Romain Stanke

As development Executive for Bpifrance, I :

- Design new extrafinancial offers for SMEs according to their need (Beauty Industry, Video Games, Movie Industrie, French Savoir - Faire)

- Find partner to co-finance Accelerator Programmes, consulting modules or training sessions

- Follow-up business relationship with partners for various programmes (mostly in charge with climate - related and international programmes)

- Advised other public institutions to design their own Acceleration programmes (Montreal Group, Tamwilcom Marroco)

As single Representative of the French Public Investment Bank for Southern Africa, I used to :

- Support French companies to help them finance their projects in Southern Africa

- Promote Bpifrance to banks, investment funds, and governments of 10 countries (South Africa, Angola, Tanzania, Mauritius, Madagascar, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana), to establish partnerships and monitor economic and political environment

- Raise awarness about Southern Africa as an Investment destination

French public bank dedicated to promoting the financing and development of companies operating in France, and in particular of SMEs

• General interest missions defined by law

• Highly protected legal status and strong control by public authorities

• Strongest possible ownership in France (50% by the French State / 50% by the Caisse des Dépôts) As Innovation Analyst, I:

• Carried out a financial-, marketing-, business model-, and team-oriented analysis of each startup projects

• Granted or not subsidies or loans for such projects and selected innovative companies for the I-lab competition

• Conceived financial estimates and met prospects or startuppers to better understand their expectations and projects

• Fought corruption and money laundering at my level by checking all companies-involved shareholder's background