Boris Manhart

Chief Executive Officer

Innosuisse

Startup and Scale-up Coach

Growth Unltd.

After almost 25 years as an entrepreneur and co-founder of five companies - a unicorn and apps with millions of users - I decided to change my focus and advise other founders and leaders together with a team of experienced business leaders and specialists.
As an entrepreneur, it always made me happy to have an impact. Now, it makes me incredibly happy when I see how entrepreneurs become more comfortable and practical as a result of our collaboration.

Founder

Career coaching to executive MBA students who want to enter an entrepreneurial career path.

Startup Strategist

Guest Speaker

Peakora

Product-Market Fit Expert & Coach

TRIQ Triathlon

TRIQ is a revolutionary, dynamic app for triathlon training plans.
It combines the latest knowledge of renowned coaching scientists with an intelligent algorithm that constantly adjusts the plan to fit the athlete. TRIQ saves time and adapts on its own to ensure you’re fresh and motivated enough to keep training hard.

CodeCheck

CodeCheck is the first shopping matchmaker. It matches consumers with the right products, retailers with the right customers and brands with the right insights.

Numbrs

Numbrs Personal Finance is a financial technology company based in Switzerland. The company offers an app called Numbrs that aggregates bank account and credit card information and facilitates mobile banking and personal financial planning.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Y&R Group Switzerland

Group Account Director

Compresso AG

Compresso is a communication and promotion agency with a broad portfolio of well-known clients and a wide variety of projects.

Co-Founder

As the founder of Growth Unltd., I've dedicated my career to helping startups reach product-market fit. With a proven track record of co-founding five ventures, including a unicorn, I understand the intricacies of startup success.

At Growth Unltd., we're redefining the startup journey. We provide invaluable guidance to entrepreneurs, leveraging our years of entrepreneurial expertise and a proven success formula. Our mission is clear: to accelerate your startup's path to Product-Market Fit, saving you time and money.

In addition to my role at Growth Unltd., I am a startup strategist at IMD Lausanne, one of the world's top business schools. I've also been a guest speaker at Stanford, where I've shared insights with the next generation of entrepreneurs.

I'm honored to have been recognized as one of Switzerland's 100 Digital Shapers by Bilanz, and I'm passionate about making a lasting impact in the digital landscape.

Join me on this exciting journey of growth and innovation. Let's connect and explore how to work together to take your startup to the next level.

SIDIS® Data Platform

As a Director of Growth, I am entrusted with guiding the company in harnessing the power of customer data to create exponential growth. My responsibilities span across various facets of growth, sales, and marketing.

Director of Growth

Dacide

As a Strategic Advisor at Dacide, a startup revolutionizing SEO through AI, my role is to catalyze the company’s expansion and market penetration. I work closely with the Dacide team to identify and capitalize on business opportunities, forge strategic partnerships, and optimize product offerings for maximum client value.

Growth Advisor

Swisscom

As a Business Owner Personalization, my role is pivotal in advancing the personalization strategy, ensuring leadership and innovation. I focus on developing a comprehensive vision and execution roadmap for personalization, establishing measurable success criteria, and overseeing the implementation. I actively engage in operational aspects to enhance processes and address challenges, aiming for continuous improvement in customer experience personalization.

Business Owner Personalization 

I have been hired by Swisscom to improve the overall customer experience

Sr. Experience Manager

Kanbii Solutions AG

As a Strategic Advisor at Kanbii, a pioneering App disrupting the Job Market with Skill-First Matching. My responsibilities span across various facets of growth, sales, and marketing.

elaboratum Suisse

At elaboratum and elaboratum suisse we are experts for digital business and cross-channel strategies. We help companies achieve customer excellence by leveraging the full potential of digital technologies. Hands-on experience combined with methodological competence and focus on digitalisation is our advantage.

Sr. Managing Consultant

Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund

* Assigned to build the eCommerce Strategy for the biggest innovation of Migros in the last 25 years, exceding expectetions after product launch by over 60%  
* In charge of rescuing the eCommerce area, reverting a negative trend, and turning it into a strategic unit
* Improved EBIT results by 250% over two and a half years
* Lead a multifunctional team of 9 people across Germany, France and Switzerland 
* Selected in the exclusive Young Leaders program

Head of eCommerce Cafe Royal & CoffeeB

* Responsible for revenue uplift by  824% in the D2C channel over three years 
* Responsible for revenue uplift by 12X at e-Tailer channels (Galaxus, Brack, Monline) 
* Rebuilt the loyalty program increasing customer retention  by 36%, average order value by over 22%, and frequency by 30%

Head of eCommerce Delizio

Connexa • Connecting communities

* Built a TechStartup connecting over 200k active users across the globe 
* Raised over CHF 600k and managed investors relationships and a team of 18 employees
* Led the definition of the business model, competitors research, identification of unique selling proposition, impact opportunity and pitch deck creation
* Final responsible for the digital product, from research to the last iterations

Cofounder

Cooltribes

Managing a digital agency that focuses on building and connecting tribes of true fans around the products and services of our customers, following activities 
* Expanding to 3 cities in 3 different countries
* Growing from 3 founders to more than 20 employees
* Generating digital marketing and growth hacking strategies
* Conceptualization of social media strategies, websites, e-commerce and mobile apps
* Obtaining key accounts  
* Conceptualization of a StartUp Incubator Program

Managing Director

UPS Supply Chain Solutions

Support of the development, implementation and maintenance of the EMEA District Sales systems, and measurements 
- Staffing Analysis 
– Performance Measurement 
– Sales Activity Measurement and Reporting 
– Sales Initiatives Measurement 
- Sales Operations Balance Scorecard
CRM and DataWarehouse systems implementation, users trainings, systems optimizations.

