Members of SPICE Group
The list provides an overview on SPICE and ICECE Members (see Membership).
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| Name / Institution | CV | Country / City | Member Status | |
![]() | Bagrat Yengibaryan Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) Homepage | MBA from American University of Armenia in 1997 and Ph.D. in Mathematics, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, 1997 is the Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation since 2002 managing the EIF activities on business development, marketing and promotion, management, accounting and finance, start-up creation, helping companies to improve professional and... | Armenia Yerevan | SPICE 4 years |
![]() | Julian Webb CREEDA Projects Pty Ltd and Business Innovation and Incubation Australia Inc Homepage | CEO of one of the most successful incubators in Australia. His incubator, CREEDA in Dickson ACT, Australia, won the NBIA award “Incubator of the Year” as the first foreign business incubator. Julian is very experienced in business incubation not only on his continent, but also worked on projects in many other countries. He has an extensive network of conta... | Australia Dickson ACT 2602 | SPICE 6 years |
![]() | Wolfgang Rupp Pannonian Development Partners | by education is a Dipl. Ing. in physical engineering is active in a number of professional organisations, e.g. Federal Chamber of Business Consultants, EU-MINT/BUNT Consultant, MINT= Managing the Introduction of New Technologies, BUNT = Business-Analysis Using New Technologies. He is Managing Director of Business and Innovation Centre BIC Burgenland GmbH in Ei... | Austria Neusiedl am See | SPICE 6 years |
![]() | Omer Oz Bahrain Business Incubator Center | is Managing Director of BBIC, Bahrain Business Incubator Center and (elected) President of MENAinc, the infoDev Middle East and North Africa network of business incubators and technololgy parks. He has been working as General Manager of ODTU-KOSGEB Technology Incubator Manager in Turkey since 1992. During his career he has developed experience in promoting an... | Bahrain Manama | SPICE 4 years |
![]() | Mohammed Allam Al-Qaed Bahrain Business Incubator Center Homepage | is deputy managing director of BBIC, Bahrain Business Incubator Center after he joined tais incubator in September 2007. He has a Bsc degree in civil engineering, from the University of Bahrain. Mohammed is working with Omer Oz as assistant coordinator for MENAinc, the infoDev supported network of business incubators in Middle East and North Africa. Right afte... | Bahrain Manama | SPICE 2 years |
![]() | Sergey Naidovich JSC Homepage | since 1989 is General Director of the business incubator joint stock company “MAP JSC”. Before he was Director of the Center of Youth Scientific and Technical Activity as well as teacher at the Belarus National Technical University. His links with business incubation reach back to Sergey’s activity as a consultant of the UNDP Project “As-sistance to ... | Belarus Kolodischi, Minsk region | SPICE 1 year |
![]() | Rositza Djambazova Bulgarian Association of Business Incubators and Business Innovation Centers Homepage | joined the SPICE network as President of the National Business Development Network of Bulgaria. Rositsa also is managing director of the business incubator in Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria. She has worked on numerous international projects in business incubation, for example, as regional coordinator for ECA (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) for the “International ... | Bulgaria Gotse Delchev | SPICE 6 years |
![]() | Ivan Stefanic Technology-Development Centre Osijek Ltd. Homepage | is first director of University Technology Development Centre of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. Stzefan is university professor and head of chair in the field of economics and entrepreneurship in agribusiness at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Faculty of Agriculture. He works intensively with the students and national and internation... | Croatia Osijek | SPICE 4 years |
![]() | Jana Klementova BIC Pilsen Homepage | ... | Czech Republic Plzen | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Pavel Svejda SSTP Association of Czeck Technology Parks | ... | Czech Republic Prague | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Rosendo Alvarez Homepage | enjoys participating in pioneering projects and situations both in his native Dominican Republic and abroad, including the promotion and creation of the first technology oriented free zone park as stakeholder and first CEO of Cyberpark of Santo Domingo (www.pcsd.com.do), the first technology enabling business incubator, the Westport Applied Technology Incubato... | Dominican Republic Santo Domingo | SPICE 7 years |
