Marc Aguilar

Chief Data Officer @ BGL BNP Paribas

Marc Aguilar has been Chief Data Officer at BGL BNP Paribas S.A. since September 2015. Mr. Aguilar served as General Manager of e-Business Center at BGL Société Anonyme and also serves as a Head of e-Business Center of Banque Générale du Luxembourg S.A.

Baybars Altuntas

Chairman, World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF)

Former Senior Advisor of the Elite Programme of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), star of the Turkish version of the television show Dragons’ Den / Sharks Tank, Chairman of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), Co-chair of the Global Business Angels Network (GBAN), Vice President of the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds, and Early Stage Market Players (EBAN), President of the Business Angels Association of Turkey (TBAA), the World Entrepreneurship Forum Ambassador to Turkey and the Balkan countries, and President of Deulcom International.

One of the top global speakers on entrepreneurship, innovation and angel investment invited by former US President Obama to speak at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Recipient of the European Trade Association of Business Angels (EBAN) award for the Best Individual in Europe Globally Engaging with the Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in 2014 (Ireland), 2015 (Netherlands), 2016 (Portugal) and 2017 (Spain). The only entrepreneur to be granted a personal audience with former President Obama at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, DC. Developer of the world-renowned entrepreneurship theory, the Altuntas Start-up Compass Theory, researched by Sheffield University and used in numerous MBA programmes. Advisory board member of the South East Europe Research Council in Greece. Appointed as JCI Ambassador, following Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations. Profiled regularly by leading international media such as CNN International and Bloomberg. A co-author of Planet Entrepreneur: The World Entrepreneurship Forum's Guide to Business Success Around the World, published by Wiley (2013). Author of Off the Bus, Into a Supercar! How I Became a Top TV Star and Celebrated Investor, published by Balboa Press (2014) and translated into Chinese, Croatian, Albanian, and Macedonian.

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Sasha Baillie

CEO @ Luxinnovation

Sasha is also CEO of Luxinnovation whose mission is to strengthen national business through innovation.Before joining the Ministry of the Economy in 2014 as Deputy Chief of Staff and Diplomatic Advisor, Sasha Baillie was Director for International Economic Relations and European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During her career of more than 20 years in economic diplomacy, she has held several positions abroad. Within the Ministry of the Economy, Sasha Baillie led, among other things, the reform of the economic promotion and prospection for Luxembourg. She chairs the Steering Council for Foreign Trade and Investment, which is in charge of developing and implementing the country’s economic development strategy.

Geoffroy Bazin

CEO @ BGL BNP Paribas & 

Country Head @ BNP Paribas Luxembourg

Graduated from the University of Paris Dauphine, Geoffroy Bazin held several management positions within the BNP Paribas Group in Europe before taking over the Head of the Group in Luxembourg on July 1, 2018.
Geoffroy Bazin is convinced that innovation and sustainable development go hand in hand. And as a major player,  BNP Paribas Group's commitments to future generations are essential.

Daniel Beck

Investment Manager bei European Investment Fund (EIF)

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Daniel Beck is an Investment Manager at the European Investment Fund, where he deals with business angel co-investments (European Angels Fund) and VC fund investments. Prior to the EIF, Daniel worked in Transaction Advisory Services at EY.

Larissa Best

Social Impact Investor & President @ LBAN

Larissa is an active early-stage investor privately and through the womens’ angel program, Rising Tide Europe, Larissa has been nominated president of the Luxembourg Business Angel Network. She is also the director and co-founder of Equilibre, a Luxembourg-based think-tank delivering research, advisory and advocacy for ‘gender complementarity’ at work – working with companies of all sizes, government bodies and associations to harnessing the power of diversity. Due to her entrepreneurial background in growing and exiting a RegTech company in the Intellectual Property domain,  as well as an MBA and Masters in Finance, she has become a proverbial 'Jane-of-all-trades', lecturing at Universities and on the European speaker circuit on subject related to gender, impact investing, entrepreneurship and family business.

Yvan Bourgnon

Skipper, Adventurer & Environmentalist

Yvan Bourgnon first sailed around the world when he was eight with his parents during three years. Later, during the many races he participated to in the world, he was shocked by the amount of plastic waste polluting the seas.

Being fully aware of this global catastrophe for our planet he created the association The SeaCleaners in September 2016 to fight ocean plastic pollution.

Ian Choo

Founder & Managing Partner @ Ekofolio

Ian Choo is the founder of Ekofolio, a mission-driven Fintech company based in Copenhagen, whose core mission is to make quality investments in forestry available to everyone. Ian also serves as an advisor for the Nordic Blockchain Association, and facilitator and ambassador at Growth Train, an accelerator program for startups and early growth organizations...

Anthony Clarke

Co-Founder and Director of Seraphim Space Fund and Director of Newable Private Investing/Newable Ventures

Co-Founder/Director of £30m Seraphim Capital VC Fund and £67m Seraphim Space VC Fund. Director of Newable Private Investing and Newable Ventures (formerly London Business Angels/LBA Ventures).
Chairman of EBAN Space.
Co-Founder and Past Chair of UK Business Angels Association. President Emeritus of European Business Angel Network. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary at Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now PWC).

Olivier Coekelbergs

Partner at EY- Luxembourg Private Equity Leader

Olivier is the leader of EY Luxembourg’s 200 professional strong Private Equity practice for audit, advisory, valuation, transaction and tax services in Luxembourg. He is furthermore the EMEIA Private Equity Fund Practice coordinator and the EMEIA Private Equity Fund AIFM Directive solution leader.

With more than 14 years experience in servicing major Private Equity houses and small and mid-sized general partners around the globe, Olivier has gained an in-depth knowledge of the Private Equity and Venture Capital industry. Olivier is a recognized expert in the valuation of illiquid assets and in the application of the International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation Guidelines. He regularly gives trainings on valuation in a Private Equity context and on the IPEV Guidelines on behalf of the EVCA.

Over the past few years, Olivier has led audit and valuation assignments for a large number of Private Equity and Venture Capital funds investing in a wide range of underlying assets and following different strategies. Moreover, Olivier has advised multinational and local fund administrators and depositaries in the set-up of their Private Equity desks. Olivier has also led several due diligences for large and mid-sized general partners in the context of international acquisitions.