Executive change at deeptech startups

Effective 1 April 2022, Franz M. Bergmüller will take over the leadership at SEBA bank, a fully integrated, FINMA licensed digital assets banking platform. Following a successful CHF 110 million Series C funding round in January, SEBA Bank’s next phase of growth under its new leadership will focus on further expanding international growth and institutional business development. Bergmüller has 30 years of experience in building and transforming successful businesses and operations. After working for many years as a strategy and IT consultant up to partner level and then for 15 years in senior management roles at two leading German insurance companies, he held the position of Chief Commercial Officer, as well as a seat on the Executive Board at Adcubum, a leading software manufacturer for the international insurance industry, since 2019.

Be.care | Chief Executive Officer
With its focus on developing and commercialising solutions for predictive health based on non-invasive data, be.care offers inCORPUS, a mobile application for players that connects to any heart rate sensor. Measuring and analysing their physiological profile, delivering results in real-time through the app and to the coaching staff. The newly appointed CEO Benoit Mariani, was the startup’s CTO since 2020. He is an experienced French entrepreneur and engineer from CentraleSupélec with a PhD in wearable sensors and data science at the EPFL. A former founder and CEO of Gait Up S.A. (exited to MindMaze in 2018), Mariani is also an advisory board member in other sport and wellness ventures.

DHP Technologyy | Managing Partner
Following the retirement of DHP Technology's co-founder Andreas Hügli, the cleantech startup has welcomed Peter Kasper to its executive board. Kasper brings several years of project management and leadership experience in a change environment and is therefore ideally suited to lead the future challenges of DHP Technologies to success. Since its foundation in 2015, the startup has installed twelve HORIZON solar folding roofs and it employs 34 people.  The outstanding challenges Kasper will help include the automation of planning, internationalisation and scaling through external partners.

4Art Technology | Chief Executive Officer
Kai Zeh, the former Chief Technology Officer of 4ArtTechnology has been promoted to CEO succeeding Niko Kipouros, who is moving to the role of President in the organization. 4ArtTechnology uses blockchain and sophisticated image-authentication technology to ensure authenticity, security, and transparency for the art world. Zeh has a successful career as a top manager in recognized companies such as Nintendo, Publicis Pixelpark and eKomi with roles in marketing, technologies and customer success. His experience will be valuable as he drives the company towards further growth.

Noema Pharma | Chief Financial Officer 
Noema Pharma, a Swiss-based clinical-stage company targeting orphan central nervous system (CNS) is developing four mid-clinical-stage therapeutic products in-licensed from Roche with strong safety packages diseases. Noema has now appointed Michael Gutch to the position of CFO. Gutch has extensive experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries and venture capital investment. He served as Executive Director of Corporate Development and Head of Equities at AstraZeneca and was most recently Chief Business Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Entasis Therapeutics, an AstraZeneca spin-off, where he was involved in the company’s private financing rounds, its NASDAQ listing in 2018 and in the strategic partnering of its two lead programs.

Alpian | Chief Marketing Officer
Roman Balzan has assumed his new role as CMO at Alpian, a fintech startup combining private banking and wealth management services with everyday banking for potential mass affluent investors (individuals with between USD 100K and USD 1M to invest). With Balzan, the startup has won an experienced marketing specialist to drive the company’s brand, marketing and go-to-market strategy. Before joining Alpian in 2020, Balzan held senior marketing positions at Google and US scooter sharing giant Lime.

(RAN)