Aim of the Swiss Innovation Challenge coaching programme
Coaching is a key element of personal development at the Swiss Innovation Challenge. Coaching topics include the business plan, functional aspects such as marketing, financing, production, innovation or internationalisation processes as well as motivational and behavioural aspects. We believe that coaching is only successful if it is based on a dialogue in which there is willingness to receive constructive feedback and operate with a plan of action.
Coaches
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lic. oec. HSG Robert-Jan Bumbacher
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Strategy development, setting up and implementing business plans, corporate leadership and management, business process analysis, financing, project management |
Robert-Jan Bumbacher has more than 25 years of experience in carrying out consultancy mandates and audit mandates in family companies, corporations listed on the stock ex-change and institutions under public law. He worked for eight years on setting up, consoli-dating and leading a service division and an administrative unit as well as three years as the branch manager in Basel for an international auditing and consultancy company. He is the President of the Administrative Board of the Basel University Teaching Hospital and also an associate lecturer at the FHNW. Mr Bumbacher graduated from the University of St. Gallen and is a certified financial auditor.
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Prof. Martina Dalla Vecchia
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus E-commerce, online marketing, social media, e-business |
Professor at the School of Business, FHNW. In 2000 Martina Dalla Vecchia developed the first post-graduate course in Switzerland on the subject of «E-commerce & online market-ing». With this pioneering step she was ahead of her time. She is a lecturer at the School of Business, FHNW and conducts various courses leading to a degree or to a certificate of ad-vanced training and dealing with aspects covered by the subject of «Digital Business Innovation». Her core competences include e-commerce, online marketing and social media. As a speaker at congresses and trade fairs or as an author she clarifies and gets to the heart of trends and innovations. She is the joint editor of the BPX publishing house (IT and busi-ness). Her motto is «You are what you share!».
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lic. oec. publ. Jan Fülscher
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Business models and monetarisation, financing, marketing for start-ups |
Jan Fülscher was only 22 years old when he founded his first start-up. Since this time, he has given expert support to approximately 15 start-up companies as director on the ad-ministrative board, coach or shareholder. He is the managing director of the Business An-gels Switzerland investor network as well as the co-initiator of the Swiss ICT Investor Club network. He has been an associate lecturer at the University of Zürich, the University of Bern, the FHNW and the Bern University of Applied Sciences. In addition, Jan Fülscher is a visiting lecturer at the University of Lucerne and a speaker and coach for the VENTURE business plan competition. He also acts as initiator / advisory officer / facilitator for various start-up projects including the Start-up Weekend Creative Business or the Young Found-ers Network.
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Andrea Gander
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Drawing up business plans, communication (cutting to the core of the innovation), presen-tations (introducing the innovation). |
Andrea Gander is a graduate in business administration and a management consultant for strategy, organisation and leadership. She is a trainer for communication and presen-tation techniques as well as a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and at the College of Hotel Management in Thun among other educational institutions. She has many years of experience in hotel management and gastronomy and also works as a pre-senter and moderator at symposia and congresses. Andrea Gander is a long-standing member of the management board of Gastrag in Basel.
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Peter Goetsch
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Start-up consulting and business model development for service providers; growth, scaling and risk management strategies in an international environment; marketing of service and digitalization solutions in the regulated life science industry |
From freelancer to entrepreneur, Peter Goetsch has been building up specialized consulting companies for the life science industry in Switzerland, Europe and Asia since 2002. After the sale of the group of companies to a globally active consulting firm, he now heads its Euro-pean and Southeast Asian business. Previously, he held various line and staff management positions with the Swiss tourism leader in Switzerland and abroad.
Starting out as a «one man show», he has experienced and lived the various facets and challenges of entrepreneurship in the service and solutions business on a daily basis, learn-ing to balance business and private life in a healthy way.
Starting out as a «one man show», he has experienced and lived the various facets and challenges of entrepreneurship in the service and solutions business on a daily basis, learn-ing to balance business and private life in a healthy way.
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Peter Herrmann Peter completed his studies of pharmacy in Basel in 1984. After complet-ing his doctoral thesis in the field of immunology at Sandoz AG, he worked first as a post-doctoral fellow and then as a laboratory manager in the preclinical immunology research department at Sandoz AG. Since 1993 he held various positions in the regulatory affairs departments of Johnson & Johnson and F. Hoffmann-La Roche. In 1998 he became Roche's media spokesman. In 1999 he joined the newly founded Actelion AG as Head of Regulatory Affairs. In 2004 he lived with his family in Japan to support the development of the local subsidiary. After his return he took over the newly established Corporate Affairs and Compliance department. In 2009 he was appointed Group Compliance Officer of Actelion. After the acquisition of Actelion by Johnson and John-son in 2017, he was a member of the global integration team. Since October 2019 he has been CEO of Pharma-Cons GmbH.
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lic. jur. Eric Künzi
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Corporate law (formation, capital increases and relationships between founders and/or investors, shareholder agreements), contract law (agreements with suppliers, T&Cs, employment contracts, software development), trademark law, financing rounds, start-up experience (strategy, business modelling, etc.) |
Eric Künzi is a founding partner of Vujàdé Law, specialising in legal services, business modelling and the structuring of financing rounds. He has 15 years of experience as a business lawyer in a leading commercial law firm in Zürich and later in his own company. On the basis of his practical experience as a co-founder of several start-ups he has an in-depth understanding of the strategic challenges in the start-up stage. Eric is a graduate in law from the University of Neuenburg (Master equivalent) and was admitted to the Swiss bar in Bern in 2001.
