Adrian is DIANA’s commercial lead, helping build up the industry and capital ecosystem of NATO’s innovation accelerator as well as shaping its engagement with startups participating in the DIANA program. From this position, he’s actively working with DIANA’s leadership to create the world’s biggest and most impactful dual-use innovation accelerator.   Adrian is a start-up founder and entrepreneur himself, having founded and co-founded several companies in the fields of AI, green mobility, deep-tech consultancy and marketing in Paris, London and Bucharest. Having raised capital investments for his companies, Adrian has a very good understanding of NATO’s financial and technology markets. He has advised multiple ministers on deep-tec…

Kelly leads the portfolio’s commercial success at the NIF, ensuring that our deep tech startups get a front row seat to proprietary pain points of the largest, most relevant global customers. As an investor and board member, she works closely with deep tech founders on strategy and commercialization, and the million other obstacles that will come up while building a successful company. Previously, Kelly was a Partner at DCVC, a $3B AUM deep tech venture capital fund based in Silicon Valley, where she led investments and served on the board of companies building revolutionary tech in AI, robotics, manufacturing, logistics, and sustainability. Earlier, Kelly was a fixed-income derivatives trader in New York, overseeing nearly $2B, an an…