Dr. Sigvald Harryson
Founder & CEO | Switzerland
Sigvald Harryson is a Professor of Disruptive Innovation at HULT Business School in San Francisco. He also teaches at HULT in London and Dubai. Founder of HCG, INNOVENTUM and iKNOW-WHO. His first PhD was on Japanese R&D Management and his second one on Breakthrough Innovation. His book DISRUPTING INNOVATION – was recently published in co-authorship with Dr. Johan Roos to describe the iKNOW-WHO-method. See more at iknow-who.com/about/
Languages: SV, EN, FR, DE.
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Dr. Rafal Dudkowski
Managing Partner | Poland
Entrepreneur, manager and consultant with many years of project management, training, consulting and research experience. Areas of expertise include creation and implementation of Growth Strategies, R&D Management, Industry/University R&D Partnerships, New Product/Business Development, Technology Venturing and Strategic Innovation. Prior experience gained within Booz Allen Hamilton, HCG and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as well as start-up investor and entrepreneur. Languages: PL, EN, DE.
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Rob Kirschbaum
Chairman | The Netherlands
Robert Kirschbaum graduated from the Technical University of Delft as a Chemical Engineer in 1977, and moved into a 35 year career with DSM to invent and commercialize extreme materials like Dyneema.
From 1997, Rob was in charge of the DSM New Business Development Corporation – the “Incubator” of the company, which evolved into the DSM Innovation Center. Rob then continued as VP Open Innovation of DSM until he joined iKNOW-WHO as Chairman of the Board in 2018.
Rob received the prestigious Giulio Natta Award and enjoys a visiting lectureship on Corporate Venturing and Entrepreneurship at the ESADE (Barcelona) and the Erasmus University/RSM (Rotterdam). Languages: NL, EN, DE and minor in FR.
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Colin Harvey
COO | UK
Colin Harvey is an experienced professional with a background in the financial services industry. He has worked in market risk management, developing and implementing analytics for the trading businesses and in trading. He ran the GBP interest-rate option trading book at Barclays and was a Director in the Credit Trading business at HBOS Treasury Services. He has interests in behavioural effects in economic decision making, finance and effective learning. MEng in Mechanical Engineering, MSc in Finance, MSc in Behavioural Economics and MBA from London Business School. Languages: EN.
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Dr. Christoph Appert
CTO | Switzerland
Christoph Appert is an innovation master with 25+ years’ experience in corporate R&D. As an executive in leading various research teams, he has a wealth of experience in running innovation projects. His strength is to identify new market opportunities, developing respective strategic plans, building highly motivated teams, using leading edge technology, exploiting the huge personal network and to turn opportunities into solid profits. Prior to joining iKNOW-WHO he ran a highly successful project as a client (n!ce®, Straumann AG) and now runs projects with iKNOW-WHO.
He has a PhD in Biochemistry (ETH Zürich) and an Executive MBA (HSG St. Gallen). Languages: DE, EN
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Julia Harryson
Communication Consultant | Sweden
Julia is taking out her bachelors degree in philology at Uppsala University, minoring in French and rhetorics. She has studied modules of her degree at la Sorbonne in Paris, at Sussex University in Brighton and at Lund University in Lund. She also brings valuable insights in project coordination through several years of experience as Office Coordinator at one of Sweden’s fastest growing webdesign buros. Her initiative of founding a university society at Sussex University, are early sparks of entrepreneurship and leadership skills. Languages: EN, SV, DE, FR.
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Alissia Wei
Co-Creation Officer | China
Alissia is bringing her finance and operation management expertise into the consulting world. Her experience spans diverse fields and sectors, including digitalisation, risk management, green innovation, e-Commerce. She is holds a Master degree in Finance and an EMBA from France ESC Rennes. Languages: CN, EN, FR, SV.
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Tino Sperk
Co-Creation Officer | DACH
Tino is an Engineer with background in the renewable energy industry. He has worked in photovoltaic-, wind- and biomass projects as project – and sales manager for several companies. Strong interest in ecological farming and sustainable lifestyles. Dipl. Ing. in renewable energy systems from University of Applied Science Nordhausen. Tino is supporting universities from DACH countries. Languages: DE, EN
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Julien Daligault
Co-Creation officer | France / Asia
Julien has a B.Eng in Product Design from UWS (UK) and a M.Sc in Sustainable Energy Engineering from KTH, Stockholm. As a French national, he is naturally supporting teams from France. Julien also worked 5 years in China and thanks to his knowledge of Chinese culture and language he is also supporting universities from Asia and China in particular.
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Dr. Katie Lamb
Co-Creation Officer | UK
Katie Lamb is an experienced research scientist and chemist, with a background in green chemistry research. She has performed research in numerous areas of sustainability, including catalysis, carbon dioxide utilisation, carbon capture and storage, and systems thinking teaching amongst others. She is currently acting as a “Research Associate in Chemical Circular Economy”, for the University of Sheffield and the UKRI National Interdisciplinary Centre for the Circular Chemical Economy in the UK, developing new and innovative polices to help implement a circular economy in the UK chemical sector. She is keen to bring her chemistry and science knowledge to future iKNOW-WHO projects. She has a First Class MChem degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Green Chemistry, both from the University of York in the UK.
Languages: EN.
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Thomas Stridsberg
CSO | Sweden
Senior visionary leader with broad experience of technology, sustainability, marketing and account management within the global food and packaging area.
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