital with more than 10 years experience in the IT-industry. At Computer 2000, one of the world’s leading IT distributors with more than US$ 5 bn in sales, he ran their worldwide M&A / business development and personally negotiated and closed more than two dozen transactions in Europe, the USA, Asia and Latin America. He spent more than 3 years in the USA, with turn-around experience as CFO of a NYSE-listed company. Before joining DVC, Holger Heims was CEO of “CineMedia Film AG” which he led to an IPO in early 1999. Holger received his Diplom-Kaufmann (MBA equivalent) from Munich University. |
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| Dr.
Hendrik Brandis, Partner, Dr. Hendrik Brandis is a co-founder of Earlybird, focusing on companies from high-tech industries such as semiconductors, telecommunication and medical equipment. Prior to joining Earlybird, he was a Partner with McKinsey & Co., in their Munich and Madrid offices. There, he led McKinsey’s small and midsize company initiative and participated in creating McKinsey New Venture. Hendrik gained his entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder of GMM, a group of private investors focusing on buy-outs of midsize companies. He has also worked as a Project Manager in the Technology Department of Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm (now Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace) focusing on the design and innovative manufacturing processes of composite aircraft structures. He attended the Technical University of Munich and holds a Dipl.-Ing. (MSc equivalent) and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering. Hendrik serves on the following boards: ASYNTIS GmbH, conject AG, dooyoo.de AG, GMD, InterNetwork, Novasonics, Wearix. |
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| Martin
Rigby, Managing Director, Martin Rigby joined the Cambby joined the Cambridge office of 3i in 1986 as a specialist investor in start-up and early stage technology businesses. In 1992 he founded ETCapital Limited. He has made investments in nearly forty technology businesses over the past 16 years. He sits on the boards of six QTP investees, including: Bango.net, gosurprise, Impak, Oi! Bagel, Force12 and WAX info and is a non-executive director of the Cascade Seed Fund. He read history for his first degree at New College, Oxford, and was a regular army officer for seven years before completing an MBA at Cranfield University. |
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| Falk
Strascheg, Founder and Managing Partner,
Falk F. Strascheg (62) is an electronic engineer and experienced entrepreneur. He is active for Extorel, one of the leading German Venture Capital Fund of Fund corporations which he founded in 1998. In 1987, he established Technologieholding, grew it to the leading German Venture Capital company and sold it in 2000 to 3i. Earlier, in 1971, he launched Laser-Optronic in Munich. In less than ten years, the enterprise became one of the leading European producers of laser systems, with branches in Brussels, Milan and Paris. In 1981, Falk Strascheg sold his enterprise to Coherent Inc. of Palo Alto, California, the world leader in laser manufacturing. Falk Strascheg was elected president of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) for the fiscal year 1997/98. He is also currently on supervisory, advisory and governing boards at various German and foreign high-tech enterprises. In May 2002, he created with significant financial efforts at the Munich University of Applied Sciences the “Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship”. |
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| Harald
Ehren, Head of Inside Business, Harald Ehren, 35, is head of the "inside
business"-section of the Financial Times Deutschland in Hamburg
- FTD is a joint venture of Pearson, publisher of the Financial
Times and of Gruner&Jahr, publisher of Stern, Capital and Geo.
He directs the coverage on management, venture capital and private
equity, law and accountancy, business books and people. He is one
of the founder of the Financial Times Deutschland and works for
the FTD since 1999. |
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| Michael
Wrede, CEO, Michael Wrede has been Chief Executive officer
of Future Capital AG since March 1999. As former Director of Corporate
Finances at the HypoVereinsbank, he also developed the strategic
method of procedure for private holding activities. The result of
these strategic reflections was the founding of a life science fund
(1996) and an information technology fund. In his further work he
acted as Board Member and Managing Partner for all fund companies.
Previously, Michael Wrede established a corporate finance department
within the organisation of the HypoVereinsbank´s London branch.
