Who is START Global?
Students, partners, and investors all play a key role in helping us achieve our goals. Scroll to meet the faces behind the START Global brand.

Meet the team
Each year, our conferences, events, and development programs are organized and delivered by our team of 80+ international students from a wide range of backgrounds. They're an ever-developing group of bright minds, each with a keen interest in the start-up ecosystem and a passion for the START Global mission.
Board

MAX KELLER
President

NOÉMI KMOTH
Vice President of Product

BASTIAAN FEURER
Vice President of Operations

TRISTAN MELCHERS
Managing Director Summit

SIMONE MUSCARITOLO
Managing Director Hack

MAX BIERI
Managing Director Fellowship

LEAN STEIN
Managing Director Sphere

MATTEO QUADRELLI
Managing Director Partnerships

JAN BOHE
Managing Director Communications

ATHAVAN THEIVAKULASINGHAM
Managing Director Tech & Innovation
Global

SINA WERNER
Head of Talent Development

ANDRI GABATHULER
Legal

VIANA THORMANN
Legal

DUSTIN BAUMBACH
Finance

FLIP LAPADATOVIC
Head of Legal
Summit

ILENIA LASCONI
Head of Event Management

LUCA ANTHONY BRUNNER
Event Management

FLORENS BITZER
Event Management

NINA REDLICH
Head of Content

WILLIAM KUPRECHT
Growth

CHRISTOPHE KOSS
Content

MAX GRAU
Content

PAULINA HAFNER
Growth

RICCARDO GÄCKLE
Content

STELLA SEUFERT
Event Management

DOMINIK SCHIRLE
Executive Production

VALENTIN ERNST
Executive Production

JEREMY SWANSON
Event Management
Hack

ANDREA IVANOVIC
Partnerships

LORENZ BOHLANDER
Growth

OSCAR GORDON
Content
Fellowship

BENEDICT WOLTERS
Partnerships

ANITA STERN
Partnerships

SAMUEL KEHL
Startup Scouting & Participant Coordination

ANJA FRAUENFELDER
Startup Scouting & Participant Coordination

JULIUS CREMER
Content

TOM WECKES
Partnerships

CEDRIC FRUTIGER
Partnerships

MARY MORAD
LatAm Area

ESTELLE WAVRE
LatAm Area

NICOLE LAVROV
Partnerships /LatAm Expansion
Communications

ANASTASIIA ALIKSIICHUK
Marketing

FLAVIO DI PILLA
Marketing

LENA SCHLAEPPI
Head of Media Brand

THÉO SILIPRANDI
Marketing

MIREA MAZZEI
Marketing

FINJA SPIEGEL
Public Relations

YANN OPPENHEIM
Head of Projects

CHIARA BRITSCHGI
Head of Public Relations
Partnerships

SASCHA GERLACH
Head of DACH

STEFANO BOTTA
Head of International

MARVIN TROSHKE
DACH

KORAY ORHAN
DACH

PHILIPP WEBER
International

LEON IWANOWITSCH
DACH

ANTON FOERTSCH
International

ALEX SCHAAF
DACH

JULIE FRIELING
DACH

FELICITAS BELKER
DACH

MICHELLE THÜR
DACH

PARVINA STELOVSKA
International

JANNIK REICHEN
Head of Partner Success

FABIO VALSECCHI
Partner Success
Tech & Innovation

SOPHIE LEHRMANN
