President of the Association

Brigitte Baumann, Go Beyond, Switzerland/EU

Brigitte is the Founder and CEO of Go Beyond Ltd., the European Angel Financing Services firm. Brigitte is a Business Angel and serves on a number of selection and investment committees in Europe. She is President of the Board of EBAN, and is on the Certification Board of CTI Start-Up, the Swiss agency promoting technology and innovation. Brigitte chairs Young Presidents Organization’s Angel Investing group.
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Vice-Presidents of the Association

Luigi Amati, META Group, Italy

Luigi Amati has twenty years of experience in Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Since 1993 he is the CEO (and co-founder) of META Group. Between 1987 and 1993 he worked both in Italy and the UK on computational mechanics research activities. Most recent professional experience is on creation and management of Seed funds and mentoring of young Knowledge Intensive companies. He has worked and studied in different countries such as Italy, England, Tunisia, Holland, Argentina, Chile, Spain and Russia. Luigi Amati holds an Engineering Master degree Summa cum Laude at the University of Rome and a Master of Science at Imperial College in London. He is a member of the Venture Capital Committee of the Italian Venture Capital Association, a member of 1generation network and a founder of the Italian Angels for Growth Club in Milan.

Paulo Andrez, FNABA, Portugal

Paulo Andrez chairs the EBAN Research Committee (which produced the first EBAN Co-Investment and Tax Breaks reports, in cooperation with BDO), he is Vice-President of FNABA (Portuguese Business Angels Federation), President of Cascais Business Angels, Member of the Board of DNA Cascais and co-coordinator of Post Graduation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Tourism in ESHTE University. Paulo was chairman of the World Business Angels Leaders Forum (Estoril 2007) that decided to create the World Business Angels Association, and participated under FNABA scope in the design of the first Business Angel co-investment fund in Portugal. In 2010 he also participated in the design and implementation of the first Business Angels Tax Break in Portugal. Paulo Andrez has a background as serial entrepreneur and has created several companies in areas like IT software, training, real estate and industrial resins. In 2000 he participated as entrepreneur (seller) in the IPO of Novabase (the largest IT provider in Portugal listed in Euronext), and from then he became Business Angel, helping entrepreneurs to achieve results.

Jacek Blonski, Lewiatan Business Angels, Poland

Jacek Blonski is CEO of Lewiatan Business Angels – the largest Business Angels Network in Poland. Prior to Business Angels experience, Jacek worked for Simon Kucher and Partners, Enterprise Investors Corporation- leading PE/VC Fund in the CEE Region and for BMW Group (Poland and Germany).

Philippe Gluntz, Chairman (Hon.) of ADP Europe and Chairman (Hon.) of HR Outsourcing Association Europe, President of France Angels, Vice-President of Paris Business Angels, Professor of Corporate Strategy and Consultant in Strategy.

Philippe Gluntz is now Chairman of France Angels, the French Association of Business Angels, Board Member of several IT companies, and is heavily involved in the Venture Capital market, on top of his academic teaching. He is also a Director of “l’Institut de l’ Entreprise”, a private “Think Tank”, sponsored by most of the Global Companies Headquartered in France.

Members of the Board