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Rita Anson

NORBAN NORWEGIAN BUSINESS ANGELS NETWORK

SECRETARY GENERAL

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EBAN Board Member & Gender Investment Leader ecosystem builder working at the intersection of early-stage investment, gender-conscious investing and innovation ecosystems. She is Secretary General of the Norwegian Business Angel Network (NorBAN), Board Member of EBAN, Co-Founder & Partner of Nordic Ignite, a Nordic angel investment fund focused on supporting ambitious, diverse founding teams and Co-Founder at Women Investors Network Norway and WIN Ventures. At EBAN, Rita serves as Chair of the Gender Community and is leading its development into a Gender Expert Group, with a focus on embedding gender across investment, investor communities and EBAN's wider activities. She has initiated and contributed to European initiatives connecting gender and investors, founders, business angel networks, and innovation ecosystems. Through her work, she has contributed to programmes focused on access to finance and entrepreneurship.

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Conference Room 2
11:10 AM12:50 PM
BAN Manager Programme

BAN Manager Debate: “How Should Cross-Border Syndication Actually Work?"

Speakers:
Iro TsagareishviliAxel - Georgian Business Angel NetworkCEODavid FranzenMax VenturesManaging PartnerRita AnsonNORBAN NORWEGIAN BUSINESS ANGELS NETWORKSECRETARY GENERAL
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Cross-border syndication fails not for lack of goodwill, but because no one is structurally accountable for DD that a foreign investor can trust. Where it has worked, larger syndicates were measurably less sensitive to distance-related costs and earned higher returns — syndicate structure, not one person's individual trustworthiness, solved this. Left informal, the role defaults to volunteer labour that doesn't scale and burns out. Two fictional BAN managers negotiate a real institutional dilemma live on stage: how to build a working cross-border investment corridor without one network becoming dependent on the other. Through five audience-voted decisions, the room debates leadership, governance, and reciprocity, then builds its own "Corridor Charter" — surfacing what EBAN should provide as shared infrastructure, and what BANs should own themselves.
Axel Network
NorBAN
Max Ventures
AAlchemy
EBAN BAN Manager Club
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