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EBAN 2015 Angel Summit

6 - 8 May 2015High Tech Campus, Eindhoven

EBAN Open Forum | EBAN Annual Congress

Welcome to EBAN 2015! Dear Members of the Global Innovation, Entrepreneurial and Early-Stage Market Players and Investor Community It is with the greatest joy that on behalf of the members of the EBAN Board, the EBAN President Advisory Council, the President and Board Members of MBAN (MENA) and ABAN (Africa), and BAN Nederland I would like to welcome you to the EBAN 2015 Angel Summit – Creating, Financing and Building Global Success Stories made in the EMEA. Following on from last year’s EBAN 2014 and the “Power of the Collective”, the next three days that we spend together will be a “Celebration” of our entrepreneurs, our incubators, our accelerators, our amazing Angel community, our investments, our successes, as well as our partnerships in venture and entrepreneurial finance with the European Business Incubation Network (EBN), the European Crowd Funding Network (ECN), European Venture Capital Association (EVCA), Corporations, Stock Exchanges

and the European Investment Fund (EIF) all the while interacting with policy makers and governments around the world. EBAN is also very proud to participate with its European partners in a number of European Commission Horizon 2020 projects – Future Internet Business, Invest Horizon, and Eureka. We are excited about showcasing our combined work during our EBAN Open Forum Day on 06 May culminating in the first ever Global Investor Forum in partnership with our EBAN Institute and e-Xcelerator Demo Day and then throughout the Congress with Entrepreneur Elevator Pitches, presentations and the like. We look forward to sharing our new initiatives with you -- the Creation of the E-Zone, the WIN-WEN (Women Investors Network – Women Entrepreneurs Network), the EBAN e-Xcelerator program to forge a deeper relationship between Corporations, Accelerators and Business Angels the world over with the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) as well as our continued focus on helping create entrepreneurial Eco-Systems and business angel investment in emerging markets. Research continues to be a pillar of EBAN’s activity and during the Congress we will be presenting our ongoing work on our annual tax-incentive and co-investment compendiums as well as a new guidebook on Business Angel Co-Investment with European Structural Funds. Our Committees be they Research, Horizon 2020, CoIN, Impact Investment help us all grow and are a wonderful channel for our members to actively contribute to this growth. And speaking of research, we are most excited about our new relationship with the European Research Council to help us identify the best sectors for our investments. There are no geographic borders anymore in the entrepreneurial, innovative and early-stage investment community and this is evidenced not only by the recent creation of MBAN and ABAN, but also our combined partnership with the Global Business Angel Network (GBAN) and Global Accelerator Network (GAN). We are also particularly pleased to welcome our colleagues from the USA -- New York Angels, ACA, Start-Up Angels, and the Kauffmann Foundation who have made a special trip to be with us. It is our hope that this global gathering will not only result in networking, sharing of best practices and learning from each other, but also in cross-border and cross continent investments and successes. An Angel Summit would not be complete without Elevator Pitches and so we are thrilled to have the best entrepreneurs from our EBAN Open Forum present throughout the Congress on 07 and 08 May as well as having a live Crowd-Funding session to boot! And finally, dear colleagues, we need to make certain to grow and scale-up our entrepreneurial companies to be global success stories. This can be done only by making certain that our investments also result in exits and building an asset class – a subject which will be presented on 08 May in depth. In conclusion we would like to extend a special thank you to our long-time partners, GUST and our new partners, the European Space Agency for accompanying us on this journey as we expand our horizons literally and virtually, to our sponsors of EBAN 2015 and of EBAN and to you, dear members of the global innovation, entrepreneurial and early-stage market players and investor Community. Now let us celebrate together! Candace Johnson President EBAN

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T U R N I N G T E C H N O L O G Y I N T O B U S I N E S S

Agenda

6th May

EBAN Open Forum

Workshops, Training, Demo Day

Global Investor Forum

09:00 – 10:00

Welcome Coffee and Registration

10:00 – 12:30

INVESTMENT FORUM

Future Internet Business

In cooperation with EBAN Training Institute

EARLY STAGE CAMP

InvestHorizon Coaching Workshop

(e-Xcelerator Preparation)

In cooperation EBAN Training Institute

1. Trying to arrive at a justifiable valuation? 2.

Balancing hype with delivery? 3. Do you really

have a scalable proposition or is it hope?

TRAINING 3.0 WORKSHOPS

Trainings for Business Angels, Business Angel Network Managers

and Entrepreneurs

Baybars Altuntas,TBAA President

Peter Braun, Co-Founder and CEO of the Mountain Club AG

Candace Johnson, President EBAN

Martijn Blom, Founder of Droomzaken Business Development

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:40

Space Cadet Entrepreneurs (ESA)


OPENING and KEYNOTE

e-Xcelerator INVESTMENT FORUM

Powered by InvestHorizon

Eileen Moloney, Cork BIC

TRAINING 3.0 WORKSHOPS

Trainings for Business Angels, Business Angel Network Managers

and Entrepreneurs



Opportunities for investments in Space: Getting more Bang for the

Buck


GUST Best Practices

Streamlining Dealflow, Maximising Your Group’s Engagement

Will Brown, Managing Director of Gust

Julien Tubbs

Impact Investing – This time for Good

Martijn Blom, Founder of Droomzaken Business Development

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee Break

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16:00 – 18.00

GLOBAL INVESTOR FORUM

Powered by InvestHorizon

Demo Day for selected teams to pitch for investment, Moderated by Eileen Moloney, Cork BIC

Two prizes – Most Investible team and the One to Watch – voted on by a Judges Panel

Michael O'Connor, CEO of CorkBIC

Pontus Frohde, COO of FundedByMe

Axel Kalinowski, Manager - Continental Europe, London Stock Exchange

Marius Sewing, CEO Microsoft Accelerator

Brian Cohen, Chairman NY Angels

Leslie Jump, President Start-Up Angels

Catherine Mott, President Emeritus ACA

Pat Riley, CEO Global Accelerator Network

Charles Sidman, President Emeritus Crowdfunding Professional Association



Kaspar Korjus, Estonia’s E-Residency Program

Mariana Bozesan, Founder & Partner AQAL Capital


18:00 – 19:00

Networking Coffee and One-on-One Meetings

19:00 Awards and Closing Session

7th May

EBAN Annual Congress

08:00 – 09:00

WELCOME COFFEE AND REGISTRATION

09:00 – 09:30

OPENING CEREMONY (Auditorium)


Peter Jungen, Co-Founder and President Emeritus EBAN

Paulo Andrez, President Emeritus EBAN

Brigitte Baumann, President Emeritus EBAN

Tomi Davies, President ABAN

Dr. Abdul Malik Jabaar, Founder President MBAN

Harry Helwegen, Chairman BAN Nederland

09:30 – 11:00

Creating the E-Zone

Virtually …

Kaspar Korjus, Estonia’s E-Residency Program

Ivar Siimar, President of Estonian Business Angel Network (EstBAN)

Heidi Kakko, Managing Director EstBAN

Philipp Moehring, Angel List

Paulien Dirkzwager, Start-Up Delta

With Crowd-Funding Platforms …


Oliver Gajda, President ECN

Pontus Frohde, COO of FundedByMe

Maarten de Jong, Managing Director of Oneplanetcrowd

With Stock Exchanges and the Capital Market Union

Mustafa Kemal Yilmaz, Vice-President Borsa – Istanbul Stock Exchange

Catherine Mott, Board Member of U.S. SEC Small and Emerging Companies Committee

Hans Leufkens, NL Delegate EnterNext/Euronext

Axel Kalinowski, Manager - Continental Europe, London Stock Exchange

Attilla Toth, Deputy CEO of the Hungarian Stock Exchange

Ludvik Sobolewski, General Manager of the Bucharest Stock Market

EBAN 2015 GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURS PITCHES

11:00 – 11:20

COFFEE BREAK

11:20 – 12:00

EXPANDING THE VENTURE FINANCE ECO-SYSTEM WITH CORPORATE VENTURING AND BUSINESS ACCELERATORS (Auditorium)

Erik Vermeulen, Senior Counsel Corporate/Vice President at Philips International B.V.

Marius Sewing, CEO Microsoft Accelerator

Pat Riley, CEO Global Accelerator Network

Bas Langelaar, Founder Vetrix | BAN Nederland

Daniel Tomov, CEO Eleven | Co-Chair EBAN e-Xcelerator Committee

Eileen Moloney, Cork BIC


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12:00 – 12:45

CREATING STRATEGICAL ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(Auditorium)


Keynote: The Lord Mayor of Tetovo Ms. Teuta Arifi

Andreas Baresel-Bofinger, South East European Research Centre | HeBAN Co-founder

Dimitris Tsingos, HeBAN Co-founder

Ilija Vuckov, President of Macedonian Business Angels

Plamen Russev, President of Webit Congress

Iulian Basu, President of Romanian Business Angels

Alejtin Berisha, President of KOSBAN

Ivan Jovetic, President of MBAN


Alicia Robb, Senior Fellow the Kauffmann Foundation

David Tee, Head of Membership Services EBN

12:45 – 13:30

LUNCH

13:30 – 14:00

SCIENCE-BASED INNOVATION AND INVESTING IN DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES (Auditorium)

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the ERC

14:00 – 14:45

ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECO-SYSTEMS AT GLOBAL LEVEL

(Auditorium)



Konstantin Fokin, President Russian Business Angels

Association



Ben White, CEO VC4 Africa


(Moderator) Juan Roure, President of AEBAN

TECHNOPARKS AND INNOVATION CENTERS

Kenan Colpan, CEO of Istanbul Technical

University Tecknopark

Roger Perrin, International Managing Director of Regus Kora

Frans Schmetz, Managing Director of High Tech Campus Eindhoven

EU – BUSINESS ANGEL CO-INVESTMENT FUNDS

Pablo Millan, Head of Business Angels Investing

EIF

Ricardo Luz, Director General Early Stage Market of Portugal

Moderator: Paulo Andrez, President Emeritus EBAN

CROSS BORDER INVESTING FOR INTERNATIONAL

GROWTH

Rene Reijtenbagh, Angelfunding

Michiel Simons, Nextstage/Hubstart

Marcel Dridge, Sophia Business Angels

Riku Asikainen, FiBAN Chairman Emeritus

Melih Odemis, Galata Business Angels

14:45 – 15:00

COFFEE BREAK

7th May

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15:00– 15:50

IMPACT INVESTING

Hedda Pahlson Moller, Impact Investing

Suzanne Biegel, Investors’ Circle and Clearly Social

Angels

Ferhan Cook, Co-founder of London-based m-Spark

Martijn Blom, Founder of Droomzaken Business

Development

Marijn Bergsma, BiD Network investor

matchmaker

LIVE CROWD-FUNDING SESSION

(Auditorium)

TAX INCENTIVES – BEST PRACTICES FOR EUROPE


Michael Culligan, President of HBAN

Medina Braha, EBAN Research Fellow

15:50– 16:20

VIEW FROM AMERICA

(Auditorium)




16:20 – 17:00

WIN-WEN – THE POWER OF WOMEN (Auditorium)

Women Investment Networks and Women Entrepeneur Networks

Global Premier Announcement of: “Rising Tide, Women Investors Fund”

Florence Korhonen, Nordic Female Business Angel Network


Anita de Groot, Women Professional Group

Simone Brummelhuis, Founder and Publisher The Next Women

Suzanne Biegel, Investors’ Circle and Clearly Social Angels

Anu Bhardwaj, Founder Women Investing in Women

Dr. Alicia Robb, Senior Fellow the Kauffmann Foundation


Selma Prodanovic, Co-founder of Austrian Angel Investors Association

The Lord Mayor of Tetovo Ms. Teuta Arifi

17:00 – 18:00

EBAN Annual General Meeting

19:30 – 20:00

COCKTAIL AND RECEPTION

(Evoluon Venue)

20:00 – 22:00

GALA AND AWARD DINNER

(Evouluon Venue)

8th May

EBAN Annual Congress

08:00 – 09:00 WELCOMING COFFEE AND REGISTRATION

09:00 – 09:45

HOW BUSINESS ANGELS CREATE GLOBAL SUCCESS STORIES (Auditorium)

Catherine Mott, President Emeritus ACA

David Rose, Founder and CEO of Gust





09:45 – 10:00 HOW TO RAISE A €500K INTERNATIONAL ANGEL SYNDICATE IN 48H (Auditorium)


10:00 – 10:30 INVESTING IN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPACE (Auditorium)

Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of the Technology Transfer Programme Office of the European Space Agency

10:30 – 11:30

SUCCESSFUL ANGEL EXITS

Ari Korhonen, Co-founder of FiBAN | Vice President of EBAN –

Angel Investor with three successful 7X exits

Dimitris Tsingos, HeBAN Co-founder – GRexit – A new kind of

global exit


Suzanne Biegel, Investors’ Circle and Clearly Social Angels

Federico Cappa, Arietti & Partners

HOW PUBLIC AUTHORITIES CAN FOSTER THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

