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).
Lavinia Osbourne is an established agent for change in blockchain, and an entrepreneur at the vanguard of NFT development and futurist for the emergent metaverse. Through her work as Founder of WiBT she has won and been nominated for accolades such as the National Diversity Award for Community Organisation and Best Diversity Resource/Initiative Award; whilst as an individual she is one of Wirex’s Rising Women in Crypto 2021, a TechWomen100 winner 2020, a 2021 LinkedIn Top Voice in Tech & Innovation, and Cog X Gender Leadership Winner 2022.
Combining her passionate belief in blockchain’s egalitarian ideals with a commitment to utilising her knowledge, connections and entrepreneurial spirit to bring opportunity for all, Lavinia works tirelessly to break down barriers by raising underrepresented voices.
Hi! I am Maria, recruiter at Trunkrs, where I recently started. I am a recruiter focused mostly on tech roles but I take care of the recruitment of many areas in the company together with my colleague Annalies, whom will also join me in this fair.
We are looking forward to this day and hope to get the most of it!
Head of Marketing in a fast-growing and innovative ed-tech/fintech specializing in improving financial literacy, and also a co-founder at one exciting ed-tech project. I possess strong expertise in user acquisition in various channels, building up marketing strategies focusing on brand awareness, engaging with prospects, and creating strong relationships with users as well achieving the goals of stakeholders. Thanks to 5 years of being involved in startups and business marketing initiatives and a previous experience in business management, I am leading businesses to meet their needs and build up a strong brand presence that would distribute the values of the company and create loyalty to the brands and their products across different channels.
Why Digital Marketing? I have been involved in creating and promoting the product from the first career step and marketing has a major role in the successful launch. Being data-driven with solid analytical skills and creativity made my shift to Digital Marketing extremely smooth. Simply speaking, I have always dreamt to make every enterprise financially successful with a myriad (army) of happy and loyal customers. And I have always been into technology and innovation.
Being part of FONGIT program made the journey of Money Masters easy and opened a lot of doors. We have been assisted from day one with training our pitching skills and connecting with industry leaders, overall facilitating an already challenging startup life.
I was born and raised in the US before moving to Switzerland and furthering my education at ETH. I’ve worked for over 15 years in the tech industry in a variety of roles. Currently, I work as Head of Engineering for Agrinorm where we are working on a product that is revolutionizing the fresh food sector with modern technology and data-driven insights.
Dietrich is a senior IT and publishing professional with over 15 years of professional experience. He originally joined MDPI in 2005 and stayed until 2015, before coming back in 2020. He has served in various roles, including CEO and CTO, and is currently a Project Manager for MDPI AG. Before he served as the CEO of Ditoy, a boutique digital agency in Zurich, servicing clients in a variety of industries from 2018 to 2020, and in a contracting role as a software engineer for IWF AG in 2016-2017. He holds a Bachelor in Business & Economics from University of Basel and is currently enrolled in graduate studies in Business Information Systems at FHNW.