Head of Adminitrations

LIZ MORELLEC
Administration

FLORIAN GÖTZ
Administration

NICOLAS KELLER
Innovation

AUGUSTIN CHRISTEN
Innovation

TANYA ILIEVA
Innovation
Sphere

TIM VIETZE
Sphere Development

SOFIYA NYCHYPORENKO
Marketing

BENJAMIN BECKH
Head of Network

LINDA KÜNG
Marketing

PHILIP LEHRMANN
Sphere Development

ANNINA MILLARG
Sphere Development

JAN CHRISTIAN VÖGELI
Network

DOMINIK SEITZ
Sphere Development
Board

MAX KELLER
President of START Global

RUBEN REUTER
Managing Director START Summit

NATALIS WIRZ
Managing Director START Hack & Vice-President START Global

JANOS GRÜNDLING
Managing Director START Fellowship

BENJAMIN NAEGELI
Managing Director Communications

DENNIS SCHMID
Managing Director Partnerships

LEONARDO STERN
Managing Director Tech & Innovation
Global

GUSTAVE ANGELOZ
Head of Finance

SINA SARAH WERNER
Head of Talent Development

FILIP LAPADATOVIC
Head of Legal

BENJAMIN BECKH
Head of Network

ILENIA LASCONI
Talent Development

FREE DE ZUTTER
Network Management Team

JOHN RICHARD ENDERS
Managing Team Network

NICOLE LAVROV
Managing Team Network

RANA EKMEKCIOGLU
Network
Summit

SAMIRA AWAD
Head of Content

FELIX BERGER
Head of Investor Relations

BASTIAAN FEURER
Head of Event Management

BENEDIKT SOEMER
Head of Growth Summit

MORITZ VAN RANDENBORGH
Head of START Forum

JULIUS BRÜHL
Event Management

STELLA SEUFERT
Event Management

JEREMY SWANSON
Event Management

IULIA DRUMCIOGLU
Event Management

PATRICK EBEL
Growth

OSCAR VON PODEWILS
Growth

NAÉLA GRUBER
Growth

ELISA KILIAN
Content

TRISTAN MELCHERS
Content

DOMINIK SEITZ
Content

MALTE KNAUER
Investor Relations

RICARDO GÄCKLE
Content

DOMINIK SCHIRLE
Executive Production

VALENTIN ERNST
Executive Production

GLORIA CARDON DE LICHTBUER
START Forum
Hack

SIMONE MUSCARITOLO
Head of Growth

LAURA CARRIERI
Partnerships

CARLO CATANESE
Partnerships

DENNIS DANCH
Partnerships

YANNICK REICHEN
Partnerships

TIM VIETZE
Growth

JONAS AVE
Sponsoring

MORITZ WÜST
Event Management
Fellowship

MAX BIERI
Head of Partnerships

KIM STALDER
Head of Content

ROCCO APPOLONI
Content

MARY MORAD
Content

MARÍA JOSÉ VALLEJO ALBAN
Content

ALESSANDRA BIERMANN
Partnerships

FYNN MORTEN POHL
Partnerships

PAUL SCHNECKMANN
Partnerships

LEOPOLD ZOLLNER
Partnerships

YANDRA GONÇALVES
Partnerships

LUIS SCHULTE
Strategy & Fundraising

SOPHIE SOLMITZ
Startup Scouting & Participant Coordination

ESTELLE WAVRE
Head Startup Scouting & Participant Coordination

NOÉMI KMOTH
Startup Scouting & Participant Coordination
Communications

LUCIE LIEBERS
Head of Marketing

NINA REIDLICH
Head of Public Relations