ECOSYSTEM (Auditorium)

(Moderator) Baybars Altuntas,TBAA President

Ali Arslan, Director General Regulations & Financial Markets,

Government of Turkey

Ricardo Luz, Director General Early Stage Market of Portugal

David Tee, Head of Membership Services EBN

Norbert Van den Hove, Dutch Ministry Economic Affairs

Jan Oker-Blom, Managing Director at FiBAN

European Commission – DG Grow

NORDIC REGIONS, AN EXAMPLE OF COOPERATION

Jeanette Andersson, Managing Director of Connect

Jesper Jarlbaek, Chairman of the Board at CataCap Private

Equity

Will Brown, Managing Director of Gust

Ivar Siimar, President of Estonian Business Angel

Network (EstBAN)

Jaakko Salminen, Chairman FiBAN

11:30 – 12:15

BUSINESS ANGELS AS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

BRIDGE-BUILDERS

Selma Prodanovic, Co-founder of Austrian Angel Investors

Association





HORIZON 2020, EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND EUROPEAN

UNION PROJECTS: INVESTHORIZON | EUREKA | FUTURE INTERNET

BUSINESS

Christophe Bodin, CBO Consulting

Susanne Kuehrer, EU Funding Committee

Ilija Vuckov, President of Macedonian Business Angels

Marion Perrin, EU policy consultant for peacefulfish

Maria Laura Trifiletti, Arietti & Partners

EU BUSINESS ANGEL CO-INVESTMENT FORUM

Moderator: Paulo Andrez, President Emeritus EBAN

Michal Cieminski,

Jeanette Andersson, Managing Director of Connect

Ricardo Luz, Director General Early Stage Market of

Portugal

8th May

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12:15 – 12:30

WINTER UNIVERSITY/CREATIVE BUSINESS CUP

Jesper Jarlbaek, Chairman of the Board at CataCap Private Equity

Rasmus Tscherning, Managing Director CKO

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 – 14:15

CORPORATE VENTURE FUNDS

William Stevens, Founder & CEO e-unlimited

THE IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY-BASED INTERMEDIARIES WITHIN

THE START-UP VALUE CHAIN

Philippe Vanrie, CEO of EBN

THE AFRICA OPPORTUNITY


Ben White, CEO VC4 Africa

14:15 – 15:00

MAKING MONEY WITH BUSINESS ANGEL INVESTMENTS

– Business Angel investment portfolio returns and strategies

– Investor syndication/pooling instruments at European level

– Lessons learned from recent exits to US and Asian companies

– Creative ways to increase liquidity of investments

– Salvage/revive start-ups that are in near death with a promising business


15:00 – 15:30 EBAN 2015 GRAND FINALE

15:30 – 15:40 CLOSING REMARKS

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Speakers

Abdul-Malik Al Jaber CEO of MENA Apps Accelerator and Founder of MBAN Abdul-Malik Al Jaber, MBAN President, Business Angel and Serial Entrepreneur A full-time angel investor, believing that Arab Youth can contribute to global innovation. Invested in more than 20 start-ups and focused on building an innovation friendly Eco-system in MENA. He has leading the two most prominent telecom operators MENA. Managed to turn around the companies in term of profitability, commercial strategy, capacity building of the human cadre as well as introducing and running a very active CSR program with multi initiatives. Very active in regional cooperation and international and pan Arab initiatives that promote entrepreneurship, education, empowering of women and creating an enabling and positive environment for the less privileged segments of the society. I’m the founder of the First Micro Finance Bank in the Arab Region, member of the World Economic Forum, Member of the Regional Board of INJAZ, member of the YPO, member of the regional Board of YAL, Co-Chairman of Arab Information Telecommunication Business Forum, member of Arab Business Council, member of the Management Board of Jordan University of Science and Technology. Also, Chairman of Al Hilal Football Club Chairman of Golden Mills, MEPS Group, United for Energy Services, the International Investment Group, WeziWezi, PayFellow, Sallaty.Jo, Experts911, Gallery Al Sharq, Mindset, Beye.

Mohamed Al Tawash Enterprenuer specilaize in Real Estate & Finance He is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of accomplishment-laden experiences in the GCC and MENA region. He has focus investment experience in the real estate and construction fields. He has addressed many challenging experiences during start-up, growth, and turnaround situations, and has repeatedly proven his ability to deliver strong and sustained results.

Nazar Al Baharna President, and Founder at International Conflict Resolution Group Baharna began to work at the University of Bahrain in different capacities until 1995. The last academic post he hel was the vice president for academic programs and scientific studies at the University of Bahrain. After leaving academia he established a consulting firm in Bahrain.He is a founding member of the Al Wefaq National Islamic Society which he left in 2004.However, one year later he rejoined the society. In November 2005 he became deputy chairman of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He was appointed minister of state for foreign affairs on 11 December 2006. Baharna, a Shia, remained in the post until February 2011. Then he returned to work as chairman at his company, Technology Consulting Group. He is also a visiting scholar researcher at Georgetown University. He is a mamber of the advisory board of the Iman Foundation and of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin. In 2013, Baharna published a book, A Universal Human Rights Model. He is a graduate of the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. He received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering there. He also obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Wales in 1979

Baybars Altuntas President of TBAA | Vice President of EBAN Founder of Deulcom International, the first vocational training school of Turkey and named by the Economist - Turkey as one of the top 100 franchise companies of Turkey.Deulcom International became one of the fastest growing trademark of Turkey and was prised by Eurowards. Founder of UFRAD - Turkish Franchise Association. Introduced IATA Educational System to Turkey. Elected as the Best Businessman - 2010.Was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited by US President Barack Obama to the White House Presidential Summit in Washington DC. He was the only participant who was given a personal audience by the US President before his summit. After the US President's speech, CNN International interviewed Baybars Altuntas live at its Washington studios the only delegate interviewed. One of the dragons of Dragons' Den - Turkey, entrepreneurship TV show. His book 'My way to Dragons' Den' has been the best- seller in Turkey. LinksAngel BAN with his leadership is acting as a business angel platform supporting start-up businesses in Turkey. President of TBAA - Business Angels Association - Turkey. Married and has 2 children

Jeanette Andersson EBAN Board Member | Managing Director of Connect Jeanette Andersson coordinates CONNECT Sweden’s BANs with app. 350 business angels and is operational responsible for CONNECT Skane’s BAN. She works as a consultant for a Swedish VC-firm and is involved in different business angel projects on a Nordic basis. She is also active investor in three start-up companies. Jeanette is committed to improve the conditions for the early stage market in Sweden and Europe and is an appreciated voice in the debate. Previously she has several years of operational sales & marketing experience in international automation industry and seven plus years experience in entrepreneur-ship and company development, e g Managing Director at a VC-financed start-up. She has been active as VC-investment advisor since 2009 and private investor since 2011. Jeanette holds a MSc in BA from University of Lund and an MBA from Henley Business School, UK.

Paulo Andrez Vice-President of FNABA | President Emeritus of EBAN Paulo Andrez is an angel investor. He is Vice-President of FNABA (Portuguese Business Angels Federation), President of Cascais Business Angels, Member of the Board of DNA Cascais (BIC). He chaired (2010-2012) the EBAN Research Committee, which produced the first EBAN Co-Investment and Tax Breaks reports, in cooperation with BDO. Paulo Andrez was chairman of the World Business Angels Leaders Forum (Estoril, 2007) that decided to create the World Business Angel Association, and participated under FNABA scope in the design of the first Business Angel co-investment fund in Portugal. In 2010 he also participated in the design and implementation of the first Business Angels Tax Break in Portugal. Paulo Andrez has a background as serial entrepreneur and has created several companies in areas like IT software, training, real estate and industrial resins. In 2000 he participated as entrepreneur (seller) in the IPO in Euronext, of Novabase, the largest national IT provider in Portugal, with more than 1900 employees, working in 33 countries and from then he became Business Angel, helping entrepreneurs to achieve results. He is an IT Engineer and has a MBA from Nova University in Lisbon.

Teuta Arifi Mayor of the Municipality of Tetovo Dr. Teuta Arifi graduated philology at the University of Prishtina in 1991, while in 1995 obtained MA degree in Philosophy, from Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. She also holds PhD degree in Philology from the Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje. Dr. Teuta Arifi was elected as Mayor at the Municipality of Tetovo and holds this position since April 2013. Teuta Arifi was elected to the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs in July 2011 and held the position till February 2013. Teuta Arifi has extensive political background as she was the first Albanian woman to be elected in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia in 2002. She was subsequently re-elected as Member of Parliament in 2006, 2008, and 2011. As Member of the Parliament she performed a number of important duties and chaired various parliamentary committees including the Committee for Foreign Affairs, Committee of Culture, and member of the delegation of Macedonia’s Parliament to the European Council. She also holds the position of Vice-President of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), key political party of the Albanians in Macedonia. Furthermore, Dr. Arifi has also renowned academic background as she is one of the key founders of the Southeast European University (SEEU) in Tetovo where she held the position of associate-professor in Multicultural Studies. She is also Assistant-Professor on History of Albanian Literature at the Department of Albanian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia. The portfolio of the Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Teuta Arifi includes international experience, as well, including a number of significant assignments with international organizations.

Ali Arslan Director General of Financial Sector Relations & Exchange Mr. Ali ARSLAN was born in 1963 in Adıyaman. He was graduated from Department of Business Administration at the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences in Çukurova University. He studied Business Administration (MBA) for Master's degree at the Cleveland State University in the United States between 1992-1994. He started public service in 1987 as a Junior Treasury and Foreign Trade Expert at the Under secretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade. He worked as expert and department manager in General Directorate of Public Finance, General Directorate of Economic Research and General Directorate of Foreign Capital. Between 2002-2004, he worked as an energy expert in the Republic of Turkey Energy Market Regulatory Authority. He was appointed to the Under secretariat of Treasury General Directorate of Banking and Foreign Exchange as Head of Department in October 2004. He worked as the Head of the Human Resources Department between January 2005 and May 2010 and as the Director General of Banking and Foreign Exchange between May 2010- November 2011. Since November 2011, he has served as Director General of Financial Sector Relations and Exchange. He is married with three children.

Riku Asikainen Chairman Emeritus FiBAN Riku Asikainen is an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth hacker. He started his first company while in high school, and sold it as Finland´s leading internet bookstore at fifteen years later. Since then he has been a founder, active investor and board member in more than 35 companies. Riku has had several nice upswings, ten exits and one IPO, but is still looking for his first billion dollars. Riku Asikainen was one of the Co-founders and chairman of FiBAN (Finnish Business Angel network) which has been awarded Europe´s best business angel network in 2013 by EBAN. He is a proud co-founder of Startup-foundation, the organization behind both SLUSH, Europe´s biggest tech conference and Startup sauna, a leading incubator program for the region in which Riku currently serves as Head Coach. Riku Asikainen graduated from Aalto University School of Business (M.Sc, Helsinki) and was nominated as the Alumni of the year 2014.

Andreas C.R. Baresel-Bofinger Project Manager at the South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) Andreas Baresel-Bofinger is Project Manager at the South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) in Thessaloniki. He is Managing Partner of Wilhelm Bofinger GmbH & CoKG in Germany. In the past he held the position of Management Consultant at the Incubator of Technopolis Thessaloniki ICT Business Park. Before, for many years he was Coordinator of European projects at SEPVE, the Association of IT Companies of Northern Greece. He is a private investor and serves as advisory board member at the InnovationFarm Stage One Accelerator in Thessaloniki. He has also the role of Strategic Enterprise Advisor at CITY College, the International Faculty of the University of Sheffield. Andreas has been lecturing Master and Bachelor courses at the Business Administration and Economics Department of the International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, CITY College. He holds a BA in Accounting and Finance and an MSc in Information Systems. Currently he is also pursuing a part-time PhD in Green Supply Chain Management. His papers have been presented at national and international conferences.

Brigitte Baumann

CEO Go Beyond Early Stage Investing | President Emeritus EBAN Brigitte is the Founder and CEO of Go Beyond Early Stage Investing www.go-beyond.biz. Go Beyond enables novice to sophisticated investors to build, manage and exit diversified portfolios of direct investments in young, fast growing companies . It offers cross border investment opportunities, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services and training/coaching, Go Beyond works with individual investors, family offices, professional groups/associations and corporations. Go Beyond operates in Europe and the US. Its team is comprised of seasoned entrepreneurs/general managers who are now business angels. Brigitte is a Business Angel and serves on a number of selection and investment committees in Europe such as the WEF Tech Pioneer. Brigitte is President Emeritus of EBAN, the European trade association for Business Angels and Seed Funds www.eban.org Brigitte Chairs Young Presidents Organization’s www.ypowpo.org global Angel Investing group. Brigitte Baumann has 20+ years of experience in bringing new technologies to market in the US and Europe. She was the CEO and Director of iWORLD Group, a VC backed, global developer of mobile content. She was Senior Vice President and General Manager Internet at American Express (Amex) Corporate Services. There she launched a variety of internet businesses including online travel (strategic partner of Expedia.com and subject of HBS case study) and e-Procurement. Prior to that, Brigitte spent three years as President for US and Canada of Gemalto, the world’s leader in smart card technology and applications to introduce smart cards in the North America. Before, she spent six years in different Vice-Presidential/General Manager positions in the UK, France and Switzerland at Amex. She also spent five years with McKinsey & Company Inc. as Senior Engagement Manager, in New York, Paris and Tokyo. She began her career in manufacturing and sales with Rohm & Haas, a leading specialty chemicals company. Brigitte holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University, Boston and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.

