Prof. Aron Braun

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Prof. Aron Braun Dozent

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Address Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Institut Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern

Aron has been an entrepreneur in the biotech and the education sectors for more than 20 years and is a lecturer in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Bern University of Applied Sciences.

After having worked in the semiconductor industry for a few years, Aron became a co-founder of Epigenomics, a Germany / US based biotech company specialized in cancer diagnostics. Later, after the IPO of the company, he became increasingly interested in the field of education. He helped build up a chain of private schools in Germany, has been a co-owner and board member of a language school operator in Switzerland, and is the owner of a daycare center operator. Apart from his own entrepreneurial and teaching activities, Aron likes to support promising startup companies as a business angel and has been involved in 20 startups companies from various sectors, so far. He is also active as a business coach at different events and organisations.

Aron has a degree in electrical engineering from ETH and is a certified financial analyst (CIIA).

Since August 2011 Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business School Lecturer
Since June 2012 Founder and Managing Director Zimballo GmbH
May 2007 - March 2010 COO Phorms Management AG
November 2005 - December 2016 Partner Catention Capital Catenion Group
February 1999 - October 2005 Co-founder and COO Epigenomics AG
June 1995 - January 1999 Development Engineer Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors)

2009 - 2010 Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) AZEK, Zürich
1989 - 1995 Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications: Dipl. El. Ing. ETH (= Master of Science ETH) / Imperial College International Diploma ETH Zürich / Imperial College, London

Since July 2024: Board member at Turacos
Since July 2022: member of the "Kirchenpflege" (executive council) of the Catholic Church in Wallisellen
Since October 2021: Board member at Business Angels Switzerland
March 2018 - April 2019: Board member at Prismond Group AG (since 2019 part of Consultys Group)
April 2014 - May 2018: Board member at Discendo AG (since 2018 part of Academia Group Switzerland)
2011 - 2015: Board member at TEK Technologietransfer für KMU

Arbeitsgruppe Unternehmerische Hochschule (interdepartmental working group on Entrepreneurship)