A Look at Food Tech Campus
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Dorothee Grobosch
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Dorothee is a dedicated transaction specialist for 20 years now being engaged in over 300 transactions. In recent years she has advised startup companies in financing rounds as well as exists. On the buyer-side she has advised venture capitalists and corporates in acquiring startups.
Questions to ask me
- I need external financing and want to know any alternatives to bank loans. What should I do?
- A potential investor approached me ? What do I need to do regarding my financials?
- I am about to exit. What are my alternatives and what do I have to keep in mind?

Balázs Tarsoly
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Balázs is the founder and managing director of the Berlin based creative agency Branding Cuisine, which specializes in food and sustainability. He has been working in the food sector for nearly 15 years and has a lot of experience in consulting, brand development and design. Since 2018 yearly Balázs organizes with Branding Cuisine the WeltverbEsserer-award, a competition for sustainable food and gastronomy concepts. In spring 2021, Balázs co-publishes the book CO2lution where he describes what contribution food companies can make to solve the challenges of the climate change.
Questions to ask me
- How to tell a unique and differentiating brand story?
- How to create successful brand sustainability communications?
- How to effectively convey the brand message in the packaging design?

Claudia Rivinius
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Questions to ask me
- What is the best paper-based packaging solution for my brand (including SRP)?
- How to create display that is affordable, retail approved and easy to fill?
- How to create sustainable omnichannel packaging?

Sabrina Gora
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Sabrina has 12+ years of retail working experience national (OBI, Aldi, PwC) and international (BiYiDe) primary working in food and non-food. Her greatest achievement has been setting up a start-up retailer in in Shanghai (greenfield//30 stores//150 employees//within 11 months).
Questions to ask me
Regarding the following topics:
- Food & Drugstores in Germany or China
- Retail store processes and set up
- Company & team organisation, admin/goals/set up

Sarah Müncheberg
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As a passionate natural scientist, Sarah supports companies from Germany and the EU in questions concerning national and international funding programs, in applying for funding and in project support in order to advance innovative products and developments.
Questions to ask me
- What financial and funding opportunities are there for my company to bring my product to market?
- How do I find a suitable funding opportunity for my product/project?
- What do I have to consider when applying for funding?

Syster Tjarks
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Syster has over 20 years of experience in packaging design for the FMCG markets (food / non-food / cosmetics / pharma / technic etc.). Two years ago she founded her own studio and now, with her team, they manage and develop national and international projects in the field of packaging innovation, packaging design and structural design. Their focus is on future-oriented and sustainable projects that are suitable for the masses.
Questions to ask me
- Does my product have the right, sustainable and future oriented packaging?
- Does my packaging design tell the right story?
- Is my packaging design set up correctly in order to function in the market and the relevant sales channels?

Matthias Höppner
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Matthias is a Freelance Marketing Strategist. His ambition is to help accelerating the transition towards a sustainable economy. Having 14 years of experience in MarCom where mostly short-term financial growth was reigning, he wants to prove that you can be profitable and socially and environmentally responsible at the same time.
As strategist for sustainable growth, he can help you shape your sustainability story and brings in innovative thinking and a network of innovators to collaboratively work as agents of change for the sustainability transformation.
Questions to ask me
• Is my product fit for the market?
• Do I have a clear sales story / pitch deck?
• Do I have a clear positioning?

Sebastian Bausinger
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Sebastian is an expert in all aspects of winemaking. He also has an extensive team in support with expert knowledge about brewing, juices, fruitwines and related beverages.
Questions to ask me
• Downscaling: How do I produce a prototype?
• Upscaling: Is my product production-proof?
• From vision to reality, what are my options?

Martin Ahrens
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Martin is a food and agriculture expert, specialist in sourcing and quality management aspects. He has long-time experience along the Agri-supply-chain (from production, logistics, warehouse management to retail and strategic brand management) including international experience. Martin started his career with a commercial education, business school, several years of working experience abroad in the fields of trading and production, a Bachelor degree in agricultural engineering and Master of Business Administration (MBA) in international agricultural management.
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• agriculture
• agricultural products
• processes and aspects concerning quality management

Sascha Reichow
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Sascha founded the first ERP application for Apple Macintosh in 1989 at the age of 20 and is now working for WhiteSheep as a consultant for SAP Business One since 2018. There, he supports Business One users in Berlin and Brandenburg, especially startups.
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• E-Commerce, EDI
• Purchases and Sales Order processing
• ERP, Business Rules and Processes
• Delivery, Batches
• Controlling, Cash Flow
• Accounting, DATEV, Intrastat, ELSTER

Neeraj Berry
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Neeraj is a foodtech entrepreneur and investor, who cofounded Sprig in the United States. Sprig is a food delivery startup that raised $60M and scaled to 1,200 employees. Neeraj is currently running a food-focused venture capital in Berlin backed by the Bahlsen family.
Questions to ask me
• Can you please review my strategy presentation?
• What is the best way to fundraise?
• How should I develop the product for this business?

