Bettina Wittmann has been working in marketing since 2007 and is considered a “pioneer in the field of remote work”. In 2016, Bettina founded and built up the international digital marketing & process optimization agency weBOUND during a 1.5-year trip around the world through Asia, Europe and the USA. Since 2017, Wittmann has been speaking at various conferences worldwide on the subject of remote work, digital marketing and business development. She is also a guest lecturer at various international universities and a business mentor at Startup Live, Modul University Accelerator, Techstars and greenstart – an initiative of the Climate and Energy Fund. Since 2020, she has been teaching at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Bettina Wittmann, FAB X-22 Program Expert

Bruce is a Digital Strategist at {type}Dev Consulting and specializes in Digital Strategy which requires expertise in business development and software development. In 2019, he graduated his Masters in Commerce in Text Analysis which falls under Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence. He strategized more than 10 start-ups at TuksNovation. He has re-modeled the software strategy methodology at {type}Dev which has been carried out for more than 5 clients. Bruce is currently studying for his PhD and is accelerating startups while starting {type}Dev’s branch in Austria. He’s also presented a master class on Innovative Product Design at the South Africa Innovation Summit and the Innovation Breakfast at Talent Garden Gmbh.

Bruce Liu, FAB X-22 Program Expert

Through 15+ years of professional experience mostly within the cleantech and sustainability industries, Marco gained a strong insight about process, project and team management in the corporate world. His expertise lies at the crossroad between strategy, analytics and operations and he currently leads the project finance and strategic modelling capabilities for his team at GE Renewables. Marco has been collaborating with a wide range of international accelerators since 2017 and supports start-ups at different stages of their life cycle.  He is also an invited speaker at entrepreneurial and coaching events and delivers training packages.

Marco’s vision is “A sustainable and ethical Planet with 100% renewable energy and sustainable tourism” and his goal is supporting companies with a strong CSR / impact-oriented mission.” He holds an executive MBA from Bayes Business School, other than 2 Engineering Master’s Degrees (in Italy and Ireland) and has authored more than 20 between technical and market intelligence reports and scientific publications about renewable energy technologies.

Marco Poliafico, FAB X-22 Program Expert & Mentor

Susanne Klepsch is the CEO & Co-founder of MeetFox, was born and raised in Vienna, Austria, holds a master’s degree in International Management and currently lives in New York. Susanne’s frustration at trying to find a business coach inspired her to found the scheduling and meeting platform MeetFox in 2019. Klepsch transplanted her Vienna startup to New York later that year and now the team of 13 has over 23,000 professionals making bookings and hosting video calls every month on its platform.

Susanne Klepsch, FAB X-22 Startup Mentor

Sofie Ziethen is founder & CEO, Action to Success Coach “Working with people and adding value to organizations and individuals is my personal calling. Achieving excellence is my drive. This is why I founded Servicexcellence.” Sofie founded the company in 2015 in Dubai, UAE and Set up her second office in Vienna, Austria in 2021. She holds an MSC in International Business and is a MBTI® Certified Psychological Practitioner with passion. Her background is based on more than a decade of hospitality experience, which led her into training and development, leadership coaching and service excellence. She has a unique energy and aura, that positively inspires her workshop participants and those business partners and individuals whom she coaches regularly. Her unique approach to motivate both individuals and groups of up to 1,000 people, has led several multinationals and corporates in the Middle East and Europe to success.

Sofie Ziethan, FAB X-22 Startup Mentor

Jan Jedlinski s a technology entrepreneur born in Vienna, Austria and a BBA-graduate of Modul University Vienna. He is the co-founder and CEO of Candidately. At Candidately Jan and his team are building the digital storefront for staffing and recruiting companies. Jan graduated from Y Combinator 2017 and raised over $4M in venture capital from investors like Speedinvest, Beenext, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim among many others. Jan is also the co-founder of the World Staffing Summit, the largest virtual conference for staffing owners and operators. Currently based in Vienna, Austria, Jan is passionate about the staffing industry as well as supporting other founders to help them succeed. He actively invests and advises technology companies as a Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund and Calm Storm Ventures.

Jan Jedlinski, FAB X-22 Startup Mentor

Reinhard Vock is project and Operations Management executive and coach, provider of project management and overall leadership with almost 20 years of experience, always looking for the fun way to do the job within budget, time and customer satisfaction, learned early in hotel and hospitality businesses. He is a firm believer in social skillsets, information and digitalization and stakeholder management, equipped with an open personality and internationally experienced from Austria to South Africa via Russia, France, Switzerland and Belarus. He also teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and business planning at Modul University Vienna.

Reinhard Vock, FAB X-22 Startup Mentor

Peter is a strategic advisor in the optimization of business models, specialised in salesmarketing. His experience ranges from product development, product launch to market expansion. Collaboration with Peter profits from his external viewpoint and serves to acquire new perspectives.

His practice-oriented expertise has already been confirmed as a winner of the “Austrian State Award in Marketing”. Peter started his education in Hotel-/Tourism management at Modul and Klessheim and continued his professional training with the marketing program of the St. Gallen Business School and the university course “Sales Management Excellence” at Limak/JKU. Learn more on LinkedIn or Querdenke.com.

Peter Skala, FAB X-22 Expert & Startup Mentor