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At RGH, you will work with startup veterans who have lived through high-growth phases that only a few have experienced, whether it's the core team or the program-specific experts, all of whom are seasoned experts in their field.

From starting the first company while studying, to working for a VC fund in Silicon Valley, to helping scale a technology company from 30 to 200 employees, Joël has spent his career exploring many facets of the entrepreneurial world. For the past 6 years, Joël has battle-tested all kinds of growth tactics and strategies, either coaching portfolio startups in Silicon Valley or building one of the largest growth teams in Switzerland. As a result, Joël identified the main reasons that differentiate mediocre startups from the rocket-ship tech companies and founded Realgrowthhacking, where he is now helping companies adopt the same frameworks and tactics used by leading high-growth organizations.

4-20M+ ARR as Head of Growth at Beekeeper
Polytech Ecosystem Ventures
Serial Entrepreneur

Joël L. Capt.

CEO & Founder

4-20M+ ARR as Growth Manager at Frontify
Digital Growth Lead at AXA
Founder of Podcast “117% Signifikant”

From starting the first company while studying, to working for a VC fund in Silicon Valley, to helping scale a technology company from 30 to 200 employees, Joël has spent his career exploring many facets of the entrepreneurial world. For the past 6 years, Joël has battle-tested all kinds of growth tactics and strategies, either coaching portfolio startups in Silicon Valley or building one of the largest growth teams in Switzerland. As a result, Joël identified the main reasons that differentiate mediocre startups from the rocket-ship tech companies and founded Realgrowthhacking, where he is now helping companies adopt the same frameworks and tactics used by leading high-growth organizations.

Janine has made it her mission to empower startups to scale their businesses, a passion that has driven her throughout her various roles. Her experience in the growth unit of Speedinvest, one of Europe's most prominent venture capital funds, provided her with the opportunity to work with 50+ B2B startups. Through multiple growth stages, Janine witnessed firsthand what it takes to succeed as a founder, gaining invaluable insights that few possess. With her deep knowledge, Janine established her own consulting and operational support business, helping startups achieve their full potential.

Tim Eckert

Client Lead & Partner

Tim helped grow one of the fastest-growing SaaS Startups in Switzerland, is the Co-Founder of the podcast "117% Signifikanz" where he loves to interview people about their growth mindset, and has successfully driven growth teams and tactics in startup- and corporate environments. Starting his career in game development, Tim is fascinated by engaging software, rapid- and data driven decision making, and passionate about great business experiments. You'll find Tim most likely somewhere in the mountains.

Janine has made it her mission to empower startups to scale their businesses, a passion that has driven her throughout her various roles. Her experience in the growth unit of Speedinvest, one of Europe's most prominent venture capital funds, provided her with the opportunity to work with 50+ B2B startups. Through multiple growth stages, Janine witnessed firsthand what it takes to succeed as a founder, gaining invaluable insights that few possess. With her deep knowledge, Janine established her own consulting and operational support business, helping startups achieve their full potential.

3+ years as Growth Specialist at Speedinvest Pirates
Worked with 50+ B2B Startups
Hands-on supporting Startups as independent Growth Consultant

Janine Tricoire

Marketing Lead & Partner

Founding the growth hacking romandie community in 2017, Lucas is a key driver of the growth hacking movement in Switzerland. He's the owner of an e-commerce wine business and successfully designed the launch of a fintech startup. Lucas is also an Outbound expert having launched dozens of campaigns and generate 10'000s qualified leads for various startups. Lucas graduated with a BsC at the École Hôtelière de Lausanne and is interested in the topics of consumer psychology, automation, and of course outbound. It’s easy to convince him to have a chat with a glass of wine.

Head of Development at RiskDeck
Founder of Vades Wine
Founder of Growth Hacking Romandie

Lucas Maliczak

Outbound Lead & Partner

5+ years Snr. Account Executive at Beekeeper
From BDR to top performing Snr. AE
From 5 to 25M in ARR

From starting the first company while studying, to working for a VC fund in Silicon Valley, to helping scale a technology company from 30 to 200 employees, Joël has spent his career exploring many facets of the entrepreneurial world. For the past 6 years, Joël has battle-tested all kinds of growth tactics and strategies, either coaching portfolio startups in Silicon Valley or building one of the largest growth teams in Switzerland. As a result, Joël identified the main reasons that differentiate mediocre startups from the rocket-ship tech companies and founded Realgrowthhacking, where he is now helping companies adopt the same frameworks and tactics used by leading high-growth organizations.

Janine has made it her mission to empower startups to scale their businesses, a passion that has driven her throughout her various roles. Her experience in the growth unit of Speedinvest, one of Europe's most prominent venture capital funds, provided her with the opportunity to work with 50+ B2B startups. Through multiple growth stages, Janine witnessed firsthand what it takes to succeed as a founder, gaining invaluable insights that few possess. With her deep knowledge, Janine established her own consulting and operational support business, helping startups achieve their full potential.

As a passionate Sales Enthusiast, Oliver helped grow Beekeeper from 5 to 25M by overachieving sales targets continuously as their most successful sales rep and by implementing new methodologies as sales cycles and deals increased in complexity (closing 7-figure deals). In 2019 Oliver co-founded a Swiss building technology company which has been profitable within the first year and ever since.

