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.

Renat

Lokomet

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

Sergio

Contaldo

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

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).

Renata

Šumskaitė

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

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.

Tony

Davis

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

Anil

Kumar

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

Petra

Wolkenstein

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

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.

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.

Hagith

Malul

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

John

Wright

Monaco Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (MVCA).

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. 

Arie

Kogan

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

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.

Peter 

Madsen

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

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.

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.

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.

Ketan

Karia

Expert in helping teams deliver growth and equity value with particular expertise in scaling start-ups, funding, GTM strategies and exits. Proven experience with multiple start-ups and global corporations in both executive and non-executive roles delivering growth both organically and through acquisitions.

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. 

Oliver

Bramwell

Expert in Baltic banking and fintech.

Andris

Breske

Founder of RIGA COMM - Baltic Business Technology Fair and Conference.

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.

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.

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.

Svetoslav

Stefanov

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

Raj

Sitlani

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

Soumitra

Deshpande

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

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. 

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.

Robert

Lugowski

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

Gene

Zolotarev

CEO of Baltic Technology Ventures, Head of Investment Committee. Founder of Maximus Capital SA.

Andrew Grigolyunovich

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

Gerard

Haddad

Senior technology attorney, IP investor and valuation advisor.