Axel Schultze
Founder & CEO
Axel is the co-founder and CEO of BlueCallom Corp. After building four highly innovative businesses, two of which reached the billion $ revenue realm, he was helping startups to do the same. In 2020, he decided to help agile enterprises to become genuinely innovative.
Chiara Schlichtherle
Partner Manager
Chiara has been with the company since starting as a Marketing Intern, progressing to Marketing Manager, and now taking on the role of Partner Manager. In this position, she works on building meaningful partnerships and supporting existing partners, contributing to the company’s growth through collaboration and shared success.
Christian Weh
VP Products
Christian is leading BlueCallom’s Product directions and strategy. His profound know-how about innovation management and how innovative solutions accelerate businesses of all traits, provided valuable insights to the group. He was almost 10 years with Johnson & Johnson, at last Senior Director of Innovation. He is also the co-founder of T-Oncology AG.
Dino Smuc
AI Developer
Dino is BlueCallom’s AI Developer – a dedicated tech enthusiast who believes in the transformative power of artificial intelligence. In his role, he designs and implements LLM agentic workflows and AI solutions at BlueCallom. With a self-taught background in web development and machine learning – and currently pursuing a BSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence – Dino continually explores the evolving boundaries of AI. He is committed to uncovering new possibilities and translating them into practical, real-world applications.
Jan Roebkes
Customer Care Manager
Jan is focusing on the success of our customers with BlueCallom business solutions. He manages to organize the necessary insights and resources to make our customers successful with our innovative business solutions. In this responsibility, he is coordinating project timelines, commitments and resources.
Dr. Janik Kärcher
AI Success Manager
Janik is a biotechnologist with a passion for innovation in life sciences. He holds an industrial Ph.D. in cancer diagnostics and an MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs. With experience in project and product management, he has worked on strategy, market analysis, and client engagement in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and chemical sectors. As AI Success Manager, Janik is driven by AI’s potential to transform industries and introduce solutions that empower businesses.
Marita Schultze
Co-founder & COO
Marita is the Co-founder and COO of BlueCallom and also responsible for developing our business partner network. She oversees the partner program development, partner selection and onboarding, and integrating partners into the BlueCallom ecosystem. At present, she is enabling GPTBlue Prompt Development partners, and Generative-AI business solution consultants. Prior to that, she was a four-time entrepreneur, with four exits, three of them together with her husband, Axel Schultze.
Tanzeem Mohd
Chief Technology Officer
Tanzeem brings in over 2 decades of extensive IT experience, driving complex technology programs globally in all facets of IT and varied domains. He led the execution of many transformation, technology upgrade, and migration programs. He is well-versed and excels at realizing unique architectures and web-based SaaS applications.
Advisory Board
Part of the BlueCallom Team
Christian Weh
Advisory Board Member
Christian is a member of the BlueCallom Innovation Thought Leader Roundtable since its inception. His profound know how about innovation management processes and how they are used in enterprises has provided valuable insights to the group. He was almost 10 years with Johnson & Johnson at last Senior Director of Innovation. Today co-founder of T-Oncology AG.
Matthes Fleck Ph.D.
Advisory Board Member
Prof. Dr. Matthes Fleck, Director of the Institute of communication and Marketing (IKM), Professor for digital business. Prof Fleck holds a Phd. from the University of St. Gallen. His research focus is on peer-to-peer networks, digital innovation management and platform economy. Matthes teaches on executive and consecutive level at Lucerne School of Business, University of St. Gallen, University of Zurich and BI Oslo. Since 2015 he is working in cooperation with BlueCallom and is a board member of the World Innovation Forum.
Thomas Kern
Advisory Board Member
Thomas Kern holds a master in computer science from ETH Zürich and an EMBA from HSG St. Gallen. He is Head Core Compliance Services at Credit Suisse. In current client relationships Thomas leads several digital transformation initiatives for major financial institutions with the objective to optimize innovation processes and apply design thinking together with agile software development to capture the business value of the digital transformation.
Wolfgang Rieder
Advisory Board Member
Wolfgang is Advisory Board Member of BlueCallom Corp. He is helping structure the commercial aspects of BlueCallom, in particular on the sales side and helping scale the organization. He essentially made his career at IBM and PwC where he became a partner and had several top leadership roles.