![]() | Raivo Tamkivi Tallinn Technical University Innovation Center | ... | Estonia Tallinn | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Rein Ruubel Novatum Ltd | ... | Estonia Viimsi Harjuma | ICECE 2 years |
![]() | Keith Silverang Technopolis Ventures Ltd Homepage | born 1961, US citizen, since 2004 is CEO of Technopolis Ventures Ltd in Espoo, Finland operating a highly successful technology park / business incubator. Before this 2000 to 2003 he worked for AAC Business Communications, AAC Global Oy, Helsinki, Finland. In 1995 he founded Oy Internationalization Consulting Services Ltd (Oy ICS Ltd) in Espoo, Finland. 1989 t... | Finland Espoo | SPICE 3 years |
![]() | Mervi Käki InnoPraxis International Ltd Homepage | since January 2008 is partner, CEO, Chief Advisor of InnoPraxis International Ltd, a consulting firm provid-ing advisory and management support services in the spheres of innovation policy, science and technology parks, business incubation and clustering. As Chief Advisor in InnoPraxis Mervi consulted organizations in many countries like. She is continually de... | Finland Espoo | ICECE 1st year |
![]() | Heinz Fiedler SPICE Group Homepage | ... | Germany Berlin | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Karl-Heinz Klinger TECHNOSTART GmbH | ... | Germany Berlin | SPICE 9 years |
![]() | Guido Baranowski TechnologieZentrumDortmund Homepage | ... | Germany Dortmund | SPICE 9 years |
![]() | Uwe Hoppe BIC Frankfurt / Oder Homepage | ... | Germany Frankfurt / Oder | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Christian Herrmann Public-Private-Partnership | ... | Germany Buxtehude | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Klaus Plate Technologiepark Heidelberg Gmbh Homepage | ... | Germany Heidelberg | SPICE 8 years |
![]() | Rolf Friedrichsdorf PHOENIX Business Incubator Berlin, ADT Germany, rfi Berlin Homepage | is managing Director of the Phoenix Business Incubator in Berlin. He also was active in the national association as a Vice Chairman of ADT untile May 2010), the German Federal Association of Innovation, Technology and Business Incubation Centers. Before entering into the world of business incubation Rolf worked in a number of assignments in industry and ente... | Germany Berlin | SPICE 5 years |
![]() | Gerd Meier zu Köcker VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH Homepage | is director of the agency "Competence Networks Germany" as well as the head of department International Technology Cooperation & Cluster within VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik. As manager of the agency, he is responsible for the coordination and support of currently 120 German Competence Networks www.kompetenznetze.de Furthermore he is responsible for several nat... | Germany Berlin | ICECE 2 years |
![]() | Karl-Heinz Jach | is well experienced in business incubation. In 1990 he was on of a small group of enthusiasts starting the first 15 business incubators in the new German States (after unification of Germany made this kind of activities possible). He became managing director of the Technology Center Warnemünde and laid the cornerstone for the successful development of this te... | Germany Berlin | SPICE 5 years |
![]() | Uwe Seidel VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH Homepage | is senior expert in the field of Business Incubation and Entrepreneurship in the department International Technology Cooperation & Cluster within VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik. As project director he is responsible for the project ELITE – Establishing a Libyan Incubator for Technology and Innovation. (www.eliteproject.net) His major experiences came from th... | Germany Berlin | SPICE 2 years |
![]() | Gerhard Raetz IZBM GmbH Homepage | is working in Business Incubation since 1991. He developed the concept for the Innovation and Business Incubation Centre in Berlin Adlershof, Germany (opened 1991). He is Officer with procuration in the managing company of this centre, the IZBM - Innovations-Zentrum Berlin Management GmbH that has supported more than 700 companies. This company is also operati... | Germany Berlin | ICECE 1 year |
