Our management team

Francine Gervazio

Chief Executive Officer

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.

Andreas Brenner

Chairman and Founder

Before founding Avrios, Andreas co-led 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.

Andrew Flett

General Partner at Mobility Impact Partners LP

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

CEO at Sabio & Technology Investor

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

General Partner at Notion Capital

A 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.

Lakestar

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.