Jes
BROENG

Jes Broeng is a serial entrepreneur, professor and director of DTU Entrepreneurship. He has a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and has spent longer research stays in the UK and US.

For the Danish government, he serves as a member of the Danish Research and Innovation Council and previously served as a member of the 'Green Entrepreneurial Panel'. For the European Commission, he has served on the EIC Expert Group on innovation and entrepreneurship.

In business, he has co-founded six companies and spent a total of 12 years in industry – mainly as technical director at executive level – and now serves on the board of several companies, including an early stage venture capital firm (PreSeed Ventures). In 2017, he founded the national initiative 'Open Entrepreneurship' that today is a national collaboration between all Danish universities. The program has supported more than 100 university spin-outs.