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. jur. Cyril Berger
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Startup topics (e.g. financing rounds, employee participation plans, shareholder agreements, GmbH/AG conversion), corporate law, contract law, IP law (incl. software license agreements and trademarks) and data protection law. |
Cyril Berger is CEO and co-founder of Code Law, a legal services company focused on technology-oriented startups. He is passionate about working on projects at the intersection of business, technology and law. Cyril Berger holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Zurich. Already during his studies he was interested in business and technology related legal issues. After his legal internship at a leading commercial law firm in Zurich, Cyril Berger worked as Senior Counsel for a large Swiss ICT company. He speaks fluent German and English.
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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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Valérie Can
Linkedin Profil Coaching Schwerpunkte Business models based on technologies (especially with AI, NFT&Web3 and Robotics), monetization and pricing, customer testing and analysis, MVP development, customer experience optimization |
Valérie Can is a technologist and entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience in innovation and project management, business modeling, customer experience and venture building. Since 2018, she has accompanied numerous startups in strategy definition, monetization of their business models, customer testing up to the development of the MVP. Having successfully built an innovation lab as well as a complete internal innovation management for a Swiss banking group, she knows and understands the world of startups as well as enterprises. Currently, she is a business designer, founder and partner at Raqoon, a business design company that develops and implements digital solutions.
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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 business). Her motto is «You are what you share!».
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Beat Dobmann, dipl. Ing. ETH, lic. oec. HSG
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Innovation, business development, organization, leadership. Beat Dobmann coaches only in the third round, especially for the question whether a project is suitable for an Innosuisse application |
After his education, Beat Dobmann passed through various functions up to the level of business manager in international plant engineering and IT. For 8 years he has been the owner of Dobmann Consulting GmbH and advises SMEs on corporate management issues (strategy development, organization, leadership coaching, innovation management). He is accredited by Innosuisse as a mentor, is a consortium member for business models in the NTN Applied Circular Economy, coaches an IT startup on behalf of Genisuisse and is chairman and partner of a technology startup in the photovoltaic sector.
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lic. oec. publ. Jan Fülscher
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Business models and monetization, B2B marketing and sales, Marketing strategy and pricing, Financial planning, Financing, Target group: Companies in the fields of technology, culture and the arts |
Jan Fülscher has been active in the startup scene for more than 20 years: As a founder, co-founder, investor, coach, mentor and lecturer, he has experienced entrepreneurship from a wide variety of perspectives. He was managing director of the then largest investor club businessangels.ch and co-founder of today's most important club SICTIC.ch. In recent years, Jan has been CEO of a spin-off of ETH Zurich and TU Berlin. He holds an M A from UZH and is an accredited Innosuisse coach and certified systemic coach. He teaches at the Universities of Zurich and Bern as well as at several universities of applied sciences. His main topics are B2B companies with a software component as well as art and cultural projects.
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Andrea Gander
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Drawing up business plans, Communication (cutting to the core of the innovation), Presentations (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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Marina Hasler
Linkedin Profil Coaching focus Sustainable business management, impact startups, circular business models, organizational development, decentralized organizational forms, internal collaboration |
Marina Hasler is Managing Partner at Impact Hub Basel. Impact Hub Basel promotes startups and SMEs through networking and knowledge transfer around sustainability and innovation. In this role, Marina Hasler is particularly responsible for mandates in the sustainability field as well as internal organizational topics (organizational development, collaboration, HR processes). In addition, Marina Hasler is active as an expert in Innosuisse Startup courses. In the past six years, she built two incubation programs for sustainable startups with the Swiss Sustainability Challenge and Impact Hub Basel Incubator. She holds a Master in International Management with a focus on sustainability management.
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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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Virginia Hess
Linkedin Profil Coaching Schwerpunkte Financial planning and financing options, business model and strategy development |
Virginia is the founder and CEO of Dedomena, a data analytics platform that helps investors, banks and insurance companies make better real estate investment decisions, with social considerations in mind. She has already won several competitions, securing part of the funding for her startup. Microsoft Switzerland has accepted the young company into its exclusive program, giving it many advantages. Virginia is well connected in the startup scene and understands the challenges of young entrepreneurs. She wants to share her knowledge and network with new entrepreneurs. She has been coaching entrepreneurs for years, especially in the areas of business development and finance. She is also a guest lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Institute of Entrepreneurship at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW. Virginia also serves as a jury member for startup competitions in the Basel region, such as the Impact Hub. She holds a master's degree in business management from the University of Basel and has completed various continuing education programs in business development, entrepreneurship, and finance.
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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 an expert for business and service innovation and accompanies start-ups in the development of their own brand, sales and communication strategies. He has been a marketing and CRM lecturer for 20 years and has worked, among other things, as a strategy and management consultant for Deutsche Telekom AG, as SME managing director and head of marketing, PR & communications at the Basel Symphony Orchestra. Today, Andreas Lucco is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and owner of the consulting agency Nives Marketing GmbH.
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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 lectures in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW and manages the office of the Swiss Innovation Challenge on behalf of the university. He is also co-leader of the MBA FHNW Cross-Cultural Leadership / Edinburgh Business School program and the Swiss Startup Challenge. He is a board member of genisuisse Aargau, a coaching organization for startups and jury member in various startup competitions in Switzerland and abroad, foundation board member of the Swiss Excellence Foundation and also has many years of coaching experience with startups and SMEs. Stefan Philippi is a partner in various companies in the education and consulting sector. He holds a Masters of Arts in Sociology, History and Media Studies (University of Basel), an Executive MBA (FHNW) and is author of several papers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship.
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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 and organizational, operational concept and infrastructure development, corporate finance, business valuation |
Patrick A. Scarpelli is Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of cctm Holding AG and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Deltamem AG. He has over 25 years of consulting experience in the national and international environment and was head of group finance at an industrial company. Patrick A. Scarpelli holds a doctorate from the HSG St. Gallen and has been a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Bern for more than 10 years, focusing on 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 build companies all over 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 in incubating and scaling ideas, building her own companies and investing in startups. She was named 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 has a Major in Social Entrepreneurship from ESCP Europe. She recently published a book with Beobachter Verlag titled "Leg Los!" and regularly teaches at various colleges and universities on entrepreneurship topics.