Charly Kleissner

Charly immigrated from Austria to Silicon Valley, where he had a spectacular career as a high technology executive. He worked with Steve Jobs and was the Chief Technology officer at Ariba. For the last 20 years, Charly has been leading the deep impact investing movement, which is not only treating the symptoms of our failing economic system, but its root causes. He believes that the real meaning of wealth is to make a positive contribution to humanity and the planet. 

Oksana Tiedt

Oksana is Head of Fund and Co-Investments at Lennertz & Co., a multi-family office with a
strong alternative investment platform based in Hamburg. She focuses on the manager
selection of US and European private equity, venture capital and blockchain venture
managers, co-investments and overall fund of funds portfolio construction. Ms. Tiedt has
over 20 years of private equity and venture investing experience having worked at Bain
Capital, Velocitas Partners and Swift Capital Partners. She started her career at Goldman
Sachs. Ms. Tiedt received her MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS) and her BA from Willamette University.

Photo Credit:  Lennertz & Co

Frederic Garcin

Borderent is a real estate investment company focused on border regions. Frédéric is perpetuating a four-generation-old family tradition of real estate investments in and around Monaco through his own investments focused in various border regions diversified across Europe.

In Parallel, he is an advisor at a single-Family Office focusing on alternative investments.
Frederic has 15 years of experience in the Hedge fund, Private equity, real estate and Biotech space. As a principal at Argenthal Private Capital, Frédéric developed private equity projects based out of London with his brother François after gaining experience as a European sales manager at Structured Retail Products Ltd advising regulators. Frédéric studied in Prépa HEC, at Bocconi in Milan and holds a master’s degree in business from Sciences Po Paris.
While keeping strong ties with the Cote d’azur, Frédéric lives in the Italian-speaking Switzerland. His passions are philanthropy and art. Frederic actively participates in the Monegasque artistic agenda and is the acting president of Aida Monaco. He is married and has three children.

MICHAEL KLEINDL

Michael Kleindl (53) is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good Ventures, a Swiss-based climate-first Venture Capital platform. Collateral Good seeks to transform the existing food, food waste, fashion, packaging and building systems towards a sustainable future through technological innovations and partnering with best-in-class entrepreneurial teams. Doing Collateral Good is the essence of what we
do.

Michael has been a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor for many
years. His track record includes 2 IPOs, and numerous exits of invested startups to prestigious buyers such RTL, Amazon, Axel Springer AG, Deutsche Post DHL, JustEat, Pernod Ricard, Michelin and Unified Post Group, amongst others. In addition, he has been serving as a board member of various public companies.
Michael holds a university degree in Business Administration from the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, (Germany) and completed a 2-year managementtraining program in one of Germany´s larger public banking institutions. He is married to a wonderful woman and has four kids. He lives in Zürich, Switzerland and enjoys all kinds of outdoor sports.

Andrew Velasco

Andrew Velasco has over 14 years of experience working in the financial services industry across corporate finance, private equity, and wealth management. At Hundle, Andrew leads client investments into private equity and venture capital opportunities. Prior to Hundle, Andrew was a senior member of the London Stock Exchange Group’s private markets business, advising European companies through private placements in advance of preparing them for a listing.  Previously, Andrew spent 5 years at Barclays Wealth where he advised Family Offices on their asset allocation strategies, including alternative investments. Andrew has been a CFA Charterholder since 2013, graduated with an MA in Economics from the University of Nottingham and is due to graduate with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in June 2023. 

Adrian Shatku

CEO and Founder of UNIFI Capital Inc (USA) and CEO and Owner of WIS TELECOM (Italy)

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, industry pioneer, and disrupter, Mr. Shatku is the founder of UNIFI Capital Group and UNIFI Communications, Inc., and CEO of recently acquired WIS Telecom S.P.A and its subsidiary, WIS Telecom S.A (formerly M-Link Orascom and Wind International services). With over 20+ years of industry experience and a global footprint in over 70 countries, Mr. Shatku has transformed UNIFI into one of the world’s largest carriers and providers of Voice, Data, Cloud Communications, and Security. Mr. Shatku is a Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management alumni.

Maria Gajda Horowitz

With over 12 years of experience in venture capital investments, VC funds formation, and fundraising for startups, Maria is an attorney by training and a former member of executive boards of medical technology companies in Israel and Europe. Her personal experience with childbearing and professional experience working with early-stage medical technology companies in female fertility inspired her to establish Kidron, a VC fund focused on investing in personalized healthcare to address the unmet needs in women’s health while improving the health of all. Her goal is to invest in innovative medical projects with global potential that can revolutionize healthcare worldwide. 

Maria holds an LLM from the Faculty of Law at Warsaw University and has lectured on European Union Law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy.

Omer Tiroche

Omer Tiroche has been dealing in art for over a decade and is a fixture in the international art community. As a third-generation art dealer now runs the Tiroche family collection, which is among the most successful and respected privately owned trade collections in the industry. Omer founded his gallery in London in 2014, buying and re-selling works by blue-chip artists on the secondary market. Omer’s gallery has allowed him to build an extensive network of clients within the trade as well as with private collectors and museums.

Žiga Vavpotič

Experienced international manager and leader with a demonstrated history of successful projects, organizations and companies. Former Chairman of Outfit7 Limited (Talking Tom and Friends), one of the fastest-growing multinational family entertainment companies (350 million monthly active users, more than 9 billion downloads, acquired for 1 billion USD by a Chinese owner). Passionately connecting knowledge from business and non-profit, expertise on empowering best talents, cross-cultural cooperation (focus on China-Europe), digital transformation and creating projects and organizations for social changes. Responsible, goal oriented change maker, who is serving as Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships at Login5 foundation. 

Benjamin  Epstein

Ben is British living in Vienna for 4 years, having worked in London, Tokyo and New York.  Currently Portfolio Manager of Saber, a cross-asset Single Family-Office investing in Venture Capital, Real Estate and Funds.  The office has a particular focus in Fintech, Insure-tech, Mobility and Clean-Energy innovation.  Before moving to Austria, Ben studied and worked in New York City where he met his Austrian wife.  After obtaining his BSc in Economics at the London School of Economics, Ben spent 8 years in London and Tokyo trading Fixed Income derivatives for Goldman Sachs and Citibank, before moving to New York to obtain a Masters in Real Estate Finance at Columbia University.  He has spent the last 6 years in various roles within Private Markets, focussed on Early-stage Technology operating and investing.