Meister.

Board Member / Business Angel

Founders and entrepreneurs possess exceptional expertise and a unique business idea. They have brought it to life.

With success come new challenges, such as establishing professional growth structures, collaborating with external investors, expanding internationally, recruiting top talent, mergers or acquisitions of other companies.

I offer my experience in building and growing international software and high-tech companies, acting as a sparring partner on equal footing—not as a distant advisory philosopher.

Founder- and Entrepreneur-Led Companies

Founders and entrepreneurs have invested significant time and passion into their companies. Often, these enterprises represent a substantial part of their wealth and personal reputation. They are deeply connected to the company's fate.

Certain decisions carry significant weight, intertwining business and personal aspects.

As a board member, I support decision-making processes that illuminate all relevant dimensions, ensuring they are appropriately integrated into decisions. I leverage tools from my executive coaching practice and my own experience as a founder and entrepreneur. Unorthodox impulses can lead to surprising new insights.

Private Equity

Professional investors, especially during growth phases, are vital partners for entrepreneurs.

Investors have specific requirements for collaboration with companies. Successful partnerships necessitate translating these requirements into the company's context and embedding them into its processes.

I offer my experience to investment funds, family offices, and other professional investors actively managing their tech and software engagements.

Mergers & Akquisitions

Acquiring companies is a crucial tool in pursuing growth strategies.

Acquisitions often mark milestones in a company's history, requiring attention to several success factors. Careful strategic selection of targets, determining price and transaction structure, structuring the future company, seamless post-transaction integration, retaining key personnel, to name the most important.

I bring experience as both a founder/seller and as a buyer in growth strategies. I operate from an entrepreneurial perspective, ensuring a coherent process with clear decision points and coordinating necessary specialists.

Structures

Growing companies undergo typical phases, each with characteristic structures.
Successful entrepreneurs manage to evolve timely.

In the software and tech sector, the challenge lies in retaining current knowledge holders while attracting and integrating new top talents into key positions.

Drawing from my own experience and executive coaching practice, I possess the tools to support entrepreneurs effectively as an active sparring partner.

Your company is successful — and with that success come many new challenges.

meister advisory: what are the services?

Make difficult decisions: the internal dialogue

Agile Transformation: the entrepreneurs perspective

References Board Member

ionplus (since 2021)

Scientific instrumentation in the field of Accelerated Mass Spectrometry.
High-tech. ETH Zurich spinoff.

International growth, support for founders.

Crealogix (2008 - 2015)

Publicly listed. M&A. International expansion.

Target identification, due diligence, transaction support, post-merger integration.

Support for founders.

atwork.ai (since 2021)

Software in the field of HR deep tech, AI, ChatGPT.

Establishment of nearshoring location. Implementation of a scaled agile organizatio.

Support for founders.

Qontis (since 2013)

Co-founder.

Personal Finance Management.
Joint venture with NZZ and Crealogix.

Founding and development.