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Interview Of The Week: Sander Verbrugge, NATO Innovation Fund

Who: Sander Verbrugge is a partner at the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), a €1 billion venture capital fund backed by 24 NATO allies investing in dual-use deep tech companies. He previously held positions at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, NXP Semiconductors and Innovation Industries.

Topic: Dual-use technologies and the speed of innovation in war

Quote: “It’s vital that we invest into long-term disruptive technologies like quantum (compute, communication, sensing), novel materials and semiconductor technology to be able to strengthen the technological position of NATO allies.”

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Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.