Diederick Croese co-founded SingularityU Benelux, Minkowski and Wellboard and recently joined the ESA HRE Innovation Board (Europe’s human spaceflight and robotic exploration program). He has a background in law (University of Amsterdam & Fordham University New York) and philosophy (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and more than ten years experience in transformation and innovation programs across industries.

Prior to Singularity (2015) he worked five years for Deloitte’s incubator where he co-founded Fast Ventures, a venture discovery technology (semantic search) to match larger companies with tech ventures, now part of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services. During that period he co-launched Holland Festival Young, he co-founded Founder Institute Amsterdam, a pre-seed startup accelerator network from San Francisco and he was executive director of TEDxAmsterdam. He started his career in 2005 as a lawyer, six years at Clifford Chance.