Team
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| Antoine Verdon | Christian Busch | Fabian Pfortmüller | Nadia Laurinci |
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| Nico Luchsinger | Severin Rüegger | Allison Kramer | Ines Silva |
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| Nazanine Metghalchi | Nirav Devnani | Richard Hylerstedt | Andre Marquet |
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Sandbox is run by a very diverse team and our background ranges from medieval history to finance. We are always looking for great people to join our team, have a look at our open positions on this page.
Profiles
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Antoine Verdon Co-Founder, Head of Global Events Zurich antoine.verdon (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Antoine works in Zurich as co-founder of Sandbox and Head of Global Events.
He has a Master of Law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Passionate about politics, he was the youngest member ever elected of the Parliement of Lausanne, his home city, at the age of 20.
Together with the partner of an important Swiss private bank, now retired, he co-founded a liberal think tank in 2003 (“Groupe de Riencourt”) which published a book two years later in collaboration with HRH The Prince of Wales.
He is an occasional columnist in Le Temps, a major Swiss newspaper. He worked for Mediaprocessing – a consultancy for electronic media – and gained a lot of experience in event-management by organizing numerous festivals and parties while at high school.
During University, he worked as an intern, and then part-time at UBS and at Lombard Odier Darier & Hentsch.
In 2010, Antoine was named by Swiss magazine L’Hebdo among 100 top Swiss personalities.
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Christian Busch Co-Founder, Head of Sandbox Live! London christian.busch (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Christian is Co-founder and Head of Sandbox Live! at Sandbox, the leading global network for the most inspiring innovators below 30. He acts as Special Advisor for social entrepreneurship and community matters at the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), and has been selected as one of The Daily Beast’s “300 world class influencers to reboot America”. Related to a PhD on the dynamic interplay between social networks and (social) enterprise performance in emerging markets, Christian teaches entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics (LSE). His first academic papers on the future of social entrepreneurship, as well as his proposition of a new organizational form called “impact business”, are currently under review at several major academic journals.
Previously, he worked in politics and business in Mexico, Russia, Germany, and the US, set up the LSE’s PhD Steering Committee, presided over the LSE Corporate Social Responsibility Society, and took on various leadership roles in student and professional bodies. As fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and scholarship holder at the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Chris takes an active role in policy development.
Christian is passionate about connecting inspiring people and making great ideas happen, and regularly speaks at major conferences such as TEDx, Switch, and National University Entrepreneurs Association Annual Meeting on community development, entrepreneurship, networks, and social innovation.
His latest interview about having an impact via setting up a new venture can be found here.
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Fabian Pfortmüller Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, Head of Sandbox America New York fabian.pfortmueller (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Originally from Switzerland, Fabian has been active as an entrepreneur since his high school years and has founded and managed a variety of ventures. While running his own event company he collected experiences organizing interactive thought leadership forums for the international business think tank First Tuesday in Zurich or building up the offline department of the international business network XING. In his most recent role Fabian has co-founded an innovation think tank with friends from the Sandbox Network called Incubaker and is passionate about its first spin-off Holstee, a lifestyle brand for sustainable products. Fabian loves traveling, exploring new cultures and is infamous for his passion for good food and high restaurant bills. Fabian graduated from Columbia University and is based in New York City.
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Nadia Laurinci Chief Innovation Agent Zurich nadia.laurinci (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Originally from Slovakia, Nadia Laurinci launched her career at Goldman Sachs in New York where she was responsible for structuring complex derivate products across multiple asset classes, including equities, currencies, interest rates, commodities, and credit, for clients in the Americas and Europe. During her tenure at Goldman Sachs, Nadia managed the execution of over $2billion worth of transactions and helped triple her team’s revenue in 2 years. After Goldman Sachs, Nadia partnered with ex-McKinsey alumni and started Out-thinker, a New York based growth and capital advisory firm supporting multiple Fortune 500 companies, including Wal-Mart, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Pfizer, and L’Oreal, with their strategy and competitive analysis. Nadia is the co-founder of Elevation Labs, a mobile gaming start-up in New York and publisher of Gridit, an engaging puzzle game for the iPhone and iPad. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is fluent in German, English, Spanish, Slovak, and Czech.
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Nico Luchsinger Co-Founder, Managing Director, Chief Community Manager Zurich nico.luchsinger (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Nico has a Masters degree in medieval history, economics and political science from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He worked eight years for Switzerland’s leading quality newspaper «Neue Zürcher Zeitung», and currently writes as a freelancer for several publications about the effects of digital technology on society. Before founding Sandbox, Nico has helped build a student marketing department for a recruiting agency, founded an event management company and organized numerous big student parties. He also worked for Greenpeace, did research on risk communication, and ran a bar on a boat.
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Severin Rüegger Co-Founder, CFO Bangkok severin.rueegger (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Severin has studied business, finance and governance in Switzerland, Singapore and in the UK at the London School of Economics (LSE). He has been actively engaged in his own projects and entrepreneurial ventures since high school, lived in six countries on three continents and worked for multinational companies in Europe and Asia, particularly in the field of strategy and consulting. In his most recent role Severin has co-founded two Singaporean-based Start-ups which he currently manages from Bangkok and Singapore. He is particularly passionate about his newest ventures Solosso, a custom clothing company producing eco-friendly tailor made dress shirts and Dealicious, a group buying site in Thailand. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, sports and exchanges with people from around the world.
