
Theresa Schachner
Location
Zürich
Field of Study
Digital Health / Human-Computer-Interaction / Artificial Intelligence
Expertise
Digital Health, Strategy
Skills
Articulate Presenter
Board Presentations
Building Leadership Teams
Building World Class Teams
Business Representation
Business Strategy
CEOs
Conflict Analysis
Conflict Management
Contract Negotiation
Cross Functional Team Building
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Cross-team Collaboration
Cross-team Communication
Fundraising
Open for
mentoring
Work Experience
ETH Zurich
2018-09 - 2020-09
Graduate Assistant
Zürich
fulltime
In my role as Graduate Assistant, I have accomplished the following assignments: I re-structured and lectured 50% of the class “Discovering Management” (fall term 2018), I co-developed and assisted the class “Marketing for Start Ups” (spring term 2019), I updated, led, and graded the part “Data Analysis I” and “Data Analysis II” of the class “Empirical Methods in Management” (fall term 2019), I co-developed and assisted the class “From Entrepreneurial Thinking to Market Relevance - How Startups Scale” (spring term 2020), and I assisted the class “Cases in Technology Marketing” (fall term 2020), I assisted the course “Cases in Technology Marketing”, a case-based course with Bühler
Roland Berger
2016-04 - 2018-08
Consultant
Zürich
fulltime
I worked in consumer goods & retail, transportation, financial services and the digital center; strong industry focus on insurances and banks and the functional application of artificial intelligence and blockchain On a daily basis, I worked on several different tasks such as preparing business development documents, running quantitative and qualitative data analyses for ongoing projects, developing client documents, and contributing to internal and external knowledge advancement in the fields of artificial intelligence and blockchain My general tasks encompassed active business development, participation and presentation at project pitches, strategy review and -development for various industry players, development, review and application of market models e.g., for market expansion services, management of interns and junior colleagues, preparation and execution of interviews and workshops for various clients up to executive board I supported building up the artificial intelligence focus of the Swiss office together with the support of two partners I gave presentations on artificial intelligence and its importance for insurances as well as on blockchain at the Helvetia Innovation Lab (cooperation of Helvetia insurance and University St. Gallen (HSG)) I was part of the world-wide internal focus group working on further advancing the application of artificial intelligence in business from a strategy consulting perspective After shortly over one year, I was promoted to consultant level as 1 out of 4 employees (8% of office)
Post/Biotics / Entrepreneur First (London, UK)
2015-08 - 2017-01
Co-Founder
Zürich
fulltime
I co-founded the life sciences start up focusing on the creation of an antimicrobial data-bank at global scale as featured in Wired, BBC, CNN, FastCompany, Science Alert, etc., which has won numerous awards such as Innovate UK, James Dyson Award, and others I have been responsible for the development of the business strategy and the product management I received GBP10k pre-seed investment from the London based deep tech accelerator Entrepreneur First where I got accepted to the 5th cohort as 1 out of only ~3% of non-purely technical applicants I transitioned the start up from EF to SynbiCITE, the Innovation and Knowledge Center and accelerator of natural science companies of Imperial College London In order to expand my business knowledge within strategy consulting, I moved to the advisory board of Post/Biotics
Helpling / Rocket Internet (Berlin, GER)
2015-04 - 2015-08
Direct Marketing Manager; Team lead at local level
Zürich
internship
Officially being an intern in the direct marketing team, I worked as direct marketing manager on an operational level I was responsible for planning, execution and budgeting of all direct marketing activities in two large German cities (>0.5m inhabitants), overlooking and allocating a monthly budget of ~EUR20k I supervised the marketing and finance decisions of team members and was responsible for the on-boarding of new team-members
Amaris
2014-11 - 2015-03
Business Development Manager
Basel-Stadt
fulltime
I was 1 out of 4 employees in the management unit for pharmaceutical and medical consulting in Basel, covering Blue Chip and Big Pharma Clients in the German speaking part of Switzerland I developed business plans and sales strategies for acquiring new consulting clients and was involved in the overall business unit development I was further responsible for the recruitment of new consultants as well as acquisition and management of their projects with a budget of ~CHF140k per consultant
Chojuu
2022-01 -
CEO & Co-Founder
Zürich
fulltime
Behavioural longevity company for personalizing & digitizing breathing training
Academic Experience
ETH Zurich -
2018.09 - 2020.04
Doctorate, Dr. in Technology Marketing / Centre for Digital Health Interventions
University of Vienna -
2012.10 - 2014.09
Master of Science, MSc in Cognitive Science
University of Vienna -
2009.10 - 2012.06
Bachelor of Arts, BA in Scandinavian Studies
Veterinarian University of Vienna -
2008.10 - 2011.10
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Equine Science