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Global Enterprise & Venture Network

Transatlantic Executives in Our Network

Since 2013, Global AI Venture has cultivated a transatlantic network of senior executives, venture investors, and innovation leaders across AI, advanced manufacturing, energy, and digital transformation.

Our network includes leaders from corporate venture capital, corporate development, digital strategy, and emerging technology ecosystems across the US and Europe.

These relationships form the foundation of our ability to connect enterprise demand with validated, high-performing emerging technology providers.

Industry Domains

Advanced Manufacturing Leaders

David Sonnenschein - VP IoT Startup Accelerator, SAP Labs — David Sonnenschein - Vice President, SAP Circular Manufacturing; frm SAP Labs

Jay Onda - Startup Investments, Orange — Jay Onda - Venture Advisor / Investor. Marubeni Power (12GW of global power generation)

Raymond Liao - Managing Director, Samsung NEXT Ventures — Raymond Liao - Founding Managing Director, Samsung NEXT Ventures

Kim Dix-Huijts - Head of Transformation, TPV — Kim Dix-Huijts - Head of Transformation, TPV (frmr)

Gareth Keane - Partner, Promus Ventures — Gareth Keane, Partner, IQT (In-Q-Tel) ($1B AUM)

David Hindley - Director Corporate Development, Autodesk — David Hindley - Vice President Corporate Development, Autodesk

Lance Matthews - Associate, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners — Lance Matthews - Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners

Patrick Rumpel - Head of Audi TechHub@CODE, Audi AG and Volkswagen Group of America — Patrick Rumpel - Head of Audi TechHub@CODE, Audi AG and Volkswagen Group of America

Ludovic Copere - Sony — Ludovic Copere - Senior Investment Director, Sony Ventures

Aymerik Renard - Director, SanDisk Ventures — Aymerik Renard - General Partner Director; European Defense Investor Network

Alex De Winter - Director, GE Ventures — Alex De Winter - Vice President of New Ventures, Danaher Corporation (LIfe Sciences)

Abhishek Shukla -Managing Director & Head of Global Venture Capital Investments, HPE — Abhishek Shukla, Prosperity7 Ventures, Managing Director and Head of North America ($7B AUM)

Center of Excellence Leaders

Jerry Engel - Founder, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship (UC Berkeley) — Jerry Engel - Founder, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship (UC Berkeley)

William Stevens - Managing Director, International Venture Club — William Stevens - Managing Director, International Venture Club & Tech Tour

Izabela Albrycht -Chairperson, The Kosciuszko Institute & CYBERSEC HUB — Izabela Albrycht - Director of the Cybersecurity Center & Accelerator Lead

Florent Bernard - International Relations Officer for Research and Innovation, European Commission — Florent Bernard - Science Counsellor at the European Union, USA, European External Action Service; European Commission (frmr)

Soren Juul Jorgensen - Executive Director, Innovation Center Denmark — Soren Juul Jorgensen - Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University, Research Fellow; Innovation Center Denmark

Djeevan Schiferli - Digital Transformation, Royal Haskoning

Investment Leaders

Aydin Senkut - Founder & Managing Partner, Felicis Ventures — Aydin Senkut - Founder and Managing Partner, Felicis Ventures ($3..9B AUM)

Rodrigo Prudencio - The Alexa Fund, Amazon Corporate Development, Amazon — Rodrigo Prudencio - The Alexa Fund, Amazon Corporate Development, Amazon

Deborah Magid -Director, Software Strategy, IBM Ventures — Deborah Magid - Co-founder and MD, NextStar Venture Partners; IBM Ventures (frmr)

Alex Farcet - Co-Founder & Managing Director, Startupbootcamp — Alex Farcet - ClimateTech & AI investor syndicate (co-founder & lead)

Sune Alstrup (Johansen) - Ex-CEO Eye Tribe. Tech Investor & Entrepreneur

Jack Leeney - US Head of Investing & Portfolio Manager, Telefonica Ventures — Jack Leeney - US Head of Investing & Portfolio Manager, Telefonica Ventures (frmr)

Priti Youssef Choksi - Partner, Norwest Venture Partners — Priti Youssef Choksi - Partner, Norwest Venture Partners

Rainer Sternfeld - GM of Data Platforms & VP of Strategic Projects, Intertrust — Rainer Sternfeld - General Partner, NordicNinja VC

Carl Choi - Director, Corporate Development and Strategy, Riverbed — Carl Choi - Partner, Alumni Ventures (1.3B AUM)

Shardul Shah - Index Ventures San Francisco — Shardul Shah - Index Ventures San Francisco

Jamie McGurk - Partner, Andreessen Horowitz — Jamie McGurk - Partner, Andreessen Horowitz (frmr)

Evangelos Simoudis - Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital — Evangelos Simoudis - Founder and Managing Director, Synapse Partners

Tom Henriksson - Partner, Open Ocean Capital — Tom Henriksson - Partner, Open Ocean Capital

Jihong Kim - Investment Manager, Samsung Ventures — Jihong Kim - VP, Samsung Ventures

Ramneek Gupta - Managing Director, Palo Alto, Citi Ventures — Ramneek Gupta - Founder and Managing Partner, PruVen Capital ; Citi Ventures

Koen De Waele - Venture Partner, Volta — Koen De Waele - General Partner, Volta Ventures

Patrick Polak - Managing Partner, Newion Investments — Patrick Polak - Managing Partner, Newion Investments

Kane Nakamura - Director, Softbank — Kane Nakamura - Director, Softbank (frmr)

AI Transformation Leaders

Siddharth Gupta - Platform Architect, Apple — Siddharth Gupta - Samsung Ventures, Managing Director; Platform Architect, Apple (frmr)

Shubha Kumbadakone - Sr. Product Manager, VMWare — Shubha Kumbadakone - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sr Manager GenAI GTM Specialist

Arash Nourian - VP and Chief Product AI Head @ FICO | Professor of Data Science @ UC Berkeley — Arash Nourian, Global Head of AI, Postman; FICO (frmr); Professor of Data Science @ UC Berkeley

Mikaël Wornoo - Founder & CPO @ TechWolf

Philip Inghelbrecht -Co-Founder, Shazam — Philip Inghelbrecht -
Co-Founder, Shazam

Mark Bakker - Regional Lead Benelux at H2O.ai | — Mark Bakker - Snr. Enterprise Account Executive Computer Vision & GenAI EMEA, Sama

Tech Industry Leaders

Bart Pannecoeck - B2B Industries Business Dev lead, EMEA, Salesforce — Bart Pannecoeck - Global Industry CoE - Head of ICE Industries & Strategic Scale Initiatives, EMEA, Salesforce

Dario Vignudelli -Business Strategy Manager, Xbox, Microsoft Xbox — Dario Vignudelli - Product, Apple; Microsoft Xbox (frmr)

Brian Lamkin - Senior VP Corporate Development, Adobe — Brian Lamkin, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Adobe (frmr)

Benjamin Maughan - VP Product Management, Business Development & Client Success, TiVo — Benjamin Maughan - VP/GM, Consumer & Media Platform, Xperi Inc; TiVo (frmr)

Yehuda Hofri - Chief Digital Officer Transdev — Yehuda Hofri - Chief Data Officer Europe, Ahold Delhaize (frmr)

Frederik Hanika - VP, Head of M&A and Corporate Ventures, Software AG — Frederik Hanika - VP, Head of M&A and Corporate Ventures, Software AG (frmr)

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