Panel "Green Tech"
Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2024 16:15 - 16:45 CEST Stage ONE
DiskussionsteilnehmerInnen: Bernd Klosterkemper, Dimitri Carbonnelle, Peter Schmetz, Susanne Fromm
Host: Andy Marx
Kategorie: Panel
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Bernd Klosterkemper DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
Partner
Ananda Impact Ventures
Bernd believes in the power of entrepreneurship to solve today's most relevant societal challenges.
As a Partner at Ananda he mainly takes care of investment opportunities in DACH, Benelux and the Nordics. Bernd is deeply interested in innovations in Healthcare, Nature, AgTech, Energy, and Circularity sectors.
Before joining Ananda more than 10 years ago, Bernd has been on the entrepreneurial side himself and was working in finance and management for over ten years. After his PhD at the University of Bayreuth, he began his career at McKinsey & Company with a primary focus on financial institutions and change management.
He was part of the team who founded PlanetHome, an innovative finance and property service provider. Bernd was the CEO of PlanetHome for more than six years and helped the company scale and ultimately become the leading B2B-Partner in the placement and financing of private properties, with over 500 employees in 80 locations in Germany and Austria.
Dimitri Carbonnelle DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
CEO
Livosphere
Dimitri Carbonnelle, founder of Livosphere, leads projects, produces conferences (videos) and workshops in the field of decarbonization, adaptation to climate change, circular economy, CSR/CSRD and digital sobriety.
He is also Author of the book "2050, Crash or Renaissance?" Towards a “mistletoe ball” society on the challenges of mitigation and adaptation to climate change for society, communities and businesses.
Additionally he is a "Shifter", a spokesperson for The Shift Project, a think tank on the low carbon economy, advocating on the Climate and Resilience Law and Green Industry.
Furthermore he is a TEDx speaker and regular guest in the media (LCI, BFM TV, France Info TV, ...)
Peter Schmetz DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
Principal
Vorwerk Ventures
Peter joined Vorwerk Ventures in 2018 and experienced the company´s development during its CVC stage, helping to relaunch Vorwerk Ventures as an independent fund entity in late 2019.
Before joining Vorwerk Ventures, Peter worked in the Treasury Department of the Vorwerk Group, where he was mainly responsible for foreign currency management and liquidity management besides assisting in managing Vorwerk´s investment fund.
Peter holds a BA in Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a MA from Bergische Universität Wuppertal in European Studies. He has always enjoyed playing (semi) professional football in his spare time, thus you will most likely find him on a football pitch if not hunting for the next unicorn out there.
Susanne Fromm DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
General Partner & Co-Founder
Vanagon Ventures
Susanne Fromm is a Founding Partner of the climate-tech VC fund Vanagon Ventures with a focus on digital deep tech in the areas of NatureTech | Digital Industrial | Data & Finance. Portfolio companies include e.g. senken.io (2nd largest removal carbon marketplace worldwide), The Landbanking Group (infrastructure for nature as an asset class), Renoster (deep transparency for carbon markets), or LoopID (AI-enabled circularity infrastructure).
Previously, Susanne was CEO of a publicly listed investment company with over 40 portfolio companies.
The Munich native started her career as a management consultant. After 6 years at Roland Berger, during which she also completed her INSEAD MBA, she moved to Allianz. There, she was responsible for the design and global roll-out of digitization strategies, made corporate venture capital investments and formed partnerships with BigTech.
Susanne is a vocal advocate for climate education and for an economy within planetary boundaries and promotes these causes through public speaking. She also initiated, in cooperation with the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, the online 18-week education program "ReFi Talents", which has been onboarding hundreds of professionals from all over the world to the regenerative economy space and to enabling frontier tech solutions.
Andy Marx Host
Editor / Social Media Manager
absatzwirtschaft
Experienced in the media and marketing world, content creation, and strategy development in both B2B and B2C sectors.
He serves as editor and social media manager at absatzwirtschaft, the most traditional marketing medium in Germany and platform for the marketing community. Founded in 1957, absatzwirtschaft is the oldest specialist medium for marketing decision-makers in Germany.