Gerard Keeley
Philipp Kählitz
Franziska Leonhardt
Co-Founder of Ave & Edam (Beauty Tech).
High profile lawyer, entrepreneur & blockchain enthusiast, based in Berlin, consulting for corporates & private equity funds.
Passionate about entrepreneurship, startups, venture capital and private equity. Active player in the Berlin startup ecosystem as strategic adviser and advisory/supervisory board member for several companies.
*Consultant & COO/MD kloeckner.i - the digital hub of Klöckner&Co SE (one of the largest producer-independent distributors of steel and metal products) - and kloeckner.v – the corporate venture capital fund specialized in investing in disruptive B2B business models that fit Klöckner's digital strategy.
*Former member of senior leadership team of Rocket Internet SE, helped to grow Rocket from a small startup to Europe's largest tech company including IPO work in 2014. Executing board decisions within the global Rocket startup network in 110+ countries, worked with 50+ founder teams.
Meghan Maupin
Pree Walia
Pree Walia is the CEO and Founder of Preemadonna. She spent four years in the hardware space working at high growth venture backed start-ups focused on LED lighting and building automation services. Previously, Pree raised capital, managed political outreach and worked for Steve Westly, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other progressive campaigns between 2003-2008. She holds a MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in History and Gender Studies from Northwestern University. She is passionate about causes that impact women and girls and is a certified volunteer domestic violence counselor. Pree serves on the Board of Advisors for MakerGirl, a nonprofit that inspires young girls to pursue STEM fields.
Kirsty Macdonald
Sampo Parkkinen
Sampo is the CEO of Revieve.
Revieve is transforming the way consumers discover, choose and evaluate beauty products. TheRevieve Digital Beauty Advisor helps retailers convert beauty shoppers by bringing the in-storebeauty consultant to digital using shopper selfies and a digital skin analysis. The Revieve DigitalBeauty Advisor is active with 45+ beauty brands and retailers across 4 continents and provides anaverage 55% in beauty-shopper conversion as well as an average 34% increase in averagetransaction size.
Jo Stephenson
Barbara Geusens
Arnaud Plas
Arnaud is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prose.
Prose offers fresh and custom-made hair care, combining expertise from a professional stylist (online or in-salon), clients’ unique needs and the highest-quality ingredients to help clients achieve great hair.
The Prose experience starts with a holistic consultation that is designed to understand clients’ hair and scalp needs, goals, lifestyle habits and environmental exposure (pollution, UV, humidity, etc.) to guarantee only the most essential ingredients are bottled to effectively treat and nourish hair for long-term health.
Each exclusive formulation accounts for personal preferences, whether they are vegan, gluten or fragrance-free, and is freshly made in NYC by a team of chemists.