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Innosuisse appoints new director – Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News
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May 21, 2024
The new director of Innosuisse is Dominique Gruhl-Bégin. The Federal Council approved his appointment by the Innosuisse I recommend May 15, 2024.
Innosuisse is the Swiss Innovation Agency. Its goal is to promote science-based innovation in the interest of Swiss industry and society. Innosuisse’s activities include the financing of innovation projects between companies and research institutes, both at a national and international level. They also offer support to startups through training, coaching, internationalization offers and participation in international fairs.
Ms Gruhl-Bégin will take up the role from 12 August 2024. The current director, Annalize Eggimann, is stepping down due to age, but will continue to chair the Innosuisse 2024 presidency of TAFTIE, the European network of innovation agencies.
Dominique Gruhl-Bégin
Dominique Gruhl-Bégin, a dual Swiss-Canadian citizen, has considerable experience in the field of promoting innovation. The 48-year-old is currently CEO of Serpentine Ventures, a subsidiary of the Swiss Ventures Group, which focuses on innovation financing and start-up support. From 2017 to 2022 he headed the Start-ups and Next Generation Innovators division at Innosuisse.
Ms. Gruhl-Bégin holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Montreal. She then completed a further Masters in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Leeds.
He began his professional career as a research assistant at the University of Montreal before working as a management consultant and supply chain management specialist in the United States and Switzerland. Among other things, you worked at the Canadian Embassy in Bern as a trade commissioner for trade relations and innovation. In August 2016 you became deputy head of the Startup and Entrepreneurship Division at the secretariat of the then CTI Technology and Innovation Commission. The following year she became head of Innosuisse’s Start-ups and Next Generation Innovators sector.
Annalize Eggimann will leave her position as director of Innosuisse at the end of July 2024. Until her retirement in spring 2025 she will continue to serve as delegate and chair of the Innosuisse 2024 presidency of TAFTIE, the European network of innovation agencies.
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