Andrea Gaudenzi

Andrea Gaudenzi (born July 30, 1973) is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1990.

Gaudenzi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna.

A right-hander, he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the third round by America's eventual winner Andre Agassi.

Gaudenzi reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on February 27, 1995, when he became the number 18 of the world.

Barnim Jeschke, Dr.

Barnim Jeschke is now the managing Director & Partner of GLOTEC. His responsibilities within GLOTEC are deal sourcing, strategic support.

With over ten years of working experience in the Cleantech and energy arena, including successful entrepreneurial activities in waste water management and biofuels, Dr. Jeschke had several senior management positions as business developer for corporations in various countries such as USA., Germany, Switzerland and Monaco.

He’s also mandated as advisory and supervisory board member in international technology companies.

Candace Johnson

Candace Johnson is an international telecommunications expert and entrepreneur. Currently, she is Vice President, NeuStar, Inc. She is co-initiator of the Astra satellite system and SES Global, one of the world´s largest satellite systems in the world. She is also founding President of Europe Online, the world’s first and largest independent Satellite Broadband Network, and founder of Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, Europe´s first independent private trans-border satellite communications network. Ms. Johnson is also founding President of the VATM, the Association of Private Telecom Operators in Germany and founding President of the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN). She has continued to be a long-time Member of the Board of Directors of all of these companies and organizations at various times throughout the years.

Ms. Johnson is also President of Johnson Paradigm Ventures (JPV). JPV is a principal founding shareholder with AXA, Caisse des Depots, Bayerische Landesbank, and the SPEF in Sophia Euro Lab, Europe´s first trans-border early-stage investment company based in Sophia Antipolis. Ms. Johnson is a Founding Member of the Board of Directors of Sophia Euro Lab. JPV is also a principal founding shareholder in Ariadne Capital, "Architecting Europe.net" based in London as well as a founding Member and Member of the Board of the Sophia Business Angels in Sophia Antipolis France.

In her personal capacity, Ms. Johnson is a minority owner of FMN, a German telephone manufacturing company, and a member of their Supervisory Council. She is also a minority owner of Alpha Com, a wireless data manufacturing company. Ms. Johnson is also a member of the Advisory Board of numerous European and US ventures as well as being a Member of the Board of Governors of Theseus MBA Institute, the University of Haifa, Sabanci University, and a Senior Enterprise Fellow for the University of Essex.

Ms. Johnson was also Vice President Worldwide of Iridium and brought it into the GSM MoU, the ITU and ETSI. She also was Director of Marketing for the German manufacturing company Fuba.

Ms. Johnson has been featured in articles in Time Magazine, the Financial Times, the Economist, Le Monde, WirtschaftsWoche, and Manager Magazin, to name a few. She has been decorated as an Officer of the Bundesverdienst Kreuz and the Couronne de la Chene respectively by the German and Luxembourg governments for her work in deregulating and privatizing telecommunications and media across Europe. She is also the second recipient ever of the United Nations-sponsored World Teleport Associations’ "Founders Award" and has been named by Time and Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in Europe.

Ms. Johnson has also received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" along with Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners Lee from the World Communication Awards, the prestigious global telecoms organization 2002. Ms. Johnson holds Masters Degrees with Honors from the Sorbonne and Stanford Universities and a Bachelors Degree from Vassar College.

Oliver Sodeik

Founder of Why Monaco. Since 1999, he is member of the Management Board for the"Special Olympics", Monaco and since 2003, he´s Active member, "Lions-Club", Monaco. He is part entrepreneur, part facilitator, part organiser, part team player. An ardent pursuer of the projects he is involved in. He defends your ideas as they were its own. His motivation energizes everyone.

He continually strives to improve any projects.

"Ultimate success is the only criteria that impresses him."

Vaga Bartalini

Vaga Bartalini has spent her entire career working with clients in the international financial markets.
June 2006 – Retired from ING Bank Monaco but remains involved with HNW clients and with the Bank's development as Director.
Freelance consultant to HNWI's in financial and investment matters.
1996- June 2006 –Vaga established the ING presence in Monte Carlo by setting up from scratch an Asset Management Company which became a full fledged Bank in 2001- ING Bank (Monaco) S.A.M.
1992-1996 Merrill Lynch Monte Carlo – Client Advisor on all financial instruments and all markets, including commodities.
1980-1992 Pursued various personal interests while working as a freelance asset manager and advisor to High Net Worth clients.
1969-1980 Merrill Lynch Rome (Italy) – Client Advisor on all financial instruments and all markets.
Vaga was – among other things - an Institutional commodity trader for both speculative and professional hedging purposes.
1965-1969 Financial markets training in the USA.
Became Registered Representative, Series 7 (NYSE & Nasdaq) & Series 3 (CBT - Chicago Board of Trade).
Geneva University: Languages , Economics, International Law.
Born in Siena, Italy.

Walter de Brouwer

Walter De Brouwer was nicknamed by Corriere della Sera the "Woody Allen del business" because of his übernerd personality. He is most known as the founder of the European cult company Starlab, the first private blue sky research laboratory (called 'Nerd Heaven') that once, together with Paul Allen's Interval and MIT specialized in highly advanced 'deep future' research. This gained him the reputation as a futurist and big-picture thinker. De Brouwer was asked for the 20th Anniversary of The Wall Street Journal Europe as one of the four guru's to depict the World in 2023 together with John Naisbitt (Global Paradox), Bill Ghitis (Dupont) and Shai Agassi (SAP).

De Brouwer studied Philology at the University of Ghent and did his PhD in Semiotics at the University of Tilburg (Holland). He started his academic career as an assistant lecturer at the Jesuit University UFSIA (Antwerp) but left academia in 1989 and became an entrepreneur. In 17 years' time he set up more than 40 companies, was involved in several international IPO's (Stepstone [LSE: sso], Eunet-Qwest [nyse:Q]) and stood at the cradle of long-distance carriers in two continents (Eunet, Qwest). Originally De Brouwer's expertise was in publishing; he founded an international publishing house that published three computer magazines in three countries and was taken over by VNU in 1995.

In 2008 Walter De Brouwer was elected Chairman of the (British) Royal Society of Arts (RSA, Europe) serves since 2003 as a Director of the Tau Zero Foundation, which was formerly known as NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project.