Benjamin S. Gardner

Strategic Advisor at Gate2Growth

Benjamin S. Gardner is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in strategic roles across various industries. Currently serving as a Strategic Advisor at Gate2Growth since February 2024, Benjamin previously held the position of Country Manager at Quantcast from September 2020 to January 2024, focusing on simplifying digital advertising. Prior to that, Benjamin was the Chief Commercial Officer at YouLend, leading initiatives to provide alternative banking solutions for small and medium-sized businesses from April 2017 to September 2020. Benjamin's career includes a progression through roles at Quantcast as Sales Manager, eBay Advertising as eBay Sales Manager, Clear Channel Danmark A/S as Account Manager, and Nybolig Hanne Nørrisgaard & Peter Norvig as a Real Estate Broker, along with earlier experiences as Area Manager for Nortlander Skitours and in Client Insight at Cushman & Wakefield. Education credentials include a Market Economist degree from Niels Brock and a background from Ordrup Gymnasium.

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Gate2Growth

Gate2Growth provides expert advisory services on financing, including public grants, and business development with relevance to both entrepreneurs and investors. Our services cut across all technical and business sectors. We help innovative European companies with the processes of commercialization, business model development, internationalization and raising finance. Our services include: - Strategic consulting on business development and financing - Assistance in applying for public grants and investor search - Exploitation partner in EU projects Gate2Growth has been involved in more than 20 different EU projects and has through these projects acquired in-depth and cross-sector industry knowledge and experience. Gate2Growth is normally the "exploitation” partner in the different EU projects in which we participate. We have an extensive partner network throughout Europe. Our CEO, Uffe Bundgaard-Jørgensen, was one of the founders of the pan-European organization Greenovate! EUROPE, which is based in Brussels. Gate2Growth offers interactive Master Classes to local organizers on How to Attract Investors. The class has been conducted more than 150 times around Europe. In total, more than 1500 participants attended Master Classes in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Estonia, France, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.