Lars Tvede is the co-founder of the successful venture capital fund Nordic Eye and CEO at Beluga. He is also co-founder of Supertrends AG, which crowdsources timelines of future innovation. Furthermore, he co-founded the think tank Supertrends Institute AG, which uses gamification and other tools to help understand the future. He spent 11 years in portfolio management and investment banking, before moving to the high-tech and telecommunications industries, where he was the co-founder of several technology companies that have won numerous international awards, including Wall Street Journal Europe Innovation Award, Red Herring Global 100 Award, Bully Award, and Swiss IMD Startup Award. Lars obtained simultaneously a Master’s degree in Engineering from Copenhagen University and a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from Copenhagen Business School. Also, he is the author of 16 books.

Mads Faurholt-Jorgensen is a serial entrepreneur and best selling author. He has started over 20 companies across technology, financial services, marketing, HR and education, with thousands of employees, and investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alibaba, Peter Thiel and the World Bank. Prior to starting his current company, Nova Founders Capital, Mads was Global Partner and Managing Director of the German internet giant, Rocket Internet; Head of Asia at Groupon (the world’s fastest growing company), and Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. Mads received his bachelor from Copenhagen Business School at the shortest time ever recorded while managing a sales team of 50 and subsequently took his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.