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)

Former-CEO and Co-founder of Captain Train. International Director of Trainline.

In 1995, Kevin Kuipers launched his first website a few months after he discovered Internet. Two years later, he joined AlloCiné as a webmaster and released their first dynamic website. Kevin then left in 2000 to co-found his own startup, Gamekult.com, a video gaming website that quickly became a hit for hardcore gamers. Gamekult was sold to CBS Interactive in 2007. In 2010, Kevin co-founded SensCritique.com, a social network focused on entertainment. SensCritique now gathers more user ratings than AlloCiné or Jeuxvideo.com and is the first cultural social network in France.

Willy Braun is a co-founder daphni. He began his career in 2009 in the communication agency of group La Poste then joined in 2011 the business club dedicated to the digital economy EBG as head of business development. In the meantime, he co-founded the association Startup Weekend France where he was in charge of opening new cities, including Toulouse, Lille, Nantes, Nancy, Grenoble & Lyon. In 2012, he became General Manager of France Digitale, a lobby of startups and investor that he managed until early 2015. From 2013 to 2015, he served as director of eBusiness studies in WebSchoolFactory, a business school dedicated to train the next managers of digital companies or departments. He was in charge of designing the curriculum and recruiting teachers. In addition, Mr. Braun teaches content strategy, marketing of innovation and business model design in Toulouse Business School, IAE Toulouse, ESCP and _Webschoolfactory. He has published in 2013 the book Internet Marketing (Eyrolles edition), which has been labeled triple favourite in FNAC (biggest french retailer) and best selling book in Amazon France in its category. He writes a data-driven weekly newsletter called “The World As it Is”, dedicated to correcting our beliefs about people's behaviour. Willy Braun is a graduate of Toulouse Business School.

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.