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BioEntrepreneurship & Innovation (BEI) program

Experts in Residence

The following Entrepreneurs and Experts in Residence kindly contributed to the BioEntrepreneurship & Innovation (BEI) Program since its launch in 2016. All of the speakers contributed on a pro bono basis.

Carole Ackermann
 
Carole Ackermann
CEO & Co-Owner of Diamondscull AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Patrick Amstutz
 

Patrick Amstutz
CEO of Molecular Partners AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2018, 2019
Melanie Aregger
 
Melanie Aregger
CEO & Co-Founder of Avelo
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Ina Bach

 

Ina Bach
Dr. Bach AG: Global Compliance Consulting
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Marc Bächinger
 
Marc Bächinger
CEO & Co-Founder of MindMetrix AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Franziska Bächler
 
Franziska Bächler
Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center (ISLC)
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023
Michael Baier
 

Baier Michael
Partner at Wenger Vieli Ltd.
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2022
Thierry Barbey
 
Thierry Barbey
Founding Partner at Alfred
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Nicola Benz
 
Nicola Benz
Partner at MLL Legal
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019, 2022, 2023
Carlo Bertozzi
 
Carlo Bertozzi
CEO & Co-Founder InCephalo
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022, 2024
Claus Bolte
 

Claus Bolte
Non Executive Director at University Hospital Basel
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2021, 2022
Simon Bredl
 
Simon Bredl
Senior Scientist at Universitätsspital Zürich, Project leader Trojan Therapeutics
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2023
Simon Breitler
 
Simon Breitler
COO & Co-Founder Eracal Therapeutics
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022, 2024
Richard Brudnick
 
Brudnick Richard
CBO Prime Medicine 
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017
Liliane Brunner Halbach
 
Liliane Brunner Halbach
Deputy Head of the UMZH TMA (Translational Medicine Accelerator)
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023
BEI program jury member in: 2024
Francesca Catto
 
Francesca Catto
CEO & Co-Founder IMAI MedTech
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2024
Christophe Chautems
 
Christophe Chautems
CTO at Nanoflex Robotics
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023
Carlos Ciller
Carlos Ciller
CEO & Co-Founder at Retinai
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Kiran Dallenbach

 

Kiran Dallenbach
Partner at BiomedVC
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Tomas de Wouters

 

Tomas de Wouters
CEO & Co-Founder at PharmaBiome
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Yannick Devaud

 

Yannick Devaud
CEO & Founder at KOVE Medical Ltd
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2020
BEI program jury member in: 2023
Luiza Dobre

 

Luiza Dobre
CEO & Founder at Komed Health AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Kristine Duyck

 

Kristine Duyck
VP People & Organisation at LzLabs
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Christian Ebner

 

Christian Ebner
European and Swiss Patent Attorney at RENTSCH PARTNER AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
David Ehlig

 

David Ehlig Kuklinski
Scientific Project Leader at HSG School of Medicine
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2023
Suzanne Einmahl
 
Suzanne Einmahl
Manager and Founder at Albedo Consulting Sàrl
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Zeynep Erden

 

Zeynep Erden
Professor at ZHAW School of Management and Law
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018
Bettina Ernst

 

Bettina Ernst
Biotech Entrepreneur
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018, 2022, 2023
Dominik Escher

 

Dominik Escher
Managing Partner at Pureos Bioventures
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023
Nicholas Eyring

 

Nicholas Eyring
Program Manager at Venturelab
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2024
Muriel Fisser

 

Muriel Fisser
Business Development Manager at Alentis Therapeutics
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2024
Stefanie Flückiger

 

Stefanie Flückiger-Mangual
CEO & Co-Founder at TOLREMO therapeutics AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Jan Fülscher

 

Jan Fülscher
Startup and Entrepreneurship Expert
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018
Gambillara Veronica

 

Veronica Gambillara Fonck
Partner at Pureos Bioventures
Co-Founder of GlycoEra AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Severine Gisin

 

Séverine Gisin
CCO & Co-Founder at IDUN Technologies AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2024
Amanda Gogates

 

Amanda Gogates
Regenerative Medicine Portfolio Manager at Wyss Zurich
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2024
Anna Grabowski

 

Anna Grabowski
COO & CFO at Renaldee
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Dragan Grabulovski

 

Dragan Grabulovski
CEO & Co-Founder at Araris Biotech AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017
Laurent Grandidier

 

Laurent Grandidier
CEO & Executive Board Member at atHeart Medical
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Jan Grimm

 

Jan Grimm
CSO & Co-Founder at Neurimmune AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2016
Regina Grossmann

 

Regina Grossmann
Head Clinical Trials Center at University Hospital Zurich (USZ)
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019, 2020
Diana Hardie

