Philipp Steinberger is a self-employed consultant who specialises in corporate finance, start-up financing (partner at Quadrum Partners Ltd.) and international business development (co-founder of the Asia2Europe network). After completing his MBA at the Business School Lausanne, he worked at UBS, Bank Julius Bär and Bank Vontobel, before becoming self-employed in 2003. Philipp Steinberger is married with one son.
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Marc P Bernegger, Master of Law UZH, is a serial entrepreneur from Zurich. He founded the party platform usgang.ch (trade sale to media company Axel Springer in 2008) and is the co-founder of the Internet company amiando, which was awarded the title of "Global Technology Pioneer" by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The company was acquired by the business platform Xing in December 2010. Marc is a partner of the listed holding company Next Generation Finance Invest (www.nextgfi.com) and is also a member of the board at Pioneers' Club PCU and an angel investor for many different start-ups. In 2010, Marc was voted "Newcomer of the Year" by the Swiss ICT association.
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Oliver Rappold is a solicitor and partner in the law firm Gloor & Sieger, where he co-manages the M&A/Private Equity Team. After studying at the University of Zurich (lic. iur.) and the London School of Economics (LL.M.), he spent two years as legal counsel and co-owner of a venture capital firm in Singapore and Vietnam, before joining a Zurich-based commercial law firm as partner in 2003. Oliver Rappold is married with four daughters.

Manuel P. Nappo, born in Zurich and raised in Italy, studied International Management at the University St. Gallen HSG. After his corporate career (Red Bull amongst others), he created Creative Assets, his own marketing management consulting agency. Since 2010 Manuel acts as Director of the Department of Social Media Management at the HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zurich and holds various speaking engagements on Social Media. He joined the Board of Directors in January 2013.
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Christoph Laib has, after his carreer as a CIO of a Swiss publicly quoted company, devoted himself as general entrepreneur to the development and coaching of several start-up's and projects. His areas of focus are strategy, start-up's and business (re) vitalising, IT, opensource hard- & software and project management. Christoph joined the Board of Directors in July 2012 and can also be reached via

Simon Kaiser joined c-crowd AG on February 1st as its new Chief Operating Officer. Besides being the COO of c-crowd, Simon is also very active in the Swiss and international startup scene. He is president of Startup Weekend Switzerland, Global Facilitator for Startup Weekend and member of the START global advisory board. During and after his studies at University St. Gallen, Simon was working with a Swiss VC and an international management and strategy consulting firm.