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Entrepreneur and Investor, Innovation Consultant, Senior Business Executive, Author and Speaker

Royal DSM is a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials with solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance.

Luda is a venture investor passionate about helping exceptional entrepreneurs change the world for the better and develop their breakthrough innovations into growing, sustainable companies. At DSM Venturing, Luda made ten investments with three successful exits. Luda came to the US in 1982 from the Soviet Russia with $90 in her pocket and 40 lbs of luggage. Since then she became a VP at General Electric by implementing cuts in business cycles by fifty percent, turned around a public software company for which she was ranked in the top twenty CEOs of US high-tech companies, ahead of Bill Gates, became a serial entrepreneur and then an angel investor. She is an expert in breakthrough innovation, a published author and a business speaker. Specialties: high tech ventures, innovation, venture investments, leadership effectiveness, general management, process improvement, decision-making effectiveness, mergers and acquisitions In her spare time Luda loves to cook, hike and read.