For more than a decade, Annelies has leveraged her passion of building strategies to bring people and markets together, supporting entrepreneurship and fostering sustainable impact.
As Manager Innovation & Partnerships at StartLife, Annelies Schenk leads strategic relationships with existing and prospective corporate partners. She is the liaison between startups and (corporate) partners in order to create successful startup collaborations to meet the corporate innovation strategies. In conjunction, Annelies develops new collaborative models to fast track the uptake of food & agri innovations to create sustainable impact.
Annelies firmly believes it is paramount to connect the world of water and agrifood. The route to more sustainable food systems, recognizing the effects of climate change, is to fast track the uptake of water solutions creating a measurable direct impact while simplifying the path to net zero.
