Dr. Mariana Bozesan is an AI pioneer, successful serial entrepreneur, and award-winning deep-tech investor dedicated to building the infrastructure of a new economic era. As nations navigate shifting global orders and urgent transitions toward digitalization and sustainability, Dr. Bozesan provides the strategic and tactical roadmap for the application of exponentially growing technologies to transform core industries, decarbonize the global economy, and accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within planetary boundaries. She calls it the Investment Turnaround—and she has spent three decades proving it works. Her primary strength lies in the practical application of frontier technologies—AI, quantum technologies (security, sensing, new materials), health tech, photonic computing, and fusion energy—combined with a rigorous investment framework she designed to de-risk these bets. With a stellar track record in actively funding and building frontier technology companies since 1995, she does not merely theorize about the future;she finances and co-builds it. Her deep-tech portfolio demonstrates a massive track record of scaling critical infrastructure. She co-founded Germany’s first ultra-efficient sustainable data center provider (NDC Data Centers, exited 2022) and backed its first smart grid aggregator (Entelios AG, acquired by EnerNOC in 2014). She was an early investor in CyberNet AG, which became Germany’s first publicly traded Internet company in 1997, and in Penumbra, a market leader in Acute Ischemic Stroke treatment (exited 2015). Today, her strategic investments target the core of the upcoming intelligence and energy explosion, backing EU-supported ventures in nuclear fusion (Proxima Fusion), quantum technology (Kipu Quantum), photonic computing (Pixel Photonics), edge AI (Roofline), and sustainable food technology (Green Spot Technologies)—all recipients of the EU’s prestigious European Innovation Council grants. Additional portfolio companies include EwigByte and DNTOX, reinforcing a thesis that spans the full stack of deep-tech infrastructure. This track record has earned her Europe’s highest honors in early-stage investing: the Golden Angelina Award as Europe’s Female Angel Investor of the Year (2019), conferred by BAND and Business Angels Europe, and the Best European Early Stage Investor Award from EBAN (2016). She is an inaugural member of WomenINvestEU and ESIL, championing a gender-conscious investment focus across the continent. Because of her proven ability to navigate the complex intersection of safe AI, finance, and geopolitical sustainability, Dr. Bozesan is a highly sought-after advisor at the highest levels of global governance. She consults for the EU Commission, the German and Dutch governments, UNCTAD, and the US State Department, and previously served as German National Advisory Board Member for the G8/G20 Social Impact Investment Task Force. Together with Tess Mateo, she co-initiated the Equality Moonshot in collaboration with UNCTAD, and she is a human rights activist whose work spans from boardrooms to the front lines of policy. As a Full Member of the Club of Rome, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and the architect of Integral Investing, she provides leaders with the rigorous, de-risked frameworks needed to execute massive technological transitions successfully. Her proprietary Theta Model—built on Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and over 30 years of hands-on investing—integrates financial, environmental, social, and consciousness metrics into a single due-diligence process, ensuring that every investment simultaneously generates returns and advances planetary wellbeing. Her motto: parity between People, Planet, and Prosperity—with Passion and Purpose. Dr. Bozesan is also a prolific scholar and compelling keynote speaker. She is the author of Integral Investing: From Profit to Prosperity (a report to the Club of Rome and the World Academy of Art and Science, published by Springer Nature), The Making of a Consciousness Leader in Business, and co-author of the Club of Rome’s 50th anniversary report, Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet. She has addressed audiences at the United Nations, TEDx, Stanford, Oxford, and INSEAD, is a frequent television commentator, and serves as a strategic evaluator of the Helmholtz Association’s research on Earth and Environment alongside distinguished international scientists. Educated at Stanford University and KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr. Bozesan earned an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from KIT—where she is recognized as a Prominent Alumna—and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Sofia University in Palo Alto, California, where she received the Distinguished Alumna Award. Of half German, half Romanian heritage, she was born and raised in Romania and lives with her family in Germany.