On the 23rd of September Calista hosted Deal Meeting of the Calista Sourcing Club #3, with focus on FoodTech, under the leadership of our CEO, Rajaa Mekouar, and intervention from Adèle Schneider, our PE due diligence expert.
September 23, 2020
On the 23rd of September Calista hosted Deal Meeting of the Calista Sourcing Club #3, with focus on FoodTech, under the leadership of our CEO, Rajaa Mekouar, and intervention from Adèle Schneider, our PE due diligence expert.
The session included a presentation of FoodSparks, a seed stage fund launched and managed by Peakbridge, by the founders Nadav Berger and Erich Sieber, who presented the sector and the investment opportunity at hand.
Erich Sieber has 18 years of experience as a Partner with Nestlé’s strategic venture fund manager. Formerly, Erich was an executive at Nestlé, the World Economic Forum, and the German Finance Ministry. Erich holds a B.A. in business, economics, and law from HSG University of St Gallen, Switzerland, a tri-lingual MBA of EAP-ESCP (Paris-Oxford-Berlin), and an L.LM. in financial law of Geneva University, Switzerland.
Nadav Berger is a third-generation food entrepreneur, actively built companies specializing in food applications, marketing and distribution. In 2008, Nadav co-founded the food applications lab FoodLab. The innovative developments at FoodLab lead to the founding FoodLab Capital, a premier seed fund. Nadav holds a B.A in economics and political science from Tel Aviv University and an EMBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.