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2024 Innovation Showcase Finalists
 

Anouk Veber

Head of Ventures
Sparkfood (Sonae)

Full of energy and ideas, with a strong interest in the fight against climate change and therefore in the agri-food sector.

Anouk Veber

Head of Ventures
Sparkfood (Sonae)

Anouk Veber

Head of Ventures
Sparkfood (Sonae)

Full of energy and ideas, with a strong interest in the fight against climate change and therefore in the agri-food sector.
With an international background in 6+ countries, Anouk is a top tier business school graduate with degrees from Bocconi, ESCP Europe, and a non-executive program at IE. After a first experience at Pernod Ricard, she worked for 3+ years at Capagro, a VC fund dedicated to Ag-tech and Food-tech in Paris with a great exposure to portfolio companies, LPs and co-investors. Beginning of 2023, she moved to Portugal to structure the venture’s strategy of Sparkfood and kicked off the construction of Sparkfood early stage’s portfolio with 4 investments up to date.

 

Roope Vahahyyppa

Investment Manager
Slingshot Ventures

Investment Manager at Slingshot Ventures since 2022. Background in Investment Banking at Lazard and Corporate Development at Heineken.

Slingshot is an Early-Stage Consumer VC based in Amsterdam. We invest tickets of EUR 0.5-2m in promising consumer propositions across Europe, both as a lead and as a co-investor.

Within the Consumer space we’re flexible, but do actively look at the pet care space with a recent investment in Hey Holy.

Roope Vahahyyppa

Investment Manager
Slingshot Ventures

Roope Vahahyyppa

Investment Manager
Slingshot Ventures

Investment Manager at Slingshot Ventures since 2022. Background in Investment Banking at Lazard and Corporate Development at Heineken.

Slingshot is an Early-Stage Consumer VC based in Amsterdam. We invest tickets of EUR 0.5-2m in promising consumer propositions across Europe, both as a lead and as a co-investor.

Within the Consumer space we’re flexible, but do actively look at the pet care space with a recent investment in Hey Holy.

 

Leon Hughes

Partner
Piper

Leon Hughes

Partner
Piper

Leon Hughes

Partner
Piper
 

Alexander Scharzenberger

Investment Director
Movendo Capital

Alex is an Investment Director of Movendo Capital, a family backed long-term investor headquartered in Amsterdam that provides minority growth equity capital to consumer and retail businesses that are headquartered in Western Europe and the US. Alex leads Movendo Capital’s Amsterdam team and recently led their Series B investment in Petfolk, a high-growth, next-generation veterinarian company.

 

Alexander Scharzenberger

Investment Director
Movendo Capital

Alexander Scharzenberger

Investment Director
Movendo Capital

Alex is an Investment Director of Movendo Capital, a family backed long-term investor headquartered in Amsterdam that provides minority growth equity capital to consumer and retail businesses that are headquartered in Western Europe and the US. Alex leads Movendo Capital’s Amsterdam team and recently led their Series B investment in Petfolk, a high-growth, next-generation veterinarian company.

 

Prior to joining Movendo Capital, Alex spent over six years at Virgin, Sir Richard Branson’s family office, where he managed a portfolio of Virgin branded consumer growth equity investments. Alex started his career at Citigroup in their London EMEA consumer and retail team and holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.

 

Alex is the proud owner of Hapa, a miniature Goldendoodle.

 

Carolina Wuesthoff

Global Manager Medical Engagement & Communications
Moleculight

Carolina Wuesthoff

Global Manager Medical Engagement & Communications
Moleculight

Carolina Wuesthoff

Global Manager Medical Engagement & Communications
Moleculight
 

Caroline Fife

CMO
Intellicure

Caroline Fife

CMO
Intellicure

Caroline Fife

CMO
Intellicure
 

Micaela Gray

Medical Affairs Manager
Moleculight

Micaela Gray

Medical Affairs Manager
Moleculight

Micaela Gray

Medical Affairs Manager
Moleculight
 

Jason Hanft

CEO & Founder
Defender

Jason Hanft

CEO & Founder
Defender

Jason Hanft

CEO & Founder
Defender

Though steps are being taken to fight healthcare fraud, there is much more that can be done. We are seeing new schemes and repeated fraud practices happening within provider networks throughout the country as we work with CMS and health plans to combat these violations. Through our network of over 550 licensed field and desktop investigators we are able to identify these situations before they become a major risk to the payors.

Ray Evans and Chandra Kuti will discuss the ever-evolving healthcare system involving state and federal regulations constantly changing along with the significant increase in utilization in the post-pandemic environment. They will review how this increase in claims volumes will effect the vulnerability for health plans and ways to identify any FWA issues that may be flying under the radar.

For over 20 years, CoventBridge Group has served as a Fraud, Waste and Abuse program integrity contractor for The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services investigating Medical Provider FWA in Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial lines of business.

Armed with proven analytics utilizing over two decades of FWA expertise, enhanced with our proprietary algorithms and machine learning capabilities, our mission is to assist health plans in protecting their organizations from FWA through an experienced, flexible, and sensitive approach to minimizing provider abrasion, while still achieving organizational objectives.

Join our discussion on what the future holds for FWA and tactics to leverage the BIG Three --- identify – investigate – recover.  

 

Author:

Ray Evans

Vice President of Healthcare Sales
CoventBridge Group

Ray Evans is a dynamic business development executive with extensive experience working within, and servicing healthcare organizations. He holds the position of Vice President of Healthcare Sales at CoventBridge Group where he utilizes his experience to share with the industry CoventBridge’s unmatched FWA investigative solutions. His goal is to work with health plans in protecting their organization from FWA through an experienced, flexible, and sensitive approach to minimizing provider abrasion, while still achieving organizational objectives.

Ray Evans

Vice President of Healthcare Sales
CoventBridge Group

Ray Evans is a dynamic business development executive with extensive experience working within, and servicing healthcare organizations. He holds the position of Vice President of Healthcare Sales at CoventBridge Group where he utilizes his experience to share with the industry CoventBridge’s unmatched FWA investigative solutions. His goal is to work with health plans in protecting their organization from FWA through an experienced, flexible, and sensitive approach to minimizing provider abrasion, while still achieving organizational objectives.

Author:

Chandra Kuti

VP, Government Solutions Operations
CoventBridge Group

Chandra Kuti

VP, Government Solutions Operations
CoventBridge Group