The Avrios
Team
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.
Andreas Brenner
Chief Executive Officer
Before 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.
Francine Gervazio
VP of Revenue
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.
Richard Brooks
Chief Product & Marketing Officer
Richard 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.
Michael Zips
Chief Financial Officer
An engineer by education, Michael brings 20+ year of tech start-up experience to Avrios. He has worked as investor, advisor, and in various executive positions. Most notably, Michael was CFO and COO at hybris and part of the team that managed the company through a period of hyper growth, ultimately leading to the acquistion by SAP.
Martin Buberl
Chief Technology Officer
Martin is a product-focused technology leader with a deep passion for SaaS startups, cloud technologies, and using modern engineering practices to scale and innovate at a rapid pace. Previously, Martin led the growth and scaling of Trustpilot's Tech department as VP of Engineering during their hyper-growth phase. He has been recognized by Amazon Web Services as an AWS Hero for his contributions as an international public speaker and cloud community leader.
Board of Directors
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.
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.
Jonathan 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.
ALEXANDER SCHLÄPFER
INVESTMENT PARTNER AT SWISSCOM VENTURES
Alexander has been active in the technology sector as an investor, board member, senior manager and entrepreneur for more than 25 years. Before joining Swisscom Ventures, he was co-founder and partner at Aster Capital, held several senior manager roles at ABB, and co-founded a technology startup in the field of robotics. Alexander will support Avrios in its longterm product and innovation strategy.
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.
