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
Christoph Ammann
Member of the Government of the Canton of Bern, Minister of Economic Affairs
Judith Bellaïche
CEO, SWICO
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
Christiane Leister
Member of the ETH Board, President of the Supervisory Board, Leister AG
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
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
Prof. Dr. Martin Vetterli
President of the EPFL, Professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences
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
Dr. Peter Balsiger
Entrepreneur & Investor
Christoph Bernhard
Programme Manager SEF.Growth, NZZ Connect
Stefan Bingisser
Head of Real Estate - Large Clients, UBS
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
CEO, Serpentine
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, finpact solutions GmbH
