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Luxembourg City, Lu

Tokyo, Chuo-Ku, Jp

As the Head of Business Development, I lead a team of 6 specialists dedicated to lunar payloads, and I am an integral part of the management board overseeing European operations. My primary responsibility is to ensure a consistent influx of potential lunar payloads by establishing partnerships with new space companies, major private organizations, research labs, universities, and government entities. The role demands a comprehensive understanding of both US and European export controls, active engagement with payload specialists, space craft engineers and planetary scientists, supervision of tender offers, and the formulation of a strategic sales approach.My focus primarily centers on European and Middle Eastern payloads and partnerships. Additionally, I liaise with key agencies such as the SSA, DLR, and ASI. My involvement extends to attending space conferences like ISC, Space Symposium, and Future Minerals Conference, where I stay abreast of industry developments and networking opportunities.

Berlin, Berlin, De

As a Venture Partner, I served as the investor-side representative for startups, ensuring alignment with their business case and budget planning. My primary focus was on implementing growth strategies and capitalizing on opportunities within the Körber Group. Additionally, I actively participated in Venture Board meetings. Körber Digital stands out as one of Germany's leading venture builders, fostering in-house ventures and acquiring companies that align with its vision of evolving into an industrial AI company.

Berlin, De

As a Venture Partner I represent the investor in Venture Board Meetings and as designated Chief Growth Officer I...- ensure the commercial success of FactoryPal- act as entrepreneurial operating Chief of Growth, driving sales and strategic partnerships- give hands on entrepreneurial support and ensure strategic direction, focus and delivery of milestones as agreed with the Venture Board

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

inspections.ai is a Deep Tech venture builder & consultant working with corporate partners to develop industry specific Visual AI models. We use corporate data pools, extracting operational data from reports, CCTV, production line cameras to develop digital revenue streams that we share with our corporate clients.Visit: http://inspections.aiPier71 (maritime accelerator, Singapore) Alumni 2019.RESPONSIBILITIES:-Venture Builder: setup Company, identify potential founders and partners-prepare the company to be financially stable (minimize burn rate) and ensure project pipeline is filled for 12-18 months before seeking investment-identify project opportunities with partner/clients that can lead to a commercially viable product-identify potential Venture Capital Funds focusing on deep-tech and strategic partners. Drive investor pitches & negotiationsIMPACT:-Secure multiple projects within 6 months allowing us to build our core product. This allowed us to develop 4 visual artificial intelligence models (V-AI) able to detect safety equipment (PPE), specific human behaviour, extract construction machinery equipment from CCTV -We identified and connected to strategic partners developing our solution with major work safety hazard (WSH) companies incl. a Singapore based WSH consultant as well as a Japanese construction conglomerate. - We developed an AI model able to analyse food consumption on aircrafts with Singapore Airlines using data from the catering centres to reduce food wastage and increase overall customer satisfaction on individual routes.-entered a strategic partnership with a company in India to reduce potential bottlenecks in AI model building projects, outsourcing non-key functions to get started without excess staff overhead

MapGage (Marine Data Intel BV), is a cloud-based geospatial data solution integrating IoT sensor data, drone & satellite maps, CAD drawings, and field observations into a mobile-centric field operations workflow. MapGage improves Field Operations by integrating different data sources and making them available to Field Operatives. PortXL (maritime accelerator, Netherlands) Alumni 2018.RESPONSIBILITIES:- set-up the company- join accelerator in the Netherlands (PortXL)- drive product development with pilot clients- build a partnership & sales network - define funding strategy. Lead discussions with VCsIMPACT:-During my involvement at MapGage, we were able to acquire several major Dutch municipalities and companies as new clients incl. the City of Rotterdam and Royal Boskalis. Our developed solution allows field engineers to access IoT Sensor Data and receive inspection request alerts once the machinery fails.-A client was able to replace expensive engineers from their HQ with local engineers around the world to perform inspections on project assets once the project was finished. This solved a bottleneck they faced as their more experienced engineers were retiring and the process had to be digitized to ensure a standardized workflow.

NexDrone is a turnkey solution provider to help acquire and transform aerial, satellite and any other sensor or drone acquired data into actionable information using machine learning to support real-time business decisions.RESPONSIBILITIES:-drive product development with other co-founders and business development teams-hire and supervise tech team focusing on deep learning-based object detection in map images-outsource non-key development functions-identify technical partners (partner development) to complement product offering-provide technical input to sales pitches and present technical slides at sales pitchesIMPACT:-secured contracts with local governments, highway concession companies and various construction companies.-setup partnership and technical integration with a major GIS software package to integrate our image detection and machine learning services into their drone services outsourcing platform

Kuala Lumpur, My

Kuala Lumpur, My

Sicion Ventures is a venture development company located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, founded by a group of entrepreneurs who shared a common goal: build successful and innovative e-commerce companies with a worldwide appeal. During my time at Sicion Ventures, I launched several new ventures, one of which reached sales of 4.4 Million US$ within 2 years with a team of 30 developers, marketeers and sales people. The company assets were sold off in 2014.RESPONSIBILITIES:-set-up the company, identify a local directorregister under a special scheme called MSC to allow us to employ foreigners-coordinate a local & off-shore tech, marketing & product design team-visit Chinese, Japanese and Korean suppliers.-supervise a 500'000 US$ yearly advertising budget.-supervise a 1.5M US$ sourcing budget and ensure we had the right product mixIMPACT:-Pushed sales from zero to 4M US$ in 4 years-To achieve the above points I pushed the development of a data-driven machine learning based solution we developed in-house to optimize order quantities and manufacturing order dates based on past sales, seasonal sales fluctuations, manufacturing capacities, and available capital. This ML model was also used to optimize advertising budgets in order to smooth-out sales to avoid running out of stocks before new stocks arrived. This machine learning model allowed us to increase sales by 30% without increasing working capital, effectively ensuring on-time production, minimal stocks while minimizing any potential sales losses from out-of-stock items.

Dublin 2, Ie

I worked in the Oil, Gas and Resources division on several IT & Strategy related projects for Vattenfall & Shell. The projects involved the implementation of financial ERP systems, big data analytics and ML to optimize energy consumption prediction, and the introduction of a new loyalty card system throughout Europe. I was also involved in the preparation of sales pitches to executives for strategy projects related to the changing regulatory landscape in the European power industry.

Online network of experts, available for business projects on demand. We built the platform to a network of 2000 subject-matter experts and developed an algorithm to match client requests to consultants.

I took a semester off my studies to work as a Product Manager for IT, toys and collectibles at Allegro Online Auction - Asia's first online auction site.

Ma, Business

Master'S Degree, Economics

Bsc, Planetary Sciences (Geophysics / Remote Sensing / Astrophysics)

Mba, Business

European Baccalaureate