He holds an MBA and a master of mechanical engineering. |
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| Tom
L. Smith, Global Executive Venture Development,
Tom Smith was named to the position of Global Executive, IBM Venture Development, in April of 2000. The Venture Development organization is responsible for developing strategic relationships with venture capital firms focused on growth markets and emerging technologies, and missioned to build mutually beneficial client and business development relationships with VC funded companies early in their life cycle. IBM Venture Development is an integral part of the IBM non-organic growth strategy and is closely aligned with the efforts of the IBM Corporate Development Venture Investments and Corporate Strategy Venture Relations teams. Together they engage with the venture capital community to create mutual business value. Mr. Smith joined IBM in 1979 and has held a series of positions in information technology services, systems engineering, and sales. He has managed sales, marketing, and services organizations, most recently as Service Office Executive managing the IBM Global Services Integrated Technology Services business for the state of Georgia prior to assuming his current role in April of 2000. |
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| Ralf
D. Schnell, Managing Director, Ralf has built up Infineon's corporate venture capital activities since 1998 and is now heading Infineon Ventures. Prior to joining Infineon Technologies in 1998, Ralf worked with Siemens AG for 11 years. In his last position he was responsible for a corporate venture nurturing program and co-ordinated a Siemens-wide innovation initiative. Before that, he held various positions in microelectronics and software development in corporate technology departments. He obtained his Diploma degree in physics from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and received his Ph.D. degree for research work on semiconductor surface physics at the synchrotron radiation laboratories in Hamburg and Berlin. |
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| Johann
Weber, Sector Manager Wireless Johann Weber, - joined Intel in 1987 in the UK and has since held various positions in Product Marketing, Market and Technology Development at Intel. In 1993 he became the Marketing Manager for Intel Architecture processors for industrial and telecommunication markets. In 1997 he moved to the US where he was the Director for Wireless Data Communications in the Mobile Processor Division, spearheading initiatives to promote wireless data communications for notebook computers. Since November 1999, Weber is back in Germany and is responsible for Intel Capital’s European venture investments in the Wireless Sector, which includes W-LAN, Cellular and Broadband applications. Normally working with Venture Capitalists, Intel Capital Europe made over 50 new equity investments during the last year with the intent of expanding the Internet services, computing, content, wireless and broadband communications sectors. Prior to joining Intel, Weber was with the semiconductor division of Siemens AG in Germany, where he was responsible for graphics and signal processing. Prior to this, Weber developed software for graphic simulation and computer aided design at Adage Inc. Weber studied at the University of Siegen and Cologne and holds two Master Degrees, one in Computer Science and one in Economic Science. |
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| Maximilian
Brönner, Partner, Maximilian Brönner is a partner at LGT Capital Partners where he is responsible for the overall investment program including primary and secondary investments. With over €3 billion in alternative assets, LGT Capital Partners is a leading investment manager of private equity investment programs (CROWN VENTURES, CROWN BUYOUT, Castle Private Equity as well as separate accounts) on behalf of institutional investors. Before joining LGT Capital Partners in 1998, Max was a manager in the Swiss M&A team of Price Waterhouse with a special focus on private equity deals. Prior to this, he worked in the investment division of BBV in Spain and Jones Lang Lasalle in Germany. He was educated at the Université de Fribourg and the London School of Economics. |
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| Vojkan
Brankovic , Vojkan is a Manager in the Issuer Services Department
responsible for business development in continental Europe. His
main area of activity is advising companies on joining the Main
Market and AIM, and relationship management with corporate finance
advisers and listed companies on the London Stock Exchange. |
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| Charlotte
Crosswell, Charlotte joined the London Stock Exchange from Goldman Sachs in 1998, initially working for the Investigations Team in the Market Regulation Department. Two years ago, Charlotte moved to work within Business Development, firstly working with listed companies and subsequently setting up a team for relationship management of institutional investors. More recently, Charlotte became Head of Business Development for Europe and North America. Her team actively seeks new overseas listings from these areas and is establishing an active relationship management programme with existing companies. This ensures that all companies enjoy and understand the value-added services from a London listing. |
