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Torsten Kolind

Danish, 27, MSc in Biotechnology, Director of Venture Cup Denmark

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.venturecup.dk
Industries: Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Travel
Skills: Business, Danish, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Public speaking, Recruitment, Spanish, Web design
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Groups: E-shipDay, MIT GSW 2007, Social e-challenge Competition 2008, Social e-challenge Competition 2009, The Develop Prize, Venture Cup Copenhagen, Venture Cup Denmark, Venture Cup Mid Jutland, Venture Cup Southern Denmark
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company

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Danish, 27, MSc in Biotechnology, Director of Venture Cup Denmark

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Venture Cup Denmark
Position: Director/CEO
Time period: June 2006 - Present
Description: We help Danish students and researchers become entrepreneurs. By running the annual Danish business plan competition, Venture Cup, we are one of the main entrepreneurship organisations in Danish higher education. 10 employees, 5 locations, 6 member universities, and 200+ teams participating each year.

Employer: NALIA Ltd / University College London Hospitals
Position: Researcher
Time period: September 2005 - June 2006
Description: Working on project NALIA, a continuation of my MSc thesis research project, see publication listed below. In charge of assay development and validation for systemic lupus erythematosus diagnostics and screening, in cooperation with UCL Hospitals.

Employer: Novozymes A/S
Position: Summer intern
Time period: June 2001 - August 2001
Description: Student intern in Danish enzyme producer Novozymes’ eBusiness Operations department.

Employer: PreVenture A/S
Position: Business Plan Screener
Time period: November 2000 - May 2002
Description: Business proposal screener and co-developer of the proprietary Growth Model concept for early-stage venture project management

Employer: Innovative Business Software
Position: Web developer
Time period: September 2000 - May 2001
Description: Part-time work for a Dallas-based software company while at SMU

Employer: WorldWeb ApS
Position: Co-founder
Time period: September 1996 - May 1999
Description: Co-founder and manager of a small Danish web design company, WorldWeb.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: PubMed ID# 18356243: Screening autoantibody profiles in systemic rheumatic disease with a diagnostic protein microarray that uses a filtration-assisted nanodot array luminometric immunoassay (NALIA).

INFORMATION

Sports: Swimming, Badminton, Soccer
Hobbies: Live music, jazz in particular. Latin America, every bit of it. The Economist, and world affairs.
Awards: The McKinsey Award, while in college

Torsten is Following (11)

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  • CLARA

    CLARA is an innovative online marketing research tool which applies highly developed and optimized artificial intelligence to automatically analyze attitudes, emotions and user behavior on the entire Internet.

  • SmartPill Enterprise

    New and smart way of time dependent drug delivery. This technology will ensure effective drug delivery and can be used for e.g. asthma, cancer and Addisons disease.

  • Immeasure

    Immeasure detects proteins in real time

  • JumpB.dk

    We do E-commerce! We help Nordic online shops with market entries on foreign markets

Torsten's Contacts (35)

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  • Mikkel Christiansen

    Danish industrial engineer and South African MBA student who wants to change the world

  • Anne Dhulesia

    Doing a PhD in chemistry - biophysics in the group of Pr. Dobson, University of Cambridge, UK. Vice President of CUTEC: External Relation and Development

  • Wallis Motta

    I would like to meet entrepreneurs and collaborate with them, as part of my PhD research project... Are you interested? Send me a message! I'm in Cambridge, UK.

  • Shahram Seyedin-Noor

    Entrepreneur with interest in life sciences and cleantech.