Natalia Karbasova is founder and CEO of FitTech Club, a highly curated, application-based business network for tech-driven founders, executives and investors in fitness and consumer health, hosting members from 30 countries. Once a professional athlete, she has always sought new ways to create narratives around health. Karbasova graduated from the Burda School of Journalism in 2011 and was invited to work directly with one of Germany’s top billionaires, Dr. Hubert Burda, at his media company Burda. As Burda’s creative evangelist, she launched the Burda Bootcamp, a startup school for talented young entrepreneurs, coders and designers, nurturing the startup ecosystem in Munich, Germany. In 2018, she launched as part of Burda the FitTech Summit, which became a place for the growing health, fitness, and well-being industries looking for new partnership and investment opportunities. In 2020, she secured the brand rights for the FitTech Summit through a management