Thomas Offner
Founder and Owner OFFNER.tech GmbH – Austrias leading elevator and escalator inspection company.
Until recently he was bridging the gap between the corporate and the startup world – in his self-defined role as a Quarterback for PwC – where he was responsible for all startup related activities such as company builders, scouting schemes, incubators, accelerators, corporate venturing units for international PwC clients.
Before that Thomas has been working for Media Saturn Holding, where he was the co-founder of the group’s accelerator program MS-Spacelab that he designed and set-up including vision, strategy, processes, sponsorship and mentoring program as well as for EY, where he brought in his accelerator knowledge to successfully bring the EY Startup-Challenge to Germany.
Before that, he was active for SevenVentures, the venture arm of ProSiebenSat.1, where he founded the SevenVentures Pitch Day (www.7VPD.com – named as one of the world’s most relevant startup competitions by Forbes Magazine), co-founded and managed the ProSiebenSat.1 accelerator and was responsible for several strategic investments in digital commerce start-ups.