Peter Kolesár is a Partner at CIVITTA Slovakia, an R&D advisory and innovation hub helping startups and corporates innovate and grow. He is a co-founder of several startup acceleration and innovation support programs in CEE such as Challenger and HealthCare Lab. He previously served as a Slovak Trade and Innovation Counselor at Slovak embassies in Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. Peter holds Master degrees from the Central European University in Budapest and from Masaryk University in Brno. He was a scholar at Bard College, New York. Peter is a Board member at the American Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia and Košice IT Valley.