Urs Aebischer

Urs Aebischer is Executive Director and co-founder of Swiss Innovation Partners, a Swiss based firm investing in early stage or growth stage private equity worldwide of businesses with a focus on fast growing markets such as China, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Brazil, and Russia. The speciality is to provide a dual investment in equity AND management. Providing executive management for equity helps the portfolio companies to accelerate faster with less liquidity needed, creating a maximum momentum and return for all involved investors.

Supporting this approach Urs has a background of both as private equity investor as well as innovative entrepreneur. Starting his career as management consultant he then co-founded one of the first VoIP providers in Europe and helped to develop it to become a 3 billion dollar company, being responsible for Marketing & Sales, later for Product Development. Thereafter Urs started to invest in several early stage companies. Urs holds a Master in Physics and a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland.