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Europe

Hedda Pahlson-Moller

Hedda Pahlson-Moller

Chair
Hedda Pahlson-Moller is a full-time Business Angel focused on impact investing at the seed capital stage through OMSINT (Omnisource International). ...
Martijn Blom

Martijn Blom

Vice-Chair
Martijn Blom is social entrepreneur and informal investor. Co-founder of De Investeerdersclub and co-author of the ‘handboek informal investment’ (in Dutch) that was released in 2012. ...
Cécile Sevrain

Cécile Sevrain

Program Officer
Cécile is a project manager working on various assignments. She is the Community Manager of LBAN (Luxembourg Business Angel Network) and the ...
Riccardo Aimerito

Riccardo Aimerito

Head of Interface
Riccardo Aimerito is a Board Member and General Manager of a Fashion Company. Within EMEA investing (ERA Kapital) and advising (ERA) from an industrial and financial, business, ...
Jay Mitra

Jay Mitra

Head of Research
Jay Mitra is the Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation, Director of The MBA and Executive Programmes, and the Director of the International Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at Essex Business School, University of Essex. ...
David Drake

David Drake

David Drake is an early-stage equity expert and the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City-based family office, and The Soho Loft Group - Media for Impact Investors - a global financial ...
Mike Mompi

Mike Mompi

Mike works with entrepreneurs, angel investors, and early-stage VCs as Director of Early Stage Investment at ClearlySo. ...
Ferhan Cook

Ferhan Cook

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. ...
Florence Korhonen

Florence Korhonen

Florence Korhonen is an entrepreneur and angel investor. She is a member of the Finnish Business Angels Network(FIBAN), and is the chairperson of the recently established Nordic Female Business Angels Network (NFBAN). ...
Marijn Bergsma

Marijn Bergsma

Marijn Bergsma is Investor Matchmaker at BiD Network; an Amsterdam based organization that supports emerging market entrepreneurs in getting access to finance. ...
Linde Wolters

Linde Wolters

Linde is a Dutch national who joined EVPA (the European network for venture philanthropists and social investors) in May 2014 to build up the profile of the organisation and ...
Natascha Wahlberg

Natascha Wahlberg

Natascha Wahlberg is the Responsible of Expansion of the Business Angels Network of Social Innovation, INNOBAS managed by the Foundation "Innovation of Social Economy", Innoves. ...
Ingeborg Milsted-Lurvink

Ingeborg Milsted-Lurvink

Ingeborg is an entrepreneur and a Member of the Sophia Business Angels in the South of France. Besides her business in Scent Marketing, Ingeborg has a special interest in Impact Investing. In  2012 she founded Total Impact Capital Monaco – a partnership with TIC US a company specializing in Impact Investing, sourcing and advising social businesses...
Harri Männistö

Harri Männistö

Harri is an advisor-entrepreneur and angel investor for growth & impact entrepreneurs. In his Sitra role he is driving Social Impact Investing ecosystem into Finland with focus on investor perspective...
Renata Brkić

Renata Brkić

Renata Brkić, Degree in Economics, EMBA from Cotrugli Business School. Experience in public sector from ten years in GTZ - State Agency for Technical Co-operation - Germany, UNICEF Croatia Office as the Project Officer and UNICEF...
Venkata Gandikota

Venkata Gandikota

Venkata has more than 13 years of technical engineering, research, ideation, strategy and business modeling experience. Based on his experience with the Indian market and realizing also the need for affordable & ...
Jovan Madjovski

Jovan Madjovski

Jovan has a twelve-year experience in international organizations such as the US Peace Corps, USAID, UNDP, SEAF investment fund and the EU. He was responsible for ...

Africa

Vasili Sofiadellis

Vasili Sofiadellis

Vasili Sofiadellis has transitioned from playing professional soccer in both Greece and South Africa to being a Chartered Accountant. Sofiadellis worked at PwC, performing numerous ...
David van Dijk

David van Dijk

David is co-founder and manages the day-to-day affairs of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN), a pan African non-profit association founded to support the development of ...
Max Pichulik

Max Pichulik

Max is passionate about market based solutions to Africa’s problems and developing High Impact, High Growth businesses. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with ...
David van Dijk

David van Dijk

ABAN Director General
David van Dijk is co-founder and Director General of ABAN, the African Business Angel Network, a non profit association founded early 2015 to catalyse early stage investing in Africa...

Middle East

Mohamed Al-Tawash

Mohamed Al-Tawash

Altawash is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of accomplishment-laden experiences in the GCC and MENA region. He has a focus on 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...