Michael Dillhyon

Halo, I'm Michael Dillhyon. Entrepreneur, Investor, Doer.

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Michael Dillhyon is a Managing Partner at Avadilon, a Swiss-based investment and advisory firm focused on shepherding emerging technology firms from startup to global.  His passion is building world class entrepreneurs.  To that mission, in 2013, Michael has been elected to the adjunct role of Entrepreneur-in-Residence at one of Europe’s most prestigious universities: ETH.   Previous to Avadilon, Mr Dillhyon co-founded two US-based firms: Netelligent Corporationand ActiveObjects, where he held the roles of President, Chairman and CEO respectively.  He exited Netelligent in 2008 as a result of a management buyout and ActiveObjects was acquired by VSR in 2010.   In addition to his Chairman role at Genebio and involvement on other Boards, Michael is on the Strategic Advisory Committee for HealthTIES, an EU-backed consortium of four of Europe’s top regions in biosciences, medical technology and health entrepreneurship   Michael presents regularly on the business of venture capital, entrepreneurship and the growing relevance of personalized healthcare technology at events in both the US and Europe.  In 2012 he presented at a number of events including the London Olympic Future of Health, INSEAD Entrepreneurship Week, EU Climate-KIC Venture Competition, CES, World Mobile Congress and regional startup events such as Mobicamp.  In addition to presenting, Michael actively mentors entrepreneurs through well known initiatives such as the Pipeline Fellowship.   Mr. Dillhyon holds degrees in Biochemistry and Anthropology from Florida State University, as well as a MBA from Washington University. He has completed residencies at Harvard Business School (OPM), the London School of Business, UC-Berkeley (Venture Capital Executive) and Fudan University in China.   Born in the US (Miami), Michael now lives with his wife and two children in the canton of Zug, Switzerland.  

President & CEO at Call Trunk

January 2011 - January 2012

Interim CEO/Board member role at a UK start up developing a cloud-based disruptive voice platform. In between high minded tasks such as modeling our SaaS customer projections and discussing the latest UI with the development team, I could be found writing blog entries or making breakfast at the London office.

Contributor at World Radio Switerland, SRG SSR idee suisse

April 2009 - July 2010

A fortunate opportunity to share my views on world business each week with the host of The Wrap, Conor Lennon. http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/consultant/index.shtml

Founder, President, Chairman at Netelligent Corporation

2003 - December 2008

Founder, CEO at ActiveObjects

2005 - 2008

Interim Director at Petroplus

2007 - 2007

Microsoft Practice Director at French Gerleman

2001 - 2003

Regional Director at Analysts International (Sequoia)

1997 - 2001

Adjunct Faculty at Sullivan College

January 1997 - January 1998

Enterprise Program Mgr at Panurgy (KiZAN)

1995 - 1997

Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) SystemsX at ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

January 2013

SystemsX.ch is the largest ever public research initiative in Switzerland. The initiative advances systems biology with over 100 projects consisting of 300 research groups and more than 1000 scientists. ETH Zurich regularly appears at the top of international rankings as one of the best universities in the world. 21 Nobel Laureates have studied, taught or conducted research at ETH Zurich, underlining the excellent reputation of the institute.

Strategic Advisory Board Member at HealthTIES

November 2012

HealthTIES is a Regions of Knowledge (RoK) project (European Commission FP7 Programme), formed by four of the most relevant regions in biosciences, medical technology and health entrepreneurship: Medical Delta (West of the Netherlands), Biocat (Catalonia), Life Science Zurich(Switzerland) andOxford and Thames Valley (United Kingdom).

Mentor at Pipeline Fellowship

February 2012

The Pipeline Fellowship trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice. Fellows commit to invest in a woman-led for-profit social venture in exchange for equity and a board seat at the end of the training.

Chairman at Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA

November 2009

Chairman of the Board. Genebio, established in 1997, is a bioinformatics software company providing the life sciences community with proteome imaging and Mass Spec characterization software that bridges the gap between information gathering and knowledge generation.

Managing Director at Avadilon & Co.

June 2008

Swiss-based investment/advisory firm focused on growth stage technology and emerging markets.

Harvard Business School

2008 – 2009

OPM Program

Florida State University

BS

Concentration: Biochemistry

London Business School

Concentration: Intl Finance & Economics Residency

University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

Concentration: Venture Capital Executive Program

University of Florida

BS

Concentration: Anthropology

Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School

MBA

Concentration: Finance and Economics