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Matt Russell is a Managing Director in the Investment Team and leads VenCap’s secondary strategy. He was previously a director at Northleaf Capital Partners where he was responsible for leading the diligence and execution of GP and LP-led secondary transactions as well as direct co-investments.

Christine van den Bos is the Listing Director for Euronext Amsterdam, responsible for existing and new listings in Amsterdam. Before joining Euronext in March 2025, Christine was director in PwC's Capital Markets and ESG team, supporting companies throughout their capital markets transactions, both on the equity and debt side.

Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years. Seth has seeded a range of deep tech startups shaping the world for the better — companies like Upside Foods (culturing meat to eat), Solugen (engineering enzymes to make carbon negative chemicals), and Astranis (small satellites to cover the Earth in Internet).

Marcel Andringa is Executive Director of Asset Management at the PME pension fund, which he joined in 2014, and shares responsibility for its day-to-day management. He previously worked at Fortis Investments and SPF Beheer. He studied business economics in Groningen.

Dominique is CIO of investments at SBZ Pensionfund and also responsible for communication to participants. At ABP she shaped the new Investment strategy with more focus on Infrastructure, Impact and less active investments in liquid markets. She was involved in the Netspar paper how Dutch Pension Funds can invest in the Dutch energy transition.

Jeroen van Rumund is an experienced financial professional with over two decades of experience in the asset management industry and pension sector. He is driven by a strong ambition to create impact, bring stakeholders together, and enhance knowledge across different levels of the financial ecosystem. Currently, he focuses on developing solutions that enable Dutch pension funds to access impact-driven venture capital fund investments.

Jan Hendrik Heihoff is an Investment Manager at Aurum Impact, investing in startups and funds. He previously gained investment experience at Extantia, UVC Partners, and Pelion Green Future. Jan holds a Master's degree in Climate Finance from EDHEC Business School and Mines Paris.

Wen Hsieh is Founding Managing Partner of Matter Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley firm backing HardTech innovation. He launched Matter in 2023 and invests in early-stage Physical AI across semiconductors, robotics, AI infrastructure, quantum, manufacturing, and energy.

Senior Investment Manager at Schaeffler Invest, focused on corporate venture capital, strategic minority investments, due diligence, and portfolio management. I help build partnerships and drive innovation in AI, robotics and industrial tech.

Fabrizio Del Maffeo is the CEO and co-founder of Axelera AI, the Netherlands-based startup delivering the world’s most powerful and advanced solutions for AI at the Edge. In his role at Axelera AI, Fabrizio leads a world-class executive team, board of directors and advisors from top AI Fortune 500 companies. In 2025 Fabrizio was named in the Top 25 AI CEOs globally.

Hany Nada is Co-Founder & Partner at ACME Capital, focused on frontier deep tech across AI, aerospace & defense, industrials, and next-gen compute. He previously co-founded GGV Capital and has backed companies including Alibaba, DraftKings, IonQ, and Athenahealth.

Lukas Leitner is a deep tech investor and entrepreneur focused on helping breakthrough technologies become global businesses. He worked at Boston Consulting Group and later Lakestar, where he led Deep Tech and Defence investing. Today, he is backing unconventional minds building the next generation of global champions.