Paul Schwinges
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Paul Schwinges has a comprehensive knowledge of connected systems and extensive experience in the field of production. His area of responsibility includes examining the supply chain from the supplier to the consumer.
Questions to ask me
• How do processes work in logistics and warehouse ?
• How do processes work in supplier to wholesaler?
• How do processes work in wholesale to retail?

Nicole Schröer
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Nicole has a background in food technology and works as director of Business Development and Marketing at bilacon. She is the right person for any quality and health assurance topics you have regarding your product.

Insa Horsch
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Insa is an avid foodie herself with more than a decade of experience in the industry. Coming from product management and classical marketing in various FMCG companies, she is now responsible for Open Kitchen, a place where founders meet established companies at eye level and offer start-up support as well as an Innovation Lab.
Questions to ask me
• How do I develop a competitive positioning for my product?
• How do I find a good contract manufacturer?
• How do I create the perfect pitch presentation für investors or retailers?

Judith Nguyen Thanh
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Judith strongly believes in the power of strong people strategy at the heart of every business and she is happy to help you with all things people: recruiting, employer branding and leadership.
Questions to ask me
• How do I go about recruiting the right people for my startup?
• What should my organizational structure look like?
• How do I create an unbiased and fair recruiting process?

Conradin Sonnenberg
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Conradin has run hundreds of Open Creation- and Innovation Projects for big food & beverage brands like Coca-Cola, Dr. Oetker, Radeberger Group, Henkell Sektkellerei, Hero Group, Nestlé, Ricola, Ritter Sport, Lindt&Sprüngli or Unilever. His creative and strategic experience extends to retail-brands, food-services and food-related products like Villeroy&Boch tableware or Victorinox kitchen knives.
Questions to ask me
• How do I determine if my business idea is relevant for the market?
• How do I gain attention at big companies?
• Is my idea well thought out? Or should I rather think of ten better ones?

Zoltan Lukac
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Zoltan is a business developer and manager with over 20 years experience in general management, marketing, sales and supply chain with multinational blue chip organizations. With life and work experience in Peru, USA, France, Mexico, Poland and Germany, he has developed brands such as Kraft, Philadelphia, Marlboro, Jacobs Krönung, KFC, Pizza Hut and Starbucks among others. Furthermore, Zoltan served on various corporate management boards for 8 years. My competencies include new business development, strategic marketing, project planning and a strong multicultural, multilingual and multifunctional background. Currently, Zoltan is head of Food Service Business Development for the Martin Bauer Group.
Questions to ask me
• Can you give me some advice on how to build my career in an optimum way?
• What are strengths and weaknesses of my startup/business idea?

Daniel Heidenreich
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Daniel, manager of Food Logistics at DACHSER in Berlin, has over 25 years of experience in the field of food logistics.
Durch über 25 Jahre Erfahrung im Bereich der Food Logistics sind mir die Herausforderungen aller Beteiligten sehr gut bekannt.
Questions to ask me
How do I pack my products?
Do I handle the order picking myself?
How do my products get to the local supermarket as well as bigger supermarket chains?

Meike Schnell
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Meike is an enthusiastic entrepreneur and innovation-driven nutritionist with many years experience in food law. After several years of in-house consulting in food law for an international organization based in Germany, Meike founded QuickCheck Consulting. Herewith, she supports food startups and young companies with product labeling, claims and certification. From the original idea to product launch she is your partner.
Questions to ask me
• What is a good name for my product?
• How do I have to label my product?
• What is missing?

Ying Lu
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Stefani has 10 years experience in driving foreign-brands localization in China, in Unilever, Hershey's, General-mills and fast-scaling food start-up. Inspired by a business she worked with, which has zero in-store presence in UK, but over hundred million business in China, she is now helping founders to build China market-entry with established network and knowledge.
Questions to ask me
• How can I have my brand/product tested in China market?
• Which type of collaboration I shall choose to establish the first brand presence in China?
• How can I build a strong cash-flow from selling-to China?

