Oscar is the Founder of ProOwnedCycling. A global E-commerce selling used and overstock items from the professional Tour De France riders to customers in +80 countries.

As a former semi-professional cyclist, his passion for cycling has always been enormous. When he stopped cycling, he became more interested in business and entrepreneurship; his passion for cycling and interest in entrepreneurship was the two building bricks for him to start ProOwnedCycling. Passion, patience, and thinking different have been some of the keywords for Oscar to have success in a red ocean. Back in 2018 Oscar and his partner Casper had their office at CSE and were just the two of them in the company. The transformation from being a start-up to a scale-up and expanding the number of employees with +400% under a pandemic is among the touchpoints in Oscars motivational speech.

In April 2021, Oscar was listed on the Forbes Under30 list for Europe, E-commerce and retail.

Mathilde is a food activist, a disruptive thinker and the CEO & co-founder of the award winning Danish scale-up, Fresh.Land, which disrupts the food industry. Fresh.Land won the Think Global Award in 2021 and has previously been coined “truly pioneer in the new climate economy” by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

She is an appointed member of the taskforce “CEO Commitment” advising the Danish government on digitization, together with CEO’s of the Danish business elite such as Ørsted, Coloplast and COWI. Mathilde holds a BSc in IB’2011 and MSc in MIB’2013 from Copenhagen Business School.

To give back, Mathilde teaches at CBS and INSEAD – the #1 business school in the world according to Financial Times (2021).

Dora is co-founder and CEO of imagiLabs, an edtech gaming company making products that empower girls with the skills, confidence, and community to create with technology.

Dora has a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Computer Science from New York University Abu Dhabi and has studied Human Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, as part of the European Union’s EIT Digital Master School. She has worked as a developer at Morgan Stanley and as a UX Designer at Cisco, and has substantial experience teaching programming to children and teenagers as well as advocating for women in technology. Dora is Hungarian, and true to her fictional namesake Dora the Explorer, has lived, studied, and worked in 10 countries across four continents. In addition to her work to bring technology closer to girls, Dora is also a yoga instructor, bringing mindfulness closer to engineers.

Dora has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 list as one of Europe’s leading social entrepreneurs and serves as a Cartier Women’s Initiative Fellow.

Niels is CEO & co-founder of Matter, a fintech startup specialized in sustainable investments.

Matter provides sustainability analysis and reporting to financial institutions, to help them make capital work better for people and the planet. Prior to founding Matter, Niels worked for the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in New York, and for the United Nations in Denmark.

He holds an MS.c. in International Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School. In 2019, Niels was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list in the finance category.

Malene is co-founder and CEO at Woba.io; a digital SaaS platform that wants to change the HR industry from a reactive to a proactive approach towards employee retention.

Malene believes in the importance of change in the modern business world; we see rising curves of work-related sick leaves and employee turn-over rates, and we still lack tools to prevent it. Malene came to this realization through her research in major Danish corporations, why she decided that change was needed to break the curve. Woba was born. Woba has over + 200 customers and 45.000 live users and supports them everyday with actionable data-driven insights to retain their businesses’ most valuable resources; the employees.

Malene has years of experience in research and dissemination related to work-related stress. She holds a Master’s Thesis in Psychology and Philosophy from Roskilde Universitet.

Dr. Leslie E. Broudo is a business professional and anthropologist recognized for leading high-impact change at the intersection of theory and practice. Her public and private sector roles have spanned corporate planning, venture capital, and university entrepreneurship initiatives.

In 2017, Leslie joined the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University. There she leads both the Coller Institute of Venture, and the Sofaer Global MBA, the University’s flagship MBA program. At the Coller Institute, Leslie serves as managing editor of the Coller Venture Review, which brings together academics and practitioners to address areas ranging from deep science innovation to venture policy. As head of the MBA program, Leslie teaches the capstone “New Venture Creation” class, which builds entrepreneurial teams around student ventures that combine PhDs with business professionals in technology areas that include agriculture, healthcare, wearables, and financial services. In the last 3 years, funded businesses resulting from this work have been established or grown in geographic markets ranging from Taiwan, Nigeria, the U.S., Canada, the U.K., China, and Israel.

Leslie previously spent over 15 years teaching and in leadership roles at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). There she built and led what became the largest entrepreneurial practicum at the Wharton School in collaborations with Engineering, Design, and Law. In her final role at the University of Pennsylvania Leslie served the President’s Office as CEO of the Education Design Studio, Inc. a University-affiliated Fund investing in early-stage education technology ventures globally.

Prior to her work at Penn, Leslie was the Founding Managing Director of Phoenician Ventures I, LP, a fund focused on early-stage new media, communications, and software and services markets. She also served in senior strategy roles for the CEOs of both Bell Atlantic Corporation (Verizon Corporation), and Comcast Corporation.

Leslie earned her BA in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College, including an 18-month customized program at Harvard University. She received her MBA with Honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the fields of both Management and Operations, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, where her research focused on entrepreneurship and social change.

Pedro Oliveira is Professor MSO at Copenhagen Business School; Gulbenkian Chair Professor for the Impact Economy and Invited Full Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics (NovaSBE).

He is the Founder and President of Patient Innovation (a non-profit spin-off of his research dedicated to facilitating the sharing of innovative solutions developed by patients/caregivers for themselves, via an online platform); Academic Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures at Cornell University; co-founder of PPL Crowdfunding; member of the Environment and Sustainability Board of Energias de Portugal – EDP and Principal Investigator of several research grants.

Previously he was a Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, where he served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Academic Director of the Lisbon MBA, and Director of the doctoral program in Technology Change and Entrepreneurship. He was also an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management and Advisor to the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

He received his PhD in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; his M.Sc. in Operations Research and Systems Engineering; and his “licenciatura” in Naval Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. He also completed some advanced training at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.