AEBAN (Spain), BAND (Germany), BAN Netherlands, BeBAN (Belgium), France Angels and IBAN (Italy), have signed today the founding act of Business Angels Europe (BAE) – the European Confederation of Angel Investing.
BAE’s strategic goals are:
- to offer the business angel communities across Europe the opportunity to benefit from a strong coordinated voice to represent them to the European institutions,
- to support the development of a favourable fiscal, regulatory and policy environment for the growth of the business angel market across Europe,
- to encourage and enable the growth of national federations and trade associations across Europe,
- to promote professional and ethical standards and best practice among the business angel community including the exchange of experience,
- to be the resource of knowledge, experience and intelligence on the European angel market,
- to encourage the growth of cross-border investment at European and international level,
- to act as the key interface with the global angel community level.
“It is an exciting time for angel investing in Europe and BAE is going to be the hub for it. We want to make our ecosystem more and more effective and professional while keeping the spontaneity and adrenaline that is innate in investing in start ups. We want to make sure that angel investing stays high on the political agenda. Finally we want each country to have its own National Association as only 10 EU countries have one today” says Philippe Gluntz, President of France Angels, who has been elected as President of BAE.
Vice Presidents of the association will be Luigi Amati responsible for Policy Affairs, Ute Guenther responsible for Research and Market Data, René Reijtenbagh Responsible for Cross Border collaboration and Reginald Vossen as BAE’s Treasurer
Juan Roure will serve as Board Member together with Nelson Gray, Jacek Blonski and Claire Munck, who have been appointed independent Board Members for International Relationship, Central and Eastern Europe and Global Strategy respectively. From their experience, they have the right introductions in these fields.
BAE’s first Board meeting will be taking place in March in Rome.
BAE will begin its external activities by organising a first Annual Meeting in Paris (May 2013) and a second event on European Angel Investing Research planned for next Autumn in Berlin.
Data collection will start already in March with an enquiry to all national business angels communities.
An event in cooperation with European Institutions will also be organised before the end of the year.
A number of other Federations and Trade Associations are also well under way to become part of BAE and will adhere soon.
More info on:
www.businessangelseurope.com
www.franceangels.org
www.iban.it
www.business-angels.de
www.aeban.es
www.bannederland.nl
www.beangels.eu - www.ban.be
Contact:
Philippe Gluntz
President BAE
+33 6 07 680714
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