Lesley Spiegel

Lesley Spiegel is entrepreneur and start-up coach. In 2003 she established her company Spiegel Ventures, offering technology-oriented enterprises and venturing platforms essential tools and skills to realize their growth potential. Lesley has a teaching assignment at ETH Zurich in the field of technology transfer and success factors for high-tech start-ups (Course Catalogue ID 351-0777-00)

About me

For five years (2004-9), Lesley acted as CEO of the Foundation TECHNOPARK® Zurich, Switzerland's largest technology transfer centre. She worked for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in Zurich and Tel Aviv and for McCann-Erickson as strategic planner. Lesley holds a B.A. from Haifa University and a M.Sc. in Management from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. As an entrepreneur she is CTI Start-up coach, executive board member of two microcredit funds (Go! and Volkswirtschaftsstiftung) and acts as advisory board member for the Hub Zurich, a future-oriented incubator for social entrepreneurs. Lesley is member of a business angel network and acts as visiting lecturer at ETH Zurich dedicated to technology transfer and success factors for high-tech start-ups. As member of several key institutions in the venture branch she has a solid network and knowledge of Switzerland’s high-tech start-up ecosystem.

Research Interests

- Success factors for high-tech start-ups
- Asymmetry of information and high-risk low-data decision making processes
- Team dynamics
- Seed financing models

Other fields of interest

- Discover the new in the seemingly known
- Enjoy the beauty of nature and art
- Be fit!