Our Board

The board members of the European Edtech Alliance represent all ares of the European EdTech landscape and our members. With extensive experience as EdTech founders, policy makers, industry or startup representatives and each active in their specific regions, the board is excited to support sustainable innovation ecosystems.

  • Jannie Jeppesen

    First Chair

    CEO of Swedish Edtech Industry. Jannie has extensive experience in digital competence, pedagogy, and management, both as an educator, as head of professional development and as principal. She has been an appointed commissioner to the Swedish Government’s strategic cooperation program on Competencies and lifelong learning and Advisory Boards for The Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education and the National Agency for Employment and is now Chairing the International Advisory Board for the School of Education at the University of Iceland..

  • Tobias Himmerich

    Treasurer

    Tobias is a Cofounder and CEO of EDUvation – the leading service agency for EdTech StartUps in Germany. He studied economics, political science and received an MBA in M&A. He founded an Edu-StartUp and has been active in the German EdTech scene for almost 10 years bringing startups together with public and private initiatives supporting innovation.

  • Flora Retfalvi

    With an Education manager and PhD in political science and institutional communication background Flora Retfalvi has worked in the Obama campaign, at the European Parliament and as an assistant professor at the LUISS University in Rome.

    She is currently the scientific vice president of TechEd Hungary, a fellow researcher of the Learning Institute of Mathias Corvinus Collegium, one of the biggest Hungarian education think tanks. and has her own company KidSpirit helping children with special educational needs.

  • Niko Lindholm

    Niko Lindholm built the 1st Edtech (ICT in Education Innovation Cluster) program in Finland, which is now called Education Finland. He is a founding member of Claned where he looked at the Asian markets and got involved in the massive Edtech wave of Chinese Edtech.

    He was the Program Director of xEdu Edtech Accelerator; built an Edtech testbed environment in Finland and moved to Singapore to build the 2nd Edtech Accelerator in Southeast Asia together with the Government of Singapore. Now he is back in Finland and at xEdu.

  • Donatella Solda

    Cofounder of Wonderful Education and Future Education Institute in Modena, Italy; Donatella initiated EdTech Italia.

    She has worked in the Cabinet of three Ministers of Education, University and Research, where she developed innovation policies, also for K12. Former researcher and associate teacher in IT Law.