Linda Boltz
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Linda loves honest and authentic food! In fact, these food products which are not enough noticed by consumers and deserve to get more attention. After 12 years of product marketing experience, Linda launched, optimised and deleted many food products. With her consultancy, Wert & Ehrlich, she follows her desire to grow consumer attention by supporting start-ups around the subjects of product strategy (e.g. target group, recipe & tasting, design check, etc.), sell-in story and analysis of market and competitors to find the right product strategy for your product.
Questions to ask me
• Is my product ready for the market? Do I have a solid product strategy?
• How does a good sell-in story make a difference, e.g. for retailers?
• Have I analysed the market and competition in detail and found my positioning?

Lea Feys
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Lea is a nutritionist (MSc.) with many years of experience in the field of frozen foods and the frozen food industry. Her focus is on quality management and food safety of frozen products along the supply chain, food technology issues and food law. She also deals with all nutrition-relevant issues (nutrition-physiological value, nutrition trends in the frozen food sector) as well as the topic of sustainability.
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• Dealing with frozen products: What is to be observed?
• Quality and nutritional-physiological value of frozen products supply chain

Stefan Haas
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Stefan Haas founded #PoDojo to help people develop products that customers love. He coaches innovation teams in large companies and start-ups to accelerate the path to products that fit their market. As a licensed trainer for Management 3.0, he teaches leadership in agile leadership and lean innovation at Quadriga University Berlin. Stefan is passionate about finding new and more entertaining ways to collaborate in the complex world of digital services and product innovation. Stefan speaks at public events and organizes two of the largest agile product meetings in Berlin.
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• Lean-Startup
• Design Thinking
• Scrum/Agile

Toni & Lars
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Toni and Lars offer a variety of design options without losing sight and love for the details. They ensure a uniform design language across all your communication channels.

Hendrik Haase
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Hendrik talks and writes about food, the food culture and an eatable future.
As a communication designer and consultant he supports institutions, politics and companies on their way to successful communication and innovation.
He also in an activist, artist and networker and asks questions, brings people together and rolls stones.

Markus Rüther
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Since 2010, Markus Rüther has been responsible for design concepts within the EDEKA Group at EDEKA AG in Hamburg. Together with his team, he designs everything from individual modules to complete furnishing concepts for EDEKA stores that is necessary for the presentation of goods and a pleasant market atmosphere, from consulting to floor plan concepts to individual design solutions and overall concepts.
As a mentor he can help you with all questions concerning the presentation of new products, the perfect position in the market and has many ideas where and how individual products can be placed.
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• Presentation of goods in the market
• Necessary presentation and shopfitting

Elke Böhme
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Elke has over 10 years of experience in the R&D food industry. Here, she has gone through all the steps of product development from the first idea to the first production and evaluation. She has already worked with many raw material and is now responsible for applied research, innovation and support of food industry companies in her current position as head of the food technology group at Fraunhofer.

Marcel Rangnow
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During the last decade, Marcel has worked in companies of various stages and sizes, such as Groupon, Quandoo and EDEKA. As former founder and managing director (Move24), he has a lot of experience in building up start-ups from scratch.
With his EDEKA experience, he is the perfect fit for F&B and food tech entrepreneurs and their challenges.
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• Business Strategy
• Leadership
• Communication
• P&L Management
• Recruitment
• Project & Product Management
• Branding & Marketing
• Business Processes
• Growth Strategy
• Business Intelligence.

Annaberth van der Steege
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Annaberth is an expert in global food safety & quality management systems. She has a broad experience and background in (chilled) food supply chains, supplier and operations management, labelling and food fraud. Since she moved to the US over a year ago she is able to support potential start-ups with finding partners and exporting to the US.

Felix Leonhardt
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Felix is an experienced Food Entrepreneur and Co-Founder and Managing Director of purefood GmbH.

Marco Borth
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Marco is a former university lecturer and researched and taught media, literature and brands and then worked as a copywriter and concepter in a Hamburg advertising agency. So his expertise is brand positioning and communication.

Heiko Butz
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Heiko is a successful founder and expert in Retail. He knows the opportunities and challenges of food startups very well as he has built one himself in the last 6 years (koawach).
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• Distribution
• Marketing
• Business Development

Dominic Blank
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Dominic Blank is an entrepreneur and founder of technology startups in software and Internet technology, primarily in the retail sector. He is currently Managing Director of POSpulse, a mobile crowdsouring firm that digitizes market research processes and enables insight generation in real time through an intelligent platform. He is an expert in lean startup and validation of business models.

