We are trend and health conscious and deliver exciting, attractive products that contribute to people’s wellbeing.
We play an active role in our clients’ growth, build purpose in what they do and empower them as individuals by providing guidance in the field of entrepreneurship.
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Managing Director & Founding Partner
Marloes has spent nearly ten years as both managing director and investor with a focus on healthy food, beverages and nutrition in retail. She is an effective communicator of new ideas, with a strong international network and industry relationships. She leads the company’s international business development efforts and has been instrumental in structuring partnerships with large retailers and investors. Additionally, she is also responsible for the company’s overall strategy, deal sourcing and portfolio management.
Managing Director & Founding Partner
Heinrich has been working in the Food and FMCG industry for more than 20 years with an outstanding track record in international business. During his career he has invested in various start-up businesses primarily working alongside founders and helping them on their way into the retail sector. At present, Heinrich is one of Austria’s most recognised FMCG experts and assists in building powerful consumer brands.
Venture Partner | Brand & Marketing Expert
Marion has a degree in Business Consultancy with focus on Marketing & Sales. She has been involved in marketing since 2003 and has been working with national and international small and big players ever since. Her fields of expertise are positioning, brand development & strategy – especially for start-ups. Formerly a start-up founder, now a mentor, sparring partner, idea generator and still a start-up enthusiast as an independent consultant.
Venture Partner | Expert Sales & Marketing
Michael is an experienced expert in sales and marketing. Working with companies like LVMH – Moët Hennessy, Fever-Tree or as Country Manager for Monster Energy, he gained insights in some of the world’s most inspiring and interesting brands. He founded several companies in the past and co-founded 9Weine to change the way people buy wine online. Currently, he teaches at the University of Applied Science in Eisenstadt as a lecturer for digital marketing.
Expert Brand Development & Marketing
Thomas’ strong analytical and creative abilities enable him to gather valuable internal and external knowledge and to derive strong strategies and business models. He has 10 years of international marketing experience at Red Bull and Paulaner. Today, as a Design Thinking Expert, he advises companies on innovation processes and is the co-founder of keep, a start-up for long-lasting kitchen furniture.
Senior Expert
Hans has 25+ years of international management experience in large corporations and medium sized family-owned businesses. Successful in building sales organizations, restructuring and strategy implementation in the sporting goods, forest & chemical industry, the trained chemical engineer spent the last 10 years as a business consultant supporting companies and start-ups in the areas of automation, green-tech, med-tech, healthcare, life-science and genetic engineering.
Expert Business Development
Jörg has significant experience (12+ years) in corporate environments as well as entrepreneurial settings. As a former management consultant and start-up founder with degrees in Environmental System Sciences and Finance, he has the toolkit and know-how to analyse and develop smart strategies with our start-ups. On the operational level, Jörg is an effective communicator in complex settings and a shrewd entrepreneur with a special focus on the financial aspects of running a company. Jörg works as a trusted advisor regarding strategy, finance and market access with quite a few of our start-ups. When not advising our clients or developing new projects, Jörg is a proud father of two, an avid outdoorsman, a foodie and an aspiring home brewer.
Expert Strategic Development
Gerrit is a qualified South African Chartered Accountant, CA(SA). After starting his career with KPMG in South Africa, he joined an international manufacturing and retail group in Europe. He has more than 20 years’ experience in group finance, supply chain, manufacturing and retail, with more than 15 years in senior management positions, including CFO and CEO positions.
Expert Innovation & Strategy
After graduating in international marketing & innovation management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Schulich School of Business (Toronto), Georg Ferdinand held strategic marketing positions in global FMCG & Pharma companies such as Henkel, Nestlé and Roche before moving on to the strategy consulting sector with Simon-Kucher & Partners, where he advised global companies as a director for various market growth projects. In 2014, he founded the supplement-technology company Dr.Owl NutriHealth, developed an advanced delivery form for supplements (LHP Liquid Health Pods) and gained market leadership in pharma and retail channels with a new supplement for faster regeneration (Regeneraid®).
Senior Expert
Jessica has 16 years of experience in buying, sourcing and category management in retail and wholesale in the FMCG market, in both brick-and-mortar and e-commerce. Jessica graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Fashion management at the Business School TMO in Doorn, the Netherlands. She recently launched her own start-up in sustainable and fairtrade textiles from Bangladesh, and also began studying nutrition and vegan food and works in consultancy today.
Senior Expert
Martina has worked for more than 25 years in global C-Level Roles in FMCG, discovering new business opportunities, developing and implementing sales strategies to capture growth potentials. Martina graduated in Business Administration at Karl Franzens Universität in Graz and gained broad experience in Marketing and Key Account Management positions. In her role as VP Regional Sales CEE and afterwards, as Corporate VP Global Sales she led Henkel for many years. Martina has joined in Postgraduate trainings in Fontainebleau, IESE and HBS.
Expert International Business Development & Pricing Strategies
For ten years, Jörg has been running his own business consultancy in Austria, and before that had 15 years of senior positions, lastly as President and Board Member at Jungbunzlauer International AG, the leading manufacturer of food ingredients. His breadth of experience in building international partnerships and business deals is substantial.
