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Dirk van Quakebeke is Founder and Managing Partner for Alps Venture.

Dirk has extensive entrepreneurial and financial experience. He has co-founded & supported various companies like kochabo, brandsfever, brandmile, voucherwow, whitefleur.

Before co-founding Alps Ventures as Managing Partner, he co-founded KochAbo and drove its internationalization as Lead Partner of the Austrian based internet incubator i5invest. KochAbo Group is now active in three markets and leads two of them. Prior to Vienna he lived in Singapore and India where he co-founded & supported brandsfever, voucherwow, brandmile, of which he led the latter as interim CEO for 12 months.

Before relocating to Singapore in early 2010, Dirk worked as an investment manager at zouk, a leading venture capital firm focused on cleantech, coming from another London-based private equity house.

Prior to private equity he worked for Deutsche Bank Asset Management London as a portfolio management professional investing mainly into European equities as part of a 10 people team with responsibility for €13bn.

Dirk holds a BSc. in Computer Science from Hildesheim University and a dual MSc. in Finance & Economics and International Management (CEMS) from Copenhagen Business School and ESADE respectively.