![]() | Florian Seiff IZBM Innovations-Zentrum Berlin Management GmbH Homepage | is Managing director of Innovations-Zentrum Berlin GmbH. After his diploma in 1974 (Physics, FU Berlin) he worked for a big German laser company in its start-up and growing phase. Two years later he returned to the university for working on his PhD in the field of optical spectroscopy and starting his own laser-company. As post-doc Dr. Seiff worked in Grenoble... | Germany Berlin | ICECE 1 year |
![]() | Aniko Soltesz Entreprenurial Incubators Association | ... | Hungary Budapest | SPICE ![]() 14 years |
![]() | Peter Nagy | ... | Hungary Budapest | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | R.M.P. Jawahar Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks Homepage | is Executive Director, Tiruchirapalli Regional Engineering College - Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park and Vice Chairman, Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park and Business Incubators Association, ISBA, India. He is Member of National Committee for Technology and Innovation, Confederation of Indian Industries, New Delhi, Member of Board of G... | India Tiruchiappalli | SPICE 5 years |
![]() | Yousef Abu-Hmeidan I's of Innovation Homepage | has 29 years of experience in Jordan and USA in fields of R&D, manufacturing, quality control, training, teaching and incubation businesses. In the last four years, he held the position of the first director of the Jordan Innovation Centre (JIC) for Engineers and Industrial Enterprises at the Royal Scientific Society (RSS). During that period JIC hosted 8 star... | Jordan Amman | SPICE 2 years |
![]() | Reham Gharbiyeh Jordan Innov Center, al Hassan Industrial Esta | is the Executive Director of Al-Urdonia Lil-Ebda'Co, which was established by a consortium of public, semi governmental and private sector institutions to support start ups, innovation and entrepreneurs in North and South region of Jordan. Reham joined the Company in the year 2006, and became the executive director in 2009. The Company owns and manages thre... | Jordan Irbid | SPICE 1 year |
![]() | Zamira Akbagysheva Union of Business Incubators and Innovation Centers of the Kyrgyz Republic | ... | Kyrgyzstan Bishkek | SPICE 7 years |
![]() | Leonids Ribickis Riga Technical University | ... | Latvia Riga | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Janis Stabulnieks LATICA, Latvian Association of Technology Parks, Centers and Business Incubators | ... | Latvia Riga | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Omar Ahmed Annakou ELITE | is the Deputy Director of Libyan National Project for Establishing Business and Innovation Incubators (ELITE Project) . He is actively involved not only with building incubators in his country but also is engaged to build and develop international tional cooperation in innovation and entrepreneurship support especially within the MENAinc network of which he is... | Libya Tripolis | SPICE 3 years |
![]() | Mohamed Alaswad National Bureau for Research & Development | is the project leader for the Libyan National Project for Establishing Business and Innovation Incubators (ELITE). His vast experience in international collaboration as well as industry and research policies helps to build the necessary links for developing the incubator initiative in Libya. Mr. Alaswad systematically attended international conferences on bus... | Libya Tripolis | SPICE 3 years |
![]() | Pranas Bernardas Milius Association of Lithuanian Business Centres | ... | Lithuania Kaunas | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Sergej Miloshevski | ... | Macedonia Skopje | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Radmil Polenakovik Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Business Start-up Centre Homepage | is Director of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Business Start-up Centre in Skopje, Macedonia. He holds PhD in management from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia and is professor at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering where is teaching Human Resource Management, Ergonomics, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Business Log... | Macedonia Skopje | SPICE 3 years |
![]() | Annuar Safar Malaysian Incubator Network Homepage | ... | Malaysia Kulim Kedah Darulaman | SPICE 4 years |
