The EIC Scaling Club Council, a diverse group overseeing the Club's operations and strategic goals, is expanding its ranks with three exceptional new members. Egita Aizsilniece-Ibema, Jean-Michel Deligny, and Patrik Sobocki join to offer their specialised knowledge, assess progress, and foster vital networking and collaboration opportunities for Club companies.
We hereby present three new EIC Scaling Club Council Members (in alphabetical order), who will support the Club companies in their path to success.
Egita Aizsilniece-Ibema
As the head of the Latvian Office for Innovation and Technology in Brussels, Egita Aizsilniece-Ibema is passionate about promoting European technology on the global stage. She is dedicated to ensuring that important breakthrough technologies receive the attention and resources necessary to reach the market.
With an education in Business Management and a background as a Latvian diplomat since 2014, Egita excels at connecting companies and organisations with business and growth opportunities across Europe and worldwide.
In her public service role, Egita is instrumental in enhancing systemic support and helping startups across various sectors find the right partners. She is convinced:
“Public funding support is particularly critical in deep tech where companies face long time-to-market stage. I believe in the vital role of robust innovation ecosystems, and I am committed to fostering the success of ambitious European companies.”
Jean-Michel Deligny
Jean-Michel Deligny brings over 25 years of expertise in technology and corporate finance. The EIC Scaling Club is honoured to have him not only as a Council Member but also leading the charge as President and mentor of the Next-Gen Computing Group.
Jean-Michel’s extensive career includes leading Technology Europe for UBS in the mid-1990s. In 2000, he founded Go4Venture Advisers, which evolved into Silverpeak in 2015, expanding its focus to include M&A as a tech investment banking boutique. He has a proven track record of guiding entrepreneurs and investors through complex financial landscapes and supporting growth strategies through financing and M&A.
Currently, Jean-Michel chairs the Investment Committee of the family office Triple B. His work largely involves serving as a Board Member or Chair, helping founders and their investors steer fast-growth strategies, particularly in the deep-tech sector, including hardware, AI, and cybersecurity.
Patrik Sobocki
Patrik Sobocki is the Lead Deep Tech and Senior Investment Director at Industrifonden. He is also the New Biotech Platforms Group President, whose career journey from researcher to venture investor to EIC Board Member has equipped him with invaluable insights to share with the Club's member companies.
In an earlier interview, Patrik told us:
"I’ve devoted a lot of my operational, entrepreneurial life to healthcare, life sciences, essentially making life better for patients and healthcare systems."
While his roots are in life sciences, his current role as a venture investor has broadened his scope. Leading the deep tech investment strategy at his firm, he now touches on a wide array of industries, backing disruptive technology companies across various sectors.
Patrik's involvement with the EIC Scaling Club stems from a long-standing relationship with the organisation. "I've participated in a number of EIC events over the past years, and I've also been a jury member in many projects of the EIC," he recounts.
Our distinguished new Council Members underscore the EIC Scaling Club's commitment to assembling a world-class team dedicated to empowering Europe's most promising deep tech ventures and driving their success on the global stage.
Read about other members of the EIC Scaling Club in our earlier article.
About the EIC Scaling Club
The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 120+ European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.
The top 120+ European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programmes, and beyond.
The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.
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