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| Rodney
Brooks, Director, Rodney A. Brooks is Director of the 230 person MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science. He is also Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of iRobot Corp. He received degrees in pure mathematics from the Flinders University of South Australia and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981. He held research positions at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT, and a faculty position at Stanford before joining the faculty of MIT in 1984. His research is concerned with both the engineering of intelligent robots to operate in unstructured environments, and with understanding human intelligence through building humanoid robots. He has published papers and books in model-based computer vision, path planning, uncertainty analysis, robot assembly, active vision, autonomous robots, micro-robots, micro-actuators, planetary exploration, representation, artificial life, humanoid robots, and compiler design. Dr. Brooks is a Founding Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He won the Computers and Thought Award at the 1991 IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). He has been the Cray lecturer at the University of Minnesota, the Mellon lecturer at Dartmouth College, the Hyland lecturer at Hughes, and the Forsythe lecturer at Stanford University. He was co-founding editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision and is a member of the editorial boards of various journals including Adaptive Behavior, Artificial Life, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Robots and New Generation Computing. He serves on the board of the Intelligent Inspection Corporation. He starred as himself in the Errol Morris movie "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control"; named for one of his scientific papers, a Sony Classics picture, now available on videocassette .His most recent publications include "Cambrian Intelligence," (MIT Press, 1999), "The Relationship Between Matter and Life" (in Nature 409, pp. 409-411; 2001) and "Flesh and Machines," (Pantheon, 2002). |
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| Dr.
Christian Zschocke, Managing Partner,
Christian Zschocke is the Managing Partner of the Morgan Lewis’ Frankfurt office. His practice concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, in particular takeover law, as well as on EU and German antitrust law. He has been the external advisor to the German Takeover Commission for several years. Dr. Zschocke is a regular speaker at seminars, and an author of numerous publications on corporate and antitrust law, including a bilingual commentary on the German Takeover Code, a bilingual commentary on the German Stock Corporation Act, as well as monthly reports on current takeover offers and the development of European and German takeover law in the magazine “FINANCE”. Dr. Zschocke, a German national, has been a member of the Cologne Bar since 1990. In addition to earning a doctorate in law from Hamburg University, he is qualified as a Licenciado en derecho under Spanish law. |
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| Anthony
Warnock-Smith, Partner, Anthony Warnock-Smith, a partner in the London office of Morgan Lewis and the European head of the Life Sciences Practice, focuses on the pharmaceutical, medical device, cosmetics, veterinary drug, and foods and food additives industries. Mr. Warnock-Smith has 25 years of experience in regulatory matters, as well as commercial agreements and transactions. His regulatory experience involves the full range of issues, from clinical trial and product development issues, to marketing and allied reimbursement, product liability and other trade regulation matters. He is also experienced in corporate and commercial transactions, European Union competition law, and strategic partnering. From 1973 until 1996, Mr. Warnock-Smith worked at Sterling Winthrop (now Sanofi-Synthelabo), rising to vice president of legal services in Europe. |
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| Adi
Seffer, Partner, Adi Seffer is head of the Morgan Lewis’ Technology Practice in Frankfurt. His practice focuses on tech-driven transactions for Technology (TMT) - and Biotechnology clients and the financial community. He handles e-commerce and copyright-matters, IP/IT and Biotech related agreements, M&A transactions and private and public financings. Adi Seffer is president of the world-wide operating
International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA). He is a member
of the German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright
Law (GRUR), Licensing Executives Society, and the German Association
of Computer Law. Mr. Seffer is nominated by Legal Media Group, London
as one of only 30 lawyers worldwide as a leading lawyer in both
Telecoms and IT. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French and admitted to the Frankfurt bar. |
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| Dr.
