Staff Group: Amsterdam
Aaron Cooney
Aaron is part of the Fund Investments team responsible for sourcing, assessing, and monitoring investments that contribute to solving some of the challenges in developing and frontier markets. He serves as a shareholder representative on a number of venture capital and private equity funds across Africa and the Caucasus region. Previously, he worked in the … Continued
Carolina Martins Mônaco
Carolina works in the Fund Investment department, covering the identification, assessment, and monitoring of fund investments in emerging markets. Carolina has more than 10 years’ work experience and prior to joining Triple Jump, she worked in a Dutch impact investment fund, making direct investments in Europe with potential global operations. She holds an MSc in … Continued
Begaim Sadyrova
Begaim works in the Seed Capital and Business Development department, covering efforts of ecosystem creation by supporting first time fund managers with seed capital and business development endeavors. She previously worked in private equity and debt to Financial Institutions. Begaim holds MSc in Risk Management from Art’s-et-Metiers, Paris. Begaim is a Kyrgyz national and speaks … Continued
Esteban Matiz Guerra
Esteban works in the Seed Capital and Business Development Department, covering efforts of ecosystem development and creation through supporting first-time fund managers and early-stage SME finance initiatives with seed capital and business development support. He previously worked as a Private Equity Investment Manager at Incofin IM, a Belgian impact investor, supporting the equity portfolio for … Continued
Jan-Henrik Kuhlmann
Jan is the head of Direct Investments. Before he served as Senior Investment Manager in the Fund of Funds’ team. He started his career working for 10+ yrs at ABB & ALSTOM in various technical and commercial functions in the power generation industry. He worked before in Cleantech Venture Capital, working with technology start-ups in … Continued
Mark van Doesburgh
Mark is a co-founder of Triple Jump and has 20+ years of experience in impact investing. Before he joined Triple Jump’s Direct Investment team he was managing the Financial Institutions Debt and Equity teams, the Advisory Services team and the ESG & Impact team. Prior to Triple Jump, Mark worked as the Head of the … Continued
Sascha Huijsman
Sascha works in the Direct Investments department, responsible for project management of the CEI Africa program. Prior to working on CEI Africa, Sascha was a consultant at Orchard Finance/ Carnegie consult, working on assignments related to corporate- and development finance. Other former roles include: associate of Triple Jump’s Fund Investments team and relationship manager in … Continued
Lara Tie Maeno Sturion
Lara joined the Corporate Secretary at TJ as legal assistant in October 2022. Prior to TJ, Lara was the case manager of the Portuguese Desk in a Dutch Law firm and intern at the International Criminal Court. Lara is from Brazil, where she obtained her Bachelor degree and Bar qualification and practiced Law in two … Continued
Katja Tauchnitz
Katja works as Project Manager (Ad Interim) for CEI Africa. She has been working for more than ten years in renewable energy with a focus on financing off-grid projects in Africa. Most recently, she worked for Bamboo Capital Partners as Senior Investment Manager and for the German development agency (GIZ) as Team Leader in its … Continued
