MMag. Thomas Meneder is manager of the Upper Austrian HightechFonds and has been active for 15 years in the field of venture capital / private equity as investor, manager and advisory board member. In addition to numerous successful M&A deals and exits, Thomas Meneder was responsible for the successful restructuring of a medium-sized container construction group and its subsequent sale as the operative managing director. He graduated from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and has taught part-time as an external lecturer at the University of Leoben and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria until 2019.

Prof. Michael Mirow has taught strategic management at the Berlin University of Technology as well as at the University of Innsbruck as an honorary professor since 2000. He works as an advisor, coach, supervisory board member and advisory board member with young technology companies. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG (Germany) up to 2008, where he was responsible for the global corporate strategy of the Siemens Group up to 2002. He is has a degree in industrial engineering (Darmstadt University of Technology) and a doctorate from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Prof Mirow was born and grew up in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.

Friedrich Papst worked as a member of the Executive Board of the machine and plant building company Andritz AG up until 2015, where he was responsible for the HYDRO and METALS divisions as well as the Purchasing, Production and Quality Control departments. He was also decisively involved in the founding and establishment of Chinese subsidiaries and managed the Supervisory Board for ANDRITZ CHINA for around 10 years. Friedrich Papst now works as a consultant and in the supervisory boards of ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH and Schuler AG and in advisory boards of young technology companies. He graduated from Graz University of Technology where he studied mechanical engineering and economics.

Dr. Ernst Ungersbäck has worked for more than 15 years in the areas of venture capital and private equity, accounting and financing. The stages in his career have taken him, for example, to Ernst & Young, Capexit Beteiligungsmanagement AG and Erste Group Bank AG. Ernst Ungersbäck has a doctorate from Vienna University of Economics and Business and has extensive experience in analysis, structuring and execution of private equity / venture capital transactions.

Lukas Stühlinger studied business administration in Innsbruck and Vienna and has been working in the fields of renewable energies and infrastructure for 20 years. Lukas has held multiple financing and managerial positions including the position of a CEO oekostrom AG, the largest renewable energy utility in Austria. In 2017 he received the Austrian Climate Protection Award. In January 2020, Lukas decided to become an entrepreneur and dedicate himself to projects in green technologies.