Donkey Republic convenes for extraordinary general meeting
Company announcement no. 7-2021
An Extraordinary General Meeting of Donkey Republic Holding A/S is hereby convened for 6 September 2021 at 3.00 p.m. The General Meeting will be held electronically.
The agenda and full proposals are attached - and can be found at invest.donkey.bike.
The General Assembly is convened in order to elect two new members to the Board of Donkey republic:
- Marina Kolesnik Co-Founder, COO at UniVirtual.Academy.
- Laurent Mercat, Consultant, President of TELISOL, Consultant and Founder of SMOOVE
Marina has experience scaling tech companies, acquiring and maintaining users, M&A experience and is based in the US and Laurent brings experience from knowledge of working on public urban mobility projects In France and having started and developed Smoove - a bike sharing technology provider which has established schemes in 25 cities around the world including Helsinki, Vancouver, Moscow and Paris.
At the same time, Henrik Starup and Sascha Hausmann will resign from the company's board.
Donkey Republic's Board of Directors will then be composed predominantly of independent directors.
Marina Kolesnik
Marina is co-founder of Univirtual Academy, a leader in Live Virtual Reality-driven education for teens. Marina is an entrepreneur with 20 years of success in technology, software, e-commerce, education and travel. Marina has raised over US$30 million for her companies and prior to that was a consultant at McKinsey. Marina is also a Co-Founder of Oktogo and Mail.ru. During 2018-2020 she served on the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. In 2015, the World Economic Forum in Davos honored Marina as a Young Global Leader.
"I am excited to be joining Donkey Republic's board because I love the Company's vision of redefining mobility and making our cities more livable. I am also impressed with the management team and their ability to execute their ambitious growth plan. They have weathered Covid and came out as a much stronger company than they were before Covid." - Marina Kolesnik
MBA from Harvard Business School
Co-Founder, COO at UniVirtual.Academy (EcoSystemOne Group of companies)
Laurent Mercat
Laurent is an Entrepreneur and Consultant; Engineer by training. Laurent sold Smoove in 2019 and supported the new investor for 2 years, a mission he has just completed. Last march 2021 and was in 2020 chairman of the Bike sharing expert group at Cycling Industries Europe (CIE). Télisol, is his current start-up specialized in the installation of solar photovoltaic systems on large roofs.
“After more than 20 years in cycling, it’s a true pleasure “keeping a foot” in the very active bike sharing business, supporting DR as a board member to promote urban sustainable mobility in Europe. Pushing alternatives to thermic cars has always been a focus to me!” - Laurent
Graduate engineer from ISARA, Lyon
President of TELISOL, consultant and Founder of SMOOVE
