Simon Sylvest

Simon Sylvest is a Danish entrepreneur and business executive. Simon is the co-founder and current board member of Headlight, a startup accelerator based in Copenhagen. Simon also served on the board of The Association of Tech Startups in Denmark from October 2020 to March 2022. Prior to that, they were an observer on the board of Pleo, a smart storage provider, from March 2020 to August 2021.

Sylvest has also been involved with several other startups in Denmark. Simon served as a board member of Wonderwerk from January 2019 to October 2021 and as chairman of Kontist from October 2016 to July 2022. Simon was also a board member of Duuoo from September 2016 to February 2022.

Simon Sylvest has a Master's degree in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School, as well as a Bachelor's degree in International Business and Politics with a focus on Business and Politics from the same school. In addition, they have taken two courses at Harvard University in Financial Accounting and M&A.