Our Core Team
The World Innovations Forum team is comprised of innovative ad entrepreneurial people bringing innovative minds together. We believe in the importance of innovation as a key factor to advance humanity. From our Founding Members to our Core Team we bring a wide range of expertise that will shape the future of this foundation.
Want to join?
We have a simple and clear vision, amplifying innovation for the benefit of advancing humanity. And we have an equally simple mission, “Creating a global space for innovative minds to connect, exchange and have a voice”. If you want to make an impact, consider one of our open positions.
Advisory Board
Samuel Bon
Advisory Board Member
Professional Engagement
CEO at Swisscontact Chairman Board of Swisscontact North America
Prof. Dr. Matthes Fleck
Advisory Board & Founding Member
Professional Engagement
Professor for entrepreneurship at University of Applied Science & Art, in Lucerne, Switzerland (HSLU). He is a Mentor and Instructor for the Growth Accelerator program
Bruno Imhof
Advisory Board Member
Professional Engagement
Managing Director – Program Leader Zentralschweiz Innovativ – Central Switzerland Innovation
Duc Viet Nguyen
Advisory Board & Founding Member
Professional Engagement
Duc Viet Nguyen is cp-founder and President from the Innovations Capital Management Group in Vietnam and instrumental in developing the WIForum’s ICN Program.
Cafer Tosun
Advisory Board Member & Leadership Team
Cafer Tosun is a SVP and executive at SAP. Currently being the COO for the Big Data, Data Intelligence (artificial intelligence & data) and Data Management unit.
Cafer has a computer science degree, is a certified project manager from Stanford University and is certified in design thinking from HPI D-School. He is an executive board member in selected national and international organizations, such as the MIT Supply Chain Technology Advisory Board in Boston (2012 – 2014), Connected Living Organization in Berlin (2013 – present), Biodiversity Institute of Ontario in Canada (2014 – 2018), and Muenchener Kreis (2014 – 2016).
Axel Schultze
Co-Founder & Chairman
A serial entrepreneur, as co-founder of the Society3 Group (San Francisco Accelerator), founder and CEO of Silicon Valley based BlueRoads, the most successful Channel Management software as a service, founder and CEO of Infinigate, one of the largest Cyber Security provider in Europe, (today half Billion in revenue) and founder and CEO of Computer 2000, the most successful European computer distributor, which grew to $5 Billion in and merged with TechData.
Marita Schultze
Co-Founder & Chairwoman
Before World Innovations Forum, she was co-founder of the Society3 Group (San Francisco Accelerator) and before that cofounder of Silicon Valley based BlueRoads, co-founder and investor relations manager at Infinigate AG. Her career included capital raising for a hotel project as well as various sales, marketing and operations roles in the Hotel, Travel & Tourism industry in Europe.
Tanja Sopcic
Office Manager
She is the first go-to-point for most initial contacts and coordinates inquires within the organization and our teams in the field.
Douglas MacKevett
Founding Member
He is managing the communication strategy and production. His professional engagement is with HSLU Lucerne as Head of MScBA Online Business and Marketing, Coordinator of Online Learning Initiatives, Lecturer in Professional Communication.