Alejtin Berisha Founder of Kosovo Business Angels Network (KOSBAN) Alejtin Berisha is an entrepreneur, educator and an investor from Kosovo and the Founder of Kosovo Business Angels Network (KOSBAN). He is the Executive Director of Universum College, Kosovo’s most entrepreneurial and innovative College. He teaches entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in several universities, is an affiliate faculty for MOC Program at Harvard Business School and is the National Team Leader for Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM); Alejtin is the Co-Founder of iziSurvey – an offline surveying application and Anglia Academy – a language training school. He is an innovator in higher education, was featured in the cover page of CIO Magazine (Albanian), and was the host of ‘We have a Job for you’ TV Show at Radio Television of Kosovo, modeled after ‘Apprentice’ with Trump/Shugar. Alejtin is a regular commentator in local and international media. He is a fellow at New York University and an Executive Committee Member at EAIR – the European Higher Education Society. He has studied at Universities of Bath and Sussex (UK) and South East European University in Macedonia.

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Anu Bhardwaj Founder of Women Investing Anu Bhardwaj is the founder of Women INVESTING in Women DIGITAL. WIIW DIGITAL includes a social media platform with over 315,000 followers in over 100 countries; the “Women INVESTING in Women and Girls” Radio show on Voice America Kids/Podcast Series on Apple ITUNES, The State of Women Radio Network in partnership with Kidstar Radio Corporation, and the WIIW Global Summit & Women in Private Equity Roundtable Series, which took place in New York City, Stockholm, Johannesburg, San Diego, Scottsdale, Muscat, Singapore, Phoenix, and Vienna. Her specialties include international business development for private equity professionals, women in private equity, women in philanthropy, high-growth women entrepreneurs, Angel Networks/Angel Capital focusing on women and crowd funding platforms & initiatives focusing on women.

Suzanne Biegel Investors’ Circle and Clearly Social Angels Suzanne is the founder of Clearly Social Angels, the largest social and environmental impact focused angel network in the UK, part of ClearlySo. Prior to that, she led angel network Investors’ Circle, in the US, after being a member for over 10 years, where she also helped to launch a collaborative angel fund called the Patient Capital Collaborative. She also runs Catalyst at Large Consulting and is a catalyst in impact investing, philanthropy, and early stage social impact business. She is an active angel investor in a number of women led and women focused businesses, such as DailyWorth.com in the US. She is the Investment Director for SPRING, a venture accelerator focused on adolescent girls, in East Africa. She brings more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, board member, and hands-on operational manager to her work. In the 1990s, Suzanne was the CEO of IEC, an e-learning and communications firm, during which she and her business partner received the Entrepreneur of the Year and Women of the Year awards. Since selling IEC, Suzanne has been an active angel investor, philanthropist, and board member, and has played leadership roles in a variety of companies and projects. She is passionate about engaging more women in social impact investing, and investing with a gender lens. Suzanne is a native New Yorker, now based primarily in London. She is a Wharton alumnae.

Martijn Blom Founder of Droomzaken Business Development Evangelist of social entrepreneurship and impact investment. Consult, invest, teach, speak and write about these themes in order to inform, connect and inspire organizations and individuals on the possible impact they (should) have in our changing society.

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Jean-Pierre Bourguignon President of the ERC | Directeur de recherche at CNRS Jean-Pierre Bourguignon holds an engineering degree from École Polytechnique and a PhD in mathematical sciences from the University Paris VII. A differential geometer by training, he has since pursued his interest in the mathematical aspects of theoretical physics. A member of the scientific council of several international institutes, he was President of the Société Mathématique de France from 1990 to 1992, and of the European Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1998. He was a member of the Executive Commission of the Euroscience organization from 2002 to 2006 and also a member of the ESOF2004, 2006 2008 and 2010 steering committees. He is the secretary of the mathematics section of the Academia Europaea, a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences and in 2005 was elected honorary member of the London Mathematical Society. He was made Doctor Honoris Causa of Keio University (Japan) in 2008 and Doctor Honoris Causa of Nankai University (China) in 2011. In 1987, he received the Prix Paul Langevin and in 1997 the Prix du Rayonnement Français in Mathematical Sciences and Physics from the Académie des Sciences de Paris. He is the Chairman of the mathematics committee of the European Research Council that deals with calls for applications of junior fellows. A member of the CNRS Ethics Committee since 1999, he has been chairing it since 2007.

Mariana Bozesan Founder & Partner AQAL Capital Dr. Mariana Bozesan is an integral investor, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has earned an outstanding track record as an Integral Investor by de-risking early stage investments in high-tech and clean-tech using the Theta Model based on integral theory by Ken Wilber. Mariana has been appointed as a full international member in the Club of Rome, she is a National Advisory Board Member for the G8/G20 Social Impact Investment Task Force, and a strategic advisor on integral finance and sustainability to various funds, governmental organizations, social businesses, and NGOs. Moreover, she is a prominent keynote speaker and an inspiring lecturer on the future of investing, business, finance, and economics at prestigious organizations including Stanford University, Oxford University, INSEAD, TEDx, and RIO+20. The trained computer scientist and former Senior Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance is also a widely published researcher, and the author of several books. Mariana is founder of AQAL Capital, an integral investment consulting company and founder of AQAL Investing, a family office and UN PRI signatory. As the leading authority on integral investing, the most advanced paradigm in integral sustainability, she provides the means and metrics to implement the parity between people, planet, profit, with purpose, and passion. Her de-risking model integrates financial, ecological, social, cultural, behavioral, and human consciousness factors with beauty, and joy.

Medina Braha EBAN Research Fellow Medina Braha has started her work at EBAN as Research Analyst in the process of updating the Co-investment Funds Compendium and the Tax Outlook Compendium. These two publications, co-edited with BDO, remain an utmost tool to EBAN and its members and are highly regarded by policy makers across Europe. Medina holds a Master of Science degree in Economics for Business Analysis, obtained at Staffordshire University in United Kingdom. She also holds a bachelor degree in Management and Informatics, obtained at University of Prishtina, Kosovo. She also works as Teaching Assistant at University of Prishtina, Kosovo’s first and largest university among all public and private higher education institutions. At the same time she also holds the position of Ambassador (Executive Representative) of Baybars Altuntas for the Republic of Kosovo. In that position, she established the first Baybars Altuntas Junior Society in the world.

Peter E. Braun EBAN Board Member | Co-Founder and CEO of the Mountain Club AG Peter E. Braun has 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and in various senior and top management positions in the aerospace and automotive industries. He has successfully launched two industrial companies and two finance-related enterprises, and completed two IPOs, one in the United States and one in Germany. During his career, Peter gathered profound knowledge of the capital markets and the finance sector with activities in Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada, USA and Asia. He is a much asked for coach for start-ups, a compelling speaker and a sought after senior advisor and board member. In his most recent activity as a Co-Founder and CEO of the Mountain Club AG, he created a peerless e-banking solution for business angel and private equity investments in collaboration with the strategic partner UBS AG.

Will Brown European Business Development Director at Gust Will is Gust’s European Business Development Director. He brings a wide range of experience as an entrepreneur, techie and business development professional. Before joining Gust Will was Sales director at Merrill Datasite, Montreal and Paris. Prior to that, Head of IT for KPMG Consulting’s Metrius, Gemserv, Bowne of London and founder of two startups. Will currently serves as a Tech London Advocate.

Simone Brummelhuis Founder and Publisher The Next Women Simone Brummelhuis is founder of The Next Women, providing access to capital, programs, resources, pitch competitions and networks for female entrepreneurs and founding investor of the The Next Women Crowd Fund. Simone is supervisory board member of The Telegraaf Media Group and board adviser with several startups (a.o. LendaHand, Storecove), with Xs4all (till 2015), Astia Accelerator (she was VP Europe), The Entrepreneur Centre at the Erasmus University (and Startup Coach) and the European Commision’s Face program supporting young entrepreneurs. She is on the investment committee of the Oxfam Novib Impact Fund, the Business Development Fund of the Erasmus University and on the Proposition Committee for SME Financing of the NLii. She is co-founder of the largest online restaurant platform IENS in the Netherlands (sold to Tripadvisor in 2014). Simone has an LLM from Columbia University and worked previously as attorney with Skadden, Arps and Loeff in Amsterdam and New York. TheNextWomen’s Pitch Programme is recognised by as best Practice by The European Training Foundation.

Federico Cappa Partner Arietti & Partners M&A International Inc. Corporate finance professional with 15+ years of work experience in originating and structuring financial deals on grants, debt and equity, including innovative R&D projects and expansion plans in many industries like investment goods, processing technologies, food & beverage, healthcare, ICT, automotive and green energy. Previous involvement in the investment industry as asset manager. MBA with high honors from The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business. Executive Certificate in Strategy & Innovation from the MIT - Sloan School of Management.

Jerome Chifflet Manager at EIT ICT Lab Jerome Chifflet is currently Access to Finance Activity manager at EIT ICT Labs (European Institute of Innovation and Technology). He has extensive research background at Orange, of around 20 years in various positions ranging from Orange Labs Manager up to deputy research Director. He has also been entrepreneur from 2000 to 2004 as Founder and CEO of Waidan. In the last five years at EIT ICT labs, he was a business development director for France before to be in charge of Access to finance Europe. He belongs to several Investment committees (PACA Investments) and Incubators (PACA –EST; Telecom Paris Tech incubators). Jerome is also members of research council (Telecom Paris) and members of editorial board of the international revue (Telecom System).

Michal Cieminski Founder and CEO of Platinum Seed Incubator Michal Cieminski is an expert in TMT market with over 20 years of experience and wide network of contacts among Polish TMT sector. Michal is a founder and CEO of Platinum Seed Incubator, which focuses on providing seed capital to projects connected mainly with TMT, health and lifestyle and renewable energy sources. Platinum Seed Incubator works for international cooperation in the territory of Europe to decrease the costs for starting up the company by using local software developers, internationalize Polish startups, give an access to polish market for successful “Western Europe startups”, investing and mentoring to startups. Michal is also involved in consulting activities on the level of the board for one of largest Polish CATV operator as well as he manages local branch of Entrepreneur Country and acts as an investment director at Bastion Group, group of VC/PE funds. He proofed his ability to effectively re-organize projects, startups, and corporations into highly effective businesses. He run i.e. “The City of Plus” – first social media project with mobile operator which was awarded in 2003 at The Globe Award competition as one of the five best projects in the world in New Media category. Michal holds a Master degree in Administration and Capital Investments from Private Higher School of Business and Administration (Warsaw). He also completed several programmes at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), LBS (London) and IESE Business School (Barcelona). His values and attitude focus on creating positive contribution to entities he helps, society and life itself.

Brian Cohen Chairman of the Board of Directors of New York Angels Mr. Brian Cohen serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of New York Angels, Inc. Mr. Cohen served as Vice-Chairman at the New York Angels, Inc. Previously, Mr. Cohen created iFluence PR. He also developed Good Cause Communications. He is the Founder of Technology Solutions, Inc (TSI). Mr. Cohen founded New York Angels, Inc. in 1983. He sold New York Angels, Inc. to The McCann Worldgroup, Inc. in 1997 where he served ad the Vice Chairman of Technology Group. Mr. Cohen started Focus Technology and provided all development and moderating support. Before launching TSI, he was a founding Publisher of Computer Systems News and InformationWeek magazine at CMP Publications. Mr. Cohen created and instituted the RPM (Rapid Publicity Marketing) model of strategic communications. While in graduate school, he was involved with pioneering computer trade publications including Personal Computing Magazine and Minicomputer News from Benwill Publishing. Mr. Cohen serves on the Dean's Advisory Board of Directors. As an educator, Mr. Cohen developed the AIMS (Applied Internet Media Studies) Program. He is a frequent speaker on topics related strategic communication, entrepreneurism and early startup investing. He received a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University's School of Public Communications in 1978 and received two Honor B.S. degrees from Syracuse University in Biology and Speech Communications.

Albert Colomer Founder and Chairman BANC Albert has been at the forefront of the angel investor movement in Spain. In 2002, he co-founded and became executive director of the Business Angel Network Catalunya BANC, the first Spanish angel network, which he led. Additionally in 2006 he co-founded ESBAN, a private foundation to raising awareness and promoting angel investment and Business Angels Networks in Spain. Since 2003, Albert is member of the Board of EBAN. Albert has been appointed by the Parliament of Catalonia as member of the Advisory Board of the Catalan Institute of Finance, the public credit institution of the Government of Catalonia. During his career, Albert has gathered a profound knowledge of the entrepreneurship skills. As a consultant, advisor, coach or business angel, His experience in entrepreneurial field, over 25 years, has helped thousands start-ups and entrepreneurs to born and grow. He is co-founder (1986) and executive director of CPAC (Fundació Privada per a la Promoció de l’Autoocupació de Catalunya), an independent charity with a mission to help people and organizations to be entrepreneurs.

Ferhan Cook Co-founder of London-based m-Spark Ferhan Cook is the co-founder of London-based m-Spark.org, a start-up accelerator and business advisory. Cook is also a founding member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel network, for the past 4 years. Ferhan co-led the first Digital Revolution, as part of Apple’s pioneering teams from early 80's and 90's. She spent 11 years at Apple, responsible for launching Apple’s first digital media platforms in the European and Pacific regions, leading an international marketing team. Ferhan also has also taken an active part in the Mobile revolution doing business development consulting, organizing, mobile awards and conferences and co-publishing a mobile marketing newsletter(www.mobiadnews.com). In 2012, and 2013 respectively, Ferhan organized the mobile focussed TEDx SilkRoad Conference and an innovation forum called Mobile Horizons, in Istanbul in Turkey. Ferhan is a Jury member in prestigious industry awards such as the GSMA Awards, MIT Innovators Under 35, and Intel Challenge. Ferhan is supporting the Impact Investing ecosystems by mentoring social tech start-ups and getting them prepared for investors and product launches. She serves as a strategy advisor/mentor for selected Ashoka Social Innovation Fellows. m-Spark is also a strategic advisor to Intel’s Social Start Up competition Intel Cozum Kumbarasi(The Solution Box).

Michael Culligan

President of HBAN Michael Culligan, specialist in international business development for early stage companies, has direct business experience in London, China, Japan, mainland Europe and North America and has applied this expertise to assist many Irish companies make their mark on a global market. With a particularly strong track record in raising seed capital for start-ups from both public and private sources, Michael has been involved in helping over 80 companies attract over €30 million in investment funding. Michael combines his role of Dublin BIC business consultant with his position of programme manager where he ensures that the breadth of services and quality of advice offered to entrepreneurs by Dublin BIC continue to be relevant, results driven and unmatched in the in the market. Michael is the National Director of Halo Business Angels Network, the island's umbrella organisation for angel investment. He has lectured on Business Strategy for the Michael Smurfit MBA programme at UCD, holds a degree in Applied Physics & Electronics from NUIG and is a first class MBA graduate of the UCD Smurfit School.

Tomi Davies President ABAN CoFounder of the Lagos Angel Network and President of the newly founded African Business Angel Network (ABAN). ICT Expert with a background of technology management for FTSE 100 level companies in the UK, US and Africa. Directs and advises a broad range of organisations globally, writes and blogs (occasionally). Regular public speaker and mentor of a broad range of individuals with a personal goal of "maximizing the creation of social and economic value using digital technologies".

Anita de Groot Founder and CEO of AIM Consulting Group Anita de Groot is founder and CEO of AIM Consulting Group. She and her team work in as a Sparring Partners, Trainers, Moderators and Consultants for executive -, senior management and talents. Anita works as a business Intuitive, combining energistic principles with her with her extensive experience in the global business arena, she is able to assist clients in reaching their goals in a sustainable way. Anita has worked throughout Europe with numerous national and international organizations in profit and non-profit sectors. She has amongst others worked with (multi) nationals in all areas of business, governmental organizations, universities and health organizations. Her expertise lies on senior and executive level working as a sparring partner, coach, facilitator and advisor, concentrating on personal development as well as on communication in different aspects of the business. She works based on emotional intelligence principles and pairs this with a pragmatic approach, aligning personal development with organizational development. Anita works in Dutch, English and German. She has studied: NLP; hypnotherapy; CQM; EMDR; Systemic Work; Constellation work; Feng Shui for Business. She studied with Klaus Grochowiak (trained by Bandler, Grinder, Chris Hall, W. Woodsmall, Bert Hellinger, Frank Farrelly, Steve deShazer) Anthony Robbins, Steven Covey, Wim Hof "the iceman" and various tutors at the Arthur Findley College. Anita de Groot is co-founder and co-owner of Women Professionals Group. Women Professionals Group supports organizations in utilizing diversity in realizing their organizational goals. They deliver measurable results with their Diversity Development Program. Women Professionals Group supports women in realizing their carrier ambitions. Women Professionals Group also connects female entrepreneurs with female investors so they can realize their ambitions.

Maarten de Jong Managing Director of Oneplanetcrowd Maarten de Jong is Founder and Managing Director of Oneplanetcrowd since 2012. In his previous position at BiD Network, as the coordinator of investor matchmaking services, he created a network of VC’s, angel investors and banks that invest in high potential entrepreneurs in emerging markets. He supported the setup of several angel investor networks in Africa and Asia and organized many matchmaking events between investors and entrepreneurs. Maarten completed studies in Business Management and Industrial Engineering (MSc), at Groningen University in the Netherlands and currently holds the position of chairman of the board of the sector association ‘Nederland Crowdfunding’.

Marcel Dridje Sophia Business Angels Marcel Dridje, a principle investor in Vaelsys, Faveeo, Cyberflowanalytics, Digitalarti and OnePulse brings his rich commercial acumen and business development experience to the team. A seasoned European Sales Executive, Marcel has substantial field experience helping IT and Telecom startups in the US and EMEA. Marcel has a broad range of experience in all aspects of sales, marketing, communication and management with direct experience with Fortune 500 enterprises (IBM, Nortel, Lucent, Cisco, EMC, ALU) and startups (Quantum, Andrew Networks, Pluris, Corvis, Ascend and Airespace). During the course of his career he has held Vice President roles most notably as VP EMEA Corvis where he grew the team and business to an outstanding success. Of French and British origin, Marcel launched his career after completing a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Computer Science from Portsmouth Polytechnic. .

Konstantin Fokin CEO, Moscow Innovation Development Centre | President, National Business Angels Association | Founder, Angels Ontime After completing his MBA studies at Cranfield University School of Management (www.cranfield.ac.uk/som) in 2003, Konstantin came back to Russia and cofounded the country's first business-angels network. In 2005-2006 Konstantin worked in the Russian Ministry for Economy (www.economy.gov.ru) where he was responsible for design and execution of a national SME support program. From 2007 to 2009 Konstantin ran one of the biggest technology parks in Moscow (www.tpstrogino.ru). In 2009 he was appointed the Russian Tech Tour President (www.techtour.com) and, together with a small team of volunteers, he organized the second visit of world leading VC investors in Russia. From 2009 Konstantin is President/CEO of the Russian National business-angels association (www.rusangels.ru). In 2011-2012 Konstantin was Director for Russia at the Agency for Economic Development of Greater Geneva Berne area (www.ggba-switzerland.ch). In June 2012 Konstantin was appointed CEO of the Moscow Innovation Development Centre (www.inno.mos.ru).

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Pontus Frohde COO of FundedByMe Pontus Frohde is a graduate Economist with a degree from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He worked with Microsoft’s Consumer Division for 11 years in various positions within international sales and marketing, mainly operating out of the corporate head office in Seattle. Additionally, Pontus spent six years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PAN Vision - the largest independent distributor of games and film in the Nordic and Baltic regions – and he serves on the Board for a number of software brands. Pontus was appointed as the Global COO for Europe's fastest-growing crowdfunding platform, FundedByMe in August 2013. Prior to this position, Pontus was the CSO, responsible for the rapid expansion of FundedByMe into Norway, Spain and (in September 2013) Germany.

Oliver Gajda Chairman, European Crowdfunding Network AISBL Oliver co-founded ECN in 2012 and went on to ensure its establishment as an international NGO in 2013. Since then has been driving ECNs professional activities with a view to establish an independent industry representation for the emerging crowdfunding sector. The past decade, Oliver has worked with venture capital, microfinance, technology and social entrepreneurship in both commercial and non-profit settings in Europe and the USA. Oliver is an Advisory Board Member at Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung e.V. (FGF) and a member of the European Crowdfunding Stakeholder Forum at the European Commission. A former journalist, he started his career in the early 1990s in the publishing and business information industries. Oliver holds Masters degrees from Solvay Business School and from the University of Hamburg and studied at SEESS (UCL) in London.

Harry Helwegen Chairman BAN Nederland Harry Helwegen is one of the 8 partners of Diligence Mergers, Acquisitions and Finance, having its office in Veenendaal (The Netherlands). In that position he is working as a dealmaker in the SME market. After a career of 28 years with BP he decided to commit to assisting entrepreneurs in acquisition and financing projects with Diligence. In 2009 BAN Netherlands was set up and Harry was asked to be president of the Dutch federation of business angel networks. Under his management the number of members has grown from 7 to 15.

Jesper Jarlbaek Chairman of the Board at CataCap Private Equity Jesper Jarlbæk is a business angel investor and professional board member of a number of growth businesses. Furthermore, Jesper has extensive experience through directorships and other offices held in a number of companies domiciled in Denmark as well as abroad – all of which are internationally oriented. Jesper Jarlbæk is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Bang & Olufsen A/S, an NASDAQ OMX listed company. Jesper has previously served on the Board of 3 other NASDAQ OMX listed companies in Denmark and one US listed company. Jesper is Chairman of CataCap, a Danish PE fund as well as member of the Board of Polaris Invest III fund, the second largest Danish PE fund. Between 1975 and 2002, Jesper Jarlbæk was employed with Arthur Andersen, ultimately holding dual positions as Managing Partner, Denmark and Nordic Managing Partner - Assurance and Business Advisory. From 2002 to 2006, Jesper was Managing Partner - Advisory services at Deloitte and as such, one of the four members of the senior management team. He holds a BA in Accounting and Financial Management from the Copenhagen Business School and graduated as a state-authorized public accountant in 1981. He has attended courses at INSEAD, IMD and AEP. Jesper has lectured at CBS, Copenhagen Business School Jesper is currently vice-chairman of DVCA (Danish Venture Capital Association). Jesper is Chairman of BA Copenhagen, Denmark’s largest and most successful Business Angel network. Jesper is a member of VL7. In 2009, Jesper was awarded “Business Angel of the Year” by DVCA.

Candace Johnson Sophia Business Angel | President of EBAN Candace Johnson is co-initiator of SES/ASTRA and SES Global, the world’s pre-eminent satellite group. She is also founding President of Europe Online Investments. S.A., the world’s first internet-based online service and satellite broadband network, and founder of Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, Europe’s first independent private trans-border satellite communications network. Ms. Johnson is also founding President of the VATM, the Association of Private Telecom Operators in Germany and founding President of the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN). Candace Johnson is also President of Johnson Paradigm Ventures (JPV) which is a principal founding shareholder with AXA, Caisse des Depots, Bayerische Landesbank, and the SPEF of Sophia Euro Lab, Europe’s first trans-border early-stage investment company based in Sophia Antipolis. JPV is also a principal founding shareholder in London-based Ariadne Capital, “Architecting Europe.net”, one of the earliest supporters and promoters of Skype, the global VoIP phenomenon. Candace is also a member of the Advisory Board of numerous European and US ventures as well as being a Member of the Board of Governors of EDHEC (France), the University of Haifa in Israel, Sabanci University in Istanbul Turkey, and a Senior Enterprise Fellow for the University of Essex. She has been a featured speaker in the OECD International Entrepreneurship Forums in Shanghai, Riga, and Cape Town. She holds Masters Degrees with Honors from the Sorbonne and Stanford Universities, a Bachelors Degree from Vassar College and her high-school degree from Punahou.

Ivan Jovetic President of MBAN Ivan Jovetic is an entrepreneur and researcher. Mr. Jovetic holds MSci in Entrepreneurial Economics and is a PhD candidate in International Economy at the UDG. Ivan Jovetic is co-founder and co-owner of MSI INVEST Ltd. based in Montenegro. Company is involved in several business sectors. Mr. Jovetic serves as a Board member. Ivan Jovetic is teaching several courses at University of Donja Gorica (UDG www.udg.edu.me) which is university that fosters entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture. For the past several years he has been Senior Analyst at the Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses (ISSP www.issp.me). He is acting as the Executive director of CE²S a business support organization trying to enhance entrepreneurship and start-up eco system in Montenegro. He has been contributor to several daily and monthly publications in Montenegro and the region. Mr. Jovetic is member of World Entrepreneurship Forum.

Leslie Jump Founder and CEO at Startup Angels Ms. Leslie A. Jump is a Partner at Sawari Ventures. Ms. Jump provides early and growth stage technology companies with strategic and business planning as well as marketing, business development, and fundraising expertise. She is a technology/Internet veteran with 25-year track-record building technology products, services and companies. Ms. Jump has held executive roles at Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies, as well as nonprofit organizations, with operational responsibilities in diverse markets worldwide. She coaches and mentors young technology entrepreneurs and provides them with business and operational expertise. After more than two decades of work with technology entrepreneurs, Ms. Jump has a keen understanding of what it takes to transform a great idea into a successful enterprise. She first started working with entrepreneurs when she joined Bill McGowan’s (then) small team at MCI nearly 25 years ago. There, in collaboration with Mr. Vint Cerf and others, Ms. Jump pioneered MCI’s early Internet efforts including the company's first website and the world’s first online shopping mall, marketplace MCI. Since then she has launched hundreds of products and companies, in businesses as diverse as telecommunications, e-commerce, online travel, consumer packaged goods, filmed entertainment, financial services, and social media.

Peter Jungen President of the ERC He holds an MBA from Cologne University, Germany. Starting his career in industry he became CEO of Strabag AG, Köln 1987, one of the largest European Civil Engineering Groups. After a successful turnaround of Strabag AG he founded Peter Jungen Holding GmbH in 1991, which holds investments in various industrial and service companies. Peter Jungen is Co-Founder of or Investor in numerous start-ups in Europe and in USA, including Idealo Internet GmbH, the leading German prize comparison shopping platform, Berlin. He is a Partner of the Halo Fund, Palo Alto. He is Founding President of Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland (BAND) as well as Co-Founder and President of European Business Angels Network (EBAN) (2001-2004). He is a member of the New York Angels and founding member of the China Business Angels Network (Cban). He is Member of several Advisory Boards: i. e. Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt / Berlin, Foster & Partner, London and Board Member of the New York Philharmonic. He is a Member of the IAC, Columbia University. He is Chairman of the MENA-OECD Enterprise Financing Network, a Member of the International Josef Schumpeter Society and of the Mont Pelerin Society. He was Chairman of the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University. In August 1999 Peter Jungen was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by its President. In September 2000 the leading German business weekly “Wirtschaftswoche“ named Peter Jungen one of the most important personalities to shape the future of the „New Economy“.

Heidi Kakko Managing Director at Estonia Business Angels Network Heidi Kakko leads the Development Fund’s investment division by preparing the investments and developing the whole market. Heidi has been actively participating in financing and acquiring companies since 1995, she worked on business consultation and finance at the world`s biggest consultation company PricewaterhouseCoopers for more than 10 years. Before joining the Development Fund, Heidi worked as an M&A Leader at an international investment company East Partners, focusing on the markets of Ukraine, Russia and Georgia. As an executive manager, Heidi has gained experience working at the biggest BTL agency in the Baltics as well as developing one of the first Estonian training companies into a business school.

Axel Kalinowski Manager London Stock Exchange Group - Continental Europe Axel manages the Primary markets activities of the London Stock Exchange Group in Europe. As part of his responsibilities he regularly meets innovative high growth businesses to discuss their fund raising options as well as the various implications when raising capital from International Capital Markets. Prior to joining the Exchange, Axel worked for a Pan-European Private Equity Fund executing Investments and spent many years within UniCredit Corporate & Investment banking in Europe and Emerging markets.

Ari Korhonen Co-founder of FiBAN | Vice President of EBAN Ari is an angel investor and venture capitalist. He is the the founder of Lagoon Capital investment company. Ari has been a successful technology entrepreneur 20 years and a business angel for 10 years. He developed his company Komartek into an international success story. Komartek was bought in 2004 by WM-data (presently CGI). His position in WM-data was Vice President. Within the last 10 years, Ari has made angel investments in 26 companies in which all investment rounds total up to 81. These include Verso Globe, MariaDB, DealDash, Surveypal, Miradore, In4mo, Thirdpresence and 360 Cities. From the above mentioned investments, he has had three successful exits from Severa, Paytrail and The Switch. Ari is also an investor in venture capital funds which include Seedcamp, 500 Startups, True Global Ventures and Spintop Ventures. In Spintop he is also Senior advisor and Investment committee member. He is also a member of Seedcamp Investment commitee. Ari is an Investment council member in Finnish Industry Investments. He is also a member of the Committee for Approval of Investments in Fund for Innovations and Technology Development in Republic of Macedonia. Ari was nominated by EBAN as European Business Angel of the Year in 2009 and elected by FiBAN as Business Angel of the Year in Finland in 2014. He is a co-founder of FiBAN and Vice Chairman of the Board during 2010-2012. Ari has been EBAN board member and Vice-President since 2012. He is also a member of EstBAN and NFBAN. Ari has been featured in several business magazines and blogs. He holds a Master of Science degree in engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology.

Florence Korhonen CEO at Miraflo Ventures Ltd Florence is the CEO at Miraflo Ventures Ltd, an investment company based in Finland that believes that Angel investor role is not simply one of financial investment but even more about providing knowledge, experience and networks to the benefit of the entrepreneur and the company. Florence is the Chairman of Board at Nordic Female Business Angel Network (NFBAN) and a member of the Finnish Business Angel Network (FIBAN) and works with seed and early stage startups as an advisor and angel investor. Main focus areas are social impact investing, female investor networks, female entrepreneurship. Florence also invests in software and services, Internet, mobile, games and digital media as well as healthcare and wellness.

Kaspar Korjus

e-Residency Program Director Kaspar Korjus is Estonian e-Residency Program Director, running a team of 7 members to achieve 10 million e-Estonians by 2025. Kaspar received his higher education in England in e-Business & Innovation. After returning to Estonia through Talents Return Home project in 2012, initiated by the president of Estonia, Kaspar was chosen one of the top 30 under 30 people in Estonia in 2015 by Forbes.

Susanne Kuehrer

CEO at fe-ve Sas Susanne Kuehrer is a partner in Fe-Ve, a French based accelerator working internationally, specialised in the field of technology transfer (transition from research/innovation to the market) evaluating the commercial potential of innovative solutions and supporting Spin-offs and Start-Ups in bringing them into the market. She is responsible for business screening, coaching and mentoring (check of skills and team-match). As an accelerator Fe-Ve is strongly working together with the European Investment scene and is member of EBAN. Susanne has a longstanding experience in evaluating the commercial exploitation potential of results in the field of European funded research, especially in ICT, already during the former EC funding programme FP7. She also serves as an EC expert in the Horizon 2020 SME instrument. Currently she is involved in a European project aiming at creating a network of Internet Innovation Hubs in Europe with the target to strengthen the linkage between European technology exploitation and the Start-Up financing and incubating scene. Susanne has a MBA in Intra- and Entrepreneurship and MSc in International Personnel and Organisational Development as well as an education as a Business Coach.

Bas Langelaar Founder Vectrix - Hubstart - NextStage Bas Langelaar is an entrepreneur, angel investor and more than 20 years active in the startup scene. In 1997 he co-founded Vectrix. Vectrix helps entrepreneurs to fund & grow their company. In 2004 Bas started NextStage: the leading Dutch network for entrepreneurs & investors, with over 4.000 members. In 2013 Bas started Hubstart. They help companies to expand internationally through their Hubs in Amsterdam, New York, San Francisco and Singapore.

Ricardo Luz Executive Board Member of IFD | Board Member of EBAN Executive Board Member of IFD – Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento, SA. Board Member of EBAN – European Business Angel Network. Member of Risk Finance Advisory Group for Horizon 2020, Creative Business Cup Investor Board and Connect Investor Club. Guest and opinion maker on Porto Canal TV. Founder, Partner and CEO from 1994 to 2014 of Gestluz Consultores. Shareholder Founder and President from 2010 to 2014 of Invicta Angels, SGPS and IA-FCI, Creative Industries. Founder and President of Invicta Angels – Porto Business Angels Association, and Founder and Vice-Presidentof FNABA – National Federation of Business Angels Associations, from 2007 to 2015. Former Board member of several SME´s and private associations, and Consultant of Strategy, Business and Cities Competitiveness. Former Professor of Higher Education of Courses of Management, Commercial and Sales, and Financial Management. Master degree in Design for Sustainability, Postgraduate Degree in Political Journalism, Undergraduate Degree in Economics.

Pablo Millan Head of Business Angels Investing EIF Pablo is currently leading the Business Angel investment activity within the EIF. Prior to this, during his tenure at the EIB group and Dahlia Partners, Pablo has been an investor in private equity and venture capital for more than 10 years, both in Europe and in emerging markets. Early in his career he worked at Andersen.

Eileen Moloney Senior Consultant at CorkBIC Eileen Moloney practised as a lawyer in the UK and the USA before returning to Ireland in 1984 to lead marketing for North Star VAR. Eileen co-founded Expert Edge Computer Systems in 1986 delivering expert system software solutions, heading up its UK start-up in London in 1991. Went on to provide Business Development & Marketing Consultancy to small and medium sized enterprises with limited marketing focus and to larger companies penetrating new markets ('92-94). Delivered Training Programmes for the IPA on Leadership & Modern Management Methods to top level Civil Servants in Europe. Joined CorkBIC in 1997 to develop the Graduate (later Genesis) Enterprise Programme (delivered via CorkBIC) - a one year rapid incubation for start-up companies. Has delivered several business start-up programmes. Her specific expertise is in organisational development, sales and marketing and entrepreneur assessment. She is an Accredited Mediator for Commercial Dispute Resolution with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London.

Catherine V. Mott President Emeritus ACA Ms. Catherine V. Mott is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BlueTree Capital Group. Ms. Mott is the Founder of BlueTree Venture Fund. Previously, she founded Synergetics Sales Performance Group, LLC (formerly Strategic Sales Solutions) and Indigo Capital Development, LLC. Prior to forming her own businesses, she served in senior management roles in corporate banking management. She served as the Board Chair at Angel Capital Association. Ms. Mott serves as a Director of Angel Capital Association. She joined Angel Capital Association from the Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF).

Michael O'Connor CEO of CorkBIC Michael O’Connor is the CEO of CorkBIC, a private-sector led organisation, specifically set up to identify and build knowledge intensive companies based on promising technology usually involving international growth. Michael provides an integrated process for incubating and growing high potential technology driven companies. Previous experience was manufacturing and sales start ups with Raychem Corporation before co-founding Intepro, a venture capital backed Irish IT startup.

Adebiyi Bilikiss Olatoyosi CEO & Co-Founder of Wecyclers Brings five years of technology and management experience. She worked at IBM Corporation as a software engineer for 5 years where she developed social networking software that served thousands of users at Fortune 500 companies. Bilikiss holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, a MA in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and a BS in Computer Science from Fisk University. Bilikiss is based in Lagos full-time.

Hedda Pahlson-Moller Business Angel on Impact Investing Hedda Pahlson-Moller is a full-time Business Angel focused on impact investing at the seed capital stage through OMSINT (Omnisource International). She sits on the boards of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), the Luxembourg Business Angel Network (LBAN) and Chameleon Invest, a venture capital fund. Ms. Pahlson-Moller is adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship at Sacred Heart University’s Jack Welch College of Business for Executive MBAs. She is currently active in building a co-working space and community for entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs called ‘the Impactory’, based in Luxembourg. Hedda has an MBA from Copenhagen Business School, an M.A. in Political Economics from Lund University and an undergraduate degree from Brown University. She is also currently enrolled at Nyenrode University’s executive PhD programme.

Marion Perrin EU policy consultant for peacefulfish As an EU policy consultant for Media Deals, Marion supports the development of the company’s relationship with the European Commission and other European institutions as well as supports clients in the preparation of European funding applications (H2020, Creative Europe). She is currently managing a EU project called WeHubs, which is the first European network of Women web Entrepreneurs Hubs. After obtaining a Master’s Degree in European Project Management, Marion gained experience as a project coordinator for the European Network of Young Cinema in Paris. She then worked in London as a programme coordinator for the Raindance Film Festival. After that Marion joined EUROCITIES, which is a network of major European cities, where she assisted the policy adviser in charge of cultural policies. Additionally, Marion works as a consultant for peacefulfish, which is a creative industries financing consultancy

Roger Perrin International Managing Director of Regus Kora Roger Perrin is the International Managing Director of Regus Kora, a new division of Regus PLC, the global leader in flexible workspace with 3000 locations in 100 countries He is an architect and entrepreneur, experienced in the: - Architecture of modular buildings for work and living - Property development, construction and operation of office, innovation and science parks - Marketing and managing networks of business and innovation centres - Research and development for new ways to live, learn and work in a mobile and global environment - Creation of collaborative projects connecting education and business Regus Kora is creating an International of partners, inspiring places and entrepreneurial services to support individuals and companies in realizing their full potential. Working in partnership with Universities, public organizations, companies and existing innovation initiatives we already have projects opening this year in Finland, Netherlands, France and UK. The aim is to connect the worlds of education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Roger graduated from the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard, has a First Class honors degree in Architecture, and before joining Regus worked with St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge and also developed a number of innovation projects in the UK.