 

Diana Hardie
CEO at Swiss Healthcare Startups
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2024
Tiffany Held

 

Tiffany Held
Project Portfolio Manager at Wyss Zurich
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2023
Karsten Henco

 

Karsten Henco
BioTech Serial Founder
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2018, 2021
Wolfgang Henggeler

 

Wolfgang Henggeler
Associate Director at Unitectra AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
Petra Hillmann

 

Petra Hillmann
Translational Scientist and Project Leader
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2024
Simon Hoerstrup

 

Simon Hoerstrup
Full Profesor and Board Director at University of Zurich
Co-Director at Wyss Zurich
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
BEI program jury member in: 2024
Pascal Honold

 

Pascal Honold
Partner at Wenger Vieli Ltd
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2020
Karin Huber

 

Karin Huber
Lead Data Science, USZ Clinical Trials Center
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Julia Jäkle

 

Julia Jäkle
Head of Medical Devices at SQS
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Mario Jenni

 

Mario Jenni
CEO & Co-Founder at BIO-TECHNOPARK Schlieren-Zurich
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Josua Jordi

 

Josua Jordi
Discovery Area Lead in Metabolism at Roche
Former CEO & Co-Founder at Eracal Therapeutics
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2020
Priyanka Joshi

 

Priyanka Joshi
Board Member at University of Cambridge in America
Co-Founder of NeuroAge Therapeutics
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2024
Verena Kaiser

 

Verena Kaiser
Head Corporate Clients ZH Oberland at UBS
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Steve Kappenthuler

 

Steve Kappenthuler
CBO & Co-Founder at MUVON Therapeutics AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Egle Katkevičiūtė

 

Egle Katkevičiūtė
Head of Research and Development at Recolony AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Martin Kayser

 

Martin Kayser
CTO at Wyss Zurich
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018, 2020
Raffael Kellner

 

Raffael Kellner
Program Manager, Academia Outreach and Startup Scouting at Venturelab
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021, 2022, 2024
Antonios Kouris

 

Antonios Kouris
Founder of Tally-Ho Consulting
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2023
Stephanie Krumholz

 

Stephanie Krumholz
CEO & Founder at therainnova AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018
Sandra Kugelmeier

 

Sandra Kugelmeier
CEO & Co-Founder at Kugelmeiers Ltd
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023
Lukas Langenegger

 

Lukas Langenegger
CEO & Co-Founder at hemotune
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Jolanda Leu

 

Jolanda Leu
Senior Director at VZ Vorsorge AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Jan Lichtenberg

 

Jan Lichtenberg
CEO at InSphero AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2016, 2020, 2022
Aurelie Litynski

 

Aurelie Litynski
Positive Work Culture Expert
Founder of Happitude at Work
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2024
Tytus Litynski

 

Tytus Litynski
General Manager at Alfasigma Switzerland
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2022, 2023, 2024
Magdalena Lukamowicz-Rajska

 

Magdalena Lukamowicz-Rajska
Project Manager at USZ Clinical Trial Center
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2022
Annalisa Macagno

 

Annalisa Macagno
Senior Medical Device Expert at Effectum Medical AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2024
Hanns Christian Mahler

 

Hanns-Christian Mahler
CEO at ten23 health
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2022
Karim Maizar

 

Karim Maizar
Partner at Kellerhals Carrard
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024
Theofanis Manolikas

 

Theofanis Manolikas
Senior Advisor to Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, and Healthcare Organizations
LinkedIn

BEI program jury member in: 2024
Daniela Marino

 

Daniela Marino
CEO at CUTISS AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2018, 2019, 2021
Patricia Martin

 

Patricia Martin
COO at Limmatech Biologics AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2021
Sebastian Meyer

 

Sebastian Meyer
COO at Numab Therapeutics AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2022
Christian Moser

 

Christian Moser Nikles
Patent Expert at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Olga Motovilova

 

Olga Motovilova
Market Development Manager at ABB
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2022
Holger Müller

 

Holger Müller
CEO & Co-Founder at ProVascTec
Former COO of Biognosys AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2019
Janet Munro

 

Janet Munro
Head Program Innovation at Novartis
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023
Reto Naef

 

Reto Naef
Founder and President of Topadur Pharma AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2018, 2020
Sandra Neumann

 

Sandra Neumann
Senior Vice President - Global Operations at Ferring Pharmaceuticals
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2019
Alexander Nitsch

 

Alexander Nitsch
CEO & Co-Founder at OxyPrem
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in:2019
Roger Nitsch

 

Roger Nitsch
CEO & President at Neurimmune AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2019, 2021
Lidia Novak

