PRE-SUMMIT SESSION: DEBATE ON FUND ALLOCATION AND CRITERIA TO INCREASE THE FUNDING GOING TO WOMEN LED RESEARCH AND WOMEN LED BUSINESS

Speakers for this event

• Antonino Stefanucci

  Antonino Stefanucci

  Junior Mandate Management Officer, EIF

  Antonino currently works within the Institutional Business Development team as Junior Mandate Management Officer at the European Investment Fund (part of the European Investment Bank Group). He joined the EIF in 2020, working on in the design and implementation of new programs between EIF and other institutions to support access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups, with focus on digital and social entrepreneurship. Prior to joining EIF, Antonino was working at Marsh & McLennan Companies. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Bocconi University in Milano.

  Junior Mandate Management Officer, EIF

• Carol Tarr

  Carol Tarr

  Fellow Included VC and Professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit

  Carol was born on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where she majored in East Asian Studies and Religious Studies. She has a master’s degree in theological studies (MTS) from Harvard University, where she specialized in World Religions and was a researcher for the Pluralism Project. She is currently a.b.d. (all but dissertation) from a PhD program at the University of Chicago. She has been a lecturer in business schools and worked at The Next Women where she was the architect behind the Fempower Your Growth training, working alongside the major Dutch banks and policy institutions to offer an intense program to train female entrepreneurs on growth strategies while addressing the biases of bankers and investors. Combining these interests, Carol is shifting her focus onto impact investing. As president of The Wominvest Observatory, she wants to highlight awareness of intersectionality and the need to ensure equal access to financial and network capital for all women and their businesses as we shift towards gender-smart funding practices. Carol is an Included VC Fellow (inaugural class), mom to 3 sons and founder of Atomic Spices. She’s President of the Harvard Alumni Club of The Netherlands and an avid amateur soprano and rower. Carol lectures in Sociology, Organizational Management, Research Methods and Entrepreneurship at numerous universities in the Netherlands. She worked in partnerships at The Next Women, developed the “Fempower Your Growth” Program and recently received an Included VC Fellowship through which she is actively pursuing venture capital opportunities. A frequent speaker on the subject of gender, diversity and inequitable investment practices, she is currently conducting research on the business effect of women’s competing for investment via pitch competitions.

  Fellow Included VC and Professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit

• Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer

  Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer

  Founder & CEO FrauenLoop, Fellow Included VC

  Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer is a Harvard GSAS MA/PhD, a tech digitalisation expert and a Venture Fellow at Included.VC. She founded the FrauenLoop women’s programming non-profit in Berlin and the Techincolor.eu network of tech leaders in Europe. Dr. Stefflbauer writes and speaks about mitigating bias in AI and has presented on the topic at the European Parliament and at various German public foundations."

  Founder & CEO FrauenLoop, Fellow Included VC

• Helena Torras

  Helena Torras

  Managing Partner at PaoCapital

  Helena Torras, Managing Partner at PaoCapital, raising an impact investment fund with focus on Blue Economy, promotes the tech startup mindset to society, and ensures that women are no left behind (she has cofounded WERockCapital to invest on women entrepreneurs). Helena is a serial entrepreneur and investor, connecting the dots between the ecosystem, startup-corporate-investor. She belongs to the Governing Board of BarcelonaTechCity, to the Ambassadors Council of The Collider (TechTransf initiative from the Mobile World Capital) and she serves as independent board director on several Boards. Among others recognitions, se has been considered one of the 30 people to follow on twitter on the tech ecosystem and Top100 leaders in Spain.

  Managing Partner at PaoCapital

• Paola de Baldomero

  Paola de Baldomero

  Mandate Development Manager, EIF

  Paola de Baldomero has 15 years of experience on sustainable finance working for both international organizations and the private sector. She currently works at the EIF as a mandate manager of Social Impact Programmes developing and implementing EU financial instruments that aim at mobilizing financial resources dedicated to microfinance and social enterprises. Previously, working for the UN Environment Finance Initiative, based in Geneva, she advocated to private financial actors as well as policy makers for integrating ESG in banking operations and investment processes. Before that, she worked in development finance, for the World Bank, as well as in impact investing.

  Mandate Development Manager, EIF

• Shiva Dustdar

  Shiva Dustdar

  Head of Division Innovation Finance Advisory, EIB

  Shiva Dustdar has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry working for large private and public institutions in New York, London and Luxembourg. Since joining EIB in 2003, she has worked in risk management, lending and investing in innovative companies and currently heads the Innovation Finance Advisory (IFA) Division in the EIB which she was tasked to set up in 2013. IFA has 2 units covering project advisory and thematic finance providing access to finance advice to public and private entities, performing market studies and developing new financial products to meet the financing needs across the innovation spectrum to support smart, green and healthy growth. (https://www.eib.org/en/products/advising/innovfin-advisory) Shiva started her career in 1993 at J.P. Morgan Investment Banking in New York working in M&A, Project Finance and Emerging Markets before joining Fitch Rating Agency in 1999 to set up its European High Yield rating business. Shiva holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an Executive MBA from London Business School (LBS). Shiva co-founded the European High Yield Association (EHYA), which is now part of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and was nominated to Top 50 Women in Credit by Credit Magazine in 2006. She is a regular speaker on innovation and impact financing, gender smart investing, digital and green financing and actively engaged in networks that promote sustainable and mission oriented financing. (https://www.eib.org/en/products/advising/innovfin-advisory) Shiva started her career in 1993 at J.P. Morgan Investment Banking in New York working in M&A, Project Finance and Emerging Markets before joining Fitch Rating Agency in 1999 to set up its European High Yield rating business. Shiva holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an Executive MBA from London Business School (LBS). Shiva co-founded the European High Yield Association (EHYA), which is now part of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and was nominated to Top 50 Women in Credit by Credit Magazine in 2006. She is a regular speaker on innovation and impact financing, gender smart investing, digital and green financing and actively engaged in networks that promote sustainable and mission oriented financing.

  Head of Division Innovation Finance Advisory, EIB

• Susana Solís Pérez

  Susana Solís Pérez

  Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe, Spain

  Born in Avilés, Spain, 1971. Susana Solís is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Oviedo, Machine Engineer from the Fachhochschule de Osnabrück (Germany), and holds an MBA from the Business Institute and a Master's Degree in Marketing Management from the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid). She has over 18 years of professional experience in several multinationals in Germany (Mercedes Benz, Robert Bosch) and in Spain (Rexel, Essilor and Johnson & Johnson). In May 2015, she was elected Deputy in the Parliament of Madrid, being the spokeswoman for Ciudadanos in the Committee on Budgets, Economy, Finance and Employment. Since May 2019 she is MEP in the European Parliament in the Renew Europe Group and a member of the ITRE, REGI, ENVI, and FEMM Committees.

  Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe, Spain

• Tamara Obradov

  Tamara Obradov

  Partner VC Tablomonto and Co-initiation #fundrigth mission in the Netherlands

  Tamara Obradov is a partner and fund manager of Tablomonto Ventures. Tablomonto is a female-led venture capital firm investing in category-creating tech businesses in health-, consumer-, education- and fintech. In the last year, Tamara was one of the founding partners of the #Fundright initiative. #Fundright is a VC industry initiative which aims to equalize the gender funding gap for startup founders. She has made tremendous effort in diversifying their own portfolio. Thorugh #fundright the goal is to create equal funding opportunities for founders regardless of their gender of background. She is a Harvard Business School and Rotterdam School of Management alumna. She lives in Amsterdam with her partner and 3 kids.

  Partner VC Tablomonto and Co-initiation #fundrigth mission in the Netherlands