Mr. Makoto Hagihara

Tom Britz

A career business development professional, Tom is the Founder and CEO of Glacier Hops Ranch, which pioneered Hopzoil® back in 2015.  Tom previously held senior management positions in the U.S. ski resort industry in Vail, Colorado as well as in the payments industry.

A hop-industry insider, Tom was the first-ever national At-Large Director of the Hop Growers of America (HGA) and was subsequently appointed as National Chairman of the HGA’s Small Grower Council.  

Now living in the shadow of Glacier National Park, Tom and his team call Whitefish, Montana home.

Spiros Malandrakis

Spiros has been providing prescient and pioneering insights on the evolution, branding and innovation within the global alcoholic drinks industry for the past decade. One of the first analysts to highlight the parallels, opportunities and pitfalls for the nascent cannabis market and its intersection with other FMCG industries.

A key author in Drinks Business Magazine, a sought after contributor in Just Drinks and Drinks International as well as the contact of choice for Bloomberg, the BBC, the Independent , the Financial Times, Reuters, TIME, the WSJ, CNBC and countless other media outlets. A regular keynote speaker in some of the industry’s most high profile conferences, Spiros is a firm believer in irreverent, opinionated and independent analysis. 

Aga Jarzabek

Magda Lukaszewicz

Magda joined Balderton in 2018. Prior to Balderton, Magda spent three years at Goldman Sachs, where she first worked in the financing group covering Nordics and later moved to the Consumer, Retail & Healthcare M&A team, where she was an associate and worked on a number of Nordic transactions.

Before joining Goldman Sachs, Magda was involved in politics and worked in startups.

Magda has an MSc in Business & Economics from Lund University, where she was admitted to the Venture Lab for a one-year entrepreneurship programme. She also studied Business at Copenhagen Business School.

Besides English, Magda speaks Swedish and Polish, and focuses primarily on investment activities in the Nordics.