Angels Den

Emmanuel Awobimpe is a Partner at Angels Den Funding and an investor at Forward Fund. Raised in Peckham, South East London, he focuses on expanding awareness of and access to venture capital, entrepreneurship, and mentorship within underrepresented communities, with interests in software, marketplaces, and synthetic biology. He recently co-founded a venture, currently in incubation, that has raised early-stage capital.

Adrian Ariciu is Executive Vice President at METRO AG, with more than 25 years of experience in the retail and wholesale industries. His work has focused on business strategy, team building, and coaching, including commercial turnarounds based on business planning and cost management, as well as the establishment of new business units. He has held both local and international roles.

Angus Rankine is a Non-Executive Board Member at GalleriesNow Limited. He began his career on the graduate training scheme at Barclays Bank and later worked at J Walter Thompson, in marketing at Canary Wharf, and at de Baer, before co-founding Leisure Pass Group, a City Pass operator with passes in cities including London, Paris, and New York that was subsequently sold to Primary Capital. As an angel investor, his ventures include an online art gallery, a chain of Bubble Tea shops, a worldwide online art directory, and a rolling news platform.

Jason Moser is a Senior Legal Counsel for M&A and Corporate Ventures at Nestlé and a Non-Executive Director at Angels Den Funding. Qualified in New York and Switzerland, he has over 20 years of cross-border transactional experience and has previously served as Head of Legal and a management committee member. His areas of focus include mergers and acquisitions, squeeze-outs and de-listings, joint ventures, commercial contracts, IP licensing, corporate governance and compliance, and he works in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German.

Marc Carena is Global President of Mars Petcare and a board member of AIM – European Brands Association. He has held senior positions across foodservice, FMCG, financial services, and B2C and B2B retail/e-commerce at organizations including McDonald's, Nestlé, Mars, AngelsDen, SPAR/Real, and Metro Cash & Carry. Carena has lived in nine countries and worked in more than thirty across Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Tanya Kopps is a retail and wholesale executive who has held CEO, CFO, and CHRO roles at globally operating companies, with a background spanning financial management, strategic business planning, and IT management. She represented the METRO Group in its 2011 German testimonial campaign and was named by Actualidad Económica and KPMG as one of the top 100 finance directors in Spain in two consecutive years. Kopps is fluent in English and German, proficient in Spanish, and has basic French.