Laszlo Bax

Background

About Laszlo Bax

Innovation enthusiast and serial entrepreneur. Co-founder of various digital health ventures; long standing track record as open innovation consultant for corporates, universities, research centres and start-ups. From a background as Industrial Design Engineer, applying Design Thinking to complex challenges often requiring ecosystem approaches for systemic change. Global citizen, mostly operating in a European context. Presently fully focussed on Braingaze, cognitive digital health spin off from the University of Barcelona. One of the recurring themes in my professional life has been to extract and translate the learnings from the start-up world to corporates that seek to balance agility with reliable and manageable delivery on innovation strategic objectives. Skills: Building sustainable businesses through smart matching of customer expectations and tech capabilities. Picking & growing top talent and making them succeed. Mobilising stakeholders, drive and close win-win multi stakeholder deals. Pragmatic general management, team composition & guidance, financially sound planning & delivery. Cross-disciplinary and cross-sectorial connections. Over the last decades I've been leading teams that raised more than 900 million euros of non-dillutive funding for a wide range of breakthrough innovations; I've grown companies from scratch to more than 70 employees and have kept businesses healthy and growing throughout economical cycles.