EMEA Sales Operations Specialist

AIESEC

Head of the Local Comitee in Aiesec Maracaibo, Venezuela. In charge of business development, exchange management, human resources, information system and as a part of the board of presidents participate in the strategic analysis, monitoring and development.

Local Comitee President

I help D2C, SaaS and eCommerce companies achieve breakthrough growth with AI & Neuroscience | Growth Advisor | Investor | Certified Behavioral Consultant

Imagine scaling your startup or eCommerce business 8x in just two years. How about using neuroscience and AI to get there even faster?

Sounds like a game changer, doesn't it?

But first, let me know, Are you feeling these challenges while running your business?

1. You cracked a certain level of growth achievement in your business but you’re struggling to scale your business at a desired speed.

2. Steady business growth for a long period of time and struggling to achieve consistent growth, despite being profitable.

3. You’re an expert in your field but you’re struggling to come up with a new marketing strategy to achieve desired growth rate.

I can understand how it feels when we give our heart and soul into our business but we still fail to achieve our goal. Even I was in a similar kind of situation. 

In my earlier days, It was really very challenging for me and my two co-founders to grow our digital agency. We found the same problems that you might be facing now.

But how did we overcome these challenges?

We leveraged the power of rapid experimentation, AI, and neuroscience. We harnessed AI for insights that drove our strategies and leveraged neuroscience to understand customer behavior better, resulting in informed, data-backed decisions.

Let me tell you about one of my previous projects. I helped an eCommerce business grow its revenue by eight times in only two years. And that's not all, I've also shown other companies how to build plans that make them grow and become more successful.

Talking about myself, I'm a growth marketing expert. For the past ten years, I've combined science, technology, and marketing to create a powerful formula for business success. 

Leveraging my understanding of neuroscience and AI, I've decoded consumer behavior patterns to create targeted, effective marketing strategies. It's not just theoretical; it's based on real, tangible results. 

Imagine scaling a D2C brand, SaaS startup, or eCommerce company faster than ever before just by including neuroscience and AI in your growth strategies.

If you're an entrepreneur with at least a decade of experience under your belt and you've worked very hard to get where you are, and now, you're ready to take your business to the next level. 

You're open to innovative, science-backed strategies that could transform your business. If this sounds like you, then you can book a 1:1 Strategy Call with me today.
Here is the link- https://calendly.com/carlosmarquez-ai/power-hour-advising-call
Email: cm@carlosmarquez.ai

Carlos Marquez 🧠

Web Summit Lisbon didn’t just feel bigger this year.
It felt different.

Faster.
Louder.
More global.

But the real shift wasn’t on the stage.
It was in the conversations.

Coming back to Lisbon felt like stepping into a scaled-up version of the ecosystem I fell in love with years ago.
Every corridor walk turned into a reunion.
Every “We should catch up” from 2019 finally happened in 2025.

Those meetings were a good reminder:

In a world that moves at this speed, long-term relationships are still the best “unfair advantage” you can build.

And then there’s Portugal itself.

Every time I’m here, I feel the same mix of optimism and ambition.
You walk a few metres inside the pavilions and you’re suddenly in a global meeting room:

Founders from Europe.
Builders from Asia and the Middle East.
Operators from Latin America and the US.

All compressed into a few days, all building in parallel.

One highlight this year was our interview at the Startup Portugal stand, sharing why we chose #Portugal as a strategic base for SIDIS® Data Platform.

For anyone considering their next hub, here’s what #WebSummit reinforced for me:

Why Portugal works as a strategic base for SIDIS

A talent ecosystem that thinks globally
Portugal doesn’t just produce great local talent.
It attracts people who want to build for international markets from day one.
Real support infrastructure, not just slogans
inovagaia, our incubator, has been a true partner, not just an address.
And IAPMEI, I.P. - Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação’s Tech Visa has made it possible to combine exceptional local professionals with top 1% talent from around the world.
A culture that matches the pace of innovation
Ambitious, collaborative, and still surprisingly accessible.
You can meet policy-makers, founders, investors, and operators in the space of a morning and still have time to build.

Events like #WebSummit work a bit like neural networks:

They fire.
They connect.
They create new pathways you didn’t know you needed.

This year, that “creative acceleration” felt stronger than ever, both for SIDIS and for the ecosystem around us.

To everyone I met: Old friends, new allies, and brilliant minds from across the globe thank you for the time, the ideas, and the honesty!

I’m carrying a lot of those conversations into our roadmap.

Your turn:

If you were at Web Summit  this year:
What changed in your perspective after Lisbon?

If you weren’t there:
Which event (or community) has shaped your thinking the most in 2025?

And if we only managed a quick “Let’s talk soon”, let’s fix that.
I’d love to reconnect properly over the next few days.

MICHAEL BOSHAMMER Javier Ramirez Carlos Marrufo Capozzi Walter Palma Ali Sohail Álvaro Tiago Ribeiro 🌱 Carlota Casimiro Tânia Tavares Neves Luís Santos João Correia Juliana Sánchez CMX Pedro Dias Jaime Fernando Saa Alejandro Buitrago Diego Fernando Rodriguez Castaño Jose Molano Camil Haemmerli Camila A. Ibañez Andreis Juan José Pocaterra Umberto Segnini

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