Programme Participants
Meet the experts driving this programme forward
Participants
Aaron Albores Mejia
Co-Founder & CEO
CUbiQ Technologies
John Anderton
Chief Commercial Officer
Photon Bridge
Geert Appeldoorn
Founder
Catalink Ventures
Go Banzashi
Senior Manager, Cross-Industries
AGC In-Vehicle Design Glass Europe
Srimannarayana Baratam
Co-Founder
Perciv.ai
Mike Beunder
Managing Partner & Founder
TD Shepherd
Qurein Biewenga
Fund Manager
PhotonDelta
Bart Budde
Investment Manager
SHIFT Invest
Patrick Claessen
Partner
Cottonwood Technology Fund
Edwin de Steenhuijsen Piters
CEO
Temporal Photonics
Irina Dolgikh
Founder & CEO
MemStera
Jorn Epping
CEO
Epiphany
Erhan Ercan
Head of BD
Morphotonics
Kees Franken
Co-Founder & CEO
Sabratha
Enrique Frutos
Technical Director
Alcyon Photonics
Stefano Gottardi
CEO
StrAilight
Joe Graziano
Director
Sheffield Haworth
Andrew Greer
Principal Investigator
Photonics & Quantum Accelerator / University of Glasgow
Christoph Gulich
Founder & Managing Director
Deveritec
Bert Gyselinckx
Partner
imec.xpand
Max Haigh
Senior Investment Analyst
Claret Capital Partners
Caspar Høgh
Partner & Co-founder
NOON Ventures
Toam Jaber
Investment Manager
DeepTechXL
Hugh James Faux
Chief Commercial Officer
deveritec
Olaf Joeressen
Senior Investment Manager
High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF)
Mikko Karppinen
Research Team Leader
VTT
Erhan Kilicozlu
Managing Partner
ACT Venture Partners
Simon King
Partner, Deep Tech
Lakestar
Raymond Klaassen
Sector Industry Director
ING Bank (NL)
Steven Konsek
Investment Director
Applied Ventures
Iliana Kostadinova
Programme Lead
PhotonHub Scaling Club
Alexander Kostenko
Founder
Photosynthetic B.V.
Julia Kuijs
Investment Manager
FORWARD.one
Takenori Kumagai
Senior Manager Tech Scouting
JX Nippon Advanced Metals
Steven Lambert
Investment Partner Digital
Capricorn
Simone Lavizzari
Principal
Join Capital
Katarzyna Lawniczuk
COO & Project Lead
Bright Photonics
Carlos Lee
Director General
EPIC - European Photonics Industry Consortium
Arne Leinse
CEO
LioniX International
Bart Lugard
Investment Manager
DeepTechXL
Novica Mrdovic-Vianello
General Partner
Mountain X
Vishal Nayar
Senior Venture Development Manager
imec
William Oppermann
CEO
Pilot Photonics
Roberto Pangallo
Executive MBA | Corporate Affairs & Programme Management Officer
Wooptix
Flo Pattiwael
Principal
PhotonVenturs
Michaël Raes
Senior Investment Manager
PMV
Hitesh Sahoo
Co-Founder
Phanofi
Florian Schlehuber
Head of Business Development
ZAZ Ventures
Edward Schneider
Founder & Managing Director
Quan Technology Fund
Koen Schrever
Investment Director
KBC Focus Fund
Roberto Siagri
Co-Founder & CEO
Rotonium
Anat Siddharth
Co-Founder and CTO
Deeplight
Tom Smets
Investment Associate
QBIC
William Stevens
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe
Johan Stins
Senior Investment Manager
Invest-NL
Steve Stoffels
Co-founder and CEO
Aluvia Photonics
Karol Szubstarski
Partner
OTB Ventures
Tim Tiek
CEO
Brilliance RGB
Andre van Geelen
CEO & Founder
Coolsem technologies
Ekke Van Vliet
Investment Coordinator
EISMEA
Dany Vandevelde
Investment Director, Equity Investments
PMV
Joost Verberk
Vice President of Marketing And Business Development
Oriole
Lucian Wagner
Chairman, Launch in US Alliance, LLC; General Partner, EuroUS Ventures, LLC
EuroUS Ventures
Tim Weil
Co-Founder & CEO
Lumai
Mikael Westerlund
Chief Business Officer
AGATE Sensors
Erik Wilbrink
CEO
Bruco Integrated Circuits
George Jones
Managing Director
Woodside Capital Partners
Luc Berns
Senior Associate
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
Alexander Galitsky
Deeptech Investments
Constructor Capital
Ivy Qiu
European Representative
Matter Venture Partners
Expert Jury
Richard Clarke
Director General
PHABULOuS Pilot Line