Patrick Griss

Patrick Griss has been at the forefront of DeepTech innovation for 25 years – as investor, in corporate roles, as founder, board member, engineer, or advisor to leadership teams. He is an engineer by training and contributed to more than 40 journeys from invention to industrialisation, to commercial launch, to scale-up, or failure. Patrick’s career is marked by entrepreneurship, leadership, and impact on an international scale. This playbook is based on his successes and failures and extracts the essence of what has worked and what hasn’t. It is actionable, practical and guides entrepreneurs towards delivering value to customers. Patrick is CEO of Zühlke Ventures, was with Roche Diagnostics, holds a PhD from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and an MSc from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.