Kickstart Innovation
Mike Hakkens is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in account management and business development. Currently serving as the Head of Account Management and Business Development Leader at EY since December 2020, Mike has also held advisory roles at Kickstart Accelerator since August 2017 and previously worked as Regional Director for Northern Europe at SandSIV Group from February 2018 to November 2020. Prior experience includes partnerships at evitive and WATC Consulting AG, focusing on strategy and customer-centric organizational development. Mike’s long tenure at Fidelity International from September 1997 to March 2017 involved key leadership roles in global customer experience and institutional client services, enhancing client engagement and satisfaction across multiple regions. Educational qualifications include the EY Sustainable Finance Program from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.