BIO

Marketa Prenosilova is the Chairwoman of the Presidency Board of ESNA – Europe Startup Nations Alliance and startup ambassor at CzechInvest – Investment and Business Development Agency. She previously held the position of the Director of the Division of Startups and Innovative SMEs at CzechInvest. Among the main activities she was in charge of were the support of commercialization of R&D, startup programs and work with potential investors in the agency’s strategic sectors. Marketa has more than a decade of experience in startup environment both on the national level and on the European level. Through her career she mainly focused on internationalization of companies – she was in charge of project called CzechAccelerator, first international acceleration program for startups in the Czechia. She is also a founder of the first startup portal in the Czech Republic called CzechStartups.org. She is married and has one child.