Patrick Comboeuf

The best time to create meaningful purpose-driven innovation was years ago. The next best time is NOW. Are you ready to embrace customer relevance beyond buzzwords & innovation theatre? Then you ought to have a conversation with Patrick. Today! A digital thought leader from a very early stage Patrick combines design thinking with making. His talent as idea merchant, innovation shaper, unicorn hunter and extrapreneur helps him to foster the creation of scalable ecosystems uniting users. corporations, academia & startups. As Director of Studies of the pioneering postgraduate programs 'Digital Leadership' & 'Fintech&Blockchain Economy' at the University of Applied Sciences & Business Administration Zurich - HWZ he spends several weeks a year in the digital hotspots of the world - Silicon Valley, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv et al. As a (digital) advisor to board members & senior executives, Patrick draws from his vast experience in corporate, consulting, and academia. His latest mandates include highly transformational roles at Ifolor Group and Swiss Life, the largest life & pension firm in Switzerland. Prior to that, he served as Director Digital Business at SBB, Swiss Federal Railways where he was the driving force behind high profile digital initiatives like SBB Mobile, their intra-preneurial startup program SBB Digital as well as the company’s headline-making social media presence, to name a few. He actively shares his experience as a lecturer, author, and edutainer at conferences on topics like What to love (& hate) about Silicon Valley, 10 Ways to Augment the Digital Mindset in the Corporate Boardroom, Smart Digitalization - a survival kit for corporate dinosaurs.