Simon Sommer

Student Consultant

DISO ventures

Turning ideas into AI-powered reality.
» Leveraging corporate venture building expertise and generative AI capabilities to ideate, validate and build groundbreaking AI solutions tailor-made for your business.
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CEO & Co-Founder

Stealth Startup

 Co-Founder AI Startup

Bitrock Digital Partners

Bitrock is an independent company builder.
Together with leading companies we build and implement successful digital business models.
As entrepreneurs we always strive for long-term success and are ready to share the entrepreneurial risk with our partners.

Corporate Venture Builder

Hypercampus

Chief Operating Officer

Stryber

» Established stand-alone Innovation Unit for one of the biggest retailers in Switzerland: initial corporate innovation strategy alignment, innovation gap analysis, investment theses for core, adjacent and disruptive business models, M&A consulting, and eventually operational venture building with team lead, budget and legal responsibilities (over last 2.5 years), constant knowledge transfer to newly hired venture teams in Switzerland to ensure sustainable independence of Innovation Unit once phase-out is complete
» Validated over 20 business models (qualitative and quantitative analysis) and conducted several investment theses in various areas, e.g. evaluating new (business model and/or market) expansion opportunities for a leading VC-funded Swiss dental health startup reporting to the VC
» 5 ventures built: 2 FinTech ventures (for retailer’s own bank, stakeholders: CEO & Board), 2 FoodTech ventures, 1 Logistics venture: leading full venture teams of up to 5 people (Growth Marketer, Product Owner, Designer), owning legal and budget responsibilities, startup operations
» Venture Capital Investment Thesis for one of the retailer’s portfolio companies including market analysis, potential benchmarking of venture signals and shortlisting for future M&A strategies (stakeholder: Investment Team of Innovation Unit)

Venture Architect

Consult&

» Acquisition and execution of multiple consulting projects with full P&L responsibility, generating EUR 113k revenue with 226 paid consulting days 
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» Several analyses conducted supporting the acquisition and elaboration of digital strategy for Stryber’s first company building client
» Conducted research and analysis contributing to the project success of several (digital) consulting projects, e.g. an innovation benchmark for a fruit wholesaler

Business Analyst

PwC Deutschland

» Support in the areas of Test Management and Project Management Office in the subproject "Bank Control": Post Merger Integration (PMI) of two financial institutions; creation and preparation of bi-weekly testing status reports for management (stakeholders: middle management of Bank)
» Central support of the test management software SAP Solution Manager, including creation of test plans, test packages and test cases
Technical test execution within the scope of a test project for the connection of the credits from SAP CML to the market risk systems on a Linux server and data evaluation with Microsoft Access (stakeholders: IT managers of Bank)
» Development of a project controlling tool in Microsoft Excel and Python incl. connection to the customer-specific project management tool
» Support and independent execution of customer meetings in the work modules Finance, Risk Controlling and Liquidity Risk including preparation and post-processing

Financial Services Technology Consulting

Research Center Finance & Information Management

» System administration and responsibility of IT infrastructure (e.g. Office 365, Windows)
» Company-wide Rollout of new Windows Operating System

Student Research Assistant

JMS Augsburg e.V.

» Voluntary board member of a student consultancy
» Lead a team of 60 student consultants, ensuring overall quality and knowledge management
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Board quality and knowledge management (honorary)

Extensive experience in leading projects, teams and managing senior stakeholders. Involved in setting up an innovation unit for one of the largest corporations in Switzerland, managed operations for an investor-funded startup, and founded two consulting companies. Strong acumen for data-driven work, optimizing processes with digital tools, KPI-driven controlling and a bachelor in business informatics.

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