Expert Business Development
Bernhard-Stefan is an expert business consultant and CEO of Tantum GmbH with 8 years of experience and a passion for start-ups, innovative businesses and digital business models. In parallel with founding his first company “Tantum GmbH”, he worked as CEO for a company with over 100 employees and has more than 10 years’ experience in general management, business consulting and business development. True to his mantra “never stop learning because life never stops teaching”, Bernhard passes on his know-how to entrepreneurs and start-ups, no matter how crazy or big an idea might be. He expanded his experience and knowledge at the Management Center Innsbruck, studying “Master of Science Digital Economy & Leadership” and has access to a broad business network in his capacity as a chairman for the Wirtschaftskammer Tirol.
Strategic Delivery Manager
In her career Marie-Christin has been working within the FMCG and fashion industry since years. Marie has been responsible for the ‘trend & online’ assortment of the leading Austrian drug store chain BIPA for the last years and has gained vast experience in buying, sourcing, and sales. On the academic level Marie-Christin studied Fashion Design & Management in addition of launching her own start-up – the sustainable handbag brand Liane Allfest, providing her first-hand experience in the start-up world.
Expert Legal, M&A, Joint Ventures and Investments
Richard is founder and partner at Venture Lawyers, a boutique law firm in Amsterdam specialising in legal advice for start-ups and investors. Prior to this, he was Partner at the respected Dutch law firm De Breij Evers Boon. Richard brings to Clever Clover a decade of expertise, and importantly a specialised field of interest that our start-ups can benefit from immediately.
Expert Audits, Accounting, Taxes and M&A
Robert started his career at Deloitte Amsterdam and has over a decade experience in Audit, Accounting, Taxes and M&A. At Deloitte he was involved in the audit of listed international companies as well as smaller companies and worked on a number of national and international M&A deals from a financial acquisition and vendor due diligence perspective. During this period Robert graduated for his Post-Master Accountancy. Currently Robert co-owns Bendor, a company in Amsterdam that provides business administration, accounting and fiscal services. Currently Bendor services over 100 clients from a wide variety of industries.
Expert E-Commerce & Online Marketing
After graduating in international marketing from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and law from the University of Vienna, Thomas joined Coca-Cola Hellenic and later Henkel to gather years of experience across different areas of the FMCG industry. After that, he deepened his online marketing skills by taking over the online department of the renowned weather data provider UBIMET. In parallel, he founded his herbs & spices start-up ehrenwort. Genussmomente in 2017 which is well established in the Austrian market. In 2019, he founded the digital agency Brandpiloten to share his knowledge and support other start-ups in setting up and scaling their e-commerce business.
Expert quality management and manufacturing
Stefan has worked in the food industry for over 25 years. As a former production and quality manager, he knows the requirements of a modern production company in order to manufacture original and innovative products in series production. Stefan is well networked with food producers and machine suppliers and is not unfamiliar with using machines for others. As a former quality manager, he knows what is wanted and required by authorities and customers and is happy to help.
Senior Expert
Ivana is a passionate marketing professional with broad experience in FMCG and mineral oil industry both on company and agency side. She has worked for more than 25 years in international marketing leadership roles, focusing on innovation, brands growth strategy and communication in developing, positioning and communitating several international brands and products along with delivering sustainable value to the particular companies she worked for. Ivana graduated at Vienna University focusing on marketing and communication and delivers her profound knowledge and expertise to next generation at FH as a lecturer in product and marketing management for bachelor and master students.
Expert Brand Management – Marketing – Sales – New Business Development
After graduating in international marketing from the Vienna University of Economics, Gerhard has worked for more than 10 years in international FMCG and Retail Trade companies in management roles in Brand Management, Marketing and Sales (Ferrero, Rewe Group (Ja! Natürlich), Salzburg Schokolade (House of Julius Meinl).
Gerhard`s main focus and passion always has been the FMCG and especially the food industry. Main brand developments in his portfolio: Ferrero Pralinen, Agrana, Bahlen/Kornland, NÖM Fasten, Ja! Natürlich, Adeg/AGM, Ablinger, Wiesbauer, Sonnenmoor, Bobby, Maria Theresia, Mozart Koogles (by House of Julius Meinl). On top, Gerhard completed a diploma as certified management coach and mental coach.
Expert Corporate Governance, Finance and Logistics
Robert has many years of experience in Corporate Finance, Logistics, Governance and Organization. He worked several years as Finance Manager and CFO in international FMCG companies and the world’s largest luxury brand group. At the beginning of 2013, Robert founded a Consulting Company to bring his management know-how to SMEs. PBS develops value-added solutions for its customers and implements them in a goal-oriented manner. His motto is to bring more value to your business. With his innovative, reliable and sympathetic way of working he supports SMEs on their way to success.
Expert Branding & Design
With over 15 years of experience in of branding and design, and a masters degree in communications and leadership, Martina has accompanied many start-ups and well-known companies on their way.
Martina believes that extraordinary times require extraordinary brands. She uses the power of design to create distinctive brands that are meaningful, memorable, putting people at the center of the brand experience to drive behavioral change and deliver real impact. With her agency she assists companies developing their brand and attract high-profile clients.