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Isabel Falkenberg

General Partner at Vektor Partners

Lisbon, Lisbon

Overview 

Isabel Falkenberg is a Strategic Advisory & Non Executive Director based in London, England, with a diverse background in leadership, business development, and real estate. She has held prominent roles at institutions such as Vektor Partners and Credit Suisse, and has served on advisory boards for organizations like the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile and Walkabout Foundation. Falkenberg's career highlights include serving as CEO of Walkabout Foundation and holding director positions at Credit Suisse, UBS, and Banco Espírito Santo S.A. She currently works as a General Partner at Vektor Partners and is actively involved in strategic advisory roles and non-executive director positions.

Work Experience 

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It's a Penalty

  • Board Member

    2024 - Current

    At It's A Penalty, we work to end exploitation, abuse and human trafficking on a global scale. Over the last 10 years, we have run 20 campaigns during major global sporting events all over the world, including Olympics, SuperBowl and World Football Cup, fronted by some of the biggest names in sport. Each campaign reaches 180 million people on average, and together with our partners, over 17,000 victims have been rescued. www.itsapenalty.org/campaign-videos

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QW CAPITAL LLP

  • Partner & Co-Founder

    2008

    QW Capital LLP provides tailor made investment advisory services and research. The partners have a long standing experience in the banking and asset management industry, with years of direct exposure to financial markets as investors and developers of quantitative models to detect and forecast market dynamics, with a particular focus on volatility and dispersion.

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Igen Biolab Group, AG

  • Non Executive Director

    2020 - 2024

    IGEN BIOLAB is a biotech company that focuses on pioneering microbiome modulators that impact infection, immunity, and metabolic disease.

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Vektor Partners

  • General Partner

    2020 - 2024

    Vektor Partners is a VC firm with a focus on early-stage investments in the mobility technology sector. Contributed to set up and capital raise for successful first close.

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Ecowater

  • Member of The Board of Advisors

    2020 - 2023

    Eco combines reusable bottles and filtered water fountains to provide a high quality alternative to bottled water in a sustainable way, changing consumer habits to save hundreds of tons of single use plastic that would otherwise end in our oceans.

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St Paul's Cathedral, London

  • Member of the Advisory Group, RememberMe Memorial

    2020 - 2022

    Small group assisting St Paul's Cathedral in raising funds to build a faith-neutral memorial in the Cathedral to remember those deceased as a result of the COVID pandemic, providing a space of solace and support to their families and friends. The memorial, inaugurated in 2022, was endorsed by the Prime Minister and the Prince of Wales, and funded by corporates, HNWI, and a nationwide fundraising campaign amongst the general public in partnership with the Daily Mail.

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)

  • Member of the Advisory Board, International Road Federation (FIA) High Level Panel for Road Safety

    2015 - 2022

    The FIA High Level Panel for Road Safety is led by FIA’s Chairman and UN Secretary’s Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt, and was launched in 2015 under the auspices of the then UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon. The Board of Advisors provides advice on strategy, finance, investment, marketing and communication opportunities for the group.

  • Member of the FIA’s Disability and Accessibility Commission

    2018 - 2019

    The purpose of the DAC is to break down barriers that obstruct full and effective participation of motorsport drivers and road users in society and mobility systems.

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Walkabout Foundation

  • CEO

    2015 - 2019

    Walkabout’s mission is to restore dignity, freedom and independence by providing wheelchairs and rehabilitation in the developing world and funding research to find a cure for paralysis. Designed and successfully implement a strategy to transition Walkabout from start up to a consolidated organisation capable of attracting, on a recurring basis, corporate, institutional and private funding. Key achievements included recruiting and training from scratch the organisation’s entire team, restructuring the board, streamlining operations, establishing permanent operational centres in Kenya and in India, launching a new website and social media strategy, directly overseeing over $4m of fundraising from an expanded donor base, and being directly responsible for distributing over 8,000 of the 14,000 wheelchairs distributed by Walkabout to date (at the time), whilst granting ca.$1m towards ground-breaking research into spinal cord injuries.

  • Member of the Board of Trustees

    2013 - 2015

    Provided strategic advice. Assisted in the execution of Walkabout’s Inaugural Gala in 2015 with President Clinton as keynote speaker, which raised in excess of US$2mn.

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Credit Suisse

  • Director, European Equity Sales

    2001 - 2003

    Successfully boosted CS’s ranking with a number of key investors. Tasks included daily advice on asset allocation and portfolio strategies, organising corporate and analyst presentations, advising on IPOs, and having an overall view on other products to identify synergies and ensure all client needs were met.

Credit Suisse Group is a financial services company that advises clients in all aspects of finance.

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UBS

  • Director, European Equity Sales

    1999 - 2001

    Consistently ranked one of the top three counterparts with every client account covered doubling team’s net revenue in first nine months.

UBS Realty Investors is an institutional investment advisor that managed real estate equity assets on behalf of its clients.

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