All staff | Regional Managers | National Office 

Managing Director

Mob: +45 2720 2850

Tine joined Venture Cup after selling her own startup company mid 2008. She comes from a background of branding, experiential marketing and private banking from a career in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Tine is passionately interested in ideas and innovation and strives to help young entrepreneurs partaking in Venture Cup turn their ideas into solid start-ups. Tine is originally from Aalborg.

External Relations Manager

Before joining Venture Cup, Angelica worked as Account Manager at the trade finance office of Toronto Dominion Bank in Mexico City. Angelica was involved in AIESEC for several years and held different positions including national vice president in AIESEC Mexico and Sweden. Angelica studied Business Administration, and has experience in marketing, branding & event management.

Technical Manager

Mob: +45 2757 9422

Shumon has multidisciplinary educational background with a BSc Ag from Khulna University, Bangladesh and a Master of Urban Forestry from SLU, Sweden & KU, Denmark. His true passion is computers & technology where he has expertise within computer hardware & networking, web development, video, graphics & animation. He is presently studying Multimedia Design at KEA where he also works as Tutor.

Frida Ferdinand

Office Manager

Mob: +45 2619 5273

Frida has an international background from having lived and studied in Nicaragua and the US. Frida has previously held positions within the field of service and business administration and is currently studying Business Language and Culture (Spanish) at Copenhagen Business School, while working for Venture Cup.

Freelance, Projects

Formerly employed by McKinsey & Company, and previous to that by AP Møller-Mærsk, Sylvia Nedeltchev now manages large projects for Venture Cup on a freelance basis. Most recently Sylvia was responsible for Venture Cup's finale event held at Børsen. Sylvia originates from Norway and is currently finishing her MSc in Organisational Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CBS.

Project Coordinator, Copenhagen

Mob: +45 2273 1117

Emil has been committee member of YEAD (Young Enterprise Alumni group of Denmark) during 07/08, and now he functions as an active member of YEAD. Emil also works at Alsinger, a tailor in Kompagnistræde and is studying HA-Almen at CBS.

Relationship Manager, Mid Jutland

Mob: +45 6077 1583

Anja has work experience from France and England, which has provided her with a deep understanding of the importance of differences in team constellations. Since 2007 she has worked for Venture Cup, where one of her main focus areas has been to establish relations between differently skilled people in order to create strong start-ups. Anja is also studying Corporate Communication at Aarhus School of Business.

Maiken Holm Nors 

Regional Communications Manager, Northern Jutland

Tel: +45 9940 8082

Maiken is engaged in supporting students to start up their own company and developing their business ideas through the AAU Incubator program by guidance and setting up hands on entrepreneurship courses. Previously Maiken have researched in innovation and organizational changes for the IKE group and has international work experience from internship at UN High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR).

Maiken has a MA in Sociology from University of Aalborg specialized in gender and management.

Marketing & Project Coordinator, Zealand

Mob: +45 2086 6400

Jesper is a trained New Media Designer with work experience from a broad range of IT-related fields. Alongside working for Venture Cup, Jesper is studying humanities and technology at Roskilde University. Before joining this team, Jesper competed in Venture Cup and won the regional final of Venture Cup 2008 in Zealand, and hereby showed his understanding and passion for business, new ideas and innovation.

Marketing & Project Coordinator, Southern Denmark

Mob: +45 2245 5598

Morten comes from a background in recruitment, where he specialised in finding top students for job opportunities, he brings a large professional network from this job to Venture Cup. Prior to this Morten has industry experience from a large range of business, which has fuelled his interest in building companies. Additionally, Morten is studying a Master in International Marketing at the University of Southern Denmark.

Marketing, Herning HIH

Mob: +45 2262 6286

Brian has been a friend of Venture Cup since 2005, and during these years, he has worked with different projects on a freelance basis. Brian's focus is AU-HIH in Herning, where he studies Business Development Engineer. The last four years, Brian has been very active in YEAD (Young Enterprise Alumni group Denmark) as Committee Member and Chairman, and in September 09 was Brian elected General European Coordinator for JA-YE Alumni Europe - the European sister org. to YEAD.

Michael Bak

Regional Manager, Copenhagen

Mob: +45 27 148 248

Michael is currently manager of the Copenhagen region and previous manager of the Southern Denmark region. He has been involved with different tech startup projects, founded two student organizations and has experience as project manager, strategy consultant and coach. Michael has an MA in Strategic Management Communication from University of Aalborg.

Michael Mandrup

Regional Manager, Southern Denmark

Tel: +45 6550 2238

Mob: + 45 2012 4323

Michael specializes in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship and is currently finishing his Master in Culture & Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. Michael has long been a key player within the entrepreneurship scene in Odense, among other roles as the regional coordinator of START Danmark, and as project coordinator at the Students Union in Odense.

Zenia W. Francker

Regional Manager, Zealand

Mob: +45 3071 1216

Zenia was a co-developer of the first entrepreneurship course at Roskilde University and is passionate about helping students to develop their start-up ideas. She holds a B.sc. in Business Studies and International Communication and a NLP master practitioner in communication and presentation. She has a background within the service industry and has previous experience as both counsellor and coach. Zenia is currently studying for her Master of Economics and Business Administration.

Kenneth Stenkjær Pedersen

Regional Manager, Northern Jutland

Mob: +45 9940 7273

Kenneth is actively engaged in promoting entrepreneurship at the university of Aalborg. Besides, he is an entrepreneur working on different projects of his own.

Kenneth also manages the incubator at the University of Aalborg, where students can seek free and professional guidance and mentoring on their own start-ups.

Regional Manager, Mid Jutland

Mob: +45 2263 6342

Aside from working in Venture Cup, Louise is currently studying Corporate Communication at Aarhus School of Business. She has a bachelor from the University of Southern Denmark in Media Sciences and Marketing, Branding and Communication. Besides being Regional Manager in Mid Jutland, Louise is in charge of Venture Cup's national workshop programme.