Selma Prodanovic Co-founder of Austrian Angel Investors Association Selma Prodanovic is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Known as the Business Angelina or Startup-Grand-Dame, her passion lies in unlashing the untapped entrepreneurial potential of millions of creative and innovative future-makers from around the world. She invests in the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Vienna and CEE/SEE. With her business developer Brainswork she supported over 300 startups and co-founded the Austrian Angel Investors Association. A fervent believer in the business potential of the Balkans she is partner at Superfounders. To empower 1 million entrepreneurs and enable easier worldwide access to her expertise and network in 2014 she founded BrainsClub. As an inspirational speaker Selma was over 1000 times on stage. For her innovative approach to business, and commitment to entrepreneurship and social change, Selma received numerous awards, most recently the Vueve Clicquot Business Woman Award. She is happily married to her first love and proud mother of two fantastic teenagers.

René Reijtenbagh Board Member of BANN | Vice President of BAE René Reijtenbagh has over 15 years of experience as a dealflow broker in the Business Angels (BA) market in the Netherlands and Europe. First he started “”Masters of the Future”” the BA network for the Eastern part of the Netherlands as a manager at the Development Agency East Netherlands (Oost NV). He is elected board member of the Dutch Federation of BA networks called BAN Nederland and vice president of Business Angels Europe (BAE). BAE is the European confederation of EU national Business Angels federations. There he is responsible for cross border cooperation initiatives between BA Networks and national Federations. He is co-founder of the BAE Club. This is a club of the best and most international operating business angels networks working together to get more cross border dealflow. In the field of Life Science and Med tech he created an local and national dealfow platforms together with mayor stakeholders in this field in the Netherlands. He currently is involved in the new initiative Angelfunding Germany. Fast growing European companies who wants to grow further on the German market will be matched with a local investor. Before he started his career in the business angels market René was active as in investigator and policy maker for regional economic development for the Institute for Applied Science (ITS Nijmegen), Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Foundation for the city’s Arnhem en Nijmegen. René studied Economic Geograpphy at the Radboud University of Nijmegen and followed an Business Administration program at the TSM Business School in Enschede also in the Netherlands.

Alicia Robb Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Alicia Robb is a senior fellow with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. She is also a visiting scholar with the University of California in Berkeley and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the founder and past executive director and board chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, an international development organization working in Latin America, Africa, and India. (www.fsdinternational.org). Robb received her MS and PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously has worked with the Office of Economic Research in the Small Business Administration and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is also a prolific author on the topic of entrepreneurship. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the co-author of Race and Entrepreneurial Success published by MIT Press and A Rising Tide: Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Businesses by Stanford University Press. Robb serves on the Board of the National Advisory Council for Minority Business Enterprise, the Advisory Board for Global Entrepreneurship Week, and is a guest contributor to outlets such as Huffington Post and Forbes.

David S. Rose Founder and CEO of Gust David S. Rose, named by EBAN the "Greatest Angel Inspirator of the Year" at this year's Winter University, is a serial entrepreneur, super angel investor and best selling author who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels, the Founder and CEO of Gust, EBAN's recommended deal flow and collaboration platform, and the New York Times best selling author of Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups. David has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley". He can be followed online @davidsrose and davidsrose.com

Juan Roure President of AEBAN Juan Roure is a Professor in the Entrepreneurship Department and has been a member of IESE's International Advisory Board (IAB) for the last ten years. He also currently sits on the International Advisory Board of IAE (Argentina). He was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, INSEAD, Harvard Business School and CEIBS (China). He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), an MBA from ESADE, an ISP from Harvard Business School and a PhD from Stanford University.

Plamen Russev Founder and Chairman of the Global Webit Congress Founder and Chairman of the Global Webit Congress | www.WebitCongress.com | 5th edition in 2013 facts & figures: 260 first-world class speakers | 8000+ attendees (57% C-level) | record-breaking 103 visiting countries | 160 000+ online viewers | 26 000+ tweets | 300+ accredited media - for 2 days Serial Entrepreneur with proven success record in developing business ventures in multicultural and challenging business environments. Best Selling Author and Public Speaker Experienced consultant on the emerging markets digital agenda, e-governance and IT with more than 20 years experience Member of a number of international academic, IT, marketing and non-profit organizations and trade associations.

Jaakko Salminen Chairman of Finnish Business Angels' Network Jaakko is an angel investor and startup advisor. He’s currently involved in 7 startups as an investor and 3 as a board member and advisor. He’s also a member of the board of the Finnish Business Angels Network FiBAN. In the past, he was a partner and VP/CEO of 2 software companies, both of which were acquired by another company. Additionally, Jaakko has been responsible for direct sales, channel sales, and customer account management at various midsize to corporate IT and SW companies both in domestic and international markets. Jaakko believes in customer- centered business development, where close relationships with customers are made early in startups’ life cycle. His focus in coaching is on the startup’s go-to-market model, from pricing to customer segments and sales channel.

Frank M. Salzgeber Head of the Technology Transfer Programme Office at ESA Frank M. Salzgeber is the Head of the Technology Transfer Programme Office at the European Space Agency (ESA). Prior this post he was the Head of Commercial Development in the European Astronaut Department of the Directorate of Human Spaceflight Microgravity and Exploration at the European Space Agency. Prior to joining ESA, Frank held the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO and CFO) at an IT startup headquartered in Munich, Germany. Frank also spent seven years at Apple Computer initially as an account manager and then as a sales manager, covering Central Europe and being positioned in the US and Czech Republic. Frank is a member of the advisory board of the Triangle Venture Capital Group, the board of directors of European Business Network (EBN) and was founding chairman of the EIROforum working group on Innovation management and knowledge/technology transfer. Frank is a senior expert and a passionate speaker in the field of open innovation, entrepreneurship, future trends and technologies. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering, is married, has two sons and lives in the Netherlands and Bavaria.

Frans Schmetz Director of High Tech Campus Eindhoven Frans Schmetz has been appointed Managing Director of High Tech Campus Eindhoven with effect from 1 May 2009. Prior to this appointment, Mr Schmetz held the combined position of CEO Philips Belgium/Luxemburg and of General Manager of the European Affairs Office of Philips in Brussels. Frans Schmetz has worked at Philips for thirty-one years and has gained extensive international experience in a range of different managerial roles, including as General Manager, in countries like Mexico, Hong Kong, the United States and Belgium. Through his work in these posts, Mr Schmetz has built up an extensive international network. Under his management, High Tech Campus Eindhoven will continue to develop as a Hotspot for Human Focused Innovation. Frans Schmetz holds a Master’s degree in Economics at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Charles Sidman President Emeritus Crowdfunding Professional Association | Managing Partner ECS Capital Partners Dr. Charles Sidman, retired in 2010 as Professor at the Medical, Business and Honors Colleges of the University of Cincinnati. During and after his academic career of research and teaching, he was an active Angel investor, and has since started and still manages the innovative and internationally active fund ECS Capital Partners, and more recently the non-accredited investor collaboration group Crowdfunding Investment Angels. He was a charter member of the Angel Capital Association (ACA, via several of its constituent groups and committees), committee chair in the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF), Board member and executive in the industry organizations Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) and Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CfIRA), and continues as an active speaker and advocate nationally and abroad. Ongoing interests include innovation, entrepreneurship (training, nurturing and financing), and corporate ethics, responsibility and governance. He can be reached at [email protected].

Ivar Siimar President of Estonian Business Angel Network An active member of the local startup and angel investor community. Ivar is the founding member and President of Estonian Business Angel Network (EstBAN) which started its activities in late 2012. He is the founder and partner of WNB Project, an investment company founded in 2007 with a focus on seed and early stage StartUps. Ivar spends majority of his time on board-level mentoring of these companies.

Ludwik Sobolewski CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange Ludwik Sobolewski is the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) and has held this position since August 2013 Ludwik Sobolewski is a lawyer by education, graduating in 1989 from the Law and Administration Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He holds the title of Doctor of Law since 1995 from Panthéon – Assas University (Paris II). He is legal advisor and, in that capacity, member of the Bar of Legal Advisors. During 2006-2010, Ludwik Sobolewski was President of the Association of Polish Lawyers. 2006-2013: President of the Management Board and CEO of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) 1994-2006: Executive Vice-president of the (Polish) National Depository for Securities SA. 1994-2013: Corporate governance experience as Chairman/Member of the Board at PAK, IDEA TFI, National Depository for Securities SA, Polish Power Exchange SA, BondSpot SA, Exchange Centre SA, WSE InfoEngine SA, National Board for Research and Development, “Poland Now” Foundation. 1992-1993: Director of Organizational Department, Advisor to the Minister at Prime Minister Office

William Stevens Founder & CEO e-unlimited William Stevens graduated from EAP-European School of Management (Paris, Oxford, Berlin – Diplôme de Grande Ecole – Diplom Kaufmann) and previously from the Catholic University of Brussels in Economics. He embarked on his career at the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) where he became Secretary General at the age of 25. He launched several initiatives, one that led to the creation of EASDAQ (which became Nasdaq Europe). William founded Europe Unlimited in 1998 to be a much-needed hub for fast-growing entrepreneurs raising their profile to investors. Today the group including Tech Tour and the International Venture Club, organises 25 international events where 1,000 selected entrepreneurs meet with venture capital investors and corporate partners. The Tech Tour group with offices in Brussels and Geneva and a new location has the ambition to become the number 1 community platform facilitating world-class innovative entrepreneurship and investment.

David Tee Head of Membership Services EBN David is Head of Membership Services at EBN where he is ultimately responsible for developing new members, communications, events and EBN's online platform. He also delivers support to projects, providing visibility services via traditional and online communications systems, website, social media etc. David is a serial entrepreneur, consultant and innovator with 25 years professional experience in a variety of environments from Cambridge-based IT start-ups to Silicon Valley-based innovation consultancy to EU-funded project management. He has founded three companies (Software Solutions, Konetic, the Business Incubator magazine), incubated new businesses, commercialised technology and consulted to both the public and private sectors. He has worked extensively in the Europe, Middle East and India, in addition to experience in North America, Africa and the Far East. Working with EBN, David was Team Leader on the EuropeAid SRTD Project, and International Expert in the EJADA project, both in Jordan. He supporting research, technology commercialisation, innovation and helped establish a network of innovation centres (including Al Urdonia Lil Ebda) and technology transfer offices. Previously, he managed a software team in India for a UK start-up, ran the London BIC, and worked at a major US innovation consultancy. He has been at the forefront of many technologies including interactive TV trials, online education services, early graphical user interface design and worked with the first microcomputers. David has a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Daniel Tomov Chief Dreamer and Founder, Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund Daniel Tomov is a founding partner at Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund that is focused on early investments in some of the most promising and exciting tech startups throughout whole Southeastern Europe and is supported by Google and Springboard. Daniel has been involved in startups since 2000 as early stage investor and funded (in some cases bootstrapping) entrepreneur in diverse fields from software, mobile and consumer goods to renewable energy. Daniel has met and befriended some of the greatest tech entrepreneurs in the region and continues to support the innovative young minds. Twitter @danieltomovwith Honors from the Sorbonne and Stanford Universities, a Bachelors Degree from Vassar College and her high-school degree from Punahou.

Attila Toth Deputy CEO Budapest Stock Exchange Graduated in finance from the Budapest University of Economics (today Corvinus University) in 1999. His diploma thesis covered the optimum structure of debts. Obtained the EFFAS Diploma in 2005. In 1998, before obtaining his diploma, he received a job at the Government Debt Management Agency Pte. Ltd. Spending nearly two years in the Planning Department of that agency, he was involved in planning public finances and the issue of government bonds. In 1999 he obtained a job of economic analyst at the Business Development Department of the Budapest Stock Exchange. Participated in the elaboration of the BSE’s product, business development strategy and also legal and tax issues. Was also involved in stock exchange clearing and settlement issues and stock exchange index management. In November 2004 he was appointed deputy director of the Business Development and Communications Division and in July 2005 the director of that division. In July 2008 he was appointed first deputy CEO of the BSE. His other functions include representing the BSE in the BSE’s Index Committee, Trading Committee and Settlement Committee. Has been married since 2005 and has two daughters.

Dimitris Tsigos Founding Chairman of the Hellenic Start-up Association Dimitris Tsigos is an Athens-based serial tech entrepreneur and early stage investor, he also is the Founding Chairman of the Hellenic Start-up Association and a Board Member at EBAN – The European Trade Association of Business Angels, Seed Funds and other Early Stage Market Players. Having co-founded Virtual Trip, the first student start-up in Greece, and then co-founded or invested in a dozen of high-tech companies, he currently is the CEO of StartTech Ventures, a next generation venture incubator in Athens, Greece. Dimitris is an active citizen strongly believing in faster and deeper European integration.

Norbert van den Hove Deputy Director at the Ministry of Economic Affairs Dutch Norbert van den Hove is deputy Director at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Directorate General for Enterprise and Innovation. He works for the Enterprise Department. Before he joining the Enterprise Department, he had experience in regional economic, telecommunications, energy and innovation policy. He has several years working experience for companies abroad and holds a masters degree in econometrics.

