For sixteen years Jan has been supporting US companies across the tech, life science, industrial and automotive sectors with their European/EMEA expansions with a focus on Europe’s powerhouse, Bavaria Germany. Together with her team she founded the organization’s Expand 2 Europe web-based program, to help growth stage companies with the ins and outs of forming a successful business location in Germany.  Jan is also the German Honorary Consul in Connecticut and Rhode Island focusing on transatlantic relations.  Before joining The State of Bavaria’s U.S. team, Jan worked in sales and marketing of IBM technologies and in supply chain at Mercedes Benz and Kendall Healthcare (now Medtronic). She has a BA and MBA from Northeastern University.

Daniel Grassinger, Sr. Manager Investment & Expansion at the Bavarian US Offices, facilitates transatlantic investment from the US to Bavaria, Germany and visa versa. Prior to relocating to the US, Daniel worked at UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s biggest entrepreneurship and innovation center, where he designed, developed, and managed XPRENEURS, an incubation program for early-stage high-tech startups. XPRENEURS supports startups in the fields of Mobility, Smart City, Industrial IoT, Smart Enterprise, B2B Tech and Med Tech. Daniel closely collaborates with Germany’s DigitalHUB: Mobility, which is also operated by UnternehmerTUM. While living in Zurich and prior to joining UnternehmerTUM, Daniel co-founded ‘nexussquared’, a blockchain business platform with the focus on accelerating blockchain ideas through ‚nexuslab’ – a virtual blockchain acceleration program. Daniel designed the program and managed its first cohort with 10 European blockchain startups. Holding degrees in civil engineering and business administration, Daniel has worked in real estate consulting for more than ten years. While building up and managing AECOM’s Swiss branch, Daniel designed various innovation processes for corporate clients.