Nelson T. Ajulo is the CEO and founder of Zarttech, a tech talent startup redistributing global opportunities. He is a seasoned executive with over twelve years of experience in technology, extensive leadership, operations, and management. Having served as Chairman, CEO, and President of several significant multinationals, His expertise spans various aspects of leveraging technology to address social inequalities and business leadership sustainably. He has garnered diverse experience by working in continents worldwide, such as Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.
Nelson is currently participating in a CyberSecurity Program at Harvard University and graduated with a Master of Business Administration (MBA), focusing on leadership and entrepreneurship (Cambridge, United Kingdom), and PhD in International Economics with a strong focus on Human Capital Development. He has been exposed to world-class training programs with several certifications focused on entrepreneurship, market digitalisation and Innovations, and agile business growth. One of his specialities and strengths is in strategic rapid business scaling.
He believes in people’s equal worth and has been a significant advocate through his businesses and participation in different organisations for a more inclusive world. So we can leverage everyone’s strength in building a better world for all. Nelson’s philosophy is to go beyond transforming disadvantaged communities in Africa to a more global transformation. He is a passionate advocate for empowering people and enabling them to make informed decisions and implement change in their own lives and other people’s lives. He believes that there is no weak mind.
Catherine Leduc is a certified NLP & RSCI coach, speaker, and author of multiple online courses on Job Searching and Career Management and brings 17+ years of experience in senior consulting roles in strategic planning & marketing within the Lifescience Industry. She’s been the go-to person for job searching and career advice in her expat circles for over a decade before launching as a career coach.
Her approach is focused on a strong strategic marketing and consulting background, extensive experience building and managing multi-disciplinary & multi-cultural teams across the world, and special attention to mindset issues that often stand in the way of reaching our goals.
She’s a visionary, a connecting networker, and loves to empower people by getting them in the driver’s seat of their career. She loves adding a strategic spin to everything she does, breaking down complex career crossroads into practical and actionable steps to help you get clarity and take action.
And most importantly – she is passionate about what she does!
Hana is a Rubyist by heart and a software engineer at GitHub. After finishing her Ph.D. in judgement and decision-making psychology she got more and more interested in coding. From working in R and data analysis she shifted her professional orientation to web development and programming. She fell in love with Ruby and she shares her passion by teaching at Ruby Monstas Zürich and Rails Girls.
Paulina is a Program Manager at Kickstart Innovation, one of Europe’s largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that run a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. She is involved in two particular verticals – smart cities, and finance & insurance. Previously, she was working in Vienna for almost 5 years as a Program Manager of Startup Live, leading this early-stage acceleration program, one of the biggest entrepreneurial communities worldwide. Her mission is to help entrepreneurs to succeed and build startup communities around the programs. Paulina is not only organizing events but also moderating startup competitions. She co-organized the first Tech Jobs Fair in Vienna in 2019. It is her pleasure to be back as the event’s moderator at TJF Zurich.
All chaotic things are interesting to me. That’s why I chose a career in the most chaotic field there is: Cyber Security Incident Response.
Founder of Silentus, an anti-procrastination app for workers and students, optimizing homeworking to help them regain 500hrs per year on average and set boundaries between work hours and personal time (maximize time and energy levels).
Awarded Rotterdam School of Management’s “’I WILL’ Journey Award’ in April 2022 for a (volunteers) recycling initiative in Chiclayo, Peru. Currently 20+ households signed up to change their habits towards waste management.
As entrepreneur demonstrated ability to develop and translate ideas into products that improves people’s lives, and build (remote) teams capable of executing clear roadmaps.
Drive execution through finding resources (tech/people/financial) to deliver on-time, in-full, using network/learning/DIY. Able to create something big and tangible from limited resources by being creative and strict prioritization.
Building on 15+ years of experience in Finance and Operations in Global Multinationals including KraftHeinz, TomTom, PwC, Vopak.
Belief that education and technology are the main levers to close skills and inequalities in society. Avid reader (fiction and non-fiction).
Graduate from INSEAD (Executive Master in Finance) and Rotterdam School of Management (MBA).
