André Delafontaine
Associate Professor
Prof. André Delafontaine, Swiss and English, conducts the Management Report Process at the MBA level at BSL. He is a partner and investor at Go Beyond Investing, a smartfunding platform for Angel Investors in startups. André also delivers early stage investing trainings to investors, entrepreneurs, corporates and academic institutions.
André is a C-level executive with 20 years experience in entrepreneurship, strategy, sales, people, product and project management in high-tech and fintech companies. Within Go Beyond Investing, André cofounded a Social and Environmental Impact Investing group. Prior to joining Go Beyond Investing, André held managerial and technical roles in medium sized and multinational companies internally and on assignment for Landis & Gyr, the European Space Agency, Energie Ouest Suisse, Kudelski Group & Echostar Corporation.
André holds a joint eMBA from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL and the University of Lausanne HEC where he received the student-elected award for outstanding leadership. André also holds a technical degree in Electronics & Computer Science from the Swiss University of Applied Sciences HEIG-VD as well as a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Medtech, Biotech & Pharma from EPFL.
Having spent 15 years in Anglo-Saxon and Asian countries and studied diversity eMBA modules in China, André is comfortable working in multinational and multicultural environments.