OUR JUDGES

Together with our jury of venture capitalists, successful founders, and leading academic and industry partners, we bring the best startups to success. 

Meet Our In-Person Judges:

Sebastian Swienty

Senior Director, Corporate Business Development Licensing

Dr. Bernd Goergen

Partner

Gemma Sturt

FVC Investor

Joey Mason

Co-Founder & Partner

Dave Whelan

Managing Director

Craig Cooper

Partner

Meet the online evaluators who will join DxPx in-person:

Sascha Alilovic

Managing Partner

Dominic Andrada

Senior Manager

Gary Antonius

Business Development

Dr. Sascha Berger

General Partner

Nils Bottler

Principal

William Byrne, Ph.D.

Associate

Dr. Cihat Cengiz

Principal

Kevin Coker

Founder & Principal

Lorena Dagallier

Incubator Manager

Yaron Daniely

General Partner

Zixin (Zoe) Deng

Manager

Christian Ford

Senior Manager

Markus Geiser

Director

David Hawks

SVP Business Development and Strategy

Christina Hertel

Head of Asset Mgmt

Lukas Hoffmann

Innovation Lead

Ehsan Jabbarzadeh

Venture Partner

Amy Kao

Assistant

Benedikt Kläs

Investment Manager

Markus Krückemeier

Investor

Karel Kubias

Partner

Christoph Kuppe

Senior Physician

Paul Kurz

Health Tech Venture Capital

MyPhuong Le, Ph.D

President & Co-founder

Florian Leiss

Business Development

Robert Lugowski

Founder and Managing Partner

Marcel Maier

Investment Director

Amine Marouf

Principal

Severin Matten

Director

Reinhard Meier

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Peter Mintun, Ph.D

Associate

Jiří Moos

CEO

Rabab Nasrallah

Investment Team

Dr. Benjamin Niestroj

Professor

Paweł Nowicki

Founder & CEO

Dr. Gregor Obernosterer, MBA

Business Development

Andrea Ottavis

VC Analyst

Anthony Vallance-Owen

Senior Investment Manager

Thomas Pingel

VP Business Development

Pieter Rhemrev

Senior Investment Manager

Robert Riht

Managing Director

Dr. Frank Schäfer

Founder and Managing Partner

Joanna Soroka, PhD

Principal

Daniela Schardinger

Advisor

Hendrik Steenfadt

Analyst

Joshua Swift

Senior Associate

Zeki Emre Tekin

U.S. Country Advisor

Dr. Fei Tian

Principal

Mona Wood, MD PhD FCAP

Physician Director

Julian Zachmann

Investment Manager

Interested in participating in DxPx EU 2025 as a judge?

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