On To 2020 With Purpose
Over the past year, I have been fortunate to accompany entrepreneurs, business leaders and boards in both private and public sectors, helping them to build on their strengths. Transformative change often lies within (self, teams, systems) and in exploiting unrecognized simplicity in value creation. It is also ever more sustainable when ‘skin-in-the-game’ commitments align interests.
Raise Partner, offering smart risk APIs for forward-looking asset managers, investment banks and securities services, is at the cusp of RiskTech100 ‘s top third for 2020 in its first entry of the global ranking of reference.
Foxstone is scaling up its uniquely engineered and high-quality real estate crowdfunding platform after its roaring debut success in 2019 in French-speaking Switzerland.
Map&Match is moving on from its proof-of-market phase, optimizing human capital and collaborative team management with insightful software applications and a network of exceptional certified coaches.
WeGaw’s pioneering satellite data-powered analytics is positioned to create immense value across tourism, energy production and insurance sectors in light of climate dynamics impact on snow coverage and depth.
And The Abraham Path Initiative continues to help repair broken relationships and to inspire hope in the Middle East through walking, hospitality and storytelling.
On the retained advisory side, I had the great pleasure to work with top performing executive teams and leaders at Globaz, University of Geneva, Banque Cantonale du Jura. And loving the shared learnings with my change management course students at the Geneva School of Economics and Management.
With gratitude for these opportunities to make a difference and for the ones on the horizon, I wish to all my friends, investees, clients, students, partners and co-directors, prosperity, good health, luck and peace in 2020.
‘Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains’ - Steve Jobs