 

Lidia Novak
CFO at Biognosys AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2021, 2022, 2024
Karin Oberlin

 

Karin Oberlin
Partner at MLL Legal
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2021
Simon Oschwald

 

Simon Oschwald
Co-Founder of Circleg
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2023
Michio Painter

 

Michio Painter
Head of the UMZH Translational Medicine Accelerator (TMA)
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023, 2024
Antonio Pavese

 

Antonio Pavese
Sales Director Global Accounts at Merck Group
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2018
Olga Peters

 

Olga Peters
Head of Motion Ventures at ABB
Former CFO & Co-Founder of QualySense AG
LinkedIn

BEI program speaker in: 2018
Marija Plodinec

 

Marija Plodinec
CEO & Co-Founder at ARTIDIS
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Jenny Prange

 

Jenny Prange
CTO & Co-Founder at MUVON Therapeutics AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Sebastian Priarollo

 

Sebastián Priarollo
Consultant at Cognizant
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Andrea Quintel

 

Andrea Quintel
Technical Consultant and Project Leader at pii2p
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2023
Marco Riguzzi

 

Marco Riguzzi
Research Associate at the UZH Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Oliver Rinner

 

Oliver Rinner
CEO & Founder of Biognosys
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Nicole Romano

 

Nicole Romano
CTO & Co-Founder of Moonlight AI
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2024
Markus Rommel

 

Markus Rommel
Investment Manager at SwissHealth Ventures
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Kurt Ruffieux

 

Kurt Ruffieux
Serial entrepreneur in the Health Tech space
CTO at KOVE Medical AG
CEO at FILAX Medical AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2020
Placeholder

 

Lisette Ruijs
Director for SME consulting
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Alice Sachova

 

Alice Šáchová
Partner and Co-Founder at Collective63 AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2020
Gianmaria Sbetta

 

Gianmaria Sbetta
Cloud AI Sales Lead Italy at Google
Former Program Manager at Venturelab
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018
Claudia Scheckel

 

Claudia Scheckel
CEO & Co-Founder at Oncobit AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Roman Schmid

 

Roman Schmid
Owner & Co-Founder of SANDONO
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Marie Therese Schultes

 

Marie-Therese Schultes
Postdoctoral Researcher at the UZH Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care 
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Federica Sgariglia

 

Federica Sgariglia
Director of new Product Planning at Molecular Partners
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022, 2024
Omid Shams

 

Omid Shams
Program Manager at Venturelab
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2023
Max Sieghold

 

Max Sieghold
CFO & Co-Founder at Sleepiz AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019
Adrian Sigrist

 

Adrian Sigrist
Managing Director at Unitectra AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Mario Stark

 

Mario Stark
Interim Manager
Former CEO at Vivior AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2020
Denys Sutter

 

Denys Sutter
CEO & Co-Founder at condenZero
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Valerie Treyer

 

Valerie Treyer
Co-Lead of the Centre for Prevention and Dementia Therapy at the UZH Insitute for Regenerative Medicine
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018, 2023
Lui Unterrassner

 

Lui Unterrassner
Innovation Manager & Head of Innovation Pool at the USZ Health Innovation Hub
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2023
Gretchen van Steenwyk

 

Gretchen van Steenwyk
Investment Manager at Archer Fund
LinkedIn
BEI program jury member in: 2024
Konstantin von Schluthess

 

Konstantin von Schulthess
CFO & Founder of CDR-Life Inc
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018, 2020
Michael Wacker

 

Michael Wacker
Managing Partner at BiomedVC
General Partner at BioMedPartners
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017
Andreas Wallnoefer

 

Andreas Wallnoefer
Special Advisor at JEITO
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2019, 2020
Harry Welten

 

Harry Welten
Serial Entrepreneur
Owner of Welten & Welten AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2017, 2021
BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023
Philipp Winteler

 

Philipp Winteler
Co-Managin Director at Venturelab
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Sabrina Witthoff

 

Sabrina Witthoff
Partner at WITTHOFF JAEKEL STEINECKE Patentanwälte
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
Christian Wyss

 

Christian Wyss
Partner at VISCHER AG
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2020
Bardia Zanganeh

 

Bardia Zanganeh
Sector Head Life Sciences & Healthcare at Zühlke Group
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2021
BEI program speaker & jury member in: 2023
Martin Zoche

 

Martin Zoche
Head & Director Molecular Tumor Profiling at University Hospital Zurich (USZ)
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2018
Jurian Zürcher

 

Jurian Zürcher
Founder of Sharp&Gentle
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022
Christian Zwicky

 

Christian Zwicky
CEO of Alivion
LinkedIn
BEI program speaker in: 2022