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Stefan Beiten is a lawyer, entrepreneur, film producer, business coach and co-author of his very own methodology. He studied in Munich, Berlin, Los Angeles and Berkeley and is the father of three children. He divides his time between Berlin, Amsterdam and the USA. With his investment holding Argo Ventures, he has founded more than 20 companies on two continents since 1986, and has structured and placed 20 investment funds with more than $ 1.1 billion in total investment. With his company Greenlight Media, Stefan has produced more than 150 episodes of TV animation and global hits such as Deep Blue and Planet Earth. Stefan’s business philosophy is simple: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.
As an entrepreneur, Stefan Beiten has experienced great successes and overcome considerable challenges. These include steering his companies through the major global economic crises of 2001 and 2008, restructuring and launching his CIG Wireless LLC in the US, defending it successfully against hostile takeovers and reinventing itself each time.
Sascha Grumbach is an entrepreneur, strategist, and operator. The CEO of the Argo Venture Studio also is the co-founder of Kardea, a personal health platform of the future and COO of 4ion, a revolutionary OCR engine powered by machine learning. His passion is to create meaningful ventures that change people’s lives.
The studied hotel manager and graduate in business management created his first venture with 19 and built several digital products and consulting firms since 2014. He uses his vast expertise in the field of innovation and technology to accelerate organizations regularly through venture building or consulting. His brainchild, the Transformation Bootcamp, has helped more than 100 companies globally to disrupt their industries and internal processes.
Curt Cronin is a seasoned entrepreneur and a proud ex Navy SEAL. He utilizes his business acumen and tactical knowledge to help organizations solve problems, break barriers, and transform vision into reality. With a decade worth of combat experience, Curt has learned time and time again that the driving factor for any organization is neither technology nor information, but rather a purpose-driven and mission-aligned team.
By harnessing the expertise acquired via mentoring and coaching diverse industries – be it capital management, dramatic arts, manufacturing, performance coaching or tech, to name a few – Curt now enables individuals and businesses to be proactive rather than reactive to challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
Drs. Loes Fokker is a senior executive coach who evolves the consciousness of leaders and facilitates team-based growth that empowers groups to become high performance teams.
Loes brings over 20 years of clinical and health psychology experience and is a highly sought after executive coach, consultant and trainer to C-suite executives and their teams internationally partnering with them to design corporate cultures of psychological safety, high trust and engagement that yield consistent and sustainable high performance talent. As a certified ScaleUp and Rockefeller advisor, and with her expertise in transformation and change, she dedicated to maximizing the personal and business growth journey. Her goal is to provide leadership teams with a framework enabling them to create the conditions for their own optimized development.
Prof. Julian Kawohl is the only former head of strategy of a Euro Stoxx 50 company (national branch of AXA in Germany) among Germany’s business professors. Julian is a regular speaker at the Transformation Bootcamp and is involved with the Argonauts as an Argo Leader.
Since 2015 he holds the professorship for Strategic Management at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in Berlin. His focus as author, keynote speaker and senior advisor to companies in various industries is on digital management, digital transformation, and digital ecosystems.
Nikolai Ladanyi is passionate about fostering the development of companies. As a member of the Argo Venture Studio Venture Board, he is engaged in several projects with the Argo Advisory and the Argonauts. He is the founder of Scale-up Germany and since 2016, Nikolai’s company has also run the Berlin ScaleUp Summit in cooperation with Deutsche Bank. Nikolai is the author of the German version of Verne Harnish’s two bestsellers, Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up.
He is very experienced in transferring U.S.-based best practices to other cultures. Nikolai is an active entrepreneur and angel investor himself and combines this with a deep understanding of psychology.
