Peakora - Experts

The Peakora Core Team

At Peakora, 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.

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

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 Peakora (former RealGrowthHacking), where he is now helping companies adopt the same frameworks and tactics used by leading high-growth organizations.

Joel l. Capt

CEO & Founder

Janine Tricoire

Marketing Lead & Partner

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

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

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

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.

Oliver Arber

Sales Lead & Partner

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

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.

Lucas Maliczak

Outbound Lead & Partner

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

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.

Alberto Toledo

Advisor

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

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 inSwitzerland. 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 nativePortuguese and is fluent in English, German and Spanish.

Andrea Ratzenberger

Program Expert - Sales

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

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.

Boris Manhart

Program Expert - PMF

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

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.

Linus HAferkemper

Program Expert - CS

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

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, negotiating 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.

Lanny Heiz

Program Expert - CRM

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

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.

Lennart schirmer

Program Expert - B2C

B2C Focus
10+ years of experience
ex-Tinder, Blinkist, P&G

How to drive growth & brand love for your company? Lennart has >10 years experience from corporates and startups, e.g. Procter & Gamble, Tinder, Blinkist. As a consultant, he can help you with the development & execution of full-funnel strategies, combining brand and performance marketing aspects.

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