
OUR MOTIONLAB.BERLIN
WORKSHOP INSTRUKTORS,COACHES & MENTORS
OUR MENTORS & COACHES
HARDTECH INNOVATION ACCELERATOR

Daniel Shor
- Expert in design, research, mechanical engineering & emotionality and touch experiences
As Research Director, Europe at Innovobot, Daniel blends human contact and experiential context to build the future of haptic technology, focusing on developing devices that stimulate human connection and behaviors through vibrotactile feedback.
- MSc in Product Design Engineering
- BSc in Mechanical Engineering
- He lectures at TU Delft in the Faculty of Industrial Design and the HCI department at FH Salzburg.

Jana Mendelski
- Expert in design thinking, agile methods, organisational process moderation & startup coaching
Jana is a Berlin-based freelance innovation designer, coach and