Meet the daphnipolitans

- Deputy CEO: managing partner in asset management, strategy definition and implementation (marketing, sales, processes, risk management, fund management, etc) - Chief Investment Officer Alternatives & Global Credit: €10bn AUM at the peak; responsible for P&L, risk, operations, product development, business units strategy and operations - Professional Investor on Corporate Assets for 13 years: AUM growth €150mln to €3bn, 7,5% net annualized return over the period 2002-2013 - Independent Board Member In my various positions, and especially as a business leader, I demonstrated my ability to have a vision, share it and obtain support to implement it. As an Investor and a CIO, I stand out as a stress resilient decision maker, solving rapidly complex situations. I particularly like to create/ develop and grow businesses, dealing with associated challenges: culture, recruiting, positioning, marketing, customer knowledge, innovation, new business models etc Areas of expertise: - Investment / investment solutions: equities/credit/alternatives/ private equity/ private debt/fintech - Liquid Alternatives - Strategic thinking / business plan elaboration and implementation - Managing for value: p&l, cash flows, process optimizations, etc - Negotiation: contracts, partnerships, all types of deals/ situations - Organic and external growth - Specific sector knowledge: financial services, energy - New areas of business development - digital and fintech impact (started in 2000 within the LabMorgan)

Experienced Marketing Communications professional with a demonstrated history of working with both corporate brands and consumer marketing and branding. Skilled in Brand Management, Digital Strategy, Media Relations, Communications, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Master’s degree graduate from Hanken School of Economics.

Serial entrepreneur executive with 14 years of experience in General Management, Product, Competitive & Disruptive Strategy, Communication and RP, Fund raising. Ability to develop visionary ‘next-level’ ideas and deliver them to marketplace. Turn disruptive technology into business reality. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing & Payments innovations, Marketplace & Multi-sided markets Ignition Strategy, Ambition Passions: Kite Boarding, Snow Boarding, Hiking and Running.

Co-founder and COO of Boost.rs, a startup aimed at democratizing talent management by helping individuals and companies to assess their skills. Boost.rs’ skills profiler powers applications in Talent Management, Internal Mobility, Learning & Development, and Recruitment (visit us at www.boost.rs). I previously held global responsibilities at the Corporate Innovation department of Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT). Prior to that, I led the CWT Travel Management Institute for five years, a think tank dedicated to business travel, and spent four years in strategy consulting and private equity at L.E.K. Consulting. I am an investor and advisor in several startups such as Agricool, Beekast, Bnbsitter, Costockage.fr, Fox Intelligence, Holberton School, Intercloud, Librinova, Limonetik, Meetrip/Cariboo, Metafora Biosystems, Scality, Sculpteo, Seedtag, Switch Collective, Teads, Tech’4’Team, Vide Dressing and Visiblee. Specialties: mentoring, strategy, consulting, client relations, business development, innovation, entrepreneurship, private equity, venture capital, startups.

As an ex-business lawyer and a serial start-up founder, I find excitement in solving business issues and finding the right solution to move forward and succeed! Whatever I do, I try to do it right and love it (well, don't be fooled, it is not easy every day ;-)! Specialties: Web communities behaviors. social interaction online. Starting up high tech companies. white label social networks / blogs / communities. Facebook Applications, Page Management, Social CRM and Social ROI.

With 20 years of unparalleled experience gained at the heart of leading stock exchanges in the US and Europe, I have decided to set up Aldebaran Global Advisors, a strategic advisory firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, executives and VCs in making informed decisions on capital markets strategy. Working with C-level executives at both private and listed companies, I have seen an increased need for insightful advice on listing and post-listing strategy. During my tenure at Euronext N.V. and the New York Stock Exchange, I was involved in over 90 listings from 15 countries on 7 listing venues.

Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about science, space and AI. She spent the first 5 years of her career as Investment Manager structuring and managing funds in Private Equity and Venture Capital in London and Paris. She has raised over $80M with public and private institutions, FoF and family offices and participated in 40 deals. At 28, she left to focus on her passion: tech and science. She helped launching The Family, a Paris-based incubator and Hello Tomorrow, an event fostering scientific innovation. The same year she cofounded the asset management company, Elephants & Ventures which launched in 2015 Hardware Club, to focus on startups in robotics, artificial intelligence and internet of things. This hybrid fund with offices in SF, Paris and Tokyo gathers now 400 startups worldwide, 150 corporate partners and a $30M seed-stage investment arm. Among the investors, BPI, the french public investment bank, ARKEA, Foxconn and Mistletoe. Youngest women founder of a venture capital fund in Europe, she was considered by Forbes as « the future of VC » in Europe, is among the Top-100 Forbes List Women to follow in Europe and the Top-10 Women to watch in Tech In France in 2018.