Our Team of Experts

Our team of experts is a deep bench of experience with identifying, growing and profitably existing technology startups. We combine corporate discipline with entrepreneurial spirit to spot talented teams, great ideas and exciting commercial opportunities. With BTV's team your startup is in good hands to maximise its commercial potential.

Andrew Grigolyunovich

Gerard

Haddad

Renat

Lokomet

Founder and CEO of AG CapitalRanked #12 in the world for financial modelling according to ModelOff Official World Rankings.

Senior technology attorney, IP investor and valuation advisor.

Strategical partner of Venture Faculty accelerator, former senior banker in corporate finance.

Hagith

Malul

Experienced VC investor, former Chief of Staff, Innovation and Business Development at eBay.

Oliver

Bramwell

Expert in Baltic banking and fintech.

Sergio

Contaldo

Private Equity & Venture Capital Funds Seeder, Investor and Advisor - Entrepreneur, Engineer, IESE MBA.

John

Wright

Monaco Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (MVCA).

Olia

Kaimakchi

Funding networking specialist.  Founder of KCG Capital, raised over EUR 2.3bn in debt and equity projects in Eastern Europe.

Alexander

Kern

Experienced VC / PE investor and business developer. Professor in leading European universities on entrepreneurship and venture capital investing.

Renata

Šumskaitė

Experienced Leader, Lecturer, Consultant skilled in growing and developing teams. Focused on growing VC backed startups to achieve optimal potential.

Petr

Baron

CEO, TBIF (TBI Bank), one of the most profitable and efficient banks in Southeast Europe. Angel investor into fintech, technology, e-commerce. Experienced in blending fintech strategies and banking transformation. Public speaker and panelist for major fintech events.

Tony

Davis

Partner at White Castle LLC, Monaco -
specialists in private equity, venture capital, investment introductions and M&A.

Raj

Sitlani

Highly experienced financial markets professional with a very strong background in futures and options brokerage.

Petra

Wolkenstein

M&A and growth expert in technology and entertainment industries. Mentor to many successful startups. 

Sergei

Alekseev

More than 20 years of experience as senior executive and Board member (public, private companies) in Oil & Gas, Oil Field Services, Energy (New Energy) and natural resource (mining) companies and ventures.

Rando Rannus

Founder of Panta Rhei Ventures, Co-founder and Group CEO of SmartAD, venture investor and business advisor to startups worldwide. 

Evaldas

Remeikis

Experienced Serial Entrepreneur and Chairman of the Board with a demonstrated history of working in IT and financial services industry.

Joseph

Paris

Expert in Operational Excellence, Organizational Design, Continuous Improvement, and Strategy Development and Deployment.

Florent-Aurélien Couturier-Crouzillac

Experienced Venture Capital investor DTCP with expertise in growth equity and strategic investments. 

Camaron

Silverek

Principal at Costa Norte & Company offering investment banking advisory services for fast growing companies.

Miguel

Rodrigues

Miguel has more than 15 years’ experience in international hospitality, tourism and real estate. 

Oliver

Peldius

Investor at Inbox Capital; multiple successful exits in Nordic tech

Rasmus

Busk

A serial entrepreneur, angel invest and high level executive in Telecomunications industry.

Jakob

Skovgaard

Experienced senior executive and board member with background in international business development, passionate about leading transformation and growth journeys.

Egils

Milbergs

Co-Founder at Opportunity Zone Accelerator.

Alex

Felman

Founder of Startup42 Media. Experienced startup investor working in various high techindustries (Edtech, Biotech, Mobile).

Arie

Kogan

Angel investor and VC advisor; experience in Enterprise Software, Agile Methodologies, Mobile Applications, and recently in AI related projects.

Leonid Makharinsky

Industrial technologies entrepreneur and investor, focusing on the energy sector. Angel investor and mentor to technology startups.

Denis 

Gorbunov

Angel and experienced VC investor with a focus on fintech. Presently a CFO of a major bank in Bulgaria.

Peter 

Madsen

Founding Partner of White Castle Partners, Founder of UNITE. Venture capital, private equity, funding and recruitment advisor. 

Anil

Kumar

Chairman of Ransat Group - global commodities trader and investor; deep experience in private equity, venture capital, technologies.

Michael Barrell

Founder of several businesses including Juliet Media, MBR Partners, CoFounder Venture Studios, and investor in some great businesses leading the way in digital transformation.

Jekaterina

Novicka

Co-Founder of the Latvian Startup Association "Startin.LV", initiator of the startup law and startup visa in Latvia, founder of LabsofLatvia.com - startup community platform providing information from and about Latvian startup scene to the world. 

