Guarding our skies from UAVs

Max Moldenhauer

Max Moldenhauer is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sunfish Partners, an pre-seed focused venture capital fund that backs space and defense tech startups from across Central and Eastern Europe. An entrepreneur-turned-investor, Max has co-founded several companies and has spent more than 15 years as an active business angel. Prior to launching Sunfish, he headed mobile investments at Project A Ventures. Max holds a diploma in Business & Management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. 

John Loewen

John Loewen is a Partner at Pivotas AG, a Swiss financial services firm with deep defence sector experience.  He has executed transactions worth more than $500 million across 3 continents over a +30 year career.  Born in Canada, he studied at Upper Canada College and the University of British Columbia before moving to South Africa in 1987.  There, he joined Deutsche Bank, earning recognition as a top-ranked research analyst.  He was also CEO of Loewen & Partners Inc. in Toronto, a financial services firm focused on mid-market companies.

Thomas McCarthy

Served in US Armour and Cavalry units in Germany, US, Korea, and Southwest Asia in both peace and war. Commanded from platoon through battalion level. Served as an operations, plans and training officer at battalion and brigade. Ran an armoured division tactical command post (DTAC) in combat. Composed and coordinated a new 180,000-soldier, multinational corps war plan including the validation exercise. Retired to join the business world as the business development vice president for a worldwide manufacturing company and helped restructure a subsidiary as board member. Concluded full-time business career as an area manager for a large, international defence corporation.