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Executives that joined our Growth Labs
The Global AI steering group is a network of AI, Data Science, Industry 4.0 oriented Executives who learn from and share knowledge with their startup & enterprise peers. Since 2013 digital innovation leaders from Audi, SAP, Kohl’s and 200 industry leaders have met international startups at Fenwick & West in Mountain View (2013, 2015, 2016), Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco (2014, 2017, 2018), The Heart in Warsaw (2017), The Amsterdam Stock Exchange in Amsterdam (2016) & Cresco Law in Antwerp (2020).
Abhishek Shukla -Managing Director & Head of Global Venture Capital Investments, HPE
Alex De Winter - Director, GE Ventures
Alex Farcet - Co-Founder & Managing Director, Startupbootcamp
Alex Nigg - Venture Partner Canvas Fund, Morgenthaler Ventures (frmr)
Ana Mostarac - Partner, Corporate Development, Andreessen Horowitz
Andy Castonguay - Analyst Relations Manager, IBM
Angela Lee - Sr. Manager, Technology & Operations Analytics, Workday
Aydin Senkut - Founder & Managing Partner, Felicis Ventures
Aymerik Renard - Director, SanDisk Ventures
Bart Pannecoeck - B2B Industries Business Dev lead, EMEA, Salesforce
Benjamin Maughan - VP Product Management, Business Development & Client Success, TiVo
Brian Lamkin - Senior VP Corporate Development, Adobe
Carl Choi - Director, Corporate Development and Strategy, Riverbed
Carl Hekkert - Controller, Strategic Investments, SVB Financial
Dario Vignudelli -Business Strategy Manager, Xbox, Microsoft Xbox
David Hindley - Director Corporate Development, Autodesk
David Sonnenschein - VP IoT Startup Accelerator, SAP Labs
Deborah Magid -Director, Software Strategy, IBM Ventures
Diane Tate - Senior Program Manager, Mozilla
Eeshan Raiker - VP Global Business Development, Software AG
Eric Keller - Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
Evangelos Simoudis - Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital
Freda Obeng-Ampofo - Chief Mixer at Kaeme Cosmetics
Frederik Hanika - VP, Head of M&A and Corporate Ventures, Software AG
Gareth Keane - Partner, Promus Ventures
Harsha Nagaraju - TitlePrincipal, Strategy and Partnerships - AI/ML & IoT, Micron Technology
Izabela Albrycht -Chairperson, The Kosciuszko Institute & CYBERSEC HUB
Jack Leeney - US Head of Investing & Portfolio Manager, Telefonica Ventures
Jamie McGurk - Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jay Onda - Startup Investments, Orange
Jerry Engel - Founder, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship (UC Berkeley)
Jihong Kim - Investment Manager, Samsung Ventures
Jim Brisimitzis - Senior Director, Microsoft Ventures
Joost Krikhaar - Partner, Deloitte M&A Practice
Justin Hwa - Lead Product Manager, eBay
Kane Nakamura - Director, Softbank
Lance Matthews - Associate, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
Larry Roseman - Senior Director, eBay
Ludovic Copere - Sony
Magnus Arildsson - Global Director IoT Ecosystem and IoT Marketplace, Ericsson
Megan Minich - Head of Cash Management and Digital Products, Silicon Valley Bank
Michael Holdmann - COO, EVP, Coverrsant
Sune Alstrup (Johansen) - Ex-CEO Eye Tribe. Tech Investor & Entrepreneur
Mohammed Gaber -
Sr. Director, Digital Strategy & Transformation, Air Canada
Patrick Polak - Managing Partner, Newion Investments
Patrick Rumpel - Head of Audi TechHub@CODE, Audi AG and Volkswagen Group of America
Philip Inghelbrecht -
Co-Founder, Shazam
Priti Youssef Choksi - Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Rainer Sternfeld - GM of Data Platforms & VP of Strategic Projects, Intertrust
Ramneek Gupta - Managing Director, Palo Alto, Citi Ventures
Raymond Liao - Managing Director, Samsung NEXT Ventures
Reto Gericke - Global Venture Development Manager, Rocket Internet
Rodrigo Prudencio - The Alexa Fund, Amazon Corporate Development, Amazon
Sean Bohan - Strategic Direction Principal, Mozilla Content Services
Shardul Shah - Index Ventures San Francisco
Koen De Waele - Venture Partner, Volta
Shubha Kumbadakone - Sr. Product Manager, VMWare
Florent Bernard - International Relations Officer for Research and Innovation, European Commission
Siddharth Gupta - Platform Architect, Apple
Djeevan Schiferli - Digital Transformation, Royal Haskoning
Soren Juul Jorgensen - Executive Director, Innovation Center Denmark
Mark Bakker - Regional Lead Benelux at H2O.ai |
Steven Levine - Partner, Corporate, Fenwick & West LLP
Arash Nourian - VP and Chief Product AI Head @ FICO | Professor of Data Science @ UC Berkeley
Thanasis A.K. Kalekos - Managing Partner, Odyssey Ventures
Kim Dix-Huijts - Head of Transformation, TPV
Sofia Pessanha, Cofounder CareRev
Tom Henriksson - Partner, Open Ocean Capital
William Stevens - Managing Director, International Venture Club
Steve Ebin - Head of Marketing, Optimizely
Yehuda Hofri - Chief Digital Officer Transdev
Mikaël Wornoo - Founder & CPO @ TechWolf