Nina Portier Reinhart
Managing Director, Reinhart Capital
Nina Portier Reinhart is Managing Director at Reinhart Capital, an early stage investment company. As a Senior Advisor at UBS for nine years, she accelerated UHNW and institutional clients’ acquisition in various European and Emerging Markets. Nina also worked on the first spinoff of the UBS Innovation Lab. During her Silicon Valley years, she was Director of Partnerships for a marketplace created by i2 Technologies and Frogdesign. For five years at Nestlé SA, Nina turned around operating companies in Latin America, Africa and Europe. She earned an MBA from Babson College and an MSc in Anthropology from Université de Montréal. As a passionate advocate of developing entrepreneurial spirit early in life, she became the European Representative of CampBizSmart, a leading teenpreneurship education organization. Her favorite fintech trends are the blockchain, payment systems and gamification of financial services. Nina is Board Member at The Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC), a Swiss-based association that connects smart money investors to seed and early-stage tech startups.
Carole Hoffmann
Founder, WomenWay | Female Founder Summit
Founder & President of the WomenWay Association – Business Network and Mentoring Platform for Women Entrepreneurs, Executives and Board Members, connecting over 10'000 women on a national and international level.
Founder & President of the Female Founders Association – organizing the Female Founder Summit in Switzerland, a yearly event with over 300 attendees,featuring pitches and showcases of innovative Female Founders, insights from the Ecosystem, access to Investors, Venture Capitalists, Business Angels, Corporate Venturing Initiatives, Networks and Mentors.
Active in Company Building, Investment Advisory (PE & VC), Business Development and Project Management in the Finance and IT industry, with an extensive network to Family Offices, Private Investors, Venture Capitalists, Business Angels, Private Equity Firms, Pension Funds, throughout Switzerland, Europe,Middle East, Asia and the US.
(Co-) Founded and built a number of businesses and led large projects in software, web and mobile development in the TMT and finance industry.
M.Sc. from the University of Zurich in Psychology (Psychological Methods / Information Architecture) with a minor in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence / Complex Systems).
