Dominique Mégret
Head, Swisscom Ventures
Dominique Mégret is head of Swisscom Ventures, which he started in 2007. He joined Swisscom in 2002 as head of the Group Strategy unit. Previously, Dominique Mégret was an entrepreneur in the United Kingdom, a strategy consultant in the European telecom industry and country manager for an IT company in Germany. He currently serves on the boards of SOPHiA GENETICS SA, Scailyte AG and Bloom SA.
Carole Miller
Startup Advisor, Netmentora
Carole has 20+ years of business experience in investment banking at Credit Agricole where she held various management positions in trading, sales, marketing and strategic business development. In the course of her career, she developed close relationships with institutional clients in France and Switzerland. More recently, Carole has been working with Netmentora in Barcelona conducting due diligence and coaching in business development for the non-profit organization. Carole is also a mentor at the Masters in Technology and Entrepreneurship (MTS) at EPFL in Lausanne.
Muriel Richard-Noca
Co-founder, Chief Engineer, Clearspace
Mrs. Richard got her Masters degree in 1996 from the California Institute of Technology (USA) in Mechanical Engineering. She worked at the NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1994 till 2005, early on for the Mars Program, and then for the Advanced Propulsion Technology Group. She becomes a senior engineer in 2001 when she moves to JPLs Mission Architecture Group. In 2005, she was employed by the Space Center EPFL in Switzerland to manage the SwissCube satellite project, and later on to manage the Clean-mE research and technology development program on Active Debris Removal. Since January 2012, she is the Project Manager of the CleanSpace One mission.
Isabelle Cohen Solal
Senior Consultant, COHerence&SOLutions
Isabelle Cohen Solal is a Business Consultant for Swiss and international institutions. After business studies in the UK and a Master's degree in Finance in France, Ms Cohen Solal was a Fund Manager in Paris (France). She launched the first ethical mutual fund in 1998. In 2000, she moved to Geneva and joined a Private Bank as a fund manager. In 2006, she took over the Fund Selection team of a foreign private bank. She then joined Swisscanto to manage the French-speaking part of Switzerland and to look after institutional clients. Following the takeover by Zürcher Kantonalbank, she became Vice-President, Head of Banking Relations for French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino. Since 2019, she has been carrying out specific assignments for institutional clients in the areas of sustainable finance, real estate and strategic business development. She is member of several Boards of Directors and of 100 Women in Finance since 2009, now Chair of the Geneva Committee.
