Our team
Are you a startup from the Brainport region or do you have plans to start a business with a new innovation or technology, product or service? The team at The Gate would love to help you get started!
To make a strong start, it is important that your idea literally gets off the ground. And there's a lot involved in that. The business developers at The Gate have specialist knowledge and a large network. They are there to help you further.
Management
Sonja Vos-Poppelaars
Managing Director | TU/e Participations
Organizational Support
Charlotte van den Heuvel-Triantafyllidis
Marketing & Communications
Christian Staupe
Senior Business Developer | TU/e
Femke Tolsma
Communications Officer
Wanda Sweeris-Sigrist
Finance
Yvonne van Kempen
Management Assistant | The Gate
IP Support
Anna Wetzels
Intellectual Property Advisor | TU/e
Nataša Maršić
IP Manager
Suki Sandhu
Intellectual Property & License Officer | TU/e
Incubation Support
Liesbeth Litjens
Business Incubation Officer
Monique Greve
Program Manager Business Incubator | TU/e
Our business developers
Bart van Grevenhof
Business Developer Student Entrepreneurship | TU/e
Beaudine Moll
Business Developer Student Entrepreneurship | TU/e
Fons Sweegers
Business Developer Energy & Built Environment | TU/e
Irina Kulizhnikova
Business Developer AI
Jelle Schunselaar
Manager Business | Brainport Development
Marcel Quist
Business Developer AI and MedTech | TU/e
Marcella Gagliardo
Business Developer Electronics, Photonics & Quantum | TU/e
Marielle Sleumer
Business Developer | Brainport Development
Pepijn Herman
Manager Product Development | BOM
Sebastiaan Huntjens
Business Developer Medtech | Biotech
Valeria Saar-Kovrov
Businesses Developer Biotech