Franziska Engel-Ulrich
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Franziska is a Digital Strategist at WallDecaux, she provides expertise in the field of branding and in the implementation of effective and effective campaigns (including for various FMCG brands). In addition, she looks after the WallDecaux start-up program "Nurture". In close cooperation with the startups tailor-made out-of-home campaigns are supervised and realized.

Sebastian Brack
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Sebastian is the founder of Thomas Henry & Belsazar.

Eike Folkerts
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Eike is a strategist with 8 years of professional experience in international corporations in the service sector. He has excellent skills in the areas of business analysis and development and is a retail digitization enthusiast.

Heike Lorenz
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Heike has many years of professional experience on the agency side. She has over twelve years of experience with Jung von Matt in different positions.
Questions to ask me
Regarding the fields of:
• Marketing communication
• Networking
• Corporate culture

Jörn Gutowski
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As the founder of TRY FOODS, Jörn has been involved in various pitches, corporate presentations, interviews as well as TV appearances. Prior, to working in the food startup area, he worked in Marketing, PR and sales, non-profit in an international context. He also held various leadership seminars & workshops as well as many public speaking gigs. In addition to that he is also Co-Founder of Zeevi Kichererbsen.

Adrian Frenzel
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Adrian ran the biggest operations of HelloFresh in North America. After that, he founded his own startups and is working as CEO of EatFirst today.

Vanessa Dilg
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Vanessa has experience in the field of sustainable and healthy food and cosmetic products. She also knows about conscious consumers such as vegans or vegetarians and can help with the evaluation of food additives and nutritional values.

Elmar Broscheit
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Elmar has been working in Venture Capital for over 10 years helping entrepreneurs grow great companies. He currently runs the European VC Division of Macquarie Capital. Examples of successful food start ups he has been involved with include Lieferando (Germany), Takeaway.com (Netherlands) and FoodByUs (Australia).

Eric Aerts
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Eric is an experienced concept & business developer, with a strong focus on Out of Home concepts, brand-building and retail operations. Worked for international brands, Magnum, Ben&Jerry, Barry Callebaut, Danone, der Vegetarische Metzger, Langnese Swirl’s.

Matthias Höppner
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Matthias knows how to grow a brand successfully and how communication can help to promote this growth.

David Marx
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David is a Food Designer, Marketing Specialist, Story Teller, Gourmet and Brand Maker. He has an expertise in Frozen Food.

Mirco Lange
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Mirco knows how digital change can be successfully implemented in your company. He is also an ambassador at GISEP (German Israeli Startup Exchange Program).

Nicolas Heymann
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Nicolas has his main experience as wholesaler for dried food products. This brings experience with food regulations (EU1924/2006 & EU432/2012), import/export specially Europe & Asia, quality management (ifs), fast product testing (mvp approach).

Jürgen Gayer
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Jürgen has over 26 years experience in food chemistry. He knows everything around and can help you with all kinds of questions about "Lebensmittelinformationsverordnung".

Gregor Braun
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Gregor is an expert in strategic procurement and negotiation. He has his core area primarily on Insights at decision-making in big companies and can give you advices here.

Michael Sennert
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Michael is a passionate marketer and networker. He manages the sales of the e-commerce agencies Tudock & Steireif. These are specialised in consulting, conception, technical implementation as well as training in all topics from the context of digital sales, online shops and elements of online marketing.

Gerald Schömbs
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Gerald is a communication professional and networker. He founded the Berlin agency Schröder + Schömbs PR and as a business angel, he is also involved in the topic of food.

Marco Schäfer
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Marco is an expert for product development of pos systems, ERP for retail and business intelligence for retail & wholesale.

Dr. Sebastian Rave
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Sebastian is a financial expert for interim management for digital companies in high-growth or distressed situations. Besides he is the CFO of the opinion research institute Civey.

Enrico Peter
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Enrico knows how to approach technical topics in a strategic manner. He has also experience as a founder.

Nicolas Hantzsch
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Nicolas is MD of Oysterbay - a food & beverage VC fund investing in later-stage FMCG, foodtech and agtech companies. Prior to Oysterbay Nicolas spent 3.5 years with Veganz in various management roles helped to build the brand from 2 Mio. to 40+ Mio. in revenue until end of 2016.

Thomas Andersen
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Thomas Andersen has 22 years experience of sales and marketing in the FMCG industry and 14 years of business consulting for founders and startups. He knows how a good business plan should look like and a good pitch deck.