Mads Faurholt-Jorgensen

Mads Faurholt-Jorgensen is one of the prime examples of entrepreneurship in the modern era. He has started over 20 companies across a range of sectors, including in technology, financial services, food and education. In the process, he has paved the way for thousands of new employees, with the support of keen investors like Goldman Sachs, Alibaba, Peter Thiel and the World Bank.

Mads has been the Global Partner and Managing Director for the German internet giant Rocket Internet, the Head of Asia at Groupon and a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company. From his extensive experience in business management, Mads would later cement his entrepreneurial career by starting his own investment holding company, Nova Founders Capital.

Mads is passionate about giving companies the necessary support to succeed financially and operationally. He believes that value can only be achieved through a rigorous focus on three key elements: execution, operational excellence and constant innovation.

Through hundreds of dedicated keynote speeches across the world, Mads has delivered his work ethic to professional conferences, universities, companies and private events. He hopes to show that with tools like the internet, companies have the opportunity to flourish by adapting their business models to a global market.

His speaking topics include:

• Innovation and tech
• Venture Capital
• Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
• Leadership
• Education and Career
• Ecommerce
• Financial services innovation and fintech
• Insurance innovation and insurtech
• Asset Management innovation and amtech
• Logistics and delivery tech