Board

Melanie has completed an apprenticeship in electronics and holds Bachelor’s & Master's degrees in agricultural sciences from ETH. For several years she has worked in the tech industry at National Instruments and in management consultancy at Accenture. She currently manages entrepreneurship projects at Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts (ZFH). She has been involved in setting up several start-ups, including EggField, who she still advises today. In 2014, she was Vice President of Membership of the ETH Entrepreneur Club.

Yannick studied Food Science in his Bachelors and Management, Technology & Economics in his Masters. At the ETH Entrepreneur Club he helped to build up external pagecofoundme.orgcall_made and then founded his own startup for breakfast delivery. After gaining some experience in the innovation departments of a telecom and a banking corporation, he now works for Westhive Coworking.

Liliane is currently studying for a Master's degree in Sinology at the University of Zurich. In the ETH Entrepreneur Club, she served as Vice President of Marketing and initiated a podcast series on ETH spin-offs in collaboration with Swisspreneur.  

Christian Koch

Vice President

Christian is co-founder of Hades - a Zurich-based start-up that uses artificial intelligence to help cities better maintain and manage their urban drainage systems. He holds a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from ETH Zurich and also graduated from the Climate-KIC Master Label Programme in Cleantech Entrepreneurship.

Marcel is a PhD candidate in 3D and computer vision at ETH. He builds and teaches generative models for photorealistic digital humans. Applications include 3D face reconstruction, animation, relighting, and semantic editing.

Marcel fell in love with the Entrepreneur Club (EC) when participating in Incube in 2018. He then served the EC in the event and finance team until 2020. He was the lead organizer for the Startup Speed Dating and the EC Award. He also developed a solution to integrate the Bexio software into EC’s expense management system.  

Catherine Witteveen

Events

Catherine is currently finishing her Chemistry and Business studies, which she will complete with a Master degree. She is not sure yet, where the path will take her after, but feels more then ready to take up on the challenges to come.

Edith Schmid holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from HSG and a Master of Arts in History and Philosophy of Knowledge from ETH. She served as president of the ETH EC in 2015 and brought the ETH EC Alumni to life. Since 2016 she helped build the MedTech IoT Startup Kenzen, where she acts as CEO for the Swiss entity and as COO for Kenzen Global. Kenzen specializes in sweat analysis in order to predict and prevent avoidable injuries and health conditions.

Jari founded Piomic Medical as head of R&D in 2016. Piomic is targeting the global issue of chronic wounds and currently finishing its first clinical trial in preparation of Series A. Jari studied Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich. During his university time he organized multiple Startup Speed Datings (external pagehttps://entrepreneur-club.org/en/events/startup-speed-datingcall_made) as VP of Events at the ETH Entrepreneur Club. He founded later the ETH Entrepreneur Alumni and HackZurich, which is today part of the Digital Festival Zurich.