Dr. Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in law from Johannes Kepler University (Austria), an MBA from the University of Strathclyde (Scotland) and has completed advanced training programs at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, IMD and Singularity University.
He is co-founder and partner of the Swiss investment firm exelixis capital AG and manages the single family office Dobrauz-Saldapenna 1858 AG in Zurich. Prior to this, Dr. Dobrauz worked for many years as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he was head of the legal department for the whole of Switzerland and significantly expanded it. He was also a member of the Global Legal Leadership Team.
In the first part of his career, he gained valuable experience at Deloitte, an international hedge fund and one of the first Swiss venture capital firms. Over the years, he has published 12 books on innovation, the circular economy and law, over 100 specialist articles and spoken at hundreds of conferences worldwide.