Andreas Eriksen
Andreas is currently setting up a shared service centre for two factories in Tianjin, China for Novo Nordisk. Even though he worked in other companies after his first contact with Novo Nordisk, like Bombardier and Venture Cup, Andreas returned to the company in 2012 where he remains until today. He was one of the main figures of YEAD, being an active member for 8 years now. With a very high alumni spirit, he was one of the main figures behind the 6th Alumni Conference in 2009.
Boris Kolev
Experienced in Management and Marketing fields, this Bulgarian entrepreneur developed skills in the Information Technologies and Event Management spheres. He is currently owner of JT International, a holding group with activities in Marketing Innovations, Corporate Communications and IT Solutions that counts now in the portfolio companies like Digimark, currently expanding its activities to other countries in Europe.
Brian Gjerstrup
Mainly interested in empowering entrepreneurs, Brian is what we can call an expert in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, keen on business networking. He is currently involved in some of the hottest startup environments in the Nordic Region like NEST Copenhagen and #CPHFTW.
Brian founded of several startups, among them StartupSteps, co-founded by another two Alumni Honoris. He was elected President of JA-YE Alumni Europe in 2008 and was chairman of YEAD, between 2005 and 2006.
Here are the Honoris
Camilla Frost
Having studied IT & Business at the IT University in Copenhagen, Camilla developed academic studies within the areas of Benefit Realization, Change Management, Resource Based-View and IT governance.
Today, Camilla is a Consultant at the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner.
Julia Tollin
Julia became a Rethoric Specialist and currently owns a company on that field. Her work consists mainly in performing services within event managment, usually moderating panel discussions, conferences and bigg gala events.
She joined the European Board for a year in 2010. For a long time she worked at Junior Achievement's office in Sweden where she managed 24 regional offices for more than three years. Meanwhile she found time to be a board member in a big Swedish entrepreneurial network.
Dennis Gotta
Dennis is nowadays a Venture Manager at Siemens.
Back in the days, he was one of the founders of JENZ, German alumni network, Dennis was very active in the early stages of Alumni Europe, co-creating the Alumni Manual among other things.
Louise Edwards
Louise holds a master in Strategy, Organisation & Leadership from Aarhus University and is now a Graduate in Siemens Wind Power.
She says she never passes up on an opportunity to challenge herself. In 2009 she joined the European Board, being elected President in 2010. Louise was a fundamental player in the development of the alumni network, having been the Editor-in-Chief of the Flying High from 2004 to 2009, responsible for creating, editing and distributing the European Newsletter.
Nerijus Malinauskas
Partner in several companies, some of them co-founded by him, Nerijus has been mostly interested in the development of mobile solutions and to start an international business in this field.
A very active member in the early stages of Alumni europe that has been of major importance in the early and fragile years of JA-YE Alumni Europe. Nerijus has also been very passionated about entrepreneurship and has worked for the European office of Junior Achievement as an Education Technology Consultant.
Mikko Jaatinen
Mikko is currently Partner at Nordic Business Forum (NBF) and works as a major player in Sales and in the customer service of this company. NBF is a business development company focusing on open business seminars, organizing and hosting some of the most significant open business seminars in Northern Europe, welcoming more than 6000 people in its major event. With a history of entrepreneurship and leadership, among many businesses, Mikko owned a Café PicNic in Helsinki in 2009, moved to Australia, lived in the U.S.A. and had many adventures around the World, naturally becoming an expert in networking.
Nynne Christiansen
With a strong engagement in volunteer organisations within leadership, entrepreneurship and solidarity work, Nynne's interests are centered around entrepreneurhsip, organizational development, employee driven innovation, cross-cultural cooperation and knowledge-sharing. Today, among other things, she is teaching entrepreneurship at the Technical University in Copenhagen and studying a master in leadership and innovation.
Nynne among other projects, was co-founder of Startup Steps with Brian and Jonas (both Honoris).
Sten Saar
Sten was, until early 2011, Head of UK Sales and Marketing at Quickstart Global. Currently he is the Head of Operations at Onefinestay.
He is what we can call a "multi entrepreneur", being one of the nominees in 2007 as "Europe's Young Entrepreneur" by BusinessWeek. Together with Mikko, another Honoris, he was Founder (and CEO) of Realister, a company selling innovative notepads for students that has traded in four different countries, with a net revenue of one million dollars. This company was eventually sold in 2013.
Ricardo Martins Costa
Ricardo is passionate about business and has been involved in the development of several business ideas for the past years.
His entrepreneurial spirit led him to become founding partner of turnU, a communication agency created to satisfy different needs of other companies with unique, innovative and distinctive solutions, developing the most effective communication solution for each product - acting as a business tailor. Besides this, he is also working in an exciting startup called Emailbidding - the first and only Email Marketing Marketplace in the World.
Tobias Dorpinghaus
Today, Tobias is a strategy analysist for Product Portfolio Projects and Car-HMI at Audi AG.
He has contributed to the beginning of the European Alumni network and has developed a important PR material for the organisation. With a long devotion to the Alumni Europe, he is an energetic and open minded innovative young person that has worked in some companies thoughout the years. He soon became Assistant at RWTH Aachen University and worked at Fraunhoffer.