David van Dijk Co-founder of ABAN David van Dijk is a co-founder and leads the secretariat of ABAN, the African Business Angel Network, the pan-African foundation supporting early stage investing across Africa. David is also the Managing Director of Stichting IGNITE, a Dutch not-for-profit supporting entrepreneurship in post conflict areas through direct and indirect financing and he sits on the Investment Committee of the IGNITE FUND. David is also an advisor to online funding community Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa). He started his career in shipping & logistics managing companies in West Africa, Egypt, Russia, Eastern Europe, India and the USA. He holds degrees in economics and international relations from the University of Oregon, Nijenrode, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Clingendael, The Netherlands Institute of International Relations.

Philippe Vanrie CEO of EBN Philippe Vanrie is the CEO of EBN, the leading pan-European Network bringing together 200+ accredited Business & Innovation Centers (EU-BICs), Innovation-based Incubators, Accelerators, Clusters and Entrepreneurship Centers across Europe and beyond (Brazil, Chili, Russia, India, China, Taiwan, Egypt, Canada,…), a community gathering thousands of smart innovators and entrepreneurs. An experienced expert in innovation, incubation, entrepreneurship and economic development, Philippe has a long collaboration experience with the European Commission (EC), and other European institutions (EIB, EIT), as well as the European Space Agency (ESA), and a series of national & regional Governmental Agencies. He is active in various EC Experts Groups, such as the “Smart Specialization Strategy (S3)” Mirror Group, an area where he developed a specific field expertise. On the private sector side, he initiated Open Innovation partnerships between small businesses and large Corporations such as Procter & Gamble, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, and Auchan. Engineer by education, Philippe started his career at the University of Brussels and then joined the first EU-BIC in Liège. Afterwards, he joined the private sector where he had senior Business Development responsibilities within several industrial SMEs, before transforming EBN into a high-caliber leading innovation network.

Erik Vermeulen Senior Counsel Corporate/Vice President at Philips International B.V. Erik P.M. Vermeulen is Professor of Business and Financial Law at Tilburg University and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) in the Netherlands. He is also Senior Counsel Corporate/Vice President at the Corporate Legal Department of Philips International B.V. in the Netherlands, where he advises on corporate governance issues, including the global corporate structure of the Philips Group of companies. In addition to the focus on corporate governance, he has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance projects, and general corporate and securities law matters. He has worked on international projects related to corporate venturing activities, corporate venture capital and spin-out transactions. Philips Anchor investment in a transatlantic venture capital fund through which it complements its long-term open innovation strategy in the healthcare sector is an illustrative example. Professor Vermeulen is a founding council member of the International Venture Club, a collaborative platform that brings together risk capital providers that aim to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their efforts to achieve their full growth and potential. Professor Vermeulen has written extensively in the area of corporate and partnership law, corporate governance, joint ventures, venture capital and innovation. His papers and books have been widely published by leading publishers, such as Oxford University Press and Kluwer Law International. His current research looks at corporate governance, value creation and innovation. It is about the role of corporate governance in promoting the competitiveness and innovative capacity of both listed and non-listed companies. Professor Vermeulen has worked on national and international projects for organizations, such as the European Commission, OECD, the Dutch Development Finance Institution and local governments in the Netherlands, concerning financial and venture capital markets, corporate law, and corporate governance.

Ilija Vuckov Co-founder and Managing Director of Knowledge Innovation Center-Emkice | Co-founder and Managing Director of MBAN-Macedonia He is a serial entrepreneur and industrial designer, president of Emkice center and supporting newly Macedonian business Angels Network. A winner of MKD national business plan competition, finalist in Doha, Qatar knowledge parks & Innovations world’s competition. As student after gaining work & internships experience in industrial design & marketing department at Johnson Controls in Germany, Slovakia, he founded two start up’s, one failed, one 4th year running. Also a co-founder of AGV Design Group, an Industrial design, Innovations and Product Development Company. His work brings several patents, IPR's on innovative product designs, experienced with production of one sports car-roadster, a touristic and mini bus, one electric vehicle prototype and manufacturing of fiscal cash register for 80Mil market. His engineering experience comes from innovative product design and Product Life circle Management in focus for support of SME's for commercialization of innovations. Last 5 years working actively in NGO sector in area of Access To Finance, EU funds for R&D as senior expert and consultant experienced with both successful and unsuccessful project applications. Supporting the academic, public, private sector, SME’s and entrepreneurial eco-system conducted more than 30 trainings & coaching, 100 lectures and several adopted EU funding strategies. He has worked as consultant to GIZ - German Technical Support, Five Capital cities in SEE, 13 Law faculties - SEELS network, large companies and several SME's for CIP, FP7, Horizon2020 and COSME. Ongoing activity is establishing the EU Funding Accelerator & Academy with EU Partners, and chair of COSSME Network (Cooperation for Support of SME's) a regional network with more than 50 member institutions with regional office in Brussels. www.cossme.mk He was member of EIPC - European Commission budgeting committee for Competitiveness and Innovation Programe for 3 years as country expert nominated by Ministry of foreign affairs under the Ministry of Economy. First engagement with EBAN was from 2007 in Archem, Holland.

Benjamin White Founder of VC4Africa

Ben White is the Founder of VC4Africa and a passionate lifelong entrepreneur. VC4Africa is a new online platform that joins a thriving landscape of investment ties between the Netherlands and the African continent. VC4Africa aims to connect innovative entrepreneurs with access to knowledge, markets and capital that creates capacity to scale. It maintains a large network of organisations focused on the SME financing in the African continent coming out of the E.U., such as BID Network focusing on matching entrepreneurs with angel investors and funds such as In Return Capital which invests in SME’s in East Africa. He is a Lecturer for the course “Interactive Media and Entrepreneurship” at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. He is part of the Board of Advisors of Appfrica Labs and Infonet and is a Board Member of AfriLabs Foundation and ActivSpaces. Mr. White was the Commercial Director and Owner of Africa Interactive. He used to be a Consultant in Business Development for Africa Report/World Report Media. Mr. White worked in Public relations for Pollock Communications and early in his career, he worked in the sales department of Forrester Research. Mr. White holds a degree in Program Development ICT & Entrepreneurship from the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS) and a Master in New Media & Digital Culture from the University of Amsterdam.

http://www.cossme.mk/

Mustafa Kemal Yılmaz Vice-President Borsa – Istanbul Stock Exchange Born in İstanbul in 1966, Mustafa Kemal YILMAZ graduated from Lycée de Galatasaray in 1985. He earned his BA degree from Marmara University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Business Administration Department in 1990. He completed Finance-Accounting Master Program at the same Faculty in 1993. He started his career in 1991 as a specialist with the Undersecretariat of Treasury, Directorate General of Banking and Exchange, where he worked until 1994. Then, he joined Istanbul Stock Exchange. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Banking and Insurance at Marmara University in 1998, and became Associate Professor at Finance-Accounting in May 2004. At Istanbul Stock Exchange, he worked as a specialist for the Derivatives Market in 1994-2005, and Risk Management Department in 2006-2007. He was Chief of Staff during 2007-2011. Since 2012, Mr. YILMAZ has been Executive Vice Chairman in Borsa İstanbul. Mr. YILMAZ served as consultant for Tehran Metal Exchange and Iran Agricultural Commodity Exchange as a nominee of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in November-December 2006. He acted as a member of Board of Directors at Takasbank in 2012-2013 and is actually a Board member at Central Securities Depository since April 2013. He was an academic consultant with the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, Turkish Capital Market Sector Assembly between 2007-2013.

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ESA – European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA’s Business Incubation Centres (BICs), initiated by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO), work to inspire entrepreneurs to turn space-connected business ideas into commercial companies, and provide technical expertise and business-development support. Cooperation with ESA will allow EBAN members to implement innovative ideas and be a step closer to space. esa.int

Gust EBAN and Gust, the global investor relations platform connecting high-growth entrepreneurs and active early-stage investors, have entered into a long-term strategic partnership establishing Gust as the recommended deal-flow management and investor relations platform for the financing of high-growth European startups. The advantages established by the agreement translate into a broader awareness of Gust towards angel networks and federations, increased deal flow and investment data made available to the EBAN community and new services and special advantages for EBAN members. Amongst other benefits, EBAN Members will benefit from: - Quarterly statistics on the global activity of BANs affiliated to EBAN registered with Gust; - Free access to Gust platform (criteria and special cases apply); - Enjoy free training provided by Gust at events and through scheduled conference calls. Gust operates the global platform for sourcing and managing early-stage investments. It powers over 1,000 investment organizations in 75 countries and facilitates collaboration among more than 200,000 startups and 45,000 accredited investors. Gust is the official platform of the world’s leading national angel investor federations, including those in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, France, Portugal, Turkey and Russia, among others. gust.com

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BiD Network BiD Network aims to increase economic development in emerging markets through the mobilization of capital and knowledge to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). By offering customized matchmaking and support services to both financers and entrepreneurs we aim to grow the number of businesses that can start, grow and expand. Through our international network of local business centers, global business plan competitions and the use of an online entrepreneurial platform we locate businesses with a financing need of USD 10,000 to USD 500,000. BiD Network has experience in supporting entrepreneurs across multiple sectors, including clean energy, water and food & agriculture. Moreover, through 5 years of Women in Business competitions, BiD Network has built the network and the expertise to prepare women entrepreneurs from emerging markets for finance. Our investor matchmakers, with the support of our partners and a strong and dedicated network of coaches, prepare entrepreneurs for investment so we can put together an attractive portfolio tailored to the interests of financiers in our network, consisting of business angels, SME funds, private foundations and banks. Additionally, we offer advisory services on how to set up deal flow sourcing, mentoring, investor services and business angel networks in emerging markets. www.bidnetwork.org

BiQ Group Financial banking cooperation which is active in West-Europe to help other entrepreneurs to reach their goals. Therefore we are advising, coaching and (financial) supporting other companies. Our first launch will be in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. www.biqgroup.com

ERC – European Research Council The European Research Council supports frontier research, cross disciplinary proposals and pioneering ideas in new and emerging fields which introduce unconventional and innovative approaches. The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence. A total budget of 13 095 million euro is available for the implementation of the ERC funding schemes under Horizon 2020. erc.europa.eu

Go Beyond Go Beyond enables novice to sophisticated and small to large investors to build, manage and exit diversified portfolios of direct investments in young, fast growing companies. Operating in multiple European locations and in the USA through Go Beyond Network, its team is comprised of seasoned entrepreneurs and general managers who are now business angels. Go Beyond invests in 5 industry categories:

Technology Industrial Consumer Internet & Mobile Impact

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Mind Hunter www.mindhunter.nl

Pymwymic Our mission is to build pan-European community of families and individual investors who are conscious with capital, and make positive impact in the world. Individually, we take action. Connections and community support and leverage impact. We’ve been ethical investing since 1994. Once you align your money with meaning, it fills life with purpose. And, it’s just so much fun. Over the last 20 years, we have interested many millions; helped thousands of wealth-holders learn about impact investing; have helped hundreds of entrepreneurs meet investors; and as a community, have selected (to date) 45 companies for direct, community-wide investment. Collectively, we help entrepreneurs do what they do best: create world-changing companies. www.pymwymic.com

Ramphastos Ramphastos Investments N.V. is the investment company of Marcel Boekhoorn, a well known Dutch private equity investor and entrepreneur, which currently holds (primarily majority) interests in over 30 companies in various sectors. Marcel Boekhoorn began his career in 1981 with Deloitte & Touche, where he became the youngest partner ever in The Netherlands, as chartered accountant (‘register accountant - RA'). In 1994, he launched his own venture capital and private equity investment firm Ramphastos Investments, which he still leads today. Marcel Boekhoorn has led several companies - mainly operating in niche markets - into growth, expansion and market leadership, by pursuing a buy-and-build strategy as well as attracting new customers, business partners and the strongest management teams. He not only actively supports portfolio companies by assisting them in the definition of their strategies, but also plays a key role in helping them achieve their business objectives. By creating market leaders, Mr. Boekhoorn and his team frequently attract buyers for their businesses, realizing three digit IRR's or more. Examples of successful exits are Bakker Bart largest chain of Bakery stores in The Netherlands, sold to German stock listed company Kamps AG, Cocachoc (chocolate and biscuits, sold to Suchard, Kraft Foods), Novaxess (telephony and dsl provider, sold to Easynet, part of the BSkyB Group), Telfort (mobile network operator, sold to Dutch stock listed incumbent Royal KPN) and Motip Dupli (European market leader in spray paints for the automotive and DIY markets, sold to UK based Intermediate Capital Group and management). In addition to many private equity successes, Mr. Boekhoorn and his team have also realized a strong track record in venture capital and entrepreneurial investments, having successfully started several greenfield businesses. www.ramphastosinvestments.com

