Katrin Geyskens

As CEO at Capricorn Partners (www.capricorn.be), a Leuven, BE based asset manager, Katrin is bringing more than 20 years of venture capital experience. Being a pioneer in the area, she especially likes investment opportunities in the healthtech area, emerging from turning data into actionable insights using AI, Digital Twin, IoT and data science technologies and she gets energized from working with passionate entrepreneurs. Katrin serves and has served on many boards of portfolio companies of Capricorn in Belgium and Europe.

Katrin was the first female president of the Private Capital Belgium (previously BVA), she served on their board of directors for ten years. Furthermore, Katrin is a council member of VARIO (the Flemish Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) and a board member of Guberna (Institute of Directors) and Leuven Mindgate. In 2020, she was named one of Belgium’s ‘Inspiring Fifty’, an award celebrating inspiring female leaders in technology.

Katrin obtained a Master of Business Economics: Business Engineering (KU Leuven) and she holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before falling in love with venture capital, Katrin had a short career in banking and management consulting followed by a stint at a start-up.