Nicolas de Kerchove is a Startup founder, Business developer, and Consultant. His vision is to improve the world and the impact of people on the Climate, through technologies. He is an awarded Tech entrepreneur (European Space Agency (ESA), Seedrocket, Startup weekend, Belgian gaming awards), passionate about new technologies and their management. As Startup CEO and co-founder, he raised 7 rounds of funding with private investors, public institutions and banks. His professional network of over 7200 key individuals, includes hundreds of CEO, founders, investors and experts ensuring a broad and personal reach in the Tech industry. He published a guide on how to manage the growth of start-up companies awarded with magna cum laude. He has more than 15 years of experience in strategic leadership working on international technology transfers and doing business development working for companies like Golden Gekko, Citigroup, Air-Val International, Air-products and Knowledge Innovation Market. He successfully introduced new products and services to more than 40 international markets. He also acted as investor (BA) for start-ups. In addition to Belgium and Spain, he has worked and lived in Brazil, Germany and Sweden. He is Belgian and has a Master degree in Business Administration, ICHEC (Brussels Management School), followed a course of Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford University as team leader and the VC University course from UC Berkeley. Nicolas speaks 7 languages.