Co-Founder & Managing Director at FYRFLY Venture Partners, San Francisco & Zurich, Switzerland.
Entrepreneur & venture investor for over 20 years as an early-stage and corporate venture investor at Accenture Technology Ventures (ATV).
Founder of Dropimpact, an early-stage investment firm, and innovation catalyst. Worked with leading players such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Splunk, VMWare, Korea Telecom, Salesforce, SK Telecom, just to name a few.
Co-Founding Partner of Accenture Interactive, a now global leading digital practice with over 4,000 professionals and over $10B in revenue, helping Global500 companies with digital transformation. Advised C-Level teams in innovation and growth strategy (Deep tech, cloud, SaaS, big data, analytics, marketplaces, eCommerce, etc.). Early driver and advocate of strategic partnerships between transformational companies such as Salesforce and Accenture, now the leading global partnership of this kind.
Co-Founder of Onor Inc, a digital marketing platform for brands and retailers delivering top-tier marketing ROI returns for customers.
Earlier, Philipp was an Executive Team Member of Adchemy, a digital marketing platform start-up co-founded by Prof. Rajeev Motwani, and later acquired by Walmart. Philipp was also co-founder of Prinova AG, a Swiss start-up developing and introducing novel consumer products to the European market.
Subsequently, Philipp became an innovation, product, and design advisor to global brands such as Nestle, Novartis, P&G, Lindt, L’Oreal, and others as part of Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), a leading global marketing and advertising player. Earlier, Philipp was in public equity fund management with Vontobel Asset Management, Switzerland
Founding Board Member of the Swiss Blockchain Federation (SBF) and a Board Member of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce (SACC). Strategic Advisor to the Swiss Entrepreneur Foundation (SwissEF), an initiative initiated by the Swiss Federal Council, and an Honorary Ambassador to Switzerland for Swiss/U.S. Economic Development (GZA).
MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and BA in Micro Economics, University of Applied Sciences, Zurich Switzerland.
Philipp grew up in Winterthur, Switzerland, and is based in Silicon Valley, California, since 2001. He currently splits his time between the U.S. and Switzerland.