Oliver Arber

Sales Lead & Partner

Alberto Toledo serves as Senior Advisor at Locatee AG and Sherpany. Previous to Locatee AG, Alberto was the Chief Strategy Officer for Beekeeper AG. During his 5 years tenure at Beekeeper, he was responsible for successfully developing the growth and go-to- market strategy. He was instrumental at setting up the US Sales operations and the Beekeeper partnership program. A multicultural executive, Alberto has worked and lived extensively in the United States, Switzerland, Ireland and Brazil during his 30+ year career. Alberto was also a Board Member at Sherpany and currently holds various Advisory roles in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startups in Switzerland. Alberto holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from City University of Seattle - USA and an Electronics degree from Divino Salvador College São Paulo- Brazil. Alberto speaks native Portuguese and is fluent in English, German and Spanish.

30+ years of business experience
Board member at Beekeeper
Senior Advisor at Locatee AG and Sherpany

Alberto Toledo

Advisor

Andrea is a seasoned sales and marketing specialist with experience in building and growing companies at scale. From having set up diverse growth engines internationally in the manufacturing sector, to helping scale a technology company from 3M to 15M ARR in Europe, Andrea's experience in building successful growth engines from the ground up has given him important insights on the steps to follow to successfully unlock growth. Besides holding 3 masters, Andrea speaks 5 languages fluently and has been selected among the Top 100 Marketing Directors from Forbes Italy in 2020. He is also currently on the executive board of the Italian Association for CS and Corporate Governance.

7 years VP Sales & Marketing at Sherpany
from 15 to 160 employees
5x growth in ARR

Andrea Ratzenberger

Program Expert - Sales

Founded over 5 startups
20+ years of Tech-CEO experience
Founder of Growth Unltd.

From starting the first company while studying, to working for a VC fund in Silicon Valley, to helping scale a technology company from 30 to 200 employees, Joël has spent his career exploring many facets of the entrepreneurial world. For the past 6 years, Joël has battle-tested all kinds of growth tactics and strategies, either coaching portfolio startups in Silicon Valley or building one of the largest growth teams in Switzerland. As a result, Joël identified the main reasons that differentiate mediocre startups from the rocket-ship tech companies and founded Realgrowthhacking, where he is now helping companies adopt the same frameworks and tactics used by leading high-growth organizations.

Janine has made it her mission to empower startups to scale their businesses, a passion that has driven her throughout her various roles. Her experience in the growth unit of Speedinvest, one of Europe's most prominent venture capital funds, provided her with the opportunity to work with 50+ B2B startups. Through multiple growth stages, Janine witnessed firsthand what it takes to succeed as a founder, gaining invaluable insights that few possess. With her deep knowledge, Janine established her own consulting and operational support business, helping startups achieve their full potential.

Boris co-founded five companies, one becoming a unicorn and another a leading shopping app with millions of users. Boris shares his experience in venture building, product-market fit, and scaling as an advisor, board member, and startup strategist at the top ranked business school IMD Lausanne. His big passion is to impact and help other founders get it right from the start.

Boris Manhart

Program Expert - PMF

Linus always worked in IT/Tech and always in customer-facing roles and moved to SaaS in 2016. He guided large B2B customers through the individual challenges of their digital transformation and process innovation journey. He built high touch enterprise Customer Success teams in EMEA, growing them from 10-70M ARR. He also built CS teams at Scale ups, from 7 to 20 FTEs and doubling net expansion. Having worked in the US, Europe and the Middle East - Linus network spans around the globe. He gained experience in various roles, negociating Million Euro SaaS contracts in Germany and collaborating with customers in regulated industries in Europe, Switzerland and the Middle East. Linus holds an Executive MBA from IESE Business School.

Head of Customer Success at Dropbox
Leading Enterprise CS Teams from 10 to 70M ARR
Leading Scale ups from 7 to 20 FTEs

Linus Haferkemper

Program Expert - CS

Lanny is a real expert when it comes to marketing automation and scaling-up business development. For almost 5 years he was Head of Sales at Bee Digital Growth AG, one of the largest Hubspot Agencies in Europe. During this time, Lanny supported over 60+ Companies with implementing their CRM ultimatively leading to Increased efficiency, better sales management and Enhanced marketing capabilities.

4+ years Head of Sales at Bee Digital Growth AG
Implemented 60+ CRMs
Founder of RevenueEnablement

Lanny Heiz

Program Expert - CRM

Supported 35+ B2B startups from Pre-Seed to Series B
Serial Investor and growth advisor
Founder of Rowing8

From starting the first company while studying, to working for a VC fund in Silicon Valley, to helping scale a technology company from 30 to 200 employees, Joël has spent his career exploring many facets of the entrepreneurial world. For the past 6 years, Joël has battle-tested all kinds of growth tactics and strategies, either coaching portfolio startups in Silicon Valley or building one of the largest growth teams in Switzerland. As a result, Joël identified the main reasons that differentiate mediocre startups from the rocket-ship tech companies and founded Realgrowthhacking, where he is now helping companies adopt the same frameworks and tactics used by leading high-growth organizations.

Janine has made it her mission to empower startups to scale their businesses, a passion that has driven her throughout her various roles. Her experience in the growth unit of Speedinvest, one of Europe's most prominent venture capital funds, provided her with the opportunity to work with 50+ B2B startups. Through multiple growth stages, Janine witnessed firsthand what it takes to succeed as a founder, gaining invaluable insights that few possess. With her deep knowledge, Janine established her own consulting and operational support business, helping startups achieve their full potential.

Björn's focus is on helping startups achieve sustainable revenue growth by providing guidance and expertise to accelerate their growth. He has experience working with over 35 B2B startups from Pre-Seed to Series B, where he emphasizes the importance of aligning marketing, sales, and product while providing great leadership to help employees reach their full potential. His typical client base ranges from startups with 0.5M to 5M ARR, where he serves as a sparring partner for founders and C-level executives to achieve their next level of growth more efficiently and reliably.

Björn W. Schäfer

Program Expert - Sales