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Dr. rer. pol. Andreas Lucco
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Marketing strategy and planning, start-up communication, target group segmentation, market research and data analysis, branding |
Andreas Lucco is a marketing and market research expert and has been a lecturer for marketing, branding and CRM at the University of Basel, the ZHAW Winterthur and the SAWI in Dübendorf for 15 years. He has accompanied numerous start-ups in the develop-ment of their own brand and communication strategies and has worked as a strategy and management consultant for Deutsche Telekom AG and as an SME managing director. Today he is Head of Marketing, PR & Communication at the Sinfonieorchester Basel.
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Daniel Maier Msc ETH
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Protection strategies for products and services through patents, trademarks and designs, licensing models for Intellectual Property (IP), patent law, monitoring and enforcement of IP. |
Following his physics degree at the ETH Zurich, Daniel Maier began his career in research at the Paul-Scherrer Institute in Würenlingen and as a software developer, project manager and consultant for multiple international telecommunications companies. He joined the family-run business euromaier AG 20 years ago, which advises start-ups and SMEs on all matters pertaining to intellectual property. He founded a subsidiary company in the USA and has extensive experience with IP (intellectual property) strategies for monitoring, registering and enforcement of patents, trademarks and designs in more 100 countries worldwide.
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Markus Müller MSc
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Innovation, innovation culture and creativity, process support in corporate and organisa-tional development, change management. |
Markus Müller has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on marketing. He has a Certificate of Advanced Studies (sports psychology) from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and a master's in Advanced Studies (systemic and solution-oriented coaching) from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Markus Müller is an expert consultant for innovation processes. He coaches on the sustainable creation of a good innovation culture and provides training on the use of creative and innovative methods (such as design thinking and LEGO SERIOUS PLAY). He coaches teams and individuals within organisational and company development processes and assists with transformation processes. He has been involved with and/or advised on various (online) start-ups over the past 20 years. He is an international guest lecturer at various universities (of applied sciences) and is a book author whose next work (The Change Playkit) will appear in September 2020.
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Prof. Dr. Marc K. Peter
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Digital marketing, business development, B2B sales, expansion/global promotion |
Marc K. Peter is head of the Centre for Digital Transformation and professor of Digital Business at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. He previously managed the marketing for eBay International and Brand Marketing for E*TRADE. He initially worked as a managing director in Australia/New Zealand for global IT and software company LexisNexis, then as a sales and marketing manager in the UK/Ireland. He is an editor for KMU-Transformation studies (www.kmu-transformation.ch) and Arbeitswelt 4.0 (www.arbeitswelt-zukunft.ch) as well as Beobachter-Ratgeber Storytelling für KMU (shop.beobachter.ch/storytelling-fuer-kmu) and Digitales Marketing für KMU (shop.beobachter.ch/digitales-marketing).
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Stefan Philippi MA, EMBA
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Business models and business model innovation, assessment of the current situation and development of perspectives, lean start-up, setting up and implementing business plans, strategy development. |
Stefan Philippi holds a Master of Arts degree in Social Sciences and an executive mas-ter’s in business administration. He is the operative head of the Swiss Start-up and Swiss Innovation Challenge for several years. In this context, he coached and supervised nu-merous start-ups and accompanied them on their way to independence. Stefan Philippi is also a lecturer for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Institute of Management at the FHNW.
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Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Reineke
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Internationalisation strategies, development of corporate strategies and business models, assessment of the current situation and development of perspectives. |
Rolf-Dieter Reineke is a professor at the FHNW Institute for Corporate Management. From there, he manages the Swiss Innovation Challenge competitions in Switzerland and Asia. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors for multiple international companies and start-ups. He previously held positions at various universities locally and abroad, as well as at international consultancy firms. He has acquired consultancy and training experience in over 40 countries with a focus on strategy and organisational consulting and internationalisation consulting. He has written a number of expert articles and books. Rolf-Dieter Reineke completed a doctorate at the University of Münster in the field of international mergers and acquisitions.
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Dr. Patrick A. Scarpelli
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Strategy, setting up and implementing business plans, multi-project management, com-pany and brand evaluation, development of operational concepts. |
Patrick A. Scarpelli is Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board at cctm Holding AG, Chairman of the Board at FrehsCo AG and audit committee member at Weleda AG. He has over 20 years’ consultancy experience on a national and international level and was Group Chief Financial Officer at an industrial firm. Patrick A. Scarpelli completed a doctorate at the HSG St. Gallen and has lectured for more than 10 years at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, specialising in business planning and turnaround management.
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Isabelle Siegrist
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Pitching, market entry, marketing, sales, fundraising, finance. |
Isabelle Siegrist has been helping to build up companies across Switzerland since 2014, first for 2 years at Startups.ch as CIO and then with her own company builder Sandborn. She supports entrepreneurs and corporates from various industries in scaling (from idea validation, product/service development, market entry to growth financing). She was recognized as one of the TOP 100 Businesswomen in Switzerland 2018, 2019 and 2020 and is a Forbes 30 under 30 Alumna (2019), studied Business Innovation at HSG and majored in Social Entrepreneurship at ESCP Europe. She is a coach at Innosuisse and regularly teaches at various colleges and universities on entrepreneurship topics.