Elisabeth Øvstebø
Investment Director and Managing Partner in Link Venture Capital/ Link Capital , a Nordic VC firm. Highly experienced executive and serial entrepreneur. Extensive, hands-on experience in startups, funding, finance and early-stage investments. Held multiple key roles in early-stage companies and funding. Previous experience in management and strategy consulting, organizational development and financial industry. Over the past decade, built a broad investment portfolio of early-stage, growth stage, listed and property investments. Holds a Master of Management from BI –Norwegian School of Management.
Petter I. Jenssen
Yorán Meijers
Yorán is an Analyst at Anterra Capital. He is primarily responsible for deal sourcing and execution with a focus on digital technologies. He is also involved in portfolio management.
Prior to joining Anterra, Yorán was active as a researcher in the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, focused on developing novel cooking techniques for 3D food printing applications. Before that, he has worked at the process technology department at Heinz and the product and process development department at Cargill.
Yorán holds a MSc in Sustainable Food Process Engineering and a BSc in Food Technology from Wageningen University with a BSc minor in Food Business and Management from UC Davis.
Amy Novogratz
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Aqua-Spark, a pioneer investment fund for sustainable aquaculture. Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund with a mission to transform the global aquaculture industry into one that is healthier, more sustainable and more accessible. They invest in aquaculture companies across the value chain, from farming operations to alternative feed ingredients, disease battling, technology, all the way to consumer facing aquaculture products. These companies are solving some of the industry’s big challenges while bringing returns that are comparable to today’s traditional industry. The portfolio works as an ecosystem, with the companies agreeing to collaborate on optimal solutions, and working together toward this shared vision of a more efficient global aquaculture industry.
Prior to Aqua-Spark Amy served as director of the TED Conference’s annual TED Prize for almost a decade, leading more than twenty global collaborations across a broad spectrum of sectors, including healthcare, education, science, technology, conservation, art, and activism. With TED, her list of notable projects include: Sylvia Earle’s Mission Blue, Jamie Oliver’s Food revolution, JR’s Inside Out Project, and Bono’s One.org among others. Amy met her partner/ co-founder through ocean conservation work connected to Sylvia Earle’s Mission Blue. With Aqua-Spark Amy serves on the boards of Love the Wild, eFishery, and Xpert Sea and Energaia.
Christian Nordby
Christian Olsen Nordby is a fish-farming analyst in Oslo covering all the major Norwegian salmon farmers. He has also covered Norwegian retail companies at Kepler Cheuvreux. Before joining Kepler Cheuvreux, he was a sell-side high-yield credit analyst at Swedbank covering the shipping and transportation sector. Christian holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration (NHH).
John Coast Sullenger
