Dr. Markus Riester

  • C-Level technology expert and Executive Coach

  • Lead and develop leaders and organizations

  • Establish the playing ground for innovation

  • Empower people to develop vision, purpose, and goals.

  • Develop Organizations, Change Management, Digitalization

Past Roles

  • CEO / CTO
  • Change management
  • Quality management
  • Business process management
  • Digitalization
  • Innovation and Technology roadmapping
  • Process engineering
  • Technology and product development

I empower leaders and teams to substantiate decisions derived from critical views on ideas, products and services. I built multiple startups and now support startup teams in understanding better their prospects, fostering informed decisions on their team, market, and product. As IMD certified Executive Coach I use a combination of systemic and psychodynamic methods to support leaders and teams raising the bar of their personal and organizational competence.

Technical Expertise
  • In-depth knowledge in EMS, medtech, healthtec, digital diagnostics
  • Scaling technology from prototype to  volume production
  • Prototyping/MVPs: design for manufacturing; selection of manufacturing technologies for the different stages of development. Using fast prototyping principles to develop technology in the different stages of small/medium/large series production; 24-hour hardware design cycle with 3D printing;
  • Implementing and running Quality management systems (ISO 13485); process quality; product quality 
  • 20+ years of insights by reviewing >100 deep tech and scientific projects for EU Commission, Fraunhofer, Accelerators, … 
  • Broad Experience in Deep Tech Startups
  • Co-founded 3 deep tech / medtech startups as GM or Technology lead.

See Deep Tech for more information.

Network (selection)

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