Katrin Geyskens

Katrin Geyskens is CEO at Capricorn Partners, a Leuven based asset manager, and has more than 20 years of venture capital experience. Being a pioneer in the area, she especially likes investment opportunities in the healthtech area, emerging from turning data into actionable insights using AI, Digital Twin, IoT and data science technologies and she gets energized from working with passionate entrepreneurs. Katrin Geyskens serves and has served on various boards of portfolio companies of Capricorn in Belgium and Europe. 

Katrin Geyskens was the first female president of the Private Capital Belgium (previously BVA) where she served on their board of directors for ten years. Furthermore, she is a board member of Guberna (Institute of Directors) and Leuven Mindgate. In 2020, she was named one of Belgium’s ‘Inspiring Fifty’, an award celebrating inspiring female leaders in technology. 

Katrin Geyskens obtained a Master of Business Economics: Business Engineering (KU Leuven) and she holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before falling in love with venture capital, she had a short career in banking and management consulting followed by a stint at a start-up.