Based in Geneva, Switzerland

Background:

Growing Innovation Ecosystems for Sustainable Value Delivery

With a dual background in procurement and life sciences, Annelaura does not only master business relationships; she engineers living innovation ecosystems. She connects partners around specific challenges, leveraging external and internal resources with agility. Drawing inspiration from best practices and experience, she builds resilience and efficiency through complementarity, fostering a well managed environment of trust and collaboration with data and governance.

She has successfully created fluidity and business impact with global matrix organizations for industry giants like Firmenich and Philip Morris International or Covance. Her influential alchemy delivers outstanding results, particularly where embracing collaborative models is culturally acceptable. Her career stands as a masterclass in change management, resisting simplistic solutions to address the complex dynamics of business.

Whether navigating supply chains through conflict zones for the ICRC, guiding visually impaired skiers down the slopes, negotiating with an unyielding logic, or founding 2integr8 SàrL, she proves that true resilience is born from trust and daring collaborations. Now a Licensed Innovation360 Practitioner, she wields these powerful tools not to follow the map, but to redraw it. With passion and precision, she accelerates innovation within your organization, turning complexity into a measurable and valuable competitive advantage.

Philosophically, Annelaura champions simplicity and transparency. She actively resists the natural tendency toward siloing, favoring the existence of transversely organized teams united by a shared business objective and purpose.

Bold, experienced, and relentlessly curious, Annelaura is the partner you call when you are ready to stop optimizing the status quo and start shaping your future. An influential leader, she utilizes her skills and toolbox to facilitate change discreetly and purposefully, unleashing your organization’s natural innovation potential.

 

Area of expertise:

• Procurement & Strategic Sourcing

• Creative Thinking (Facilitation & Solution Design)

• Change Management

• Innovation Management

• Bridging Business & Science

 

Education:

• Master in Biology, University of Neuchâtel

 

Contact:

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