Miikka

Niemelä

Creating new products in both internal OP Lab teams and in collaboration with external startups.  Passionate about open innovation, service development and user experience.

Yonatan

Brender

Head of an investment fund that targets innovative entrepreneurs and assists them to build great global companies in the following segments: AgriFood Tech, Speech Recognition, Computer Vision, Perceptual computing, Natural language processing (NLP), Hacking prevention solution. 

Robert

Lugowski

CEO of Cobin Angels, Board Member of EBAN, building Investor Community in Central&Eastern Europe.

Jonathan

Liemann

Startup Generalist | Product Builder | Ex-Corporate Banker

Johan

Söderström

Active angel investor and entrepreneur.

Dr. Marc

Mogalle

Marc is a seasoned investor and entrepreneur, in particular in the areas of sustainability and cleantech. He has over 20 years of experience across the entire Venture Capital and Private Equity value chain.

Mischa

Wetzel

13 years of experience in Venture Capital; Co-founder of Germany's leading communications agency in the lifestyle segment.

Aiga

Kalbjonoka

Expert in early-stage startups, Angel investment and Startup ecosystem in Baltics. 4 years of experience leading Business Angels Network in Latvia, organizing syndicates and Pitch events. 

Mikael

Regnell

Experienced international sales and business management executive with 16 years of high technology sales and marketing experience, primarily in the medical device and biotechnology industries.

Tony

Ihander

Made over 50 investments and had 13 successful exits between 1998- 2018. Tony has made a successful business career as CEO of many fast growing startups.

Denise

Holzer

Licensed Investment Banker. For 15 years she has worked with select family offices and specializes in Technology, Artificial Intelligence & E-Sports. 

Jim

Mullins

Experienced VC investor involved in numerous start-ups, one of which recently won the Health Initiative of the Year Award in Scotland. He has been/is a director of 5 listed companies and has been involved in 4 IPO's.

Alexander Morgulchik

The original co-founder of RBC, a leading Russian news/data company, also a webmail and hosting platform. He has participated in over 30 successful M&A transactions and post-acquisition restructurings.

C. Derek Campbell

CEO of Blue Ocean Holdings Ventures, Executive Chairman of AlphaSierra Advisory, Experienced venture capitalist.

Svetoslav

Stefanov

VC, angel investor and entrepreneur with focus on CEE-related software and digital media growth companies scaling internationally. 

Mario Krivokapić

Mario is the CEO of Growthnetix and has 20 years of experience in sales and team management, with a focus on the IT industry,  organized and led over 400 sales training and mentoring sessions.

Soumitra

Deshpande

Soumitra leads Freshworks for Startups initiative. Experienced mentor and advisor for startups across the globe.

Lauri Antalainen

Founder of DigiWise and board member of EstBAN (Estonian Business Angel Network), also Co-founder of the first European business accelerator dedicated to startups in video games sector.

Patrick

Collins

Deep and diverse experience working with startups, accelerator programs, SMBs and large corporations to help create and successfully realise their sales strategies.

Alexey

Sakharov

Results oriented CFO/ COO with over 20 years of proven experience in guiding financial operations and growing businesses to achieve maximum business profitability organically and via acquisitions.

Christopher Nielsen

Founder of Pinnacle of Excellence.  The PoE network consists of
highly skilled, leading individual experts across a number of
industries, with both entrepreneurial and corporate backgrounds.

Guillaume

Kloof

Guillaume has shown great insight in helping, especially early stage startups with getting their product/market fit.

Dirk

Schuran

Highly experienced in building teams and new markets from scratch. 15 years of successful leadership motivating teams up to 60 people.

Marcus

Mangs

Marcus is a prolific investor with deep experience in branding and sales professional with a successful entrepreneur with a track record of several successful exits. 

Erez

Maharal

A serial entrepreneur, the owner of eCompliance.Ltd, an AML KYC platform as a service for international financial institutions and other regulated entities

Jaakko

Salminen

Jaakko is angel investor with strong background and experience in international business management and sales. Partner at Grannenfelt Finance Oy and board member in various international Finnish companies.

Morten

Kroslid

Morten Kroslid is a passionate global serial entrepreneur, business developer, active shareholder and board member in multiple companies.

Dr. Eughen

Hertel

Dr. Eugen Hertel is an entrepreneur, investor, consultant and lecturer from Germany with the extensive knowledge in the areas of startups, scalability, management, sales & marketing.