NADINE AESCHLIMANN
Public Relations

JAN BOHE
Marketing

CHIARA BRITSCHGI
Marketing

LINDA KÜNG
Marketing

MOUNIGA NANTHAKUMAR
Marketing

SOFIYA NYCHYPORENKO
Marketing

PARVINA STELOVSKA
Marketing

ADRIEN ROBERT
Performance Marketing
Partnerships

SASCHA GERLACH
Head of Institutional Partnerships

MATTEO LENITINI QUADRELLI
Head of Corporate Partnerships

NOEMI OTT
Head of Sponsoring

FELICITAS BELKER
Corporate Partnerships

STEFANO BOTTA
Corporate Partnerships

ANDRI GABATHULER
Corporate Partnerships

MICHELLE THÜR
Corporate Partnerships

EINO SCHULZE STEINEN
Sponsoring

CELINE LA
Sponsoring

DANIEL MERDES
Sponsoring

FABIO VALSECCHI
Sponsoring

BASTIAAN STROBOS
Institutional Partnerships

VINCENT MORANDI
Institutional Partnerships
Tech & Innovation

LUKAS GAISER
IT

LEAN STEIN
IT

SOPHIE LEHRMANN
IT

ATHAVAN THEIVAKULASINGHAM
IT

JEAN-LUC BIERENSTIEL
IT
Board

KATHARINA BUBMANN
President

JONAS EIDENSCHINK
Managing Director Communications

FRANCESCA BOSMEDIANO VIGGIANI
Managing Director Partnerships

SAMUEL GRETZ
Managing Director START Hack

JEANNINE KRÄUCHI
Managing Director START ROSE

VICTORIA GENTILE
Managing Director Technology & Innovation

JULIAN SHERGILL
Managing Director START Summit

NICK RUPPRECHTER
Managing Director START Fellowship
Global

MILENA VIDALI
Talent Development

ANN-JULIE SEVRAY
FinLeg

FREE DE ZUTTER
Chapter Relations
Summit

DOMINIK SCHIRLE
The Godfather

VALENTIN ERNST
Executive Production

NIKLAS ROBISCH
Executive Production

MAX KELLER
START Summit | Head of Relations

ELISABETH WESS
START Summit | Relations

RUBEN REUTER
START Summit | Relations

LUIS BRAUN
START Summit | Relations

JULIEN QUIMBROT
START Summit | Relations

MIRIAM SCHEFFRAHN
START Summit | Head of Event Management

SASCHA GERLACH
START Summit | Event Management

DARIELLE ROTHSTEIN
START Summit | Event Management

TIM BIRKHOFER
START Summit | Head of Content

ALEXANDER HEYDE
START Summit | Content

XENIA GETSIOS
START Summit | Content
Hack

TOBIAS TESLOF
START Hack | Content

IVAN KAMENOV
START Hack | Relations

ALEX MARCHESE
START Hack | Relations

CHRISTIAN DIMITROV
START Hack | Partnerships

YVES GRAEDEL
START Hack | Partnerships
Fellowship

JOHN SCHANBACHER
START Fellowship | Community

CHRISTIAN MAŠEK
START Fellowship | Head of Finances and Infrastructure

ESTELLE WAVRE
START Fellowship | Community

LIVIA SEPULVEDA
START Fellowship | Community

LARS VILLIGER
START Fellowship | Content

JANOS GRÜNDLING
START Fellowship | Content

STEFAN CRETTENAND
START Fellowship | Content
Communications
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NOYA ASSARAF
Head of Marketing

