Guest Speakers (Industry)

Dr. Marco Poltera
Co-Head Market Risk Analysis at Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB)
Zürcher Kantonalbank is the largest cantonal bank and fourth largest bank in Switzerland.
Lecture and date: Bank Management, 28.05.2021
Title of talk: Market Risk Management in Practice

Dr. Ralf Seiz
CEO and Founder of Finreon AG
Finreon AG is a think-tank for the development of asset management solutions.
Lecture and date: Entrepreneurial Finance, 11.01.2021
Title of talk: A Personal Report on Entrepreneurial Experience

Dr. Michel Degosciu
Managing Partner and Founder, LPX Group
LPX Group is a leading research house in the field of Listed Alternatives with a focus on Listed Private Equity and Listed Infrastructure
Lecture and date: Entrepreneurial Finance, 13.01.2020
Title of talk: A Personal Report on the Challenges Faced in Founding LPX Group

Michael Huber
Senior Manager, Corporate Finance, PwC Switzerland
PwC Switzerland is the leading audit and advisory company in Switzerland
Lecture and date: Entrepreneurial Finance, 28.02.2019
Title of talk: Financial Modeling for Entrepreneurs

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schweinsberg
Founder and Chairman of the Centre for Strategy and Higher Leadership
The Centre for Strategy and Higher Leadership maintains a guest and seminar house on Lake Constance.
Lecture and date: public talk, 09.01.2019
Title of talk: Corporate Governance and Digital Transformation

Peter Schnürer
CEO daura AG
daura AG is a firm specialized on the digital issuance of shares for startups as well as small and mediums-sized companies.
Lecture and date: Entrepreneurial Finance, 07.01.2019
Title of talk: Blockchain and Tokenization

Ronald Sauser
Managing Director, Head Mergers & Acquisition Schweiz
EY is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and is one of the "Big Four" accounting firms.
Lecture and date: Advanced Corporate Finance, November 28, 2018
Title of talk: The M&A Process - Theory and Cases

Georg Marekwica
Serial Entrepreneur, Business Angel and Start-Up Consultant
VentureNet GmbH provides consulting, coaching and financial services for start-ups.
Lecture and date: Seminar in Entrepreneurial Finance, November 30, 2017
Title of talk: Developing business ideas and business models

Alexander Simonov
Co-founder of Wrapclub GmbH
Wrapclub is a start-up in the outdoor advertisment sector. In particular it offers advertisment on cars.
Lecture and date: Seminar in Entrepreneurial Finance, May 19, 2017
Title of talk: Dos and Don´ts in business plan writing

Michael Börnicke
Serial Entrepreneur (Premiere, Escada, Kiveda), currently CFO of Glow Media Group GmbH and MD of Glow Innovations GmbH
Glow Innovations GmbH manages the business activities of Judith Williams ("Die Höhle der Löwen", VOX) and provides consulting services to start-ups.
Lecture and date: Entrepreneurial Finance, January 16 th 2017
Title of talk: Digital leadership: Entrepreneur in the digital world

Max Wittrock
CEO and Co-founder of mymuesli
Mymuesli is a German brand of breakfast cereals headquartered in Passau (Berlin Area), Germany. It is the first company that allowed customers to create their own breakfast cereals.
Lecture and date: Entrepreneurial Finance, November 25th 2015
Title of talk: Building-up mymuesli

- Christin Friedrich
Director of Innovestment GmbH
Innovestment GmbH is an internet platform for crowdfunding equity investments based in Berlin and Frankfurt.
Lecture and date: Entrepreneurial Finance, February 2nd 2015
Title of talk: Lessons from the Practice of Crowdfunding