THE YASAIS

Co-Founders

Mark E. Zahran

Co-Founder & CEO

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MSc Architecture at ETH, Zurich

& UNAM, Mexico-City 

Philipp Bosshard

Co-Founder & CTO

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BSc Ecological Engineering

at Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Stefano Augstburger

Co-Founder & CCO

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Master's Degree in Sales,

Distribution and Marketing Operations at

SDA Bocconi, Milano & ESADE, Barcelona

The Employees

Anouk C. Schaedler

Content Creator

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Bachelor in

Trends & Identity

at Zurich University of the Arts

Luca Somm

Mechanical Engineer

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MSc Robotics,

Systems and Control

at ETH Zurich

Tanya Rey

Industrial Designer (Freelancer)

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Masters in Product Design at

Zurich University of the Arts 

Degree in Industrial Design at

The University of Buenos Aires

The Expert Advisors

Dr. Prof. Dickson Despommier

Former professor at Columbia

University in NYC

Author of the book: "Vertical Farms:

How to feed the world in the 21st century"

Fabian Weinländer

Former project developer at

Urban Farmers AG

Business development manager at RethinkResource in Zurich

Dr. Martijn Sonnevelt

Lecturer at the department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich

Executive Director of

The World Food System Center ETH

Dr. Michel Roux

Co-Founder and President of

Food Forum Zurich

Community Building and Innovation

in the Agri-Food Sector

Prof. Dr. Ranka Junge

Head Centre Ecological Engineering Institute

of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR)

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)