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Allison Kramer Community Manager London allison.kramer (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Allison just completed a double law degree in English and French Law from King’s College London and the Sorbonne University in Paris and will be starting a Masters in Management at the London School of Economics in the fall. At university, she was President of the English and French Law Society which gave her exposure to event organization, fundraising, and networking with firms. She interned at various law firms, including at Baker & McKenzie and Freshfields in London, Hong Kong, and Germany.
Allison is half-French, half-American and has grown up in both Boston and Paris. She is passionate about learning languages and about different cultures, with a particular fondness for Japanese language and way of life. She has travelled to Japan many times, including as an exchange student in a Japanese high school and as an employee in a cheese shop in Tokyo.
Allison is fond of communicating with others and creating strong ties with people all over the world. Alongside working on developing online fashion competition, Allison is particularly interested in the field of high-end real-estate in London and beyond.
She first heard of Sandbox while attending a Management, Entrepreneurship, and Global Leadership course at the London School of Economics and was instantly hooked on the young and dynamic spirit of the Sandbox community.
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Ines Silva Community Manager Zurich ines.silva (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Born in Porto, Portugal, Inês is a 22-year-old aspiring serial entrepreneur. She loves to create things and she has always been proactive and an info-addict.
Following her motto “Do the best, live the rest”, Inês devote herself to learn as much as possible, not only in the academic field, but also on the practical side of business.
So during her college degree in Business Administration Inês worked as CEO at FEP Junior Consulting, co-founded the Portuguese Junior Enterprise Federation, founded a strategy, business models and innovation Think-Tank, was the organizer and host of TEDxYouth@Porto and also organized two Startup Weekends.
More recently, she co-founded Startup Pirates, a one-week incubation program to empower wannabe entrepreneurs.
In her free time, Inês loves to read, to meet inspiring people and to spend hours and hours talking about entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and new ideas. Inês likes to call herself a dreamer, but in the past years she proved she is not only a dreamer, but also a doer.
She has no doubts, she’s going to have a good time in Zurich and she’ll learn a lot with the amazing and inspiring people that visit the Sandbox office every day.
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Nazanine Metghalchi Community manager London nazanine.metghalchi@sandbox-network.com
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Naza is on the verge of completing her BA in European Studies and Spanish at King’s College London. Thanks to this program, she was fortunate to live one year in Barcelona. Born in Tehran and having grown up in Paris, she loves meeting people with an international background and from distinct cultures.
An internship at Bloomberg in NYC allowed her to work for an acclaimed interviewer, Charlie Rose, who taught her that acquiring all the knowledge is not the most important, but connecting the dots is. Being a news-addict, she hopes one day to dedicate herself to broadcast journalism as time pressure and collaborative team productivity in this industry are sources of adrenaline to her.
Her last internship at the Madrid-based think tank, FRIDE, enabled her to climb new steps: publishing a policy brief as well as organising a conference.
On a more personal level, Naza is utterly convinced she could live the rest of her life by eating cheese and drinking wine; on that account, one of her future plans is to escape for a couple of months to a vineyard and learn the art of oenology.
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Nirav Devnani Community manager New York nirav.devnani (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Nirav is currently a junior at Columbia University in New York, and has been interning at Sandbox for over a year and a half. After meeting Fabian for coffee one evening in April 2010, he has not looked back. An Indian citizen, born in Tokyo but raised in Dubai, he has an international background and loves to travel. He also loves meeting interesting people, which is exactly what the Sandbox network helps him to do. At Sandbox NYC, Nirav wears many hats and has taken on the responsibilities of researcher, event organizer and writer.
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Richard Hylerstedt Community Manager Zurich richard.hylerstedt (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Richard hails from Gothenburg, Sweden, but leads a nomadic life, averaging a move every two years. He started his academic career with Russian language studies, which lead on to a job for the Swedish Foreign Ministry in Kaliningrad. His next pursuit was strategic communication, where Richard crowned his BA with an award-winning thesis on how organizational communication can boost creativity. In addition to communication and creativity, Richard’s third main interest is globalization, making Sandbox pretty much the workplace of his dreams.
When not busy scheming on the latest Sandbox communication strategy, Richard is probably darting through traffic in Zurich on his bmx bike, on his way to the Turkish grocery store to pick up the weekly supplies for his vegetarian cooking.
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Andre Marquet Event Producer, Sandbox Global Summit Lisbon andre.marquet (at) sandbox-network (dot) com
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Born in Lisboa, Portugal, André is a 30 year-old whose interests range from design to alternative energies but that is currently focused on product design. André has worked with the main telecom vendors, as product manager and systems engineer, including for Huawei, a leading Chinese telecom vendor, and for Nokia Siemens Networks, also a telecom maker.
He earned his MSc in Telecom Engineering from ISCTE, in Lisboa, and has authored several papers on telecommunications, he has also been granted with national and international patents related to automatic video quality estimation. He is a co-founder and board member of the Beta-i association that works to help create a more creative and entrepreneurial society.
André likes to set up curated events, like TEDxEdges, the first TEDx in Portugal that he has been curating since 2009 and he loves to create user experiences for events, parties and alike, making people feel good with themselves and the services around them.
