Whitney Haring-Smith
Chairman of the Board
Whitney Haring-Smith is an entrepreneur and investor focused primarily on industrial and technology businesses. As a Managing Partner at Anzu Partners, Dr. Haring- Smith leads the portfolio support functions and has led most of Anzu’s acquisitions and software companies. Prior to Anzu Partners, Dr. Haring-Smith was a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he focused on energy, industrial goods, and globalization serving energy clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Angola, and Argentina.
Franz Viehböck
Member of the Board
Since July 2020 Franz Viehböck is the CEO of Berndorf Group a very successful Austrian industry holding. Prior to taking over the role of CEO, Franz Viehböck served on Berndorf´s Management Board since 2008 and was CEO of the biggest profit contributing company of the group, Berndorf Belt Systems, from 2002 to 2008. In October 1991 Franz Viehböck took part in a spaceflight to the MIR spacestation. He lived in the US for many years where he held different roles within the Rockwell Space Systems Division as well as at Boeing Space Systems.
Jewel Burks Solomon
Member of the Board
Jewel Burks Solomon is the Head of Google for Startups in the US. In addition to this role, Jewel also serves as Managing Partner at Collab Capital, an alternative investment fund she launched to close the funding gap for Black entrepreneurs. Prior to leading Google for Startups and Collab Capital, Jewel was Founder/CEO of Partpic , a startup that was acquired by Amazon in 2016, which streamlined the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision technology. After the acquisition of Partpic, Jewel became a product leader at Amazon’s Visual Search and AR team. She led the integration of Partpic’s technology and launched it as Amazon PartFinder in 2018 to the over 150M users of Amazon’s Mobile Shopping App.
David Edelmann
Member of the Board
R. David Edelman is a Venture Partner at Anzu Partners. As a former Technology Adviser to the President during the Obama Administration, he has spent a decade as one of the government’s foremost voices on how technology is changing our economy, national security, and daily lives. In 2017, he joined MIT’s Internet policy team as Director of the new Project on Technology, the Economy, & National Security. He also led engagement with hundreds of technology companies around the world and designed and managed over $15 billion of signature programs focused on technology, education, and economic opportunity.
Immo Rupf
Member of the Board
Immo Rupf is a Senior Advisor at Cinven since July 2021 Between 2011 and 2021, he was the co leader of Cinven’s global Portfolio Team. The team’s core focus is on Value Creation Plans (VCP’s), as well as Topline-Growth-, Buy-and-Build-, and Operational-Excellence-Support Projects for Cinven’s portfolio companies. Prior to Cinven , Immo was: Member of ExCom, and CEO Russia at Inchcape PLC; CFO Asia, Australia and Latin America at Alcoa Inc.; Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (China, France, Germany). Immo’s backgound is in Mathematics (MSc, Univ of Oxford), and he has an MBA from INSEAD.
David Marimon
Chief Product Officer
David Marimon was the CEO and Co-founder of Catchoom. David is the former Project Manager of Mobile Augmented Reality and Contextual Services at Telefónica R&D. He has a PhD in Computer Vision and Augmented Reality from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. David has spoken at leading industry events including Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 and Mobile World Congress 2011, 2013 and 2014, and at the Augmented World Expo. Cited by Gartner, Markets & Markets, eMarketer, Wired and TheNextWeb. He's considered an AR pioneer with more than 16 real years under his belt. David Marimon is the inventor and co-inventor of several patents.
Philipp Descovich
Chief Executive Officer
Philipp Descovich is CEO of the joint entity and was CEO of Humai since 2013. He grew the company from a zero revenue base to where it is today. Prior to Humai, Philipp worked for 14 years at CA (now Broadcom), a large US software firm. During his time at CA Philipp worked and lived in Central Eastern Europe, Germany and the US, eventually leading all European sales divisions of the group. Philipp holds a Computer Science degree with honors from the Technical University of Vienna and served for several years in the Austrian Armed Forces as a platoon leader.