Symbid People all over the world are becoming better connected, leading to cheaper, faster and simpler access to products and services. Yet the current flow of funding does not reflect this new reality. The entrepreneurs and investors who form the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) backbone of our economies frequently experience obstacles and barriers when seeking to connect, fund and grow. We must re-think our access to capital. Our mission is to simplify the way small businesses are funded through efficient and transparent technology. Founded in the Netherlands in 2011 as one of the world’s first investment crowdfunding platforms, Symbid was early in identifying the need for data-driven SME finance and invested in developing advanced investing, monitoring and data tools. We used our early mover advantage in crowdfunding to push ahead with paradigm-shifting technologies that connect alternative and traditional finance with standardized data protocols. In March 2015, Symbid launched its solution to the SME funding problem: The Funding Network™. The Funding Network™ gives entrepreneurs direct access to all forms of finance, while offering investors full transparency on the potential risks and returns of their portfolio – all made possible by our online investing and monitoring technology. www.symbid.com

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Message from the Global Business Angels Network Executive Committee

Cross-border collaboration and syndication among angels and angel federations has come a long way since the initiation of the European Business Angel Network in 1999. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation launched the Angel Capital Association in 2005 and the Portuguese Federation of Angels initiated the World Business Angel Association launched in 2009. We thank those leaders and all those associated with these efforts for their pioneering work. They have laid the groundwork for the launch of the next generation global network, open to all serious non-institutional funders of entrepreneurial ventures: the Global Business Angels Network (GBAN). GBAN is an initiative of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), the community of programs and policy initiatives now in 150 countries born out of Global Entrepreneurship Week initiated and funded by the Kauffman Foundation. GBAN was launched at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Milan in 2015. While membership is free, it requires angel organizations to fill out an application as either a national member (one representative per country), or a general member (other organizations involved in developing the angel movement). There are no categories for service providers, academic institutions or SME members as GBAN serves the angel investor movement alone. GBAN will connect with other constituencies through GEN. We hope you will join us to elevate the role of angels with policymakers and entrepreneurial ecosystems throughout the world. Sincerely,

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Global Business Angels Network Membership Packet

Contents:

I. Background II. Principles of GBAN III. Member Interface IV. Types of Memberships and Decision-Making Structure V. Membership Criteria VI. Contact Information Appendix: Membership Application


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I. Background The Global Business Angels Network (GBAN) is a global community of business angel networks and organizations coordinated by the Global Entrepreneurship Network, Inc. (GEN). GBAN brings greater public awareness and engagement to the role that business angels play in helping new firms start and scale. GBAN interfaces with entrepreneurs, policymakers, other early-stage finance actors and leading entrepreneurial support programs to strengthen the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether helping local entrepreneurial ecosystems recruit more investors, expanding geographic investment arenas beyond local markets or amplifying the angel “voice” to regulatory issue discussions, GBAN seeks to provide an inclusive, supportive community of early-stage investors around the world. GEN is a year-round platform of programs and initiatives created by the communities that celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) each November. Aimed at creating one global entrepreneurial ecosystem, GEN helps people in 150 countries unleash their ideas and turn them into promising new ventures—creating jobs, unearthing innovations for society and strengthening economic stability around the world. For details on the programs and initiatives that make up GEN, visit weareGEN.co.

II. Principles of GBAN

GBAN promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration for and with other key actors in local and global entrepreneurial ecosystems. GBAN seeks to:

• Connect business angels with other actors in entrepreneurial ecosystems around

the world; • Increase public awareness regarding the role of business angels within

entrepreneurial ecosystems including advancing the concerns of existing angels, welcoming new investors and increasing the overall ability of new firms to gain access to angel investors worldwide; and

• Develop angel investor groups in burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystems and help foster more communication between angel organizations around the world.

III. Member Interface

GBAN provides an opportunity for angels and their advocates to more actively participate in building and strengthening local and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems, helping to enhance connections with startup communities and policymakers and provide invaluable knowledge sharing and resources for all those who work with entrepreneurs. GBAN does not participate in lobbying activities or fundraising.


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GBAN members have the opportunity to:

• Share ideas, developments in their initiatives, lessons learned, and other knowledge and experiences using the GBAN website as a platform posting once a quarter;

• Participate in Global Business Angel Day (GBAD), a day that enables early-stage investors to connect with community leaders and local media through events and competitions, local programs for entrepreneurs, policy research and growing regional networks, during GEW, the annual celebration of entrepreneurship each November that adds energy to advancing entrepreneurship worldwide;

• Attend the annual GBAN Global Angels Summit held as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) each March; and

• Connect with other angel organizations for national or regional activities and objectives.

IV. Types of memberships and decision-making structure

Executive Committee: Five GBAN Co-chairs lead the community with voting rights on items such as membership applications and GBAN strategic direction and activities.

National Lead Members: One member per country with strong ties to multiple angel organizations and a leading voice in that national angel market that assumes the responsibility for communicating on behalf of that nations angel investor communities locally within the broader national entrepreneurial ecosystem and globally. Members: Organizations involved in building the angel ecosystem that apply to be a member on-line and are accepted by the Co-chairs.

V. Membership Criteria GBAN welcomes new members from around the world. Applications are considered on a case-by-case basis within 30 days of being submitted.

The GBAN Executive Committee selects one organization per country to serve as the interface between that nation’s angel community and GBAN efforts. Criteria include:

• Ability to be accepted as a neutral and inclusive party by the various organizations and clubs active in promoting and engaging in angel investing in that country;

• Openness to engaging actively with other local organizations that are part of GEN and in helping to improve the quality of the work done by the main local actors in enhancing the local entrepreneurial ecosystem;

• Willingness to help angels and those advancing their interests engage in other startup and scale up community efforts; and

• Willingness to come to the GEC each March for the GBAN Annual Meeting and Global Angels Summit.


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Members are required to: o Participate in quarterly community calls at least once a year; and participate in

Global Business Angels Day with GEW. Members are encouraged to:

o Attend the GBAN Annual Meeting at the GEC each March to interface with other angel associations and groups. Dates and locations are provided two years in advance.

o Use the GBAN online community management system (supported by Basecamp) as a global project management tool for collaborating and executing mutual plans.

Members remain members as long as they are active and engaged. Where there is more than one party interested in assuming the national lead role, the Executive Committee will select one organization to serve as National Lead Member for two years, at which time if others are still interested, rotating national leadership will be suggested. The Executive Committee also reserves the right to ask National Members to convert to General Members if that National Member becomes inactive. There is currently no membership fee. However, in March 2017, the GBAN Executive Committee and National Members will re-consider the matter again assessing progress over the first two years. Evaluation Membership Criteria

• GBAN as a community welcomes all established angel networks and groups to join a global network of like-minded individuals.

• Organizations established less than one year are not eligible to apply for National Lead Membership but may become General Members. Selected National Lead Member applicants should show a commitment to advancing connections between angel investors, the ecosystem they operate within and entrepreneurs. Selected applications should also show a commitment to working together with others, large and small, within the early-stage investing community both within their home country and globally.

Applications will be reviewed by the Executive Committee, which may seek counsel and input from experts and the local GEN teams now in 160 countries.

VI. Co-Chairs and Executive Committee: Douglas Abrams Chairman, Business Angel Network Southeast Asia (BANSEA) Douglas Abrams is the founder and CEO of Expara and Expara IDM Ventures, a business accelerator for interactive and digital media companies and a mentor in the iJAM Micro financing scheme. He is also a founding partner of Parallax Capital Management, a funds management company. All three companies are based in Singapore. Prior to coming to Singapore, Douglas managed information technology at J.P. Morgan for 14 years. From


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1997 to 1999, he was Global Markets Head of Internet Marketing, and from 1991 to 1997, he was VP and Manager of Investment Banking Technology. Douglas is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Business School, where he has taught New Venture Creation and Technopreneurship for graduate studies since 2001. He is on the organizing committee for the Start-up@Singapore and has previously served on the organizing committees for the Global Start-Up@Singapore Start-up Asia and Stanford Global Entrepreneurship Challenge business plan competitions. Candace Johnson President, The European Trade Association for Business Angels (EBAN) Ms. Johnson is President of Johnson Paradigm Ventures (JPV) which is a principal founding shareholder with AXA, Caisse des Depots, Bayerische Landesbank, and the SPEF of Sophia Euro Lab, Europe’s first trans-border early-stage investment company based in Sophia Antipolis. JPV is also a principal founding shareholder in London-based Ariadne Capital, “Architecting Europe.net”, one of the earliest supporters and promoters of Skype, the global VoIP phenomenon. Candace Johnson is a serial entrepreneur and a global infrastructure, network and innovation expert. She is a founder of SES, the world’s pre-eminent satellite group and initiated, conceived and architected SES Global for which she was bestowed the Commander of Merit by the Government of Luxembourg. She is also founding President of Europe Online Investments S.A., the world’s first internet-based online service and satellite broadband network, and founder of Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, Europe’s first independent private trans-border satellite communications network. Ms. Johnson is also founding President of the VATM, the Association of Private Telecom Operators in Germany and founding President of the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN). Ms. Johnson is a shareholder and Board Member of Kacific, the high throughput satellite system for the Pacific Islands. Recently, she was elected to the Presidency of EBAN, the European Business Angel and Early-Stage Investment Network for a two-year period of office. John May Managing Partner, New Vantage Group John May is the managing partner of New Vantage Group, a McLean, VA firm that innovatively mobilizes private equity into early-stage companies and provides advisory services to both funds and private investors. May has been at the forefront of the angel investor movement and his experience in private equity capital over the last 20 years ranges from venture capital fund management to angel investing to overseas consulting. In 1991, he co-founded the Investors' Circle, the Private Investors Network, The Dinner Club, followed by the eMedia Club, the Washington Dinner Club. In 2003, he created Active Angel Investors that was merged into New Dominion Angels in 2012. In 2006 he became director and general partner at Seraphim Capital, a £30 million venture fund based in London. He is chair-emeritus of the Angel Capital Association and is a lead instructor for their "Power of Angel Investing" seminar. Claire Munck CEO, Be Angels Claire Munck is Chief Executive Officer and Director at Be Angels, a 15-year old business angel group based in Belgium for the French speaking part of the country, and one of


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Europe's largest and most active. Her key responsibilities include business development, recruitment of new investors, deal making, and management of the women’s angel group she created in 2012 as a subsidiary of Be Angels. Munck previously collaborated with Go Beyond, a cross-border platform of services for early-stage investors, on business development (international angel training activities) and product development (investor groups) activities. She launched Go Beyond, an investor group in Belgium in collaboration with Be Angels and is an active member and administrator of the latter. In 2013, Claire joined the Board of Business Angels Europe, Europe's confederation of angel investing gathering Europe's strongest national federations of angel groups. Claire spent close to 10 years with EBAN, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and other market players, including five years as managing director from 2006 to 2011. She was also manager and part of the founding team of the WBAA - World Business Angels Association - from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that, Munck was project manager for EURADA - European Association of Regional Development Agencies - one of the founding members of EBAN. Jonathan Ortmans President, Global Entrepreneurship Network Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Jonathan Ortmans serves as president of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, a year-round platform of global programs and initiatives created by the communities that celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week each November. Aimed at creating one global entrepreneurial ecosystem, GEN helps people in 150 countries unleash their ideas and turn them into promising new ventures—creating jobs, unearthing innovations for society and strengthening economic stability around the world. Programs and support organizations include: Global Entrepreneurship Week – 25,000 events, 150 countries, 1 week each November; the Global Entrepreneurship Congress – an annual gathering of thousands of delegates looking to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems; Startup Nations – a collection of startup-savvy policymakers exploring regulatory changes and policy ideas to help accelerate new firm formation; Global Entrepreneurship Research Network – a working coalition of institutions dedicated to advancing research in the field; and the Global Entrepreneurship Index – an annual index that measures the health of entrepreneurship ecosystems in 130 countries. Ortmans also serves as a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In addition to the national boards for GEN around the world, he serves on the boards of several non-profits including the Center for Entrepreneurship in Moscow. Further Information: Alana Ramo Director of Strategic Partnerships [email protected]


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Appendix New Member Application

Please submit your membership request to become a member to Alana Ramo at [email protected], providing the following information (both part I and II). This application form can also be found at www.gban.co.

I. Short Answers (1-3 sentences each)

a) Name of your organization

b) Launch date

c) Top 3 goals of your organization

d) Name and sector of the founder(s)

e) Your organization’s biggest challenges and priorities over the next 12 months

f) Major success(es) of your organization to date

g) What kind of startup has benefitted the most from your work?

h) Tell us about your constituency and/or the members you serve.

i) What do you think your initiative would contribute to the Global Business Angel Network?

j) What would you like to get from being a member of a global network on angel investor groups?

II. Long Answer (400-words) Please provide a summary of your organization, its impact to date, describing the operational leader organization, and any public information suitable for posting on the GBAN website: www.gban.co.

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