SASCHA PERREN
Marketing

NATALIS WIRZ
Marketing

BENJAMIN NAEGELI
Marketing

PARVINA STELOVSKA
Marketing

MARIE KLEINE-DEPENBROCK
Public Relations
Partnerships

DENNIS SCHMID
Head of Corporate Partnerships

YANNIK BIBERT
Corporate Partnerships

MORITZ HECK
Corporate Partnerships

CELINE LA
Corporate Partnerships & Sponsoring

NOEMIE OTT
Sponsoring
Tech & Innovation

MAGALÌ ALLUISETTI
Information Technology

JEAN - LUC BIERENSTIEL
Information Technology

LEA TOFFEL
Information Technology

DANIEL LEAL
Information Technology

REMY MOLL
Information Technology

JOHN RICHARD ENDERS
Head of Data | Performance Marketing

THIBAULT GUMY
Online Event Management
Rose

LAURA PENG
START ROSE

NOEMIE GALLAY
START ROSE

OLIVER SABATHY
START ROSE

MATHIEU DUC
START ROSE

CARL EPPLE
START ROSE
Board

LUCAS ANGERMANN
President

GIAN ANDREA ZÜLLIG
Managing Director Communications

DAN MEIER
Managing Director Summit x Hack

KATHARINA BUBMANN
Managing Director Corporate Partnerships

THAÏS DE TRIBOLET
Managing Director & Head of ROSE

NICK RUPRECHTER
Managing Director & Head of Fellowship

GLEB ZAKHARTCHENKO
Managing Director Operations
Global

ANNA SNODGRASS
Head of Chapter Relations

SAMUEL GRETZ
Chapter Relations

LENA KIRSCH
Head of Talent Development

SOPHIA VONTZ
Talent Development

MANUEL GEHRING
Head of Finance & Legal
ADRIAN EUGSTER
Finance & Legal
Summit

PAULA WERBER
Co-Head of Relations

KATHARINA DÖHLE
Co-Head of Relations

MARCELLINO KRAUS
Relations

HENRIK B. KOPPANG
Relations

TOBIAS GEHRIG
Relations

ERIC PIOLOT
Relations

MARKUS BENCSITS
Content

TIM BIRKHOFER
Content

SVEN HÖRNER
Head of Live Streamhub, btov & Think Tank

DOMINIK SCHIRLE
Head of Executive Production

VALENTIN ERNST
Executive Production

NOÉ KUHN
Executive Production

ANNA WEIGOLD
Head of Event Management

FELIX ERMANN
Event Management

LEONIE NEUMANN
Event Management

JULIAN SHERGILL
Head of Online Event Management

FRANCESCA BOSMEDIANO VIGGIANI
Online Event Management

PIOTR WOJTASZEWSKI
Online Event Management
NICO RATTUNDE
Head of Content
Hack

PHILIPP WAHLER
Head of Hack

DOMINIK VOSER
Hack

MAX-THEO SCHULTE
Hack
Fellowship

JANE ZURBRÜGG
Fellowship

YANNICK TSESMELIS
Fellowship

ALEXANDRU GALITA
Content Fellowship

CHRISTIAN MASEK
Content Fellowship

SVEN ADER
Content Fellowship
RAPHAEL BEUTER
Head of Content Fellowship
Communications

JAN REINHART
Head of Marketing

JESSIE SARWIN
Head of Design

SERAFIN BAUMGARTNER
Marketing

YUJIN KIM
Marketing

JILLY YIN
Marketing

NOYA ASSARAF
Marketing

LUCAS GERICKE
Head of PR & Editorial

CORDULA GASPERINI
PR & Editorial
Partnerships

DEBORAH SCHEFFRAHN
Corporate Partnerships

JONAS EIDENSCHIN
Corporate Partnerships

JULIA MARTIN
Corporate Partnerships

MICHEL JOSI
Corporate Partnerships

SERAINA KRATZER
Corporate Partnerships

ANNE JORNOD
Head of Sponsoring

ISABELLA HÜBSCHER
Sponsoring
FRIEDER FRANK
Corporate Partnerships
Tech & Innovation

VICTORIA GENTILE
Head of IT

ALEX PAOLO MARCHESE
IT

TJERK BOLDT
Head of Data Analytics

RICHARD HRUBY
Data Analytics

ADRIEN COLONNA WALEWSKI
Data Analytics
Rose

JEANINE KRÄUCHLI
ROSE

BENJAMIN DEBONS
ROSE

CARLO VON DER OSTEN
ROSE

EVA PAMPURIK
ROSE

GRETA CARIOLI
ROSE
Meet our partners







We wouldn’t be where we are without them. From NGOs and government institutions to international corporations and independent businesses, our partners believe in the START Global mission, share our passion for entrepreneurship, and make our events possible.
Big players in business and digital spheres are the people at the heart of the ever-expanding START Global network, helping us deliver our high-quality business development programs and nurture the next generation of thinkers and doers.
We’re always looking for partners to help us change the world. Ready to join us?

Learn more about why we do what we do
We’re run by students, for students. And we’re not-for-profit — two core factors that make START Global the brand it is today.
We want to make good things happen. For the students who sign up for our events, for those in our Fellowship program, for investors searching for the brightest young talent, and for our valued partners, too.
That’s why we’re constantly investing in the START Global mission. Readdressing how we do things, maximizing our offering, developing our partner relationships, and scoping out the latest and greatest in the world of business and tech, so we keep meeting our targets for excellence.