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Astrid Schrader, a former management consultant turned entrepreneur, is the Founder of The Arc, an international Master Mind coaching purpose-driven individuals to build something in their lives that inspires themselves and others.
Astrid is a former Youth Delegate to the United Nations, has worked with 100+ organizations across the globe and countless individuals. Her work ranged from analyzing financial transactions in social and youth welfare to facilitating large international conferences on youth policymaking. Nowadays she runs leadership bootcamps, retreats, and coachings for those wanting to use their talents, passions, and values to create impact bigger than themselves.

When Max was born doctors were curious and gathered around to see the baby that never cried. Which wasn’t curious for Max who simply didn’t want to break the silence with bad sound.

In school, it was easy for him to cheat as he was able to hear even the silent thoughts of his class best left-brainers. And some teachers even assumed Max’ brain to feature an oversized area reserved for acoustics.

Well, as you see, Max has eventually become a composer and founded Raven & Finch. He is now creating sound experiences for brands for a living (also because he couldn’t do anything else – he’s a right-brainer after all).

Oliver is a startup advisor based in San Francisco, at the heart of Silicon Valley. He draws on an early career in the technology space to help startups achieve and manage scale, variously as a technical advisor, interim CTO, management mentor, and investor.

Oliver is a full stack software engineer and manager by training, having previously lead the Infrastructure teams at Yelp and then Uber. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and has been breaking and fixing computers since he was old enough to type.

Ana C. Mendes is a Research Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in cross-functional R&D projects in collaboration with industry, to develop new products, mostly recently in the cross section between food, materials and pharmaceutical sciences. Outside academia, Ana C. Mendes has been participating, attending and organizing entrepreneurial events in Copenhagen as well as advising startups companies in her fields of research.

Co-author of A Degrowth Project, engineer, consultant, and interdisciplinary researcher.

Coordinator of the Degrowth inspired Cargonomia social cooperative, a center for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution by cargo bikes in Budapest.
He is also one of the coordinators of the international Degrowth conference support group.