co-founder and Managing Director of the ETH spinoff HeiQ Materials AG since 2005. Also a member of the Emanuele Centonze S.A. administrative board since 2006. Centonze is a member of the ETH spinoff Myclimate, today one of the world’s leading climate protection organisation. He holds an engineering degree from the ETH Zurich, and also completed an Executive MBA at the University of St. Gallen. His core competencies lie in entrepreneurship, start-ups, technology transfer, chemistry, biology, engineering, finance, textile technology and medical technology.