Blending entrepreneurial experience with Venture Capital

Managing Partner

Frank Maene has been working with software startups for the past 25 years, both as executive, investor and coach.

He currently sits on the board of Chili Publish, Keyrock, NannyML, Nodalview, Qualifio, Sentiance and SweepBright.

Prior to Volta Ventures, Frank was a managing partner at Hummingbird Ventures and Big Bang Ventures.

He is a regular keynote speaker, startup competition jury member and an Executive in Residence at the Vlerick Business School.

Frank holds Master's degrees in Applied Economics and Accountancy from the University of Gent / Vlerick, Belgium.

Managing Partner

At Volta, Sander is working out of our Amsterdam office with the team responsible for the Dutch investments.

He has been investing well over a decade and holds several board positions. Amongst others he led the investments in AxonIQ, Ecochain, Blanco, BITA, Gameye, Spotr, TerminusDB and Widget Brain. Recent exits are Metrological to Comcast, CloudSense to Vector, Widget Brain to Quinyx and Vamp to CircleCI.
Before joining Volta, Sander managed the EMEA investments for Liberty Global Ventures as a VP / Partner overseeing technology investments in the region.

Liberty Global Ventures is a global investment fund with a diverse portfolio of 40 companies in content, technology, internet, and distribution. Some of the companies Sander invested in are Metrological, CloudSense and Technetix.

Sander started his career deploying ERP systems throughout Europe moving from European hub to hub before settling back in Amsterdam. He was part of the founding corporate venture business services team creating a new line of business services for Liberty.

Sander has an MSc in Economics and an MBA from the University of Amsterdam.

Chairman Shareholder Advisory Board & Venture Partner

Michel is a serial entrepreneur, private investor, advisor and board member, serving on the boards of public and private companies and private equity funds.

He was co-founder, chairman and CEO of Clear2Pay, a finance technology company focused on global payment solutions, before it was acquired by FIS (Nasdaq: FIS) in 2014. Before Clear2Pay, Michel was founder, CEO and chairman of FICS, a fintech company specialized in online banking and compliance reporting. In 1999, FICS merged with Security First Technologies, creating the leader in Internet banking - S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), with Michel as its chairman.

He also was executive chairman of Data4S, a data analytics specialist, focusing on anti-money laundering applications. Norkom acquired the company in 2004.

Clear2Pay, FICS and Data4S generated superior returns for its investors and management teams.
Michel holds a M.Sc. in electronic engineering and computer sciences and a degree in economics and finance from the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is multi-lingual and operates worldwide.

Venture Partner

Doron Hacmon is the former Chief Product Officer for Liberty Global and partner for a management consultancy firm (David Boas LTD). Doron is an adjunct Professor for ‘Innovation Management’ at the MBA school of the University of Amsterdam (NL).

Doron holds a master in Business Administration (MBA), a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Economics in addition to attending various prestigious executive trainings along the years.

Venture Partner

Koen has been active for 20+ years in the software sector with a focus on growth, finance, investment and innovation as a strategic advisor to investors, entrepreneurs and executives,
Koen currently sits on the board of Wizata and is non-executive chairman at SupplyStack, a VC-backed SaaS company. Since 2017, Koen is a mentor at Birdhouse accelerator.

In 2002, Koen started in corporate development at Wolters Kluwer Transport Services (now Alpega), an international SaaS and marketplace provider to the transport & logistics industry. Since 2006, Koen was co-managing director, taking up the roles of CFO & Strategy Director, including finance, M&A, partnerships, legal, market research and pricing strategy.
Koen ended his role at Alpega after managing the buyout and carve-out process to a private equity firm in 2017-2018.

Earlier on in his career, Koen had 5 years hands-on experience as investment manager in an early-stage technology Venture Capital fund.

Venture Partner

Jeroen lives in Rotterdam and is an entrepreneur, angel investor and a sought-after industry speaker specializing in the topics of integrated user experiences and monetization strategies. He co-founded Metrological and has successfully grown the company into the world’s leading application framework provider and a leading innovator and contributor of open-source solutions for the pay-TV industry. Under Jeroen’s leadership Metrological was sold to Comcast in 2019.

Jeroen attended LIACS, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science in The Netherlands. Jeroen was recently named one of Cablefax’s Most Innovative People in Multiscreen.

Principal

Filip joined Volta Ventures in July 2018 as an Associate.
Prior to joining Volta Ventures, Filip worked as a project manager for a marketing tech startup in New York City.

He also held positions as program director for the Telenet Kickstart incubator program at Idealabs and as an analyst at a VC firm in Amsterdam.

Filip holds a Master of Law from KU Leuven as well as an MSc in Management from EMLYON Business School.

Associate

Office Manager

Mieke joined Volta as Office Manager in 2015 and facilitates Volta’s relational, organisational and administrative activities to ensure the smooth running of our office.

Junior Associate

Kyra Dresen joined Volta Ventures in September 2021 as a Junior Associate.

Formerly, Kyra was the Operations & Finance Director at ASIF Ventures, a recent-graduate-led VC fund of €1M where she did four investments and was responsible for the financial health of the fund, expansion of the angel syndicate and portfolio management of several early-stage startups.

Kyra holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Legal Advisor 

Xhenis Coba joined Volta Ventures in October 2022 as Legal Advisor.

Prior to joining, Xhenis was active as a lawyer at the Brussels bar for over six years, of which the last three and a half years at Tiberghien where she was part of the private equity and fund structuring team. During her time at Tiberghien she assisted several Belgian funds in kickstarting and building their activities from a legal and regulatory perspective, as well as on all tax aspects related to the investments and the management equity plans.

Prior to that, she was active as a lawyer at Bird & Bird and Laga Law Firm, were she focussed on general corporate tax.

Xhenis holds a Master's degree in Law from Ghent University, where she also acquired a LLM in International Business Law the year after. During her first two years at the Brussels bar, she followed the Executive Master in Tax law at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in Brussels.

Venture Partner

Doron Hacmon is the former Chief Product Officer for Liberty Global and partner for a management consultancy firm (David Boas LTD). Doron is an adjunct Professor for ‘Innovation Management’ at the MBA school of the University of Amsterdam (NL).

Doron holds a master in Business Administration (MBA), a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Economics in addition to attending various prestigious executive trainings along the years.

Venture Partner