Passionate about investment and impact, Marianne has more than two decades of experience in cross-border Corporate Finance with the last 10 years focused on startups and VC in Europe, US and Israel. She previously served as Global CFO of Shell Aviation, founded her own M&A firm, and has been instrumental in bridging Start-Up and Corporate ecosystems globally. She is a published author and a speaker on Impact Investment and Leadership.

Alic co-founded CITRIS Foundry shortly after receiving his Ph.D. in Mech. Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2012 and has been growing a diverse portfolio of startups that develop technologies ranging from health and therapeutics to novel sensors and AI. He has advised and/or invested in 50+ science and technology startups which have cumulatively raised $500M+ in funding.

Patrick brings 35+ years of technology management and investment experience to BBV. He is currently or has previously served on the boards of YC Research, CITRIS, UC Berkeley College of Eng., Audience (NASDAQ:ADNC) and several venture-backed startups. Patrick previously spent 26 years in CTO and sr. exec positions at HP (NYSE:HPQ), Cadence Design (NASDAQ:CDNS) and multiple computing technology startups.

Linda is the Founder of Fife Avenue Partners, a fund administration and CFO outsourcing practice servicing Venture Capital Funds and high net worth individuals. For over 15 years she has served in various roles in the Alternative Investments industry. Linda’s career has spanned roles as an accountant for a multi-billion dollar asset management firm, a fund administration firm and 9 years at BDO and KPMG where she focused solely on Alternative Investment clients. With experiences in fund audits, administration and in back office accounting and operations for fund managers, she has over 15 years of relevant industry experience that she leverages to bring about positive outcomes for clients.

Irfan was a founding member of the Societe Generale Private Investment Banking launch team, advising sophisticated single-family offices. He has also supported ventures with their business model and capital raising processes in the US, Argentina and Singapore. He volunteers for Unicef with focus on the SDGs advocacy and is a Hatch member of the Founders Factory. He holds a MSc. from King’s College London and has lived in six countries across four continents.

Deepak advises entrepreneurs at the UC Berkeley Haas Business school and is a mentor at various accelerators in Silicon Valley. He has 10 years of venture investing experience across 3 institutional funds. Prior to investing, he was part of 4 medical startups as either an entrepreneur or in management roles, having an exit with Cepheid (NASDAQ:CHPD), a molecular diagnostic company.