Main jury
An expert main jury is responsible for selecting the winners, under the leadership of jury chairman Dr Caspar Coppetti.
Dr. Caspar Coppetti
President of the Jury, Founder, On AG
Carole Ackermann
President of EHL, Board Member & Investor
Christoph Ammann
Member of the Government of the Canton of Bern, Minister of Economic Affairs
Alain Conte
Head Corporate & Real Estate Banking Switzerland / Member of Executive Committee, UBS Switzerland AG
Dr. Felix Graf
CEO, NZZ Media-Group
Daniel Gutenberg
Unicorn Hunter und Soonicorn Farmer
Dr. Christian Keller
Chairman of the Executive Board, IBM Schweiz AG
Ruedi Kubat
Chairman of the Executive Board, CEO, Allianz
Isa Müller-Wegner
Head of Strategy and Business Development, Swisscom
Jürg Niederbacher
Partner, Responsable, PwC Zürich
Dr. Christian Péclat
CEO, Helbling Group
Helmut Ruhl
CEO, AMAG Group AG
Andri Silberschmidt
National Councillor (FDP) and entrepreneur
Ursula Soritsch-Renier
Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, Saint-Gobain
Daniela Steiner
Co-Founder, FELFEL
Nora Teuwsen
Country Holding Officer, ABB Schweiz
Nicola Thibaudeau
CEO, Micro Precision Systems AG
Expert jury
An expert jury will analyse and evaluate all received applications in a multi-stage process.
Jennifer Adam
Head of Swisscom StartUp Challenge, Swisscom
Maria Anselmi
Head of Start-ups and Next-Generation Innovators Division, Innosuisse
Christoph Bernhard
Programme Manager SEF.Growth, NZZ Connect
Sibilla Delorenzi
Patent expert, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Dr. Bettina Ernst
CEO, Preclin Biosystems AG
Dr. Manuel Fankhauser
Managing Partner bei Arven Partners GmbH, CSO bei Seerave Foundation
Jean-Noël Fehr
Senior Vice President, Helbling Technik Bern AG
Lukas Frösch
Director Entrepreneurship, NZZ Connect
Christoph Geissmann
Head of Partnerships, Allianz Suisse
Dominique Gruhl-Bégin
Director, Innosuisse
Carole Hofmann
Managing Director, Bluefields GmbH
Blaženka Kovács-Vujeviæ
Partner, PwC
Alyssia Kugler
Managing Director, Entrepreneur Club Winterthur
Stefan Kyora
Editor-in-Chief, Startupticker.ch
Dr. Vincent Lenders
Director Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse
Dr. Martin Naef
Global Head of R&D Traction, ABB Schweiz AG
Rebecca Ribi
Financial Advisor, KOYRA GmbH
