European Photonics Venture Forum 2019[5]

Participants

Stephen Anderson

Director, Industry Development

SPIE (United Kingdom)

Christophe Bodin

Director
CBO Consulting (Belgium)

Willem Bulthuis

CEO
WBX Ventures (Germany)

Richard Clarke

Finance Director
PowerPhotonic Ltd (United Kingdom)

Christian Claussen

General Partner,
Ventech (Germany)

Joachim de Sterke

CFO
PhotonDelta (Netherlands)

Nathalie Debaes

Central Outreach Coordinator & Project Finances
ACTPHAST 4.0 (Belgium)

Stephan Decher

Managing Partner
Zaz Ventures (Belgium)

Kevin Donnelly

Research Officer
Enterprise Ireland (Ireland)

Friedhelm Dorsch

Principal Expert Technology Scouting
TRUMPF GmbH (Germany)

Peter Doyle

Business Coach, VUB as coordinator of PhotonHub Europe
ACTPHAST 4.0 (Belgium)

Steve Frisken

CEO
Cylite (Australia)

Pierre Garnier

Partner
Jolt Capital (France)

Paul Gillespie

Partner
SH Gillamor Stephens (United Kingdom)

Tonino Greco

Chief Analyst
Sony Europe Venturing (Germany)

Tom Harvey

Healthcare Photonics Lead
CPI (United Kingdom)

Thomas Hessler

Principal
Lake Sarnen Consulting (Switzerland)

Oliver Kahl

Fluxunit - ams OSRAM Ventures (Germany)

Marek Kotelnicki

Managing Partner
VIGO Ventures (Poland)

Alain le Loux

General Partner
Cottonwood Technology Fund (Netherlands)

Carlos Lee

Director General
EPIC - European Photonics Industry Consortium (Belgium)

Francesco Leone

Coach, Copilot and Fundraiser
Start up Business Copilot (Italy)

Martyn Macpherson

Vice Chairman
Stella EOC (United Kingdom)

Darren Martindill

Director New Ventures
Hamamatsu (United States)

Patrick Morrissey

Centre Manager
IPIC (Ireland)

Novica Mrdovic-Vianello

General Manager & Founder
Star Tech Ventures (Italy)

Reinhard Pfeiffer

Deputy CEO; General Manager of Messe München
Messe München GmbH (Germany)

Sven Pietrzyk

Senior Manager Strategic Projects at ZEISS
Carl Zeiss AG (Germany)

Jose Pozo

Director of Technology and Innovation
EPIC - European Photonics Industry Consortium (Belgium)

Zhigang Qian

Hexinyuan Investment Management (China)

James Regan

CEO
EFFECT Photonics (Netherlands)

Julian Riebartsch

Associate
btov Partners (Germany)

Audra Shallal

Managing Director
BOSS Consulting (France)

Wojtek Smolinski

Managing Partner
VIGO Ventures (Poland)

Mark Smyth

MCCI Ireland (Ireland)

Sebastian Stamm

Investment Manager
Fluxunit - ams OSRAM Ventures (Germany)

Pietro Strada

Managing Partner
Silverpeak (United Kingdom)

Antonio Teixeira

Founder
PICadvanced S.A. (Portugal)

Hugo Thienpont

Vicerector Innovation and Valorisation
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

Andreas Umbach

CEO
AUCCEPT Consulting GmbH (Germany)

Peter Vanbekbergen

Partner
imec.xpand (Belgium)

Peter Vanlaeke

Investment Manager
SOLVAY S.A. (Belgium)

Kurt Weingarten

Managing Partner
Tarkas Ventures (Switzerland)

Markus Wilkens

Head of Operations
Photonics21 (Belgium)

Torsten Wipiejewski

Business Development Manager
Huawei Technologies (Germany)

Sun-Joung You

Senior Investment Director
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (Germany)