Ansbert Gadicke, Founding General Partner,
Dr. Ansbert Gadicke is the Founding General Partner of the MPM Group. He led MPM's effort to build its Advisory and Investment Banking business from 1992 to 1996 and started its Asset Management business in 1996. Prior to founding MPM, Dr. Gadicke was employed by The Boston Consulting Group where he worked with management of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health insurance companies. Dr. Gadicke received an M.D. from J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. He subsequently held research positions in biochemistry and molecular biology at the Whitehead Institute at MIT, Harvard University and the German Cancer Research Center. He has published in leading scientific publications including Nature and Cell. Dr. Gadicke is a Director of Arriva, Centagenetix, Endeavor Pharmaceuticals, Kourion, Mindset Biopharmaceuticals, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Omrix Biopharmaceuticals, Pharmasset, and ViaCell. He previously served as a Director of BioMarin, Coelacanth, MediGene and Transform. He is also a member of Advisory Councils for Harvard Medical School, the Health Science and Technology Program of Harvard and MIT, as well as the Whitehead Institute at MIT. He serves as the Co-Chairman of the Alumni Association of the Whitehead Institute. |
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| Dr.
Denise Pollard-Knight, Head of Healthcare Private Equity,
Denise Pollard-Knight is responsible for Nomura’s healthcare private equity activities. Prior to joining Nomura, Denise was an investment
manager in the Bioscience Unit of Rothschild Asset Management a
unit managing over $500M in biotech companies in the US and Europe.
She also held a number of non-executive director positions in emerging
healthcare technology companies in Europe. She has held R&D
management positions at Amersham International and Fisons plc. In
1993, she joined Scientific Generics, a strategic consulting company
with a major focus on the US market. There she was responsible for
the Life Sciences Division and became a main board Director in 1996. |
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| Helmut
Schön, Managing Partner, Helmut Schön, a German National, is a general partner at Partech International (www.partechvc.com), a leading venture capital company with $850million+ under management. Helmut has more than 20 years experience in the IT and Telecom sectors ranging from entreprenuerial start-up experience, investing experience to working for leading investment banks (Merrill Lynch and UBS Warburg and WestLB Panmure) for a number of years, leading their respective telecom and/or technology practices in Europe. He has worked with both early stage as well as large public companies (Siemens, Philips, AT&T, Ericsson etc.) on a wide range of capital raising and strategic M&A transactions. Helmut is member of a number of industry advisory boards and is a regular speaker and moderator at industry conferences. Helmut holds a degree in computer sciences and an MBA from IMD (Switzerland). |
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| Dr.
Simon Waddington, Partner, Simon is a Partner of PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, a venture capital group based in Munich, Germany. Simon holds a Ph.D. in surface and solid-state physics from the University of Liverpool, U.K., and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Previous to PolyTechnos, Simon was responsible for starting and managing the European corporate venturing activity of Monsanto Company. Prior to Monsanto, Simon ran Zeneca’s biopolymer film and coating product development activities. Prior to this, he was a senior research scientist within ICI, specializing in surface, interface and adhesion science. His functional roles have included corporate venturing, business development and strategy, product development, applied science, and basic research. Simon's professional activities have broadly spanned the physical, chemical and biological sectors and he has therefore developed a keen interest in businesses that have a deep interdisciplinary context. His involvement with the development and advancement of surface analysis methods has led to a long standing interest with nanoscience. He is a co-founder of the recently created European NanoBusiness Association and serves on its advisory board. Simon has lived and worked in the U.K., the U.S., Belgium and Germany. He currently serves on the board of Plastic Logic Ltd. (U.K.), Power Paper Ltd. (Israel) and Micrus Corporation (U.S.). |
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| Stephen
Murphy, Managing Director, Head of Equity Private
Placements Europe, Stephen Murphy is a Managing Director in the Financial Entrepreneurs Group in London and Head of the European Private Equity Placement business. Prior to re-joining the firm in October 2001, Stephen was a member of the European management team of E*TRADE Group, Inc where he was responsible for their international Corporate Finance activities. His remit at E*TRADE included managing E*TRADE’s Internet related Private Placement activities, global retail eDistribution and the strategic realignment of E*TRADE's European businesses. He left Salomon Brothers International Limited to become a Partner at TIR Securities (bought by E*TRADE) in 1998. He originally joined Salomon Brothers Inc in New York in 1986 and has worked in New York, Tokyo and laterally in London primarily in the Merger and Acquisition Group and covering Financial Entrepreneurs in the UK and Ireland. Stephen earned a Bsc degree in Marketing from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. |
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| Dr.
