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David Hanf, Founder and Board Member of the German Startup Association

EIT Innovation Team Award Jury

David Hanf is the CFO of DePoly, an innovative Swiss start-up which converts complex plastic waste into premium raw materials to massively expand the circular economy for PET and other plastics. 

He had earlier been CFO/MD of Thermondo, a Berlin-based scale-up and Germany's largest B2C service company for green heating. Before Thermondo, he had been part of building smava.de, Germany’s leading online loan marketplace, as MD and CFO/COO. 

David Hanf is an internet entrepreneur and executive with a management background in strategy, finance, venture capital, and business intelligence. Before smava, he worked in Venture Capital. David co-founded the German start-up association, is involved in the European start-up network, and is an active angel investor.