Jonas Baer

Background

About Jonas Baer

Digital entrepreneur. Finance professional. Expert at Innosuisse. – Jonas is an entrepreneur & CFO with more than 13 years experience in Startups, SME’s and big corporations. He co-founded two ICT-Startups, raised money from VC’s and business angels within his first company and achieved a sustainable & profitable business with his second company where he is still involved part-time. Jonas is expert for Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency funding science-based innovation in the interests of industry and society in Switzerland. Jonas is also coach at the national wide Swiss startup training program Venturelab (commissioned by Innosuisse) where he equips young entrepreneurs with the tools to build a world-class startup. Main topics include finance, strategy, innovation, lean startup and testing business ideas. Between 2015 and 2021 Jonas was CFO/Director of Strategyzer, a SaaS and training company that helps organizations worldwide develop new growth engines, better value propositions and powerful business models. Strategyzer was co-founded by Alexander Osterwalder, lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design, which sold over a million copies in 37 languages. USA Today named Business Model Generation among the 12 best business books of all times. In this fast growing organization serving big enterprise clients worldwide, Jonas was responsible for Finance, Ops, Legal and HR. Jonas holds a Master degree in Information Systems / Wirtschaftsinformatik (University of Zurich) where he focused on Information Management, Finance, Accounting and Strategy. In recent years Jonas did courses in positive psychology and happiness at work (University of California, Berkeley), leadership (IMD Business School) and happiness studies (Happiness Studies Academy).