Experts : STARTUP CAMPUS

Experts

STARTUP CAMPUS has a highly qualified network of coaches and experts with many years of start-up experience, which is continuously expanding. Take a look at interesting offers and events where our startup coaches are involved and provide young entrepreneurs with helpful tips. Sounds interesting to you? Then get in touch with us and become part of the STARTUP CAMPUS start-up expert community!

Trainings and events where our coaches are involved and which might be of interest to you

Technopark Winterthur

STARTUP CAMPUS Incubator

Early-stage startup support

Accelerate your business!

In the RUNWAY Startup Incubator, we offer young entrepreneurs tailor-made coaching, excellent networking and consulting. In addition, incubatees profit from the physical coworking space and state-of-the-art infrastructure at Technopark Winterthur. Our goal: to accelerate you and your early-stage startup within a few months and make you ready to take off.

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Our coaches

Claudia Bolliger-Winkler

CEO Lionstep AG

Christoph Birkholz

Co-Founder Impact Hub Zurich, Entrepreneur

Nicolas Berg

Entrepreneur/ Business Developer/ Coach

Co-founder of 12 startups since 1984, he has over 14 years of experience in (co-)managing startups and early-stage investing.

Founding experience

• Serial Entrepreneur; founder of 12 startups (e.g. Borsalino.ch)
• Business Angel in 20 startups since 2000 (e.g. XING)

Experience in private economy

Since 2018

Advisory Board & Coach at Enolyst, Hush-Zurich and kirik.io

Since 2017

Head Business Development and Investor Relations at HEGIAS

Since 2017

Head of Business Development at xaxada

Since 2017

Head Business Development at Lorange Network

Since 2016

Starup Coach, Trainer, Author at Bergpark GmbH

2015-2017

Partner at buildastiq- smart workflow & data

Since 2014

Shareholder at I believe in you

2013-2013

Inerim CEO at Sharoo

2012-2013

Chairman & Interim CEO at Questli

2006-2012

Board member and investor at restorm.com

2006-2013

Early-stage Venture Capitalist at Redalpine Venture Partners

2005-2015

Trainer and Starup-Coach at venturelab.ch

2005-2011

Shareholder at Trigami AG (today part of Teads)

2004-2010

Country Manager Switzerland, Investor at XING

2004-2006

CEO at Neurotune AG

2002-2006

Business angel seeking co-investors at innovative start-ups

2000-2007

Shareholder, former board member at Whitestein.com

2000-2004

Chairman at Venturix.com

1998-2000

Founder, CTO, Sales & Marketing at Borsalino.ch (today Cash.ch)

1992-1998

Editor for the Berner Newspaper

1988-1992

Partner and founder of Intro (Switzerland)

Berufserfahrung Academia

1980-1985

M.Sc. (BA), lic.rer.pol., Business Administration, Law at the University of Bern

Rolf Corrodi

Lawyer/ Consultant/ Coach

He is the owner of office Corrodi GmbH and partner at Videobooks Interactive Ltd. as well as a senior consultant at DOCMINE.

Work experience 19 Years

Startup experience Years

Founding experience

Founder of Büro Corrodi GmbH

Experience in private economy

Since 2017

Senior Consultant at DOCMINE Productions

Since 2017

Partner at Videobooks Interactive Ltd.

Since 2014

Owner of Corrodi GmbH

2004-2014

Burkard & Partner Werbeagentur AG

2004-2014

Senior Consultant (different communication agencies)

2003

Glamour engineering

2002

Isler & Pedrazzini

1999-2002

Lawyer at Isler & Pedrazzini AG as well as Hug Interlizenz AG

Berufserfahrung Academia

2004-2006

ZHAW, Executive Master in Arts Management, postgraduate studies

2000-2003

PhD from the University of Zurich UZH in Law

1991-1997

License at the University of Zurich UZH and at the University of Lucerne

Mariana Christen Jakob

Founder/ Expert for Social Entrepreneurship

Expert for Social Entrepreneurship

Work experience 18 Years

Startup experience 9 Years

Experience in private economy

2011 - Today

Founder and CEO of SEIF GmbH

2013 - Today

Trainer and Coach for Innosuisse Start-up Trainings

2002 - 2017

Professor and Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Lucerne

1997 - 2000

Lecturer and Project Leader, Zurich University for Teacher Education

Berufserfahrung Academia

2017

Impact Investing Oxford, United Kingdom

2002

Executive Master of Business Administration, University of St. Gallen

1991

Master in Social and Economical Studies, University of Zurich

Karin A. Stephan

Coach & Managing Director Impact Hub Zurich

Phil Bachmann

Leiter Service Innovation Lab FH Graubünden

He is lecturer for human-centered innovation and project leader at the Swiss Institiute of Entrepreneurship SIFE at HTW Chur. As a certified Design Thinking Coach, he accompanies start-ups from problem definition through idea generation and validation to market entry.

Work experience 15 Years

Startup experience Years

Founding experience

elefantstudios.ch (Coach)

Experience in private economy

Since 2016

Digital Strategy & Design Thinking - Head of Service Innovation Lab University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur

2014 - 2016

Digital Strategy - Sr. Project Manager Strategy & Innovation/ Deputy Head Retail Digital Migros Cooperative Association

2012 – 2014

Strategy Consulting – Manager Deloitte Consulting AG

2011 – 2011

Strategy Consulting – Manager FIDES Financial Systems Development Services AG, Namibia

2005 - 2010

Strategy Consulting - Senior Consultant Deloitte Consulting AG

2002

Management Consulting - Trainee Horváth & Partners Management Consultants, Deutsche Bank AG

Berufserfahrung Academia

2004

Stockholm School of Economics CEMS-MIM

1999 - 2005

University of St. Gallen-(HSG) Lic. Oec., Strategy & Organization -

2010 - 2012

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich MAS International Cooperation

Heiko Visarius

MedTech expert, Business Coach, Board Member