Barend van den Brande

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Hummingbird Partners NV is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000 by Barend van den Brande and Frank Maene. Hummingbird Partners NV is headquartered in Antwerp with additional offices in Istanbul and London.

Clear2pay NV provides electronic payments solutions. It solution areas encompass open payment and test frameworks, domestic and international payments, direct debits, credit transfers, electronic billing, tax data service, image check processing, consumer remittance payments, electronic banking, business payments and software development kits. The firm offers strategic advisory, co-sourcing, outsourcing and assessment consulting services. The company was founded by Michel Akkermans and Jurgen Ingels in 2001 and is headquartered in Diegem, Belgium.

Part of Nokia Oyj, SwiftTouch Corp is a company that provides Web-based Universal Access solutions. The company is based in Bedford, MA. The company was founded by Barend van den Brande. SwiftTouch was acquired by Puma Technologies, Inc. on November 07, 2000 for $1.86 million.

DataCenter Technologies NV develops and markets data management software technologies and systems for designing, deploying and managing hosting infrastructures in Internet data centers. It provides Information Life Cycle software that helps companies' archive, migrate, and protect fixed data. DataCenter Technologies‘s solutions enable customers to classify data, simulate data management operations and copy and move data between storage tiers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Lochristi, Belgium

Dedigate NV provides hosting services for complex internet infrastructures. It specializes in the delivery of managed dedicated hosting services for organizations where downtime is not an option. The company serves over 7 Europe based data centres and about 70 customers including Exostar, Quadrem, Kelkoo, Pfizer, Samsonite and Pioneer. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Dendermonde, Belgium.

iQU BV operates a network of multiplayer online (MMO) and role-playing gaming (RPG) portals in North America and Western Europe. The firm's portals deliver news, reviews, and media demos for teen-focused MMOs and MMORPGs. The company was founded by Simon Usiskin, Brian Spaans and Reinout Herbert Maria Te Brake in 2009 and is headquartered in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

Shutl Ltd. provides delivery platform solutions. It also offers personalized dashboard so that customers can track the progress of their order from the store to their home in real time. The company was founded by Tom Allason in 2008 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Çiceksepeti Internet Hizmetleri AS operates as an online flower store. The firm offers different kind of flowers for any special occasions such as birthdays, anniversary, valentines day, and others. Its services also offers cart for sending the flower to the receiver. The company was founded by Emre Aydin in 2006 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.