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Andrea is a Franco-German expert on digitalization, digital transformation, digital marketing, European corporate expansion (mainly young companies but also SMEs and larger corporates), European start-up and scale-up ecosystems, entrepreneurship, and intercultural communication and management. She is an entrepreneur and leads for-impact projects to fortify the technology sector in the European digital industry. She is the founder of the boutique consultancy Wyngs that helps European start-ups and scale-ups grow in Germany and France, Co-Founder & Secretary-General of the European Champions Alliance and Venture Operating.

Andréas believes in entrepreneurship and innovative solutions for a more sustainable economy. With an engineering plus MBA background, he had the chance to work in multi-cultural environments in France, Switzerland and Germany. He assumed executive positions in the industrial sector, participating in the last one to the scaling up of the solar industry. Currently, he is part of a great team at Cortexia providing new and innovative solutions to the environmental sector.

“Klein Wenner’s challenge at Vivatech 2019 opens a highly skilled – and supportive – professional network for doing business in France. For Cortexia, the network was instrumental in finding investors and opening our branch in Paris.”

Pascal Werner is Director of Investment at the SGPI (Secretariat General for Investment), in charge of the investment funds.

In this capacity, he has been responsible for the mobilisation of investments in the framework of the Investments for the Future Program (Programme d’investissements d’avenir (PIA)) since its launch in 2010.

The Investments for the Future Program promotes investments in innovative companies in key sectors such as digital, health and clean technology sectors. By participating in the financing of French startups, this Program encourages private stakeholders to get involved and invest as well.

Thibaud Le Séguillon is a French entrepreneur and business executive who is CEO of Industrya, a VC Fund associated with John Cockerill, a Belgian industrial group. From 2011 to 2018. Thibaud served as CEO of Heliatek a German startup where he helped to lead the company’s growth and expansion in the solar energy industry. Under his leadership, Heliatek raised €150 million and established strategic partnerships with a range of global companies. Prior to his work at Heliatek, Thibaudheld executive positions at various companies in Shanghai (5 years) and in the US (11 years) in the high-tech electronic sector.  

Convinced of the European Values and that cooperation is the only solution to be stronger, more efficient and successful, Tina made of it her vocation also in her professional life. At the French-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce she is responsible for the creation and animation of the biggest French-German industry Network. Accompanying companies – industrial global players, SME’s and of course startups – to a new market, bringing them together with potential partners and introducing them in the local ecosystem are the key tasks of her work. This is her contribution to foster the European sovereignty by creating together with her partners projects like the French-German Tech Lab during Vivatech this year.

William is a public accountant who spent 27 years of his professional carrer at EY, where he was involved on a part-time basis with international bodies in the management of internal IT innovation projects in addition to his activities as an auditor.

He co-founded Digilence, a consulting firm that assists managers of SMEs and mid-cap companies in structuring and managing their transformation process and is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the start-up Keenturtle.