Dietrich Ulmer, CEO & President,
Dr. Dietrich Ulmer (43), CEO and President of Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH, comes with many years' management experience at international high-tech companies and an excellent background in terms of setting up companies and managing complex projects. From 1997 to 2001, as director of 'Strategic Projects – Corporate Strategy' he was chief strategist at VIAG Interkom, Munich. Alongside numerous fixed network, internet, and mobile radio projects he had project responsibility for acquiring the UMTS license at auction, heading the bidder team in Mainz. From 1996 to 1997 he headed the 'Business Development' and 'Balance Sheets and Controlling' sectors at debis T&M of debis AG in Stuttgart. Among others, he brought in the company Tegaron in the transportation telematics sector. From 1985 to 1996 he worked for Mercedes Benz AG in Berlin and Stuttgart. In his last function, as head of the 'Strategic Projects in the Automobile Sector' department he was responsible from the commercial viewpoint for major international projects. Dietrich Ulmer gained his doctorate in economics at Konstanz University. He has degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from The Technical University (RWTH) in Aachen. |
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| Bjoern
Eske Christensen, President & CEO,
Prior to assuming his current job as President & CEO of Siemens Venture Capital, Bjoern was President & CEO of Mustang Ventures. Before that, he was responsible for Business Development in the Public Communication Group of Siemens. During his 20+ year career Bjoern has spent the majority of his time within Siemens in various positions in the USA, Denmark and Germany, starting in engineering positions in data processing, sales support for data processing systems to responsibility for developing a new generation of data switching products (circuit, packet and message based) in the early 1980s. Later Bjoern held various management positions in the field of configuration management for large scale switching systems, Intelligent Networks and Telecommunications Management Network (TMN). Bjoern graduated from The Technical University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with a Masters of Science degree in Engineering (Electronics/Telecommunications ) |
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| Tim
Minshall, Board of Directors, Tim Minshall is a member of the Board of St. John's Innovation Centre Ltd. and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Management. He was part of the team that has successfully raised substantial funding for entrepreneurship-related activities at the University of Cambridge. These funds are now being used to deliver a wide range of teaching, support and review activities focused on new venture creation. Tim was part of the start-up management team of the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre, and has recently joined the University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Management. He has a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department and a BEng from Aston University, and has worked as a consultant, teacher, plant engineer and journalist in Japan, Australia and the UK. He is editor of the 'Cambridge Technopole Report' and co-author of the 'Funding Technology' report series. |
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| Frances
Bornstein, Vice President, Frances Bornstein holds a degree in business management from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Following her studies, she was initially a consultant to the retailing industry. In 1996, she turned to business journalism, working as a television reporter and for an agency specialised in financial market news. She has held the post of Deputy Head of Key Account Issuers with the SWX Swiss Exchange since 1998. |
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| Kurt
Mueller, Partner, Kurt has been a successful high-tech entrepreneur
and executive for the past 17 years. From 1986 to 1999 he founded
and then grew Dataware Technologies from Euro 0 to Euro 43 million
in revenues as Chief Executive Officer. In 1993 he successfully
brought Dataware public on the NASDAQ (DWTI), and in 1995 he founded
Northern Light Technology . From 1984 to 1986 Kurt was founder and
managing director (Geschäftsführer) of Lotus Development
GmbH in Munich. |
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| Michael
Boshammer,Investment Director, Michael Boshammer took a first class degree in economics at University Wuppertal. He began his career as a freelance marketing consultant for a medium-sized company in the building industry before he founded and started a mail order business from the scratch that supplied with specialist products of the daily use. Two years as a product manager for a new advertising company that implemented a unique new standard of interactive communication in the multi-media market were followed by a position as a senior Project and Product Manager for a start-up telecommunications company in the de-regulated German telecoms market. There he was responsible for planning and managing development of six major telecommunications products over a period of four years. Following he worked as a Senior Consultant of New Business Development in Detecon´s Department for Mobile Communications and built up a team in the mobile internet sector and managed international projects for mobile network operators and manufacturer. In April 2001, Mr. Boshammer joined T-Venture and the T-Mobile Venture Fund as an Investment Director. At the moment he is responsible for Mobile Commerce in the UK, MindMatics in Germany and Blue Factory in Sweden and represents T-Venture at the boards of directors. |
