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Meet Avrios’ dedicated leadership team
Management team
Andreas Brenner
CEO & FOUNDERBefore founding Avrios, Andreas co-lead the Brenner group, where he operated a fleet of 120 vehicles. The family business had been a pioneer in fleet management. They had been using a TCO approach since the 90ies and had all of their vehicles equipped with telematics since 2000. Andreas holds a BA in business administration from the University of St. Gallen and an MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
ROBIN GULDENER
CPO & FOUNDER Robin was an early employee at several successful technology companies, such as Starmind (Zurich) and Pulse News (Silicon Valley), before eventually studying computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence at ETH Zürich. Having developed applications for hundreds of thousands of users, Robin is relentlessly passionate about intuitive and simple solutions.
ROGER JÄGGI
CTO & FOUNDER Roger’s life has been about building robust and scalable software applications. As employee No. 1 at a fully encrypted online storage solution in 2008, he was about 10 years ahead of today’s privacy movement. Besides, while at Netcetera, Roger has developed large scale applications for the Swiss Police as well as several banks. He holds an MSc in database systems from ETH Zurich.
Thomas Benz
SVP SalesThomas is responsible to ensure our customer-centric approach to management. Before joining Avrios he served as country managing director at Veritas for Switzerland and Austria. Before Veritas, Thomas served as a member of the Swiss management team at Oracle, overseeing a staff of 70 people. He started his career at SVOX AG, a voice recognition technology company which we had co-founded and for which he won customers such as BMW and Google.
Francine Gervazio
VP Customer Success Francine is a self made entrepreneur with a passion for customers: she grew up in a small suburb in Brazil, making her way to the USA and finding a scholarship for her MBA at Babson College. She previously co-founded a B2B logistics startup with more than 700 customers and was responsible for South Latin America at EasyTaxi, providing the highest customer satisfaction scores globally.
Karim Mohr
VP Finance Karim is passionate about making organizations run smoothly. An auditor by training, Karim gained experience at Ernst & Young before starting his own consulting business. He later joined the finance team at AMEOS group and saw the company doubling its revenue from 400M to 800M while raising a collective 1.3B in Equity and Debt Financing. Karim holds an MA in Accounting and Finance from the University of St. Gallen.
Richard Brooks
VP MarketingRichard is responsible to help customers understand what we do and help Avrios grow internationally. He worked as marketing director at several B2B and B2C companies before leading the international marketing of Fleetmatics. Under Richard’s leadership Fleetmatics grew into one of the most successful fleet technology providers in Europe, Asia and Latin America, managing more than 800.000 vehicles globally.
Board of Directors
Andreas Brenner
CEO & FOUNDER
ROBIN GULDENER
CPO & FOUNDER
ROGER JÄGGI
CTO & FOUNDER
Andrew Flett
Board Director Andrew has been an investor, board member and fan of the fleet technology industry for more than 20 years. He sat on the board of fleetmatics, a global telematics provider managing more than 800.000 vehicles, and Truce Software, a driver safety and training solution. At Avrios Andrew, is responsible to help the company design a sustainable growth strategy.
Johnathan Gale
Board Director Jonathan had served as VP of Sales at MessageLabs, an email security company, which generated revenues of over 150M. He later became CEO of NewVoiceMedia and grew the business towards a leader in global contact center software solutions while employing more than 400 people. At Avrios Jonathan is responsible to help the company grow the organization and scale its processes in a customer centric way.
Jos White
Board DirectorA marketing leader at heart and former CMO, Jos co-founded three operational companies: RBR Networks, Star and MessageLabs. He later co-founded Notion.VC a specialist B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Investor. At Notion, Jos and his team invested into more than 50 of the leading European SaaS companies. At Avrios, Jos is responsible to help the company position for long-term success and exchange best practices with other SaaS companies.
Lake Star
Lakestar is an investor in Avrios and as such has a representative seat on the board of directors. The Zurich based venture capital firm has a strong entrepreneurial spirit and works alongside ambitious founders to create successful companies. Besides Avrios, Lakestar has invested into companies such as AirBnB, Spotify, Revolut, Omio (GoEuro) and Taulia.
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