Annelies Schenk

For more than a decade Annelies has leveraged her passion of building strategies to bring people and markets together, fostering entrepreneurship and supporting innovation. Annelies believes innovations are the propelling force to meet the global sustainability  demands. She is specialized in developing and managing innovation & start-up trajectories and building soft landing programs and ecosystems to connect start-ups with the right corporates, investors, and other stakeholders to accelerate their uptake of technologies for a more sustainable future. Annelies is well connected in the Water & AgriFood and Exhibition world.

Annelies started her career in 2009 at the Jaarbeurs as Management trainee and after finishing this trajectory she became project manager for VIV, the platform which brings the Feed to Food industry together. She got the opportunity to work for Amsterdam RAI as the Director for the Aquatech Global Events in China, India and USA. In 2016 Annelies was pulled to the ‘innovation’ side becoming the Program Director for Isle Utilities – a leading water consultancy firm bringing technology, end-users and investors together.

In 2019, Annelies spent several months in South East Asia with her husband and little kids. Returning back in The Netherlands, Annelies decided to establish C22 and work as an advisor & investor for different platforms and organizations to help accelerate the water & food and create sustainable impact