BlueCallom Dream Team
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Making Innovation Predictable.
Axel Schultze
Founder & CEO
Axel is 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.
Jan Roebkes
Sales Operations Manager
Jan is our Sales Operations Manager and handles all back-end sales processes, order management, project timelines, and resources.
Marita Schultze
Co-Founder and COO
Marita is co-founder and COO of the BlueCallom Group and is responsible for customer and partner relations. She was instrumental in developing the Deep Innovation Design Model. Prior to that, she was a four times entrepreneur, with four exits, three of them together with her husband, Axel Schultze.
Philippe Theis
VP Innovation Services
Philippe helps leverage the innovation success of our customers and enables them to shape the future. He works with client innovation teams and outlines the entire innovation process by providing methodology training through the entire innovation episodes to create a groundbreaking innovation within six to nine months. He has a background in corporate innovation as well with as entrepreneurial experience.
Tanja Sopcic
Office Manager
Tanja is the first go-to-point for most initial contacts and coordinates inquiries within the organization and our teams in the field. She handles all back-office work, including accounting.
Tanzeem Mohd
Chief Technology Officer
Tanzeem brings years of rich experience in building applications using ColdFusion, JavaScript, Oracle, MySQL, team building, and leadership. He is well-versed with complete Software Development Life Cycle projects and excels at realizing unique architectures and web-based SaaS applications.
Advisory Board
Cafer Tosun
Advisory Board Member
Cafer was a long-time senior executive at SAP, very involved in the development of the D-School helping embrace Design Thinking. As BlueCallom advisory board member he is involved in the innovation space at large, accelerating the development of human ingenuity around the world.
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 Society 3 and is a board member of the World Innovation Forum as well as BlueCallom.
Thomas Kern
Advisory Board Member
Thomas Kern holds a master in computer science from ETH Zürich and an EMBA from HSG St. Gallen. In 2003 Thomas founded an independent company to provide advisory, business development and project management services to early-stage and growth companies active in the high-tech sector by leveraging the lean startup methodology. In current client relationships Thomas leads several digital transformation initiatives for major financial institutions with the objective to optimise innovation processes and apply design thinking together with agile software development to capture the business value of the digital transformation.
In 2015 Thomas co-founded the Swiss Fintech Angels (SFA) initiative and in 2016 he won the support of a two years grant by the Swiss CTI the federal innovation promotion agency responsible for encouraging science-based innovation in Switzerland.