Making Money
out of Technology
Principles
Trust
GPI operates on trust to work with employees, partners and clients towards a common goal
Knowledge Network
GPI develops or identifies and applies state-of-the-art knowledge in any field of its activities
Talents
GPI works with top-of-the-line talents independent of geographical or cultural boundaries
Personal Growth
GPI provides an inspiring environment for its team members, partners and network participants
Quality Standards
GPI works to the highest standards in research, analysis and implementation of innovative concepts
Ethics
GPI’s ethical guidelines prevent involvement in businesses that harm humans, animals or the environment
Services
GPI provides expert consulting to clients in a wide range of industries across Europe, North America and Japan.
Drawing on a broad expert base from its own resources and its partner companies GPI has assisted clients in areas such as
- new business generation
- product and process development
- venture and spin-out formation
- investment strategies
In the area of investment strategies GPI specialises in investments in technology, products and services.
GPI manages a pipeline of carefully selected technology projects potentially being turned into assets.
Opportunities are provided by shareholders, partners, technology centres, finance institutions, clients or its world-wide network.
GPI reviews opportunities with its partners and network, before either investing and/or offering finance, business and engineering resources in return for an equity position. GPI then takes an active interest in exploiting the opportunity, e.g. through selling, licensing, incubation, straight forward start-up or joint ventures.
Companies
WoodWelding SA
We invent, develop, refine and license out a new, innovative fixation technology, applicable in a wide range of materials – reaching from wood: WoodWelding® – to bone: BoneWelding®.
SpineWelding SA
SpineWelding AG is a Swiss medical device company developing implant solutions for the human spine, using the patent protected BoneWelding® technology.
VetWelding GmbH
VetWelding AG is a Swiss veterinary orthopedic company established in 2017, using the BoneWelding® technology.
SportWelding GmbH
SportWelding GmbH is a Swiss medical device company that develops implant solutions for the Sports Medicine, Foot/Ankle and Hand/Wrist market based on protected BoneWelding® technology from WoodWelding SA.
Team
Board Member
Dr. Urs Isenegger
Board Member
Pernilla Plasonig
Associate
Robert Kvist
Associate
Dr. Tom Lauda
Associate
Dr. Val Livada
Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Plasonig
Finance
Andrea Stutz
Dr. Urs Isenegger
Dr. Urs Isenegger, is a GPI Board Member as well as legal adviser to the Group. He is legal partner of the Zurich law firm MME. Dr. Urs Isenegger specialises in corporate law, contracts, intellectual property law, arbitration, aviation law and communications law.
Dr. Urs Isenegger studied at the University of Basel, specialising in issues of intellectual copyright, and was admitted to the Bar in 1985. He worked as a foreign associate for Paul, Hastings, Janovsky & Walter, an American firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles as well as an attorney-at-law for a Zurich based practice.
Dr. Urs Isenegger is a member of the Swiss Bar Association, International Bar Association, AIPPI, Associazione Internazionale Giuristi di Lingua Italiana, and the Swiss Arbitration Association.
Pernilla Plasonig
Pernilla Plasonig is Board Member of GPI and Managing Director of WoodWelding SA and SpineWelding SA.
She was formerly the Stockholm-based Nordic marketing manager of an IKEA Group company, responsible for the group’s consulting and investment activities in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. After leaving Sweden, she worked for an Austrian mobile network operator (“ONE”), and was responsible for developing business solutions at the time of network expansion following the national launch. She has a degree in management from the Stockholm School of Economics and Business Administration, Sweden.
Robert Kvist
Robert Kvist joined GPI as an Associate in 2003 after more than 33 years as an industrial manager in the Volvo Car Corporation with extensive experience in the Swedish, American, Japanese and Dutch markets. His background covers the range from engineering, the aftermarket right through to marketing.
He maintained a particular focus on motor sports where he was also responsible for the building, developing and testing of saloon cars for the one type race car series in Sweden. During the ETCC campaign Robert Kvist teamed up with Prodrive and FIA for homologation purposes.
Robert Kvist has technical and management degrees from Uppsala and Chalmers University.
Dr. Tom Lauda
Tom Lauda is a lawyer and sociologist by training and has been coaching management teams and lecturing at business schools for the last 20 years, both in Europe and the U.S.
In his corporate work he integrates the essential lessons learned in his years as a race car driver and racing instructor in the U.K.
His innovative leadership development methods implement an effective and sustainable high-speed, high-energy approach to leadership. Apart from the innovative conflict resolution program he developed, Tom Lauda’s passion is creating dynamic leadership cultures in organizations in a way that generates productive high-energy work environments. Tom Lauda works as an Associate with GPI.
Dr. Val Livada
Val Livada is an Associate with GPI, based in Boston. He is a senior lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School and founder of Weybridge Partner Technology Strategy Consultancy.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Plasonig
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Plasonig is founder and Managing Director of GP International SA, Risch, Switzerland, a technology investment and incubator company. He is also co-founder and Delegate of the Board of WoodWelding SA.
Before starting GPI, he worked for seven years with The Generics Group, Cambridge, UK, as well as two years for Pugh Roberts Associates in Boston, USA. He has a degree in automotive engineering, a doctorate in strategic technology management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and was a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He holds a Honorary Professorship from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Andrea Stutz
Andrea Stutz, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and is responsible for the GPI Group finances.
Partners
Centre for Business Innovation, Cambridge
Creating Collaborative Communities
Creaholic SA, Biel
Leading Swiss technology consultancy
Frei Patent Attorneys, Zurich
Experts and professional services for Intellectual Property
Miraki Innovation, Boston
Making revolutionary ideas revolutionary companies
TMI, Japan
Business Model Creator Circle
Chairs of Entrepreneurial Finance - Technical University of Munich
One of the leading universities in Europe
Vienna University of Economics and Business - Institute for Strategic Management
One of Europe’s largest universities of business and economics.
Contact
Get in touch
+41 (0) 41 544 41 91
info@gpi-sa.com
Location
Gartenweg 34
CH-6343 Risch
Switzerland