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WECAN | Redefining Industrial Investing with Marianne Abib-Pech

Season 2, Ep. 46
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In this powerful episode of WECAN, Stephanie chats with Early Stage Investor and Managing Partner at Transitions First, Marianne Abib-Pech, to discuss how she's redefining investing. Marianne is an extraordinary, unconventional leader who draws power from the uncharted path. As a true systems and transformation thinker, Marianne is federating the right people at the right levels to bring about a vital industrial renaissance for Europe. She is an outlier, investing in a completely underserved area and giving us a front-row seat to an actual systems transformation as it happens. As a results-driven professional who has dedicated the past 10 years to ventures that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, she understands that Industrial founders lack three things: Talent, Time, and Continued Capital. She is a hands-on investor with a portfolio of 20+ international startups, who lives by the motto: Challenge, Support, and Protect. She acts as a powerful bridge between entrepreneurship and investment, believing that true value creation comes from the ability to connect, communicate, and transform. Marianne is showing us in real time how to lead, how to think, and how to succeed. She is an extraordinary human being with a real sense of what the world needs right now.

Connect with Marianne: https://marianneabibpech.com/ https://www.ltfpartners.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianneabibpech/

#RedefiningInvesting #IndustrialInnovation #DeepTech #SystemsThinking #WomenInFinance #Leadership #WECAN #EuropeanIndustry #ImpactInvesting ________________________________________________________________________

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