Kickstart Innovation
Konstantin Yershov is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in B2B, enterprise software, and cybersecurity, currently serving as the Representative for Switzerland at TIBCO since May 2022. Concurrently, Konstantin advises at Kickstart Innovation and invests as an angel investor at Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC). Previous roles include Team Leader of Solution Architecture Alps at Red Hat, Account Executive at Canon Schweiz AG, Senior Project Manager & Solution Architect at Software AG, Consultant at Computershare, and Consultant at HP Autonomy. Konstantin is currently pursuing an MBA at the University of St. Gallen and has completed various leadership and governance programs, as well as a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.