Kickstart Innovation
Lorenzo Manera currently holds multiple roles including Strategic Projects at Swiss Re, focusing on the Chief Investment Officer Office and Asset Management, and as a Business Development & Strategy Manager for ILS Funds since January 2021. Additionally, Lorenzo serves as a Mentor at Tenity and an Advisor at Kickstart Innovation, both roles initiated in 2023. Prior experience includes positions as Digital Product Manager and Strategic Project Manager at Rothschild & Co from September 2016 to December 2020, and Consultant for Strategic Projects at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd from September 2015 to August 2016. Early in the career, Lorenzo worked as a Strategy Analyst Intern at Protiviti in 2013. Educational qualifications include a focus on Digital Transformation from IMD in 2020 and a Bachelor's Degree from Emory University's Goizueta Business School obtained in 2011.
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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.