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Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2015 1 Roger Lienhard
2016 3 Chris Peter, Roger Lienhard Patricia Hernández
2017 4 Chris Peter, Roger Lienhard, Thomas Kindler Patricia Hernández
2018 6 Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Omair Akhtar, Roger Lienhard, Thomas Kindler Patricia Hernández
2019 7 Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Omair Akhtar, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler Patricia Hernández
2020 10 Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler Patricia Hernández
2021 13 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler Patricia Hernández
2022 16 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Gabriel Ego, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Louise Holton, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler Tommaso Gino Patricia Hernández
2023 21 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Gabriel Ego, Gabriel Ego, Gaelle Bowa, Hector A Freitas, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Louise Holton, Louise Holton, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler, Tommaso Gino Tommaso Gino Patricia Hernández
2024 18 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Gabriel Ego, Gaelle Bowa, Hector A Freitas, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Louise Holton, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler, Tommaso Gino Patricia Hernández
2025 18 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Gabriel Ego, Gaelle Bowa, Hector A Freitas, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Louise Holton, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler, Tommaso Gino Patricia Hernández

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2015-01-01 1 Roger Lienhard
2016-01-01 1 Roger Lienhard
2017-01-01 3 Chris Peter, Roger Lienhard, Thomas Kindler
2018-01-01 4 Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Roger Lienhard, Thomas Kindler
2019-01-01 5 Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Omair Akhtar, Roger Lienhard, Thomas Kindler
2020-01-01 6 Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Omair Akhtar, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler
2021-01-01 10 Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Lindsay McCorkle, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler
2022-01-01 12 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler
2023-01-01 13 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Gabriel Ego, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler
2024-01-01 17 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Gabriel Ego, Gaelle Bowa, Hector A Freitas, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Louise Holton, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler, Tommaso Gino
2025-01-01 17 Alex L., Bjoern Witte, Chris Peter, Derk Rijkens, Gabriel Ego, Gaelle Bowa, Hector A Freitas, Lindsay McCorkle, Lindsay Nelson, Louise Holton, Michiel van Deursen, Omair Akhtar, Robert Boer, Roger Lienhard, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni, Thomas Kindler, Tommaso Gino

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2015-01-01 1 1 0 Roger Lienhard
2016-08-01 2 1 0 Patricia Hernández
2016-09-01 3 1 0 Chris Peter
2017-01-01 4 1 0 Thomas Kindler
2018-01-01 5 1 0 Bjoern Witte
2018-08-01 6 1 0 Omair Akhtar
2019-04-01 7 1 0 Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni
2020-04-01 8 1 0 Michiel van Deursen
2020-10-01 9 1 0 Robert Boer
2020-12-01 10 1 0 Derk Rijkens
2021-01-01 11 1 0 Lindsay McCorkle
2021-03-01 12 1 0 Alex L.
2021-08-01 13 1 0 Lindsay Nelson
2022-07-01 14 1 0 Gabriel Ego
2022-09-01 15 1 0 Tommaso Gino
2022-10-01 16 1 0 Louise Holton
2023-02-01 17 1 0 Gaelle Bowa
2023-06-01 17 1 -1 Hector A Freitas Gabriel Ego
2023-06-02 18 1 0 Gabriel Ego
2023-09-01 17 0 -1 Louise Holton
2023-10-01 18 1 0 Louise Holton
2023-11-01 17 0 -1 Tommaso Gino
2023-11-02 18 1 0 Tommaso Gino

List of people (21 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Bjoern Witte Managing Partner and CEO 2018-01-01 full-time [1]
Louise Holton Business Analyst 2023-10-01 full-time [2]
Lindsay Nelson Business Manager 2021-08-01 full-time [3]
Gabriel Ego General Counsel 2023-06-02 [4]
Michiel van Deursen Investor 2020-04-01 [5]
Tommaso Gino Principal (PE/Growth) 2023-11-02 full-time [6]
Robert Boer Director 2020-10-01 full-time [7]
Alex L. Independent Non-Executive Director 2021-03-01 [8]
Lindsay McCorkle Director, Ventures & Growth Equity 2021-01-01 [9]
Roger Lienhard Founder 2015-01-01 [10]
Thomas Kindler Partner 2017-01-01 part-time [11]
Gaelle Bowa Assistant operations commercial 2023-02-01 full-time [12]
Hector A Freitas Partner, Business Development 2023-06-01 full-time [13]
Derk Rijkens Investor 2020-12-01 [14]
Chris Peter Chief of Staff & Chief Technology Officer 2016-09-01 full-time [15]
Omair Akhtar Store Assistant 2018-08-01 full-time [16]
Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni Partner 2019-04-01 [17]
Patricia Hernández Board Member 2016-08-01 board member [18]
Louise Holton Business Management Intern 2022-10-01 2023-09-01 intern [2]
Gabriel Ego Legal Counsel 2022-07-01 2023-06-01 [4]
Tommaso Gino Associate (Growth) 2022-09-01 2023-11-01 [6]

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