Making Money

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.