Mr. Marcin Biec, Spectrum Team Lead, EU4Digital Facility

Marcin Bieć is a Manager in Advisory practice at EY Warsaw in Poland. He has more than 10 years of experience in telecommunication industry with clear focus on regulatory policy, frequency valuation and financial modelling and costing. Marcin has realized projects regarding telecommunication issues including spectrum valuation for Regulatory Authorities, costs modelling of mobile and fixed networks, development of financial and business models for mobile and fixed operators as well as fixed and mobile telephony market analysis. 

Marcin has been involved in a valuation of number of frequency bands in Poland and has also carried out analysis of current use of 3400-3800 MHz spectrum. He also has a degree in Teleinformatics from Wroclaw University of Technology.

Mr. Andrejs Dombrovskis, Telecom Rules Stream Lead, EU4Digital Facility

Andrejs Dombrovskis has been a Deputy Director for Electronic Communications and Post regulation at the SPRK, the Latvian national regulatory authority for public utilities for almost 18 years. He joined the authority in 2001 and was responsible for market regulation and international relations. He has been the SPRK contact point for Independent Regulators Group (IRG) and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). Before joining the national regulatory authority he worked with the national competition authority the Competition Council.

In various capacities he has worked in international projects in Western Balkans, Middle-East and Eastern Europe.

Andrejs has a degree from the University of Latvia on International Economic Relations as well as completed Master’s Degree on International Business.

Mr. Marcin Biec, Spectrum Team Lead, EU4Digital Facility

Marcin Bieć is a Manager in Advisory practice at EY Warsaw in Poland. He has more than 10 years of experience in telecommunication industry with clear focus on regulatory policy, frequency valuation and financial modelling and costing. Marcin has realized projects regarding telecommunication issues including spectrum valuation for Regulatory Authorities, costs modelling of mobile and fixed networks, development of financial and business models for mobile and fixed operators as well as fixed and mobile telephony market analysis. 

Marcin has been involved in a valuation of number of frequency bands in Poland and has also carried out analysis of current use of 3400-3800 MHz spectrum. He also has a degree in Teleinformatics from Wroclaw University of Technology.

Mr. Jesus Lozano, ICT Strategic Advisor at European Innovation Council and CEO at IT Entrepreneur

Jesus Lozano is one of the high-level advisors of the European Innovation Council in the high-tech sector and has 27 years of management experience as an expert in business model innovation and operations strategy with a focus on ICT start-ups. Jesus is the CEO and founder of several IT start-ups worldwide. As an angel investor and venture capitalist, he is investing in technology start-ups, with a present portfolio valuation of 34m EUR. Currently, he is combining his professional career with a passion to support start-ups through investing, conferences, workshops, and mentoring sessions in Universities and international events. Jesus is a co-author of the “Top Challenge Acceleration Program” methodology to support entrepreneurs from idea-stage to seed-stage.

Mr. David Uhlíř, President at European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN) and Chief Strategy Officer at South Moravian Innovation Centre

David Uhlíř currently holds the position of Chief Strategy Officer at South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC), a leading innovation centre in the Czech Republic. He is responsible for development of its new strategic projects and initiatives, and for management of regional innovation strategy. He joined JIC in 2010 while his effort was instrumental in establishing JIC back in 2003. From 2016 to 2019, David acted as Vice-president of EBN (European Business & Innovation Centre Network), the largest European association of incubators, accelerators and science parks. He was elected as President of EBN in 2019. His professional interests revolve around innovation and science policies, role of universities in regional development, and business innovation policy.

Mr. Luca Maini, Quality & Research Officer at European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN)

Luca Maini joined EBN in April 2019, where he manages the activities of the EU|BIC Certification. He is also responsible for the planning and execution of the network’s applied research activities, creating capacity for EBN members in relation to research practices and impact measurement in innovation and business support. Luca holds a master’s degree in International Business Economics and Management from University of Leuven. Before joining EBN, Luca worked in Brussels-based public policy consultancies, where he gained knowledge on EU-level evaluations and impact assessments in the fields of internal market and innovation.

Ms. Inna Petrenko, Advisor at SME Development Office Ukraine (SMEDO)

Inna Petrenko is experienced marketing, strategy and SME programming expert with more than 15 years’ professional background in marketing, business development and start-up launch. She is serial entrepreneur, digital economy consultant of SME programmes development and implementation with focus on funding tools, marketing and communication strategy development, brand engineering, global communications, MarCom, digital marketing and public relations.

Inna has more than 10 years’ experience in developing training programmes, e-learning projects, managing and implementing trainings in private sector and in cooperation with donors and Business Angels as well as mentorship experience in acceleration programmes. She has experience in working with Lithuanian, Hungarian, Swiss, Belgium, the UK, the USA, Georgian, Azerbaijani and Russian markets.