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| Friedrich
Bornikoel, Managing Partner, Friedrich Bornikoel joined TVM in 1987. He has been a Managing Partner since 1997. His investment activities focus mainly on companies in the software, networking, telecommunications, and semiconductor markets. Mr. Bornikoel has managed the investment in Tantau Software Inc. (acquired by 724 Solutions Inc.) and represents TVM on the Board of Directors of alfabet meta-modeling AG (Berlin), eCustomers Inc. (Austin, TX), Impress Software AG (Hanover), as well as VPIsystems (Holmdel, NJ). Prior to joining TVM, he managed a large program administered by the Federal Minister of Science and Technology (BMFT) of public R&D grants in the area of advanced microelectronic components and sensors based on fiberoptics, integrated optics, and semiconductor technologies, as well as related design methods. Before that, he was a project leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Technology in Munich. Friedrich Bornikoel earned his master in physics (Diplom Physiker) at the Technical University of Munich. |
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Peter L. Levin, General Partner, Dr. Peter L. Levin joined TVM in March of 1999 and focuses on infrastructure technologies, ranging from semiconductor devices and fabrication to software design and simulation. He leads or co-leads TVM's investments as a director of ClearCube Technology Inc., Gold Wire Technology Inc., IC Mechanics Inc., Interactive Silicon Inc., and Neolinear Inc., and as case manager for Morphics Technology Inc. Prior to joining TVM, he was the associate dean for research and graduate studies at the College of Engineering at Boston University, and a tenured member of their Electrical Engineering faculty. Dr. Levin has previously worked in the White House, first for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget as a White House Fellow, then as Assistant to the Counselor to the President, and finally in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was also an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and spent a sabbatical year as a guest professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Darmstadt. Dr. Levin founded, and for eight years directed, the Computational Fields Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator. He holds three degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and enjoyed postdoctoral training at the Technical University of Munich. |
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Christian Waldvogel, Partner, Christian Waldvogel joined Viventures in May 2000. Prior to joining Viventures, Mr. Waldvogel was in charge of Intel Capital’s investment activities in France, the Benelux and Southern Europe. He orchestrated Intel’s first investments in France and Portugal, opening these two new markets for Intel Capital. Before joining Intel Capital, Dr. Waldvogel held European-wide responsibilities for Intel Corporation in Munich. His previous professional experience also includes the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT) in Paris, Crypto AG in Switzerland and IBM in California Dr. Waldvogel holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degree from Princeton University (US), a PhD in Cryptography and a Master in Telecommunications from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich) and completed the Corporate Financial Strategy program at INSEAD (France). He is also on the Board of Directors of Avalon Photonics (Switzerland) and ClarITeam (France). |
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Lindstrom Fredericks, Managing Director of Corporate
Finance, Ivy Lindstrom Fredericks is Managing Director of Corporate Finance of Westminster Securities. Ms. Fredericks advises domestic and international companies on public and private debt and equity offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and financial restructuring. Ms. Fredericks focuses primarily on emerging growth companies. Ms. Fredericks has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience. Previously, she was a Managing Director of Corporate Finance with Ambient Capital and KPMG Peat Marwick. Prior to that she was in the Mergers and Acquisitions departments of Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Ms. Fredericks received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Smith College, and a Masters of International Affairs in International Business from Columbia University. She recently taught a course at New York University entitled “Privatization and Economic Reform: Focus on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”. She speaks frequently at international conferences on a variety of Corporate Finance topics. Ms. Fredericks is on the Board of Directors of VI Group plc, a software company based in the UK and publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market and the American Stock Exchange. |
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