Oliver founded EUROCROWD as an international NGO in 2013, serving since as Executive Director and Chairman. The past decade, Oliver has worked with venture capital, microfinance, technology and social entrepreneurship in both commercial and non-profit settings in Europe and the USA. Oliver is an Advisory Board Member at the SolarCoin Foundation and the Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung e.V. (FGF). A former journalist, he started his career in the early 1990s in the publishing and business information industries. Oliver holds Master’s degrees from Solvay Business School and from the University of Hamburg and studied at SEESS (UCL) in London. Oliver is a member of the Executive Board of ECN.

Conny joined EUROCROWD in March 2016 and is responsible for our current and future advisory work to public and private clients, including all European Commission projects. She has an extensive background in the field of innovation management and experience with EC projects’ management, due to her activities within the ISN – Innovation Service Network Group (since 2006). Her work and research topics are mainly related to innovative business models and alternative financing instruments, enhancing access to finance for entrepreneurs and SMEs. She holds a degree in information science from Saarland University (Germany) and a PhD in business studies from Karl-Franzens University Graz (Austria).