Blue Future Partners

Joined Blue Future Partners as Operations Director in 2017 following eight years in technology consultancy and investments. Earlier roles include large-scale IT project management and business development at Open Publishing, plus investment management at a European family office.

Rodrigo Maria Barradas Ferreira is an Investment Director at Vinthera, a hybrid venture fund, where he invests in venture capital firms and their portfolio companies across the United States, Europe, and Israel.

Experienced private markets investor, previously a senior member of Sturgeon Capital's PE and VC teams and an investor at Cambridge Associates. An international investment advisor to the UK government (FCDO) and CIO of UK asset manager Nodem Capital.

Joined Blue Future Partners as Head of Research in 2020 and became a Venture Partner in 2023. Previously worked in strategy consulting, startups and venture capital across China, France, Singapore, India and Switzerland.

Managing Partner of Mountside Ventures and Venture Partner for BFP, partnering with Series A and B founders and identifying emerging VC managers for family offices and LPs. A PwC-trained Chartered Accountant who co-founded PwC's early-stage corporate finance practice and Series A accelerator.

Investor with over a decade of entrepreneurial and investing experience focused on growth-stage, privately held technology companies in India, with a background across private equity and fund of funds.

Head of Platform at BFP since 2017 (also described as Project & Marketing Manager), with prior experience in digital marketing at Helpling (Rocket Internet) and community building at coworking provider Mindspace.

Advisory partner with over 20 years as a technology investor, advisor, board member and C-level operator. Former MD of Expatrio, CEO of Element Insurance, COO Central Europe at Groupon and CSO of Rakuten Europe; began his career at Boston Consulting Group.

Investment advisor to Blue Future Partners since its 2015 founding, with experience managing the alternative investment portfolio of a European single-family office across real estate, venture capital and private equity.

Private markets investor and advisor who also advises international family offices. Previously a partner at $40bn multi-family office Stanhope Capital, a founding team member of adtech fund S4S Ventures, and part of the investment team at Altius Associates.

Joined Blue Future Partners as an Advisor in 2017 until her passing in June 2025. Focused on deep tech entrepreneurship and spin-off generation at RWTH Aachen, with over twenty years of fund selection and direct VC investment experience, including at German single-family office BTV.

Joined BFP in 2026 as Operations Manager, bringing experience as an administrative assistant and office manager across real estate, tech startups and nonprofits, along with HR and accounting support skills.

Serial founder and angel investor spanning deeptech, industrial technology and software. Leads BFP's deeptech and AI fundraising advisory, runs the Maritime 300 venture program, and has backed more than 50 early-stage companies after founding and exiting two deeptech/analytics companies.

Marco Cesare Solinas is a founder and former venture capital investor with experience evaluating startups and investment funds at a global fund of funds. He co-founded a startup that completed a pre-seed funding round and previously assessed over 1,000 startups and venture funds for investment thesis development and risk analysis. Solinas holds an academic background in international management, finance, and economics, and has worked and studied across six European countries.