Speaker

Anja Graf,
Founder, Visionapartments

Anja Graf was born in Winterthur in 1977. She dropped out of school to launch a modeling agency. In 1999, she founded Visionapartments, and in 2021, she acquired the booking platform Acomodeo. Visionapartments rents furnished serviced apartments on a temporary basis for business and leisure travelers. Through her companies, she manages a real estate portfolio valued, according to her own statements, at over CHF 1 billion.

Bruno Hensler,
Managing Director, Einsiedeln Abbey

Since 2025, business economist Bruno Hensler has held overall operational management of the Einsiedeln Benedictine Abbey to rigorously implement the "Monastery Strategy 2030." Einsiedeln Abbey is one of the largest landowners in Switzerland.

Originally working as a primary school teacher and farmer, Hensler earned his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and later served as rector of the high school at Disentis Monastery and administrative director of HSG. Deeply rooted in the Benedictine way of life, he aims to sustainably evolve the abbey's core business in close collaboration with the monastic community.

Emanuel Heisenberg,
Co-Founder & CEO, Ecoworks

Emanuel Heisenberg, born in 1977, is the founder and CEO of the construction company Ecoworks. Ecoworks is a German PropTech company and general contractor specializing in serial, climate-neutral retrofitting of multi-family residential buildings.

His grandfather was Nobel laureate in physics Werner Heisenberg, and his father is the internationally renowned geneticist Martin Heisenberg. Having studied history and economics, Heisenberg spent years working in the energy sector prior to Ecoworks—including as founder of Heisenberg Energie GmbH, which constructs and operates combined heat and power plants, and as managing director of Dezentrale Energien Schmalkalden GmbH.

Nimrod Malinas,
Founder & CEO, Robonnement

Nimrod Malinas is the founder and CEO of the Swiss tech startup Robonnement. The company provides flexible "Robotics-as-a-Service" (RaaS) solutions to automate repetitive, toxic, and hazardous tasks in fields such as industrial coating, cleaning, and logistics. Among other deployments, Robonnement operates and manages the cleaning robots at Zurich Airport.

Following studies and early experience in construction, Malinas took over the traditional company K. Lips AG in Altstätten in 2020 and transformed it into a European robotics platform. Through scalable subscription models without high upfront capital expenditure, Robonnement makes cutting-edge automation, AI-driven control, and autonomous service robots accessible to businesses of all sizes.

Felix Graule,
Mitgründer, Evorest AG

Felix Graule ist Mitgründer von Everest und Forbes Under 30-Listmaker. Everest entwickelt bei digitale Lösungen für Mietkautionen und modernisiert damit einen Prozess, der in vielen Verwaltungen noch papierbasiert und fehleranfällig ist. Die Plattform automatisiert zentrale Schritte zwischen Mietern, Verwaltungen und Banken: von der Identifikation über Vertragsprozesse bis zur Verwaltung und Freigabe von Kautionsbeträgen. Dadurch verkürzen sich Durchlaufzeiten, Risiken sinken, und Verwaltungen gewinnen Transparenz über ihre Kautionsportfolios. Graule verantwortet die technische Produktentwicklung, die Systemarchitektur sowie die Umsetzung neuer Funktionen, die Evorest zu einem skalierbaren, profitabel wachsenden SaaS-Modell machen.