Le Startup Weekend Lausanne arrive très bientôt! Vous allez alors avoir la possibilité de présenter votre idée au public et tenter de constituer une équipe qui travaillera sur votre projet pendant tout le weekend.

Monter une startup en 54h va vous demander une vitesse d’exécution folle car vous allez devoir prendre beaucoup de décisions importantes en très peu de temps (je sens que la pression monte, non?)

Pour vous aider dans ces tâches, nous avons recruté rien que pour vous une incroyable équipe d’entrepreneurs et de professionnels. Ils seront présents pendant tout le weekend à vos côtés pour vous aider et répondre aux questions que vous allez vous poser.

Voici la liste des coachs qui se font une joie de vous accompagner pendant le Startup Weekend Lausanne

Benedict Stalder is an entrepreneur and a management consultant. Next to interim and turnaround management projects Benedict invests his time in angel management for startup companies. Benedict is a mechanical engineer with a track record as an early serial entrepreneur and as an executive in information technology and manufacturing. Benedict brings senior management, strategy, sales & marketing expertise and a sharp eye on today’s entrepreneuring world.

Jean de Wolff spent his 20+ years career in technology oriented companies. As an entrepreneur he started several ventures that have been successfully sold. As an executive in large multinational companies he experienced many of the domestic and international development stages of a corporation.His domain of expertise range from international sales to management of large telecom projects. Jean is currently a partner and board member of several small and medium enterprises and start-ups.

Jean-Marc Filistorf co-founded a well known company in the highly competitive market of electronic payment and managed it for 20 years. The company grew up to 80 employees and was market leader in many key segments. Jean-Marc has a strong interest in new business models and their implementation. He is a board member and advisor of startup companies.

Roman Bourquin is a serial entrepreneur, in his ventures he enjoyed successes and suffered failures.His current startup offers cloud centric solutions and was one of the very first companies to obtain the Google Apps Authorized Reseller Label in Switzerland.Roman enjoys doing business in the fast paced Internet world, he is quick in understanding the problem and steering the boat in the right direction.

Bernino Lind has been a Brick layer, Lawnmower, Postman and a Cleaner. His dad taught him to work hard, building value with focus and determination. Bernino founded numerous startups in various sectors including internet ISP, TV, land mine detection, micro finance and commodity trading. Some of his ventures were sold, others went bust and one made an IPO. He still can park a 5 meter delivery truck in any urban environment.

Karim Piguet is a founding partner of a law firm specializing in business and commercial law. Karim’s practice focuses on M&A and corporate finance transactions (including PE and VC transactions), as well as on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts. Karim further advises on a wide range of intellectual property matters (technology transfer, option, license, distribution, franchise, etc.). He has accumulated years of experience in leading Swiss business law firms and has advised numerous start-ups, notably biotech and software companies.

Nelio Barros is a design strategist specialized in visual communications. His international background got him to work as motion designer, identity designer and in research and development.Nelio has an holistic approach to design and branding, and develops new ideas in the areas of digital design, animation, photography, video, typography and interactive design allying fundamental principles to cutting edge practices.

Caroline Schmitt has a solid track record in e-Marketing and e-Commerce, she brings full integrated marketing strategies, processes and structures. Her executive background in Internet Sales, Marketing & Communications and Customer Service is a strong base for her activities on Internet guided selling techniques, mastering emailing tools, web analytics, SEO, SEM to drive increased lead generation, revenue, community size, site utilization and customer retention.

Jean-François Blachon was one of the founding partners of a global B2B platform for the manufacturing industry and later was the CTO of a leading B2C platform in Switzerland. Today, he is a partner and CTO of different companies in Europe and the US. Jean-François excells at overall application architecture and technical design of SOA-based platforms supporting the collaborative development of 3rd-party functionality and enhanced integration between clients and alliance partners. Jean François manages teams in Europe, in the US and in Asia.

François Gilardoni is a senior executive who has lived and worked throughout the U.S. and Europe and who has built a solid body of experience in the high technology industry for almost two decades. His forte is to raise business valuation of early stage ventures, advise in seed investments and oversee business turnarounds in the Healthcare, IT, Oil & Gas, Cleantech and Finance industries. He holds a PhD (cum laude) in Computational Chemistry, as well as degrees in Environmental Science and Computing.

Sylvain Montreuil is a Business Design Wizard. A passionate and experienced entrepreneur with a solid background Sylvain has a proven record of business acumen. He has started several companies, his first one at age 20. He occupied the COO position of a large French Group and contributed to a multitude of startup projects. Today he is the founder of Business Design Innovation a company dedicated to developing new methodologies that facilitate the launching of innovative ideas by converging Business & Design practices. His mission is to help entrepreneurs get from ideas to real.

Avi Ram was born and educated in Israel, with vast international experience gained in almost 15 years of working with entrepreneurs in South Africa, USA, UK, Europe and Switzerland. Avi acquired full company life-cycle experience, from setting-up and funding, through leading, investing and coaching, to selling and closing-down various startup ventures.

Bastien Bovy has an entrepreneurial and financial background. He previously held successfully an executive position in an SME. He is now a startup mentor at Genilem where he provides business coaching to innovative startups.  Bastien is also the founder of DYOD a startup concept that has been awarded winner of the first Startup Weekend Geneva edition in 2010.

David Narr holds a Master in Management from HEC Lausanne. He has started a business specialized in custom made advertgaming solution in the early 2000’s, which was later sold to a communication agency. As Managing Director in the agency he was responsible for HR, finance and key account management. David is now a startup mentor at Genilem where he provides business coaching to innovative startups.

Frederic Grognuz worked in banking, auditing and finance. He holds a degree in business administration and a masters in quality management,. Frédéric is the co-founder of Geneva based fiduciary mainly active in financial audits.  Frederic actively participates in the development of startups in Romandie.

Raphaël Briner studied graphic design in Barcelona. After working several years in web agencies, he co-founded a digital agency mixing creativity and technology. Raphaël is an alumni of the 2010 Ventureleader program in Boston. Raphael is the cofounder and CEO of a social business platform software editor.

Maxime Chollet is a founding partner of the business law firm CPV Partners, located in Lausanne and Geneva. He focuses on commercial and corporate law. He advises companies – particularly start-ups – on all major steps of their corporate life. Maxime’s work includes the negotiation and drafting of, and commercial litigation regarding, all sorts of commercial contracts in numerous industries and business sectors. Bearer of a double degree in Management and Law, Maxime, as an entrepreneur himself, endeavors to advise companies not only from a legal point of view but also from an operational and strategic perspective.