Clark Parsons

Clark heads the European Startup Network, Europe's largest startup organisation, comprised of more than 40 national and regional startup associations. He also serves as Managing Director of the Innovate Europe Foundation, an independent think tank working for European tech sovereignty. Formerly working as a journalist, business consultant and country manager at an international IT-sales network, Clark has lived in Berlin since 1998. He co-founded VoIP telephony company Vortel GmbH in 2005 and was long-standing Managing Director at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. In his first life/work decade, he was a print journalist and editor in Nashville, Tennessee.