![]() | Ilyas Azzioui Morocco Incubation and & Spin-off Network | is member of the coordinating cell of Morocco Incubation and Spin-off Network (RMIE) hosted in the National Center for Scientific Research and Technology (CNRST). He has developed much experience regarding start-up businesses / incubator clients; especially identifying their needs, organization of training, business planning or information research. Ilyas prov... | Morocco Rabat | ICECE 2 years |
![]() | Jacques Pronk PROVESTA | ... | Netherlands Helmond | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Richard White New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Homepage | joined New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the New Zealand government's economic development agency, in 2002. His primary responsibility is overseeing the development of New Zealand's business incubation industry. Prior to joining NZTE Richard spent 3 years as Chief Executive of the Insurance Institute of New Zealand. This assignment followed a 15 year career in... | New Zealand Wellington | SPICE 5 years |
![]() | Laith I. Kassis The Palestine Information & Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI) Homepage | has over 15 years of experience in business - most recent he is managing an incubator servicing start-up companies in Palestine. His role at the incubator included the design and implementation of incubation processes and programs that included marketing, policies and procedures and outreach campaign designing and executing the pre-incubation programs. Laith ... | Palestine Al-Bireh | ICECE 2 years |
![]() | Mercedes M. Barcelon Ayala Foundation | ... | Philippines Quezon City | SPICE 2 years |
![]() | Krzysztof Zasiadly PBICA Homepage | ... | Poland Poznan | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Larisa Brovarska SPICE Group Homepage | ... | Poland Poznan | SPICE 8 years |
![]() | Francisco Soares | ... | Portugal Lisbon | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Domnica Cotet CITAf Technology and Business Incubator Centrer Homepage | ... | Romania Bucharest | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Ioan Piturescu Foundation of Romanian Business and Innovation Centers | ... | Romania Bucharest | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Veniamin Kaganov International Institute for Entrepreneurship and Investments | ... | Russia Moscow | SPICE ![]() 10 years |
![]() | Slava Khodko Center for International Cooperation | ... | Russia St. Petersburg | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | John Mercer King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technongy BADIR-ICT Incubator (and CREEDA Projects Ltd) Homepage | at this time working in Saudi Arabia as independent Associate Consultant for CREEDA Projects Ltd, Canberra, Australia providing small business development, business incubation, business advisory service, small business training consultancy and project management services in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he is now working on building up the first business incubator o... | Saudi Arabia Riyadh | ICECE 1 year |
![]() | Hugo van Veghel TARA International Consulting Homepage | Born In Belgium in 1952 and active in project development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in the Western Balkans since 1998. PhD in Strategic Management. Recently delivered a study on industrial clustering in the Panonian Croatia Region with a step by step tool and action plan. Established in 2008 a new consultancy firm in Serbia (Novi Sad, Vojvodin... | Serbia Novi Sad | ICECE 2 years |
![]() | Leon Lourens SABTIA | is experienced in business incubation in many ways. He worked 5 years with Softstart Business & Technology Incubator, South Africa and as chairman for SABTIA, the South African Business Incubation Association. He also is involved with the infoDev Africa Incubator Network (AIN). His goal is to rally the Southern African Incubator fraternity at the AGM to formal... | South Africa Centurion | SPICE 2 years |
![]() | Steven Giddings South African Business and Technology Incubation Association | has over 20 years of business experience and has worked in various large firms before establishing a start-up company in the coffee industry in the year 2002. In allocating part of his time to consulting, he is currently the Regional Facilitator for Africa in the Incubator Initiative of infoDev (World Bank). Prior to this, he was interim CEO of a European Unio... | South Africa Cape Town | SPICE 3 years |
![]() | Bong Jin Cho KOBIA Korean Business Incubator Association Homepage | ... | South Korea Taejon | SPICE 6 years |
![]() | Hong Kim | ... | South Korea Asan | SPICE ![]() 10 years |
