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Nicole Schepanek

Managing Director at Swiss Re

Germany

Overview 

Nicole Schepanek is a seasoned finance professional specializing in scaling tech businesses, with a strong background in risk and resilience management within FinTech, InsurTech, and B2B sectors. Currently, she holds positions as a Managing Director at Swiss Re, Founder and Managing Partner at Aureus Capital, and serves on multiple boards and advisory roles within the investment and venture capital space. Notable highlights in her career include founding Aureus Capital and holding key advisory and board positions at various prominent organizations in the finance and tech industries.

Work Experience 

  • Head of Risk Data & Services (‘RDS’) Corporates, Managing Director

    2024 - Current

    Helping corporates to become more resilient and strategically savvy through our RDS digital twin platform and our technology driven risk insights on climate, supply chain, and property risk. We are developing a cutting edge, independent, and secure digital twin platform business that supports corporates and businesses to become faster and more data-driven and hence take more informed and better strategic business decisions.

  • Founder and Managing Partner

    2021

    Aureus Capital is an active private equity investor with a focus on B2B (financial) services and tech companies: We bring flexibility in terms of holding periods and capital structures - and like to work with the managers together, be it in a buy-out, buy-in or in a succession scenario. We also support Fintech/Insurtech/Insurance-relevant-techs with corporate finance support and beyond, e.g. identifying partners, new B2B customers, or insurance capacity. We partner with Finyond Capital on selected GSA based PE investment opportunities, with Nicole serving on their Board.

  • Member of The Supervisory Board

    2023

    Serving as Chairperson of the Nomination Committee, Member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee Constellation Acquisition Corp. I - NYSE: CSTA - www.constellationacquisition.com

  • Senior Advisor Fintech / Insurtech

    2021 - 2023

    Constellation Acquisition Corp. I - NYSE: CSTA - www.constellationacquisition.com We are a proven executive team combining exceptional operating and deal execution capabilities with access to a proprietary network for pursuing a common goal – sustainable value creation. We are looking for companies in Europe as well as in North America that have a proven business model delivering sustainable competitive advantages, combined with substantial growth opportunities and are at an inflection point in their development. We only consider companies that qualify as ESG.

  • Member Of The Supervisory Board

    2022

    Venture Capital is the most impactful asset class to drive innovation and growth. AlphaQ researches, evaluates, and invests in the best and most promising GPs around the globe. AlphaQ aims to open up an illiquid market that has high barriers to entry, reduce complexity, and mitigate risks by fund diversification. Acted as Chair for the start-up phase.

  • LP & Advisor

    2022

    Early stage VC funds investing in #fintech and #insurtech with a focus on Europe. https://www.motivepartners.com

Motive Ventures is the early-stage investment arm of Motive Partners

  • Partner

    2020

    Aureus Capital partners with Finyond Capital on selected GSA based PE investment opportunities with Nicole serving on their Board: Finyond Capital is a small-cap private equity investor with a focus on B2B, tech-enabled and tech-enabling companies. With more than two decades of combined investment and operational experience, we are the right partner for successions, growth strategies and digitization. ​ Our experience from investing in traditional service companies as well as pure tech players enables us to support individual scaling strategies. We don’t rely solely on improving the bottom line. There are always opportunities to grow a business with increased revenues or the acquisition of other companies. www.finyond.com

  • Member of the Strategic Advisory Board

    2023

  • Member of the Advisory Board

    2021 - 2023

    New asset exchange - creating new markets and ecosystems around corporate assets - www.naxgrp.com

  • LP & Advisor

    2022 - 2023

    Morphais is an AI-based venture capital technology firm that enables investments into the most exceptional founders.

  • Member of the Advisory Board

    2020 - 2023

    Embedded general insurance MGA that enables simple and fair insurance partnerships

  • Member of the Advisory Board

    2020 - 2022

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