First Jury Members are Confirmed!
Less than 2 weeks and this year’s ‘Invest and Connect’ exclusive startup award series kicks off online with the virtual French national qualifier. The pre-selection and assessment of participating startups ended. Let’s turn our attention to the other equally important investors, who will also play a key role at the event: the jury.
We are excited to announce that we have the first 3 jurors out of the 6 confirmed. The pre-selected startups will pitch in front of international investors and entrepreneurs themselves like Geza Brugger, Co-Founder & Chief Ventures Officer at e&Co. AG and Managing Director at motec ventures; Adrian S. Frey, advocate for Future Mobility & Energy and Jean Du Boisdulier, the local representative of ESAC in France.
Meet the First Jury Members
Geza is a genuine automotive and smart mobility entrepreneur, who perfectly combines industry with venture expertise. Amongst others, he has co-founded e&Co. AG, a leading automotive consulting and investment boutique with an international client base of OEMs, Tier 1s and relevant SMEs, based in Berlin. He is also Managing Director of motec ventures, a smart mobility investment company located in Vienna and doing early-stage investments into enabling technologies around autonomous, electric and connected mobility. Besides own foundations Geza has long been working at the interface between corporates and startups and brings in an excellent network to the European and Asian markets.
I am looking forward to seeing the pre-selected startups and their pitches, especially as the field of smart mobility has strongly turned up-side-down within the past two months and is demanding fresh business models. Europe has a lot of talented entrepreneurs and great ideas with high-growth potential. It is highly vital for the economy and especially “my industry” of smart mobility to embrace and financially support those startups now“ – noted Geza Brugger.
Adrian S. Frey is a passionate advocate for sustainable mobility & energy solutions. Adrian has led many colourful roles, originating with an academic background in the field of renewable energy, environmental management and diplomacy. Thereafter, he gathered many years of extensive international experience in Safety & Environmental Leadership within the global energy industry, onshore and offshore, including postings in New Zealand, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, and Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Few years ago Adrian returned to Austria as Sr. Expert for Future Mobility with OMV, fostering initiatives about electric vehicles, hydrogen economy and greening-the-gas. Adrian is also a lecturer at 3 universities on future mobility, innovation leadership, stakeholder management. Speaker and moderator at various panels and conferences like the World Conference on Future Transportation 2019.
Jean Du Boisdulier, the local representative of ESAC in France, is a 29 years old French entrepreneur, who has successfully launched and sold two businesses in the real estate sector. He has also been involved in raising up to €250 million over the last 4 years, on the French, UK and US markets, for 34 companies, mainly in the smart mobility, fintech and proptech industries. Jean is always looking for new challenges – he also advices founders in France on their marketing and sales strategies. If you want to know more insights about the current investment sentiment in France and the potential of smart mobility there, read our recent article here where we Jean reveals his insights about these topics!
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