Hub Organisation

Saim Arslan graduated in 2013 with a master’s degree in mechanics, electronics and computer science with a focus on control engineering from the University of Applied Sciences OST, Switzerland. Since 2007, he has been working at Hawle Armaturen AG in the research & development of control and shut-off valves in the drinking water sector. Since 2016, he is the head of the department with the focus to implement and use digitalisation in combination with products for sustainable water resource management using his skills in mechatronic product development and automation technology.

Roelof Koopmans has more than 20 years experience in founding and managing startup technology companies from pre-revenue through high-growth stages in emerging global markets in telecommunications, e-commerce and managed hosting services.  In his most recent position before Mojix, he was Switzerland country manager for Ranger Marketing, Europe’s largest direct sales company.  Prior to that, he was founder and CEO of Aspectra, a dedicated hosting services company that he led to become Switzerland’s first leading pure-play e-commerce hosting company.  Over his career, Mr. Koopmans, has served in executive business-development, marketing, product-management and sales-channel development roles at companies such as Swisscom, Bluewin, Unisource and KPN Telecom.  At KPN Telecom, he was part of the core-team establishing a multinational carrier joint-venture between four European telco’s and AT&T, called Unisource.  Mr. Koopmans is based in Zurich and is a graduate of the University of Delft.

Ritalba Lamendola is Ambassador at Solar Impulse Foundation, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bari, Italy, and a Doctorate of Business Administration, DBA, from Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, with a thesis on Business Models in IoT.

She is start-up Board Member and Director of EVEURA sarl, Switzerland, a boutique consulting company, advising start-ups on business model design to transition from prototype to first industrialization and scale-up.
She contributes to academic research on Business Model and Entrepreneurial Behaviour in IoT start-ups, in collaboration with Grenoble Ecole de Management.
She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Business Models, Denmark.
She gained long past experience in senior management positions in high-tech Multinationals, such as STMicroelectronics, Oclaro Inc. and, Solvay.
Before joining multinationals, she held a position of Assistant Professor at University of Bari and she authored several patents and peer-reviewed academic articles on plasma chemistry and material science.

Adrian Staudenmaier holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur, Switzerland from 2003. Starting 2003 he worked at Alstom as a service engineer in the field of gas and steam turbine control systems. In 2015, Adrian joined EKZ (Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich) Energy Contracting as head of the control technology department. In 2019, he moved to Jobst Willers Engineering AG, where he successfully built up the Digital Building division. In addition, Adrian is currently completing the MAS program in Digital Transformation at the ZHAW.

Director Business Development and Operations at Tesenso

Daniel Lazar completed his Master’s degree in law at the University of Bern in 2016. In the years that followed, he gained extensive experience as a lawyer in various law firms and as a court clerk at a cantonal high court. In 2023, he founded Easicon together with his brother and two friends, in which he acts as CEO. Easicon has set itself the goal of promoting local businesses by incorporating cutting-edge technology in Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing. Easicon wants to become the leading brokerage platform for service providers starting
in Switzerland and going global.