Mentors

Anton Akusok

Member of Technical Staff, Qutwo

Scientist

Tareq Al-Ansari

Executive Director, Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute (QEERI)

Associate

Abdulla Ali Al-Kuwari

Head of Industrials, QIA

Associate

Fatma Hamad Al-Misnad

Associate Director Qatar Portfolio, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)

Associate

Raphael Taiwo Alabi

VP AI & Machine Learning, SAP

Associate

Karen Bach

Chairman and mentor of Start-up/Scale-up mentors, Portfolio of businesses

Associate

David Barton

Senior Consultant, Prospero & Partners

Investigator

Matthias Bauer

Director Software Development, Autodesk

Associate

Alexander Belcredi

Ex-Managing Director, BioNTech R&D Austria, Serial Founder

Associate

Parminder Benipal

Director of Technology, MetaOptima Technology Inc.

Investigator

Claus Benkert

Partner, Bain & Company

Associate

Adam Best

Founder & Principal Consultant, Apollo Safety

Associate

William Chen

Professor & Director of the Food Science Technology Programme, Nanyang Technological University

Scientist

Ali Ciger

Specialty Care P&L Owner, Pfizer Germany

Associate

Rachel Clough

Director NIHR HeathTech Research Centre in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, King's College London

Scientist

Lorenzo Corsini

Ex-Managing Director, BioNTech R&D Austria, Serial Founder

Associate

Mikael Courbot

Chief Technology Officer, MicroPep

Scientist

Georges Dagher

VP Global Medicine Commercialisation Leader, GSK

Associate

Sten Dahlborg

CEO, CGI Ventures AB

Associate

Troy Dale

Angel Investor and Strategic Advisor

Associate

Tilmann Eichstaedt

COO Upstream Supply-Chain, HelloFresh

Associate

Stefan Fak

CEO, Creovias

Associate

Michael Fausten

Senior Vice President Corporate Research, Division Head Artificial Intelligence and Systems, Bosch

Investigator

Alexander Förster

Co-Founder & CPO, Plantix

Associate

Jan-gerd Frerichs

CTO, OrbiFarm

Associate

Mira Al Ghaziri

Managing Director, Healthy Path

Associate

David Greenberg

President, D. Dave HealthCare Solutions

Associate

Beatrice Guillaume-Grabisch

Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Associate

Bjoern Hermann

Founding Team, Cynch AI

Associate

Dirk Holzapfel

Founder/CEO, Plantitude

Associate

Michael Horacek

Co-Founder & ex-CEO, Medudoc

Associate

Mark Kahn

Managing Partner, Omnivore

Associate

Pavlos Kalaitzoglou

Director of Research, Astanor Ventures

Investigator

Karan Keswani

Principal at Investments team, Omnivore

Associate

Ashish Khetan

Founding Partner, Benzai 10 Investments

Associate

Furquan Kidwai

Founder & CEO, Dawaai

Investigator

Anish Kirpalani

Chief of Radiology, St. Michael's Hospital

Investigator

Ingo Kloeckner

Head of Portfolio Strategy & Reporting, Bayer AG

Associate

Olaf Koch

Partner Associate, Zintinus VC

Associate

Carsten Krauss

Founder & CEO, CK Holding

Associate

Stephan Kühne

Executive CFO & Advisor, AGRANA Group

Associate

Eicke Latz

Scientific Director, German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ)

Scientist

Felix Leonhardt

Managing Partner, Purefood & Oyster Bay Venture Capital

Associate

Michael Lyon

Chief Executive Officer, Lyon Capital

Associate

Guido Mathews

Vice President Imaging, Data and AI | Biopharma | Pharmaceuticals, Bayer AG

Associate

Neal Mody

Managing Director, Zoic Capital

Associate

Tobias Müller-Glodde

Director Investments, FCC Capital

Associate

Michael Münnix

Co-founder and Partner, backtrace

Associate

Julien Abi Nahed

Director of Innovation, Hamad Medical Corporation

Scientist

Matthew Neff

Chief Product Officer, Snoonu

Associate

Derek Norman

VP Venture Investments, Bayer AG

Associate

Jean-Marc Peyrat

Product Strategy Consultant, Optellum

Associate

Simone Poppe

Managing Partner, NewFood Consulting

Associate

Vaclav Potesil

Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Optellum

Investigator

Neda Raji

VP of Product Management, Business Network Applications - AI Transformation, SAP

Associate

Ludovic Reysset

Senior Advisor, Barrington

Associate

Joao Roseiro

Agronomy Director, SLM Partners

Associate

Hasib Samad

Serial Founder, Angel Investor

Associate

Andreas Schmidt

General Partner Venture Capital, Springboard Ventures

Associate

Ramzi Schumann

Venture Partner MENA, MENA Lever VC

Associate

Elvira Shishenina

Quantum Computing Team Lead, BMW

Associate

Bruno Meireles de Sousa

Operating Partner, Bidra Innovation Ventures

Associate

Josefine Staats

Co-Founder, Algae AI Hub

Associate

Jörg Stein

Healthcare Entrepreneur, Business Angel, M&P Unternehmensberatung GmbH

Associate

Marc Struhalla

VP RD&A Enzymes and Biotechnology, Kerry

Associate

Alison Sunstrum

Founder & CEO, CNSRV-X Inc.

Associate, Fellow

Theis Terwey

Biopharma Executive, Co-Founder and Investor

Associate

Sudhakar Tomar

President, India Middle East Agri Alliance (IMEAA)

Associate

Alejandro Tomas-Callejas

Sr. Director Product Strategy & Operations, HelloFresh

Associate

Tom Villinger

CEO,  D11Z. Ventures GmbH & Co. KG

Associate

Alexander Wiegelmann

Managing Partner, Feast Ventures

Associate

Albrecht Wolfmeyer

Strategic Lead, ProVeg Incubator

Associate

Omer Zabit

Partner, Shorooq

Associate