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Jeremy is an investment Principal at Anthemis focused on investing in AI in regulated industries with a strong focus on energy and climate early stage investments across Europe. He is a former geophysicist and has ben a venture investor in Silicon Valley, Berlin, and London. He has a background in deep technology investments spanning construction/built environment, energy, manufacturing, climate and life sciences. He’s particularly keen in secure infrastructure, governance, and foundational model layer companies driving AI adoption in the regulated sectors as well as relevant companies innovating at the application layer. Prior to Anthemis, Jeremy headed investments at a pre-seed deep tech fund in London, and was an early stage investor at Foundational, a leading global early stage fund based in Berlin, focused on construction tech and the built environment. He started his venture career in Silicon Valley at Plug and Play Ventures. Prior to venture, Jeremy was an academic and product manager leading enterprise software product development at a large energy services company, based in the Netherlands. Jeremy holds a Ph.D in geophysics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Pavel is an Associate Director at the EBRD where he invests in venture capital funds across the EBRD region and leads policy and technical assistance initiatives to strengthen the venture capital ecosystem. Previously, as an economist at the EBRD, he developed investment strategies and evaluated the impact of the Bank’s investments. Before joining the EBRD, Pavel worked as a management consultant at Deloitte, focusing on commercial due diligence for private equity funds, as well as strategy development and operational improvement across multiple sectors in Central and Eastern Europe. Pavel holds a PhD in Economics from CERGE-EI and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

Seasoned private equity professional, passionate about driving growth within the sector. Managing partner of INVL Private Equity Fund II and INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund, across both funds co-managing €575m of capital raised. Funds are managed by Invalda INVL Group, the leading asset management group in the Baltics with AuM of more than €2billion.

Petr is a Senior Investment Director at Schroders Capital covering private equity secondary investment activities in Europe, with a focus on lower mid-market GP-led transactions. Before joining Schroders Capital in 2017, Petr spent 4 years at Montana Capital Partners where he was an Associate conducting due diligence on secondary opportunities globally. Petr holds a Master degree in Quantitative Economics and Finance from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Dan Lupu is a Venture Partner with Earlybird, focused on investments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Dan’s Romanian roots give him regional familiarity which he combines with extensive local and international connections. Using a boots-on-the-ground approach, Dan sees great opportunities to identify and support early-stage startups to overcome the scarcity of growth capital. He has built up a distinctive portfolio connecting Eastern European technical excellence with global markets and capital. Prior to his current role, he was a Partner with Earlybird Digital East Fund where he invested in the likes of UiPath, Minit, Photoneo/Brightpick, FintechOS, DCSPlus, FITE etc.

Jakub Kuberski specializes in the technology and financial services sectors. His most important projects to date include eTravel, intive, PragmaGO, Renters, Software Mind and Unilink. Before joining EI, Jakub worked at Kulczyk Investments in Warsaw.

Andrzej Pietrzak joined Innova in 2013. Previously he worked as an Analyst for Advent International Global Private Equity. Prior to this he did internships with Advent International and UniCredit CAIB. Andrzej graduated from Warsaw School of Economics with a master’s degree in Finance and Accounting and bachelor’s degrees in Finance and Accounting and Management. He has passed all three levels of CFA exams.