Mr. Jacopo Losso, Director of Secretariat at European Business Angels Network (EBAN)

Jacopo Losso joined EBAN in 2015 as the association’s Director of Secretariat. He is responsible for managing the organization and its network of members, expanding the association’s reach and influence, tracking issues of strategic importance to the early stage investing ecosystem and representing the association externally.

Jacopo holds a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Thanks to his education and his strong academic background both in marketing and in financial management, Jacopo has a successful track record with international work experiences.

Mr. Jan Debets, Head of Operations at Business Angels Europe (BAE)

Jan Debets is Head of Operations of the Business Angels Europe secretariat, the European association in angel investing. His daily work consists of working closely with the members, the European institutions and other stakeholders to connect, strengthen and grow the European angel market. He therefore leverages his previous work experience as a business angel network manager in the Netherlands and as a trainee at the European Commission in Belgium. He has studied history and politics at the universities of Leiden (NL), Sorbonne (FR) and Oxford (UK).

Mr. Oliver Gajda, Executive Director at European Crowdfunding Network (ECN)

In the past decade, Oliver has worked with venture capital, microfinance, technology and social entrepreneurship in both commercial and non-profit settings in Europe and the USA. Oliver co-initiated ECN in 2012 and went on to ensure its establishment as an international NGO in 2013 as founding Executive Director and Chairman.Oliver has been driving ECNs professional activities with a view to establish an independent industry representation for the emerging crowdfunding sector. Oliver is an Advisory Board Member at Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung e.V. (FGF) and a member of the European Crowdfunding Stakeholder Forum at the European Commission. A former journalist, he started his career in the early 1990s in the publishing and business information industries. Oliver holds Masters degrees from Solvay Business School and from the University of Hamburg and studied at SEESS (UCL) in London.

Mr. Otar Gorgodze, Head of Financial and Supervisory Technology Development Department at National Bank of Georgia

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Representative from National Bank/Ministry of Economy of Ukraine

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Ms. Inês Da Costa, Stakeholder Management Officer in DIGIT on CEF Digital

Ines Da Costa is working as a Stakeholder Management Officer in DIGIT on CEF Digital. Moreover, Ines is also a senior consultant in the EU Services team of Wavestone. Prior to joining DIGIT, Ines worked in the cultural heritage sector. Also, she has a background in communication and cultural management.

Huub Moelker, business consultant at e-CODEX

Huub Moelker is a Business Interoperability Consultant and has been on-board the e-CODEX team since the very conception of this European framework for business collaborations in the legal and justice domain.

He actively contributed to its overall architecture and the infrastructural building blocks and performed a leading role in the semantic and business process design building blocks. Having dealt with integrating these concept layers in the Dutch national domain and for the last 10 years in European collaborations, he specializes in coping with information chain challenges and implementing interoperability frameworks.

By bridging business perspectives and IT paradigms, a commonly shared view on such challenges is created. This shared view from the political layer all the way down to the technical layer will make true business interoperability a team effort.

“Creating simplicity in a complex legal and technical environment whilst aligning participant’s autonomy with common goals is, however challenging, key to success in European cross-border juridical cooperation”

Frank Woud, Chair of the permanent Expert group at e-CODEX

Frank Woud is project leader for the Dutch section of the Me-CODEX II project, which entails e-CODEX community and external relations management.

He is chair of the Permanent Expert Group (PEG) on e-CODEX, a subgroup of the EU Council Working Party on e-Law/e-Justice. He represents the e-CODEX community in that working party and acts as its spokesperson there. After having worked since 2004 as a policy officer at the Ministry of Justice and Security, in the fields of successively immigration (DAPIX).

Stephen Graham, Business Development Lead at OpenPeppol

Stephen Graham is the Business Development Lead for OpenPeppol, the international, not-for-profit, member-led association that provides the Peppol eDelivery Network and associated business message and interoperability specifications. 

Previously, he led the multi award-winning Scan4Safety programme for the Department of Health and Social Care in England, having created the NHS eProcurement Strategy, which mandated the adoption of GS1 and Peppol standards to increase patient safety and supply chain efficiency across the NHS in England.

Anna-Lis Berg, Senior Advisor & Norwegian Peppol Authority Lead at the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ)

Anna-Lis Berg has a background from both private and public sector. She holds a master’s degree in computer science and philosophy from the Institute of Information and Media studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Anna-lis has accumulated her professional experience from more than 20 years’ experience in leading programmes, projects and strategic initiatives in digitalisation, IT-implementation and organisational changes. She has been working for the eProcurement unit in the Public Procurement department within the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) since 2013. From September 2020, the public procurement domain became a part of the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ). 

During her career she has held various positions at the arena of Pan-European standardisation and procurement digitalisation, such as OpenPeppol Deputy Secretary General and Operations Manager (2013-2018), IBM Global lead for Peppol investment initiatives (2008-2013) and Work package leader for the Patient Safety Through Intelligent Procedures project (PSIP) (2008 – 2011).

Today she holds the position as leader of the Norwegian Peppol Authority, facilitating use of eInvoicing and more through the Peppol Network in Norway.