![]() | Yeung-Shik Kim KOBIA Korean Business Incubation Association Homepage | since 2004 is Director and Professor at the Business Incubation Center of Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea. After having been Vice President of KOBIA, Korean Business Incubation Association, (2006-2007) he since this year is Secretary General of the Korean Business Incubation Association. Graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Y... | South Korea Daejeon | SPICE 2 years |
![]() | Yongsam Lee Institute of Korea Entrepreneurship Development (IKED) Homepage | from 1994 to 2002 worked as a scientist and lecturer at Daegu University, Korea. After that he joined the business incubation center of the Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Daegu University, Korea. Since March 2005 Yong-Sam Lee is Secretary General at the Korea Business Incubation Association (KO-BIA).After graduating from the Department of Economic... | South Korea Daejeon | SPICE 2 years |
![]() | Mary Spaeth Transmera AB Homepage | ... | Sweden Linköping | SPICE 7 years |
![]() | Rakan Razouk Syrian Computer Society | is the Chairman of the Syrian Computer Society (SCS), and Vice president of Damascus University. He held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Damascus University 2003-2005. Dr. Razouk holds a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse III, France. Since 1990, he has been a researcher and professor of Comput... | Syria Damascus | ICECE 1 year |
![]() | Fadwa Murad ICTI - ICT Incubator at Syrian Computer Society Homepage | since January 2010 as taken leadership for the ICT Incubator of the Syrian Computer Society in Damascus. At the same time she is working for the “IT studies and projects Department” of the Ministry of Communica-tion and Technology. Earlier, 1995-2009, she was Informatics & Decision Support and Decision Support Director in the Ministry of Health and member... | Syria Damascus | SPICE 1st year |
![]() | Mustapha Mezghani 2CW | ... | Tunisia Tunis | ICECE 1 year |
![]() | Inna Gagauz Center of Small Business Development Homepage | ... | Ukraine Kharkiv | SPICE 5 years |
![]() | Rima Shaban Abu Dhabi University Entrepreneurship Center | since 1992 is working at Damascus University, in direct contact with senior students supervising and mentoring technical labs and guiding graduation projects under supervision of specialized professors. She also is teaching and supervising labs and mentoring forth year and graduation projects at the department of networking and operating system. Since 2006 R... | United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi | ICECE 1 year |
![]() | Peter Harman UKBI (UK Business Incubation) Homepage | CEO if UK Business Incubation, the national asscoiation for business incubation envirnonments of the United Kingdom. Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, Peter spent the early part of his working life in the Bank of England both in the City of London and in the South West. He was involved in Training and Management Development and latterly... | United Kingdom Birmingham | SPICE 7 years |
![]() | Peter Welburn WELBURN & Co Homepage | ... | United Kingdom Southampton | SPICE ![]() 11 years |
![]() | Catherine Johns County Durham Development Company Homepage | ... | United Kingdom Durham CO | ICECE 1 year |
![]() | Barbara Harley Harley Consulting Group | ... | United States Palo Alto, California | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Dinah Adkins NBIA National Business Incubation Association Homepage | ... | United States Portland, OR | SPICE ![]() 12 years |
![]() | Tom Shea | ... | United States Alexandria, VA | SPICE ![]() 11 years |
![]() | Ron Kysiak Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park, Idea Partnerships Homepage | ... | United States Evanston, Illinois | SPICE ![]() 18 years |
![]() | Ingrid Rosten SARTA's CleanStart Program | ... | United States McClellan, CA | SPICE 3 years |
![]() | Jeff Milanette Innovative Partners Inc Homepage | ... | United States Westfield NJ | SPICE ![]() 15 years |
![]() | David Monkman NBIA Homepage | ... | United States Athens, OH | SPICE 1st year |
![]() | Eileen Walker AURP Association of University Related Research Parks | ... | United States Tucson, Arizona | SPICE 1st year |
![]() | Brian Darmody AURP Association of University Related Research Parks | ... | United States Tucson, Arizona | SPICE 1st year |













































































