The senior management team will be led by Andrea Traversone as Managing Partner, together with Kelly Chen, Thorsten Claus, Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky and Chris O’Connor, who bring over 6 decades of collective experience in technological innovation, military operations and venture capital.
The NATO Innovation Fund is the world’s first multi-sovereign venture capital fund and will invest 1 billion euros in start-ups developing technologies for defence and security. The management team will steer the fund’s investment strategy, helping to drive emerging and disruptive technologies toward Allied adoption, build innovative capacity across the Alliance and promote commercial success. The NATO Innovation Fund Board of Directors will play a supervisory role.
NATO Allies appoint investment team to manage billion euro deep tech fund (nif.fund)