EF Alumni

Victor Borsche

CEO, THEO

Founded:

Cofounder:

Aswin Ramachandran

Interests / background:

Robotics, Transportation and Logistics

Location:

Berlin

Cohort:

Victor Borsche holds a Master’s in International Management from Universita Bocconi. He founded two startups; one in the US, in the travel space, and one in Germany, in the manufacturing space, which he grew from 0 to profitability. He worked in several departments at BMW and invested in mobility startups at BMW i Ventures.

Company:

THEO

Bringing autonomy to the last mile, sooner than you think.

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Jacky Im

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CJ Looi

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Bjarne Johannsen

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Chris Parsons

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Alexander Reichenbach

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Robert Van Den Bergh

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Kushal Pillay

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Computer vision expert. Former head of R&D at a robotics firm with an MSc in Electrical Engineering.

Arthur Wandzel

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Aswin Ramachandran

PhD in Decentralised Systems Communication, built hardware and software for autonomous robots

Walter Frank Pintor Ortiz

Expertise across industrial robotics and automation

Dr Dirk-Jan van Veen

Expert in optimising software agents to communicate and collaborate

Prashant Maurice Dhara

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Ivo Tedbury

Expert in distributed robots and computation for building construction

Rose Haft

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Sagar Setu

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Navid Nourani Vatani

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Haoyu Bai

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Abhishek Gupta

Master's in Embedded Systems, former research at SUTD

Mo Shana’a

Experience improving productivity in construction, implemented digital transformation

Christopher Chavasse

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Robotic innovation, built everything from UAVs to next gen robots at Dyson, Deliveroo and Karakuri

Abhinav Warrier

In-depth knowledge of robotics, worked on navigation and battery management

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Experienced in warehousing, supply chain and operations

Lucas Lopez

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Award winning digital smell researcher, built cutting-edge artificial neural networks

Christopher Thompson

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Mehdi Adjaoue

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Puneet Chhabra

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Sahil Tapiawala

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Pramod Ghadge

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Theo Saville

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Sarthak Shrivastava

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Alexander Reichenbach

Former lead product owner at Mercedes-Benz. Master’s in Computing/Machine Learning from Imperial

Karl Johan Clausen

Background in road logistics and experienced sales manager. Recently helped scale a startup

Fuad Becirbasic

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Benjamin Noyan

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Passion for transforming the freight industry, advised Europe's largest transportation businesses

Carmine Paolino

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Aswin Ramachandran

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Avik Mukhija

Machine learning scientist & entrepreneur, developed & sold AI solutions to grocery retailers

Martin Postel

Expert in automation and optimisation for supply and production, with a PhD in AI in Manufacturing

Helen Murphy

Strong expertise in leading commercial and technical businesses across consumer goods and operations

Walter Frank Pintor Ortiz

Expertise across industrial robotics and automation

Dr Dirk-Jan van Veen

Expert in optimising software agents to communicate and collaborate

Jedd Cheong Jia Hao

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PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, expert in medical imaging

Thomas Yue

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PhD in Computational Physics, experience in algorithmic trading

Navid Nourani Vatani

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Roboticist with experience developing autonomous trucks, trains, and off-road vehicles

Sandip Gangakhedkar

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Wireless systems engineer, developed the first 5G-based teleoperated driving prototype

Koosha Kaveh

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Experience in strategy consulting, MEng in Electrical Engineering

Dennis Sandmark

Full stack software engineer, built robust, scalable systems

Chris Jones

Ex-Merchant Navy, experience conducting cargo ships

Boris Ploix

Degree in Applied Mathematics, experience in the transport industry

Lingxiao Xia

Expert in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Nidhi Gupta

Experience in the logistics industry

Christian Schiller

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Volkan Bilici

Full-stack software and blockchain developer

Abhinav Warrier

In-depth knowledge of robotics, worked on navigation and battery management

Anurag Dutta

Experienced in warehousing, supply chain and operations

Dr Elias Willemse

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Vladimir Chuchkin

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Experienced in business development for tech and energy companies

Prateek Gaur

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Dmitri Ameriei

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Simon Jordan

Machine learning expert, ex-researcher in Silicon Valley and led development teams at Volkswagan

Alexander Palffy

Experienced in warehouse operations and logistics

David Meyer

Former LEK consultant, experience in fast-growing mobility startups

Juan Barragan

Experienced in software development with work on pattern recognition in finance and advertising

Hubert Baya Toda

Expert in remotely characterising materials using electromagnetic waves

Mehdi Adjaoue

Machine learning expert, deployed autonomous museum guides as an undergraduate

Abhishek Anand

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Award-winning data science with experience in product development and cybersecurity

Aditya Singh

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Expert in the shipping and transportation space

Manasa Nadipally

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Nikhil Sharma

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Expert in logistics with experience from corporate and startup worlds

Sudeept Sinha

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Kaushik Reddy

Experienced in shipping across Asia and Europe

Nicolas Ang

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Yeshwanth Reddy

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Jean-Baptiste Clouard

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Karim Benchaaboun

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Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah

MSc in Computational Mechanics, built city-scale simulations

Maria Meier

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