Team

Innomasters is founded by Camilla Ley Valentin and Niels Henrik Sodemann, two long-time technology entrepreneurs dedicated to strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty through open, shared digital infrastructure.

Their work brings together deep operational experience from global internet services with a strong focus on public-interest technology, policy alignment, and long-term sustainability.

Niels Henrik Sodemann and Camilla Ley Valentin

Partners

Camilla Ley Valentin

Camilla Ley Valentin

CEO and Co-founder · Strategy, governance, and digital policy

Camilla is an experienced technology leader, entrepreneur, and advisor across public and private sectors.

As a co-founder of Queue-it, she has overseen strategy, people, and operations through periods of international growth. Her work focuses on digital policy, inclusion, and cross-sector collaboration — helping ensure that shared European digital assets are built responsibly and sustainably.

Niels Henrik Sodemann

Niels Henrik Sodemann

CTO and Co-founder · Architecture, infrastructure, and operations

Niels has more than two decades of experience designing, scaling, and operating critical internet infrastructure.

He is a co-founder of Queue-it and has helped build large-scale systems relied upon globally for high-traffic, high-availability operations. Today, his work focuses on open European cloud innovation — developing the substrate needed for public-interest digital infrastructure.

Advisory board

Innomasters works with an advisory board of experienced practitioners from cloud infrastructure, policy, research, and public-sector digitalisation. They help ensure that our work is grounded in real operational needs and aligned with European public-interest priorities.

Mikkel Hippe

Mikkel Hippe

Chief Strategy Officer, co-founder of PEPPOL and Tradeshift

Mikkel contributes with standardisation, European interoperability and governance.

Focus areas: Open standards, Sovereign cloud design, Public–private research collaboration

Gert Sylvest

Gert Sylvest

Co-founder of Tradeshift and lead on PEPPOL technical standards & reference implementation

Gert advises Innomasters on open distributed systems, protocol validation and reference implementation.

Focus areas: Open distributed systems, Protocol validation, Reference implementation