Our Team

 

Carole Hofmann, Founder and President

Carole Hofmann is a professional in executive management, business building, and technology development. She has (co-)founded and built a number of initiatives and businesses. She served as partner at a Swiss Family Office, and before that, worked for 13 years in the ICT space and led large projects in software and online platform development in the TMT and finance industry.

 

Carole Hofmann has studied Psychology (psychological methods / information architecture) with a minor in Computer Science (artificial intelligence) and holds a M.Sc. from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

 

 

Lina Bee, Founder, Director Female Founders

Lina Bee started her career in the field of impact investing where she gained several years of global experience in early stage investing, focusing on social entrepreneurship and emerging markets. She then joined a Startup accelerator in Switzerland that fosters disruptive and innovative digital businesses as Head of Corporate Venturing. Today she is responsible for strategic partnerships at Allianz Suisse and Co-founder of the Female Founders Initiative.

 

Lina Bee studied Business Administration with a minor in Macroeconomics in Winterthur and Madrid and holds an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

 

 

Mateja Kramar, Director Partner Relations

Mateja is a business development executive, a high performance leader and an sustainability expert.

She helps organizations transform through digitalization, innovation implementation, design thinking and regenerative leadership. Mateja Kramar is a serial entrepreneur, (co)founded several innovation driven companies globally within different industries.

 

Last years she is working on different projects at ETH Zurich (where she also teaches about innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability), at Microsoft as a sustainable development advisor and as a World Business Council for Sustainable Development (wbcsd) liaison.

 

Mateja Kramar holds a Masters degree in marketing and management from the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana. Mateja Kramar is thrives at moving projects, ideas and people: from intention to action, from blah to do, from fear to dare, from ignorance to care and from fail to scale.

 

 

 

Miriam Dippe, Director Media Relations

Miriam Dippe is communications consultant IRF Communications advising international clients in media relations, positioning, financial communication, transactions and corporate publishing. Prior to this consultancy work, she gained a wide range of practical experience in journalism, the communications industry and the political sphere with assignments in Germany, France and Switzerland – among other things at ARTE in the media relations as well as the editing department, the French parliament, various media and a Swiss communications agency covering strategic communication and branding concepts.

 

Miriam Dippe holds a master's degree in applied political science and a master's degree in international communication after having graduated in 2014 with a Franco-German double degree of University of Freiburg (Germany) and Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence (France).

 

 

Olga Larionova, Director Region Geneva

Olga Larionova is a Corporate and International Business Lawyer with extensive experience in the United States, Switzerland, Russia and Mexico. She has been representing and advising companies in the areas of international corporate and commercial transactions, securities, contracts, intellectual property law, and assisted with US/Swiss tax issues.

Olga Larionova speaks fluent English, French, Russian and Spanish, and worked with leading firms, including Yakovlev & Partners in Russia, US-Russia Business Council in the USA, Sanchez Garibay & Asociados in Mexico, and since 2013 she has been working at the Geneva office of a New York based law firm Wilk Auslander LLP. Olga Larionova is admitted to practice law in New York and in Russia, and is a member of the Geneva Bar Association.

Olga Larionova holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Business and Finance Law from the George Washington University Law School (USA), Diplome Superieur d'Université with specialization in International Commercial Law from the University Panthéon-Assas (France), and a Civil and Business Law Degree from Samara State University (Russia).

 

 

Lilian Fuerst, Marketing & Administration

Lilian Fuerst is an administration professional and assistant manager in business and finance. She has more than 15 years of professional experience as an executive assistant, 10 years professional experience in the field of online marketing, communication, and administration.

 

Lilian Fuerst has a Master's Degree in Economics and a commercial diploma with focus on international trade.