Tobias Richter is a passionate dental entrepreneur and founder of TRI® Dental Implants. Throughout his 20 years of experience in the dental industry, Tobias Richter has been fascinated by the technological possibilities for high-quality patient care in the dental growth market. He kicked off his career in 2001 with the market leader for dental implants STRAUMANN AG, launching new product innovations, - such as SLActive -, and eventually being responsible for the Marketing in the European Region. In 2007, Tobias Richter co-founded IMPLANT DIRECT Europe AG where he build up the European business in 25 markets until the global business was sold to THE Danaher Group. Besides the foundation and leadership of TRI® towards an innovative digital implant company, Tobias Richter is co-founder of the German dental clinic group DENTABENE, partner of the e-learning platform www.dental-campus.com and board member of the leading German dental lab groups DELABO.GROUP.

Sandro Venanzoni holds a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (ETHZ), where he graduated in 2008. From 2008 until 2013, Sandro Venanzoni held various positions with increasing responsibility within the Straumann Group. As a head of product management, he was instrumental to connect the various disciplines of digital dentistry. Since 2013, Sandro Venanzoni serves as Chief Technology Officer at TRI® Dental Implants. His passion is to create leading solutions in digital implant dentistry. He’s fascinated to innovate with strong teams and connect the various disciplines of digital dentistry to create better patient outcomes.

Valentin Chapero (born in 1956 in Madrid) is working as an investor/entrepreneur and enjoying his newly found freedom from the corporate treadmill. Valentin has been from 2002 until March 2011 CEO of Sonova Holding (Phonak), with CHF 1.6 billion the leader in the hearing health care device market. During Valentin`s tenure Sonova tripled its revenue, became the most profitable company in the industry and established the first integrated, multi-brand hearing health care business model composed of hearing instruments, consumer headphones, wireless communication systems, cochlear implants and a significant global direct-to-consumer retail operation. Before joining Phonak, Valentin was CEO of the Mobile Networks division of Siemens AG with a revenue of more than 5 billion Euro. Prior to this he was CEO of the Siemens Audiology Group, then the world’s largest hearing instrument manufacturer. Valentin graduated in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and completed his doctorate with a thesis on medical physics.

Diego Gabathuler, CEO of Geistlich Pharma AG (Geistlich), joins the Board of Directors of TRI® as Geistlich’s representative. Geistlich is a global leader in the regeneration of bone, cartilage, and soft tissue, renowned for its pioneering role in the field of regenerative dentistry.At Geistlich, Diego Gabathuler is strongly committed to advancing solutions that combine biological bone and tissue regeneration with cutting-edge digital dentistry. He is a proven leader with many years of experience in the MedTech industry. Prior to joining Geistlich, he served as CEO of the dental company Ivoclar. His professional career also includes leadership roles at Logitech, Activision, and Electronic Arts.He brings extensive expertise in business development, innovation management, and strategic marketing. His diverse profile is rounded off by a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA).

Manfred Ulmer-Weber is representing SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement mbH in the board of TRI Dental Implants Int. AG. He joined SHS in 2010 as investment manager, since 2012 he is senior investment manager. SHS manages funds with investment focus on medical technology. SHS is on the market for more than 20 years and has invested in about 50 companies and developed many of them successfully. Manfred Ulmer-Weber studied international business economics at Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen and at École de Management in Strasbourg.

Thomas Huth is representing a Swiss investment company in the board of TRI Dental Implants Int. AG. Subsequent to his studies in European business economics in Munich, Madrid and London he gathered first experience in the business development unit of a german-english Internet-Startup before becoming an entrepreneur himself in 2002. In the end of 2003 he founded together with two business partners usedSoft AG, a dealer for used Software, and supervised the units Finance, Administration and Organisation in his function as CFO until his exit in January 2011. Following his role as CFO he devoted himself to the field of Corporate Investment Management. He founded Venture Garage GmbH and is member of the board in several German and Swiss companies.