Dieter is a partner at the venture-building boutique Capital Certainty, a startup coach and business angel, with more than 25 years of consulting experience in financial services.

Dafina is Innovation Manager at the EHL Innovation Hub and a startup mentor and advisor. She represents EHL as an institutional BAS member.

Fred co-founded Arcanys and runs Arcanys Ventures, which provides product and engineering teams to tech companies, and team plus capital to founders.

Richard is a CEO specialising in turnarounds and buy-and-build strategies for European food and beverage SMEs, and an active angel investor.

Vincent is a commercial leader in tech travel at AMEX GBT, previously at Expedia and Mazars, with experience across sales, consulting and financial analysis.

Pawel is SVP and Global Category Head for Nutritionals at Bayer Consumer Health, with deep experience in consumer brands, business models and international scale-ups.

Olivier has spent his career investing in listed companies, with a focus on small caps, tech and Europe.

Ole Edvard invests in early-stage TMT companies through Parabellum Invest. He brings 25 years of TMT industry experience and three successful exits.

Anzhey works in medical devices development, business development and innovation management, and invests in medical technologies.

Aldo is Managing Director of Technopark Luzern, BAS's partner for the joint VCI events in Lucerne.

Moritz is a customer and transformation executive and an angel investor and operator. His expertise covers customer strategy, go-to-market, digital product and growth.

Gerard is General Partner at Invariant, an early-stage life sciences VC in the ETH ecosystem. A founder with more than ten years in digital products, he has lived in Silicon Valley and raised venture capital in Europe and the US.

Karin is an attorney-at-law and the founder of Bridge Legal Group AG, focused on corporate law, M&A, and AI law and legal tech. She also lectures on AI law and legal tech at ZHAW.

Managing Partner at E4 Ventures with a PhD in Cognitive Psychology

Ramon holds an MBA from the University of Bern with a focus on Entrepreneurship, Marketing, General Management and Corporate Strategy. In recent years, he has worked in various countries around the world Philippines, Taiwan, England and the USA – and has thus broadened his experience, especially in the startup environment.

Dr of Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilans Universität, Münche

M.Sc Electronics EPFL, MBA Webster

Born 1963, Is CEO of Zollikonsult GmbH, strategy and marketing consulting in Zurich. He invests primarily in technology and durable consumer goods. He is also a lecturer at the University of Lucerne and at the St. Gallen Management Institute. He holds various board positions in Switzerland.

Born 1955 , Ing. Dipl. EPFL, M.Sc. University of California at Berkeley Privately, Stéphane Rousset is business Angel, volunteer mentor, and occasionally also assistant general manager. He focuses on the industries of ICT (information and communication technology), Cleantech and Medtech. His goal is to convey what he has learned as a C-level manager to help Swiss startups develop and succeed. His professional career includes digital (DEC), AT&T, Global One, Oracle, and Fujitsu in EMEA and world-wide roles, with a focus on sales, business administration, and general management. Stéphane is married and has three adult children.

Michael Federspiel (Dipl. Ing. ETH, PMP) worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company, Progan Consulting Group and his own company Federspiel Management. Other employers were among others Jamba!, Hilti, Ericsson Hewlett Packard and Swatch Group. He studied at the ETH Zurich (operational and production engineer) and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, he is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and attended various executive education courses at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the IMD Lausanne.

Luzi Andreas von Bidder was until recently Chairman of the Swiss listed company Acino Holding AG and is currently on the Board of several other private healthcare companies including Ferring and Solvias. Prior to Acino, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Novartis Ophthalmics AG and as a member of the Novartis Pharma Executive Committee and with Ciba-Geigy in various positions. Luzi Andreas von Bidder graduated in Economics from HSG University of St. Gallen.

Born 1962, Master of International Affairs, Columbia University, Frank Gerritzen is co-founder and board member of UMEO SA, a group active in personal services: recruitment and executive search (brands: Careerplus, Ganci Partners, Artemia, Serendi) and home care (Qualis Vita). Before, Frank has worked in several service-oriented companies as well as import-export organisations in Switzerland and the United States. He recently started an activity as écrivain public (ghost writing) under the name https://www.prete-plume.net. Frank has two adult children.

Born 1965 – BSc, Honors in Business Studies, University of Buckingham – Mediator SDM-FSM. Adrienne has worked in marketing in the consumer goods industry and later on in the luxury goods sector of the watchmaking industry. In 1997, the Company "Transfer Solutions", a relocation service agency in Neuchâtel, was founded by her and sold in 2001. After spending thirteen years in local politics she is now active as an angel investor. Adrienne has an international background as she grew up in Basel and the US and studied in England. She has four children and lives in Neuchâtel.