Danielle Tichner

Danielle is results oriented, seasoned entrepreneur, investor and venture builder, with extensive experience in leading high complexity software & hardware projects.

Danielle has started her career as a junior at the trading floor of FIMAT SNC, derivatives arm of Societe Generale.

Opportunity came along to join a fast track career path and get exposure to industrial engineering at Philips Consumer Electronics, where Danielle acquired sound knowledge in Product Creation Process, Production, Value Chain and managed high complexity IT projects, i.e. "Lightxchange" (Philips/Siemens trading platform with reversed auctions); "GSRS", pan-Philips IT project, involving platform & secure interfaces development. Danielle led the project as Global Project Manager for Philips's biggest product division: Philips Consumer Electronics.

Danielle's last position at Philips was Head of Purchasing & Supply Chain, member of the management team of Business Unit BDS, where Danielle has led a timely development & availability of new CE products (OEM).

W-SOURCE LTD. was established to pursue Danielle's entrepreneur calling. Initially W-SOURCE serviced Consumer Electronics/ hardware market, later pivoting into software with fintech, AI, cyber, AR/VR and Web3 offering; next to its investment banking services.

W-SOURCE has onboarded its first Web3 project in 2016, since then W-SOURCE has been an active member of an early crypto community, operating between Middle East, Asia and Europe.

Danielle and partners have been working on investments, in-house development and venture building in the fields of AI, IoT, Web3 infrastructure and other deeptech domains.

Last year W-SOURCE has activate a venture studio mode, currently building its first product together with Formal Land: ME2LON, verification and correctness layer for AI generated code (stealth).

Danielle holds BBA & MBA diplomas in Finance, Marketing and Business Management, from Institut Superior de Gestion (ISG) and Brandford University, respectively.

Danielle is currently acting as a Chairperson of HighTech Innovation & Technology Alliance (HITA), Venture Partner at R3i Ventures, Mentor at 500 Startups & INTEMA; board member and board observer of numerous ventures.