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Slide 11 — Investment Team & LPAC

What this slide is

A team-around-the-team slide. Left: the Investment Team (3 supporting roles — Senior IM, Venture Partner, Analyst — beneath the four partners shown on slide 3). Right: the LPAC (Limited Partner Advisory Committee, 3 senior advisors).

Each side closes with a one-line caption: the left brags about AI/speed, the right about open feedback culture and going beyond regulatory duties.

Why it’s here

LPs evaluating a small fund often ask “what happens when the four partners are at full capacity? Who else does the work?” This slide answers that. Three additional team members on the left, with their own credentials (Thena Capital, Fertilly, UNIQA Ventures, PwC, LSE) — supporting talent.

The LPAC on the right is the governance answer. LPACs are a regulatory requirement for AIF/EuVECA funds, but Calm/Storm is using theirs as a value-add — three real names with HealthTech and LP-side experience. The advisors_caption — “strategic guidance and engage in forward-looking discussions far beyond regulatory duties” — explicitly says: the LPAC isn’t ceremonial; we use it.

What’s most important to surface

Regina Hodits is the LP-recognizable name on this slide. Wellington Partners is one of Europe’s better-known life-sciences VCs; she was a GP there. Now MD at Angelini Family Office (Italian healthcare giant) and at Angelini Ventures. Her presence on the LPAC is the slide’s quality stamp. Should be visually prominent.

Philip Jungen on a German pension-fund board is the institutional-LP signal. Pension funds and family offices are who Calm/Storm is raising from; having one of their representatives on the advisory committee says we listen to that voice.

Lisa Pallweber’s Speedinvest + UNIQA Ventures pedigree ties to Lucanus’ Speedinvest history (slide 3, slide 10) — the network is real and self-reinforcing.

Paul Varga’s Venture Partner role echoes back to slide 10 (Playbrush exit → 2021 VP). He’s a successful operator in their network. The other two team members (Philippa Allen, Patricia Falagan) are the bench — solid credentials but not LP-recognizable in the same way.

The “AI-driven technology to execute deals” line in the team caption is interesting and slightly orphaned — it’s the only mention in the whole deck of Calm/Storm using AI internally for sourcing/diligence. Worth deciding whether this is a casual marketing line or a real claim that should be expanded.

The “open feedback culture / beyond regulatory duties” in the advisors caption is doing important LP-friendly work — it signals the GP team listens to advisors, doesn’t treat the LPAC as a rubber stamp. LP-comforting language.

Composition risk

This slide echoes slide 3’s structure (4 portrait + bio cards). Two side-by-side panels of three people each plus captions = six people total. Not as dense as slide 3, but the symmetry between Investment Team and Advisors needs to be intentional — they shouldn’t read as redundant.

Visual hierarchy I’d suggest

  1. Headline + subhead
  2. Two panel banners — Investment Team / Advisors
  3. Six person cards (3 on each side) — equal weight
  4. Names + roles — primary
  5. Affiliations — small, with logos if available
  6. Two captions — italicized or quoted — both belong as visible closing lines, one per side. They’re doing rhetorical work.