Category: CEE Speakers 2024

Samo Lubej started his career as a start-up manager, serial entrepreneur, continued as an
investor and business angel. After successfully selling stakes in several companies, he focused
on investing and managing his family fortune and assets of other successful entrepreneurial
families within the Prosperita (Multi) Family Office.

Since 2002, Björn is passionate about founding and invested in companies on a mission to
deploy innovative technologies improve human health. Björn believes that through improving
human health, societies become stronger and more peaceful. He and his family are significant
shareholders in public healthcare companies as well as multi-national industrial holdings.
Personally, Björn is an active investor and board member in over 50 private health-tech
companies in Europe and US.
Since 2012, Björn is the co-founder and serves as CFO, CBO, MD, Board Member at
Caresyntax Corp. Since 2011, he is the co-founder and serves as Managing Director at
surgical.ai; a specialist healthcare AI investment vehicle with >$150m AUM. He serves as
Board Member at Daslab Advanced Diagnostics GmbH and Lillian Care GmbH. Prior to forming
surgical.ai and Caresyntax, Björn worked in private equity and management consulting in
healthcare sectors.

Tomas serves as an investment manager at SPM, a Prague based family office, founded by
Slavomir Pavlicek and Marek Spanel, the two founders of Bohemia Interactive, a renowned
Czech video game development company. As a part of one of the major family offices in the
Czech Republic, Tomas focuses primarily on managing private equity and venture capital
investments. Additionally, Tomas holds a position on the board of directors at SPM MEDIA, a
media and technology holding company, where he oversees operations.
Tomas earned his master’s degree in accounting and financial management from Brno
University of Technology. In August 2024, he will begin a full-time MBA program at Columbia
University in the City of New York.

Olivia was educated in France and the US, studying Literature at Brown University (BA) and
Film at UCLA (MFA). She also holds the ESG Investing certificate from the CFA Institute.

As a shareholder of Société Financière de L’Arno, Olivia has overseen the company’s charitable
program since 2010. Olivia later completed the High-Performance Boards program at IMD and
joined the board of Arno Management Limited as a director in 2017. Since 2019, Olivia also
consults on Governance, CSR and ESG questions for the family-owned group.
Olivia is involved in several charitable and cultural institutions, including The Tate in London,
Amnesty International and the Malta Environment Foundation where she is Chairperson of the
Steering Committee.

Peta Milan is the Principal of Henmil Group Family Office and a global leader in Regenerative
Business, Investing and Governance. She works with other family offices and investment
leaders to develop capabilities in regenerative investing and is a published author. An
international advisory board member of the World Sustainable Development Forum, Peta is also
an international speaker across topics of regenerative investing approaches to commodities,
cross sector investments, portfolio design, ESG, circularity and sustainability. Henmil Group
Family Office has a strictly regenerative investment thesis and is active across venture, real
estate and land based investment. They actively help build deal flow for co-investment with
other families.

Luka leads his family holding’s investing and manages the overall portfolio. The family holding
has a multi generational history in building one of the most relevant law firms in the SEE region,
and a real estate firm active in the same region. They have diversified their portfolio across PE,
VC and HF, as well as some angel tech investments.
Through diversifying their family’s positions, they have been one of the founding members,
together with the Ferragamo and other families, of a structure shared by roughly 80 families
today which has invested in roughly 35 funds.
Previously, Luka worked at McKinsey, Bank of America and has co-founded and sold a tech
company. He holds a double degree Masters in International Management from Bocconi and
University of Cologne.

Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) is an American Italian, French Greek artist and entrepreneur, born in London, grew up in New York and based in Zurich. After becoming an early Tesla shareholder it led him to focus on the Muskonomy and he is a self proclaimed “Musketeer Disciple”. Agostinelli manages his family office based on the philosophy “Think First Principles“. Agostinelli has also been working on a series of paintings entitled‘X’.

Evgeny Denisenko is the founder of Apolis, a private investment office located in
Monaco. His work at Apolis focuses on an investment strategy that aims at yield
generation, with a special emphasis on direct lending to support the growth of
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Before founding Apolis, Evgeny held several positions across corporate and
entrepreneurial settings, where he was involved in spearheading private equity
investments in sectors such as biotech, logistics, and real estate.
Evgeny pursued his higher education at Moscow State University. He has earned
professional credentials including the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial
Risk Manager (FRM), and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

Cyril oversees his family’s FO, RIR Group, leading investments
outside the Middle East region. He also sits on the board in Lebanon and is crucial to the
group’s overall management. In addition, Cyril has founded Tioopo Capital, a Private
Equity firm backed by his family and multiple other families.