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Team
Peter Torstensen
Peter Torstensen
Managing Partner & CEO
David Ventzel
David Ventzel
Partner & Fund Manager
David is a tech entrepreneur who loves to help other entrepreneurs. He gets his energy from solving hard problems and turning ideas into businesses. David rarely talks about anything else than startups, technology, and financial markets. You always see him wearing earplugs because he is listening to some podcast. He is also a popular blogger and is often featured on LinkedIn by the editors. Founders who worked with David report they feel they got a new co-founder. He adopts every problem as his own and takes personal pride in all startups helps. David is a big believer in Blockchain and got most of the office to buy Ethereum. He is also known for deconstructing every subject and creating general theories of everything.
Claus Kristensen
Peter Birk, Ph.d.
Peter Birk, Ph.d.
Head of Business Development
Business Accelerator & Investment Manager
Head of Business Development
M: +45 21262430
Mads Løntoft
Frederik Stoltze
Frederik Stoltze
Head of Marketing & IT
Frederik is in charge of our IT as well as Marketing and Communications team. Frederik has a background from service design and has been in digital agencies for 3 years, working with digital marketing and design. Frederik is a data-driven, creative and sound profile, skilled within planning and reporting.
Frederik is a digital native, with a skilled passion for creative optimization and digital marketing. As a bold person, Frederik is never afraid of using new technologies, processes and ideas to innovate and digitize processes, services and products.
M: +4551895354
Frederik Stoltze Cases:
Rebecca Guacan
Rebecca Guacan
Community Manager
As Accelerace's Community Manager, Rebecca is working on creating the best environment for business-related relations – aka the famous network. She strives to bond entrepreneurs and startups together in a meaningful and joyful relationship. If she could do it dancing, she probably would as she is a huge fan of salsa (both eating and dancing). With her Master's degree in Cross Cultural Studies, she leans on a solid theoretical framework, which qualifies her to analyse on Cultural expectations. In the middle of AI, Iot, Big Data and Blockchain, she insists on focusing on the human aspect. What drives her is developing the best and most innovative environment for both companies and organisations – but above all, people.
Rebecca Guacan Cases:
Christian Waarst
Christian Waarst
Business Developer
Christian is looking at new business opportunities for Accelerace. A job that fits him perfectly since he has experience with Sales and Business development in the MedTech and pharmaceutical industry as well as many years of experience helping companies from various industries introduce new products to the market and accelerate their sales growth. Christian likes to identify business opportunities and develop a system that allows the teams to work structured on capitalizing on these opportunities to create new business and gain additional revenue for the company.
P: +45 52506582
Michael Rohde Böwadt
Michael Rohde Böwadt
Business Accelerator & Investment Manager
Michael Böwadt has dedicated his career to work within the sound industry with 20+ years of experience. It all started out helping musicians playing at festivals and clubs in Denmark and Europe and then focused on management of business, products, projects, and engineering within brands like TC Electronic, Lab Gruppen, Tannoy and Dynaudio. In that regard, Michael has wide expertise within the sound industry in many different segments and verticals.
Today, Michael is passionate to help startups accelerate and counseling corporates, using his knowledge and expertise from the sound industry.
M: +45 22 12 42 42
Oliver Nørregaard
Oliver Nørregaard
Business Accelerator & Investment Manager
Oliver labels himself a “Creative Hybrid” with a multidisciplinary interest in establishing business’ and building brands. He thrives in value driven settings with ambitions to make a dent in the universe and strongly believes technology can democratize and make the world a better place. Oliver about Oliver: “I love the city, but live in the country side (on purpose), I was raised in a world gone digital, but enjoy going off the grid. I’m (really) impatient by nature and always looking to build something, but value off-time with my wife and three kids more than anything”. Oliver worked 7 years with marketing and business development, was named Top 100 talent under 35 in 2015, and now put his energy into accelerating start-ups towards success.
M: +45 21592535
Sebastian von Wildenrath Løvgreen
Sebastian von Wildenrath Løvgreen
Entrepreneur in Residence
Sebastian is an entrepreneur by heart - he loves being an entrepreneur and work with other entrepreneurs. He loves solving problems, which is most likely a product of him coming out of a family of six people where problems occurs every ten minutes with an urgent need for a creative mind and a solution. Sebastian's first entrepreneurial experience, was when he co-founded CBS Talks in 2013 during his studies at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), which became one of the largest student organisations in the Nordics (for what he was awarded 'Student of the Year'-prize at CBS in 2014). From 2016-2020, Sebastian was the CEO (and co-founder) of Chabber (an Accelerace alumni), which has become one of the largest freelance platforms in Northern Europe with more than 25,000 freelancers and 500 customers. Sebastian's other interests are in cooking and politics. His political interest has got him a seat in the Government's 'Counsel for Sharing Economy' in 2019, where he is trying to shape a better landscape for sharing economy startups in Denmark. But, Sebastian's "zen" is when he is experimenting with new dishes while listening to entrepreneurial or political podcasts. Lastly, a tip of advice if you ever want to win an argument: bring facts and evidence to the table because Sebastian is a member of Mensa and has a very logical and rational mind (something his fiancé hates).
Sebastian von Wildenrath Løvgreen Cases:
Yohanna Gustafsson
Yohanna Gustafsson Cases:
Genre Karmen Raamat
Genre Karmen Raamat Cases:
Bruno Sozio Balestrery
Bruno Sozio Balestrery Cases:
