News & novelties 02/15/2024

Ecorobotix Welcomes Dominique Mégret as New CEO

Ecorobotix, a Swiss Agtech firm, is excited to announce Dominique Mégret, the former Head of Swisscom Ventures, as its new CEO with effect from March 1st, 2024.

Ecorobotix Welcomes Dominique Mégret as New CEO

An INSEAD MBA graduate, Dominique Mégret is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and venture capital investor. For the last 17 years, he has been building Swisscom Ventures, the leading Swiss VC fund, from scratch up to over $600m under management and advisory with a portfolio of 90 investments, including Ecorobotix. Before Swisscom, he co-founded and led as CEO the tech incubator Kick-Start Ventures in London. He has been on the board of Directors of Ecorobotix for the last two years.

In Dominque’s influential book, “Deeptech Nation - What Future for the Swiss Model?” he passionately advocates for Switzerland as a world-class cluster for R&D-led innovation. He has been supporting entrepreneurs to raise their ambition level and aim for global category leadership, especially at the intersection of AI, precision mechanics/robotics and agronomic/biology technologies, like Ecorobotix.

Ecorobotix Management Team – From left to right – Aurélien Demaurex (CFO /co-founder), Claude Juriens (CBO), Steve Tanner (CTO / co-founder), Andrea Halter (CMO), Dominique Mégret (CEO), and Cyril Halter (COO)

For media inquiries, contact Ecorobotix at media@ecorobotix.com.

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