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People
Alejandro Guerrero Escalona (Málaga, Spain)
Director of Product at Cover Genius for 6+ years, working his way up from Senior Product Manager. Now co-founder and CPO of a stealth startup.
Choy Travers (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ikhlas Ben Khalfallah (Paris, France)
Software engineer turned founder of JobVisionary, a platform where talents show who they are beyond CVs and text profiles. Previously lead engineer at IPEDIS and engineer at SFEIR.
Jacques Biette (Paris, France)
Co-founder of On-Demand Production and former Venture Manager at Schenker Ventures, now CEO & Co-founder of a stealth startup based in Paris.
Jakub Suchánek (Brno, Czech Republic)
Julian Borg-Barthet (Benahavís, Spain)
Gaming industry consultant and CCO with experience at Playnetic and currently serving as Chief Commercial Officer advisor at Revolver Gaming while running JBB Gaming Consultancy.
Manoj Adithya (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Former Co-Founder & CEO at Roam.ai (an Echo company) for 6 years, now starting something new with Muze, a new Europe-focused social network. Also created and hosted a podcast called “Unravel with Manoj Adithya” in 2024.
Marietta Lazana (Germany)
Ex-McKinsey consultant specializing in digital transformation, now working in real estate with a focus on AI and design applications.
Philipp Bethge (Berlin, Germany)
Was Head of Sales at Studydrive while building Alive on the side. Previously co-founded Let’s Save The Planet!, an environmental-focused startup and now working in stealth on a new venture.
Robert Douglass (Bonn, Germany)
Co-founder of Spec Kitty, empowering spec coders. Previously entrepreneur in residence and co-founder at priivacy.ai. Former experience at Platform.sh, Commerce Guys, and Drupal. Also created the Open Goldberg Variations project.
Stefano Giancristofaro (Italy)
R&D engineer turned project manager at Avient Corporation, working his way up from engineering to EMEA operations over 6 years at the materials science company. Now working on AI-powered manufacturing in stealth.
Tristan Deschler (Dublin)
Former Sales Director and AI Product Manager at Fairmarkit, now founding a stealth startup in agentic procurement technology.
Victor Charpentier (France)
PhD working as computational designer at Samsung Electronics, now co-founder of a stealth startup. Also teaches at IRDL research lab. Background in geometry, product development, wearables and bioinspired robotics.