Christian Busch
Christian Busch is an expert in leading innovation/growth teams and incubating new businesses inside large companies. He has 20 years of experience in senior executive roles at the world's most competitive software companies with a broad range of product R&D, engineering, operations, GTM, sales and technology market expertise, building transformational products as well as the organizations to support and sell them. Most recently, he led practice at Cognizant ideating, delivering, and launching transformational digital products for Fortune 100 clients where he took a 2.5-year-old zero revenue product offering to a $10M ARR in 10 months. Previously, at SAP he ideated, developed, and launched four profitable SaaS product solutions in cloud imaging, real-time analytics, natural language processing, and internet of things. These products have won several industry and UX awards. As an entrepreneur, Christian has worn many hats—Innovator, Developer, COO, CPO, CTO, GTM, and sales leadership. He founded his first software company while still in college, building a browser-based agile project team platform (something like Jira today) out of an internship at DaimlerChrysler in 1996. In his spare time, Christian enjoys mentoring international startups succeed in Silicon Valley at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) Ignite, The Alchemist Accelerator San Francisco, German Accelerator Silicon Valley, and Sparklabs Global Ventures. Christian holds Bachelor degree in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.