Dr Udo Bröskamp is CEO and founding partner of Schumpeter Ventures, a Frankfurt-based early stage VC fund focused on fintech, insurtech and cyber security. As a long-term strategy consultant at BCG, Roland Berger and Oliver Wyman Udo has a profound understanding of current and future changes in the industry, how start-ups can contribute to it as well as how the transformation process is going to look like. Udo studied in St. Gallen, at the London School of Economics as well as at the ESCP in Paris. He holds a PhD in finance from the University of St. Gallen.

Dirk Frohnert is a Founding Partner of Smart Infrastructure Ventures - the first private VC fund in the new federal states of Germany. Based in Leipzig, the early stage VC fund predominantly invests in smart city, energy, e-health and related areas.

Previously, Dirk has spent more than 10 years as a fund manager at JPMorgan in London. In addition he has invested successfully as a business angel with two exits so far. He holds a MSc from University of Liechtenstein and is a CFA Charterholder.

Andreas Fischer is the Founding Partner of First Momentum Ventures, an emerging Pre-Seed Venture Capital Fund from Karlsruhe. FMV focuses on highly technical teams with b2b business models in the DACH region. So far, First Momentum Ventures has invested in 12 startups in various verticals.

With his academic background in mechanical engineering and business from KIT and ETH, as well as practical experience in the manufacturing industry, Andreas is an expert for industrial tech.

Julian specializes in fund formation and fund restructuring and advises Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds on all matters related to tax and regulatory law. He is also an expert on legal issues relating to blockchain technology and crypto tokens and regularly gives lectures on this subject. Julian is a member of SMP #TeamCrypto.

Before joining SMP upon its formation, Julian was an Associate at Flick Gocke Schaumburg and, during his doctoral thesis, a research assistant at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. He studied law at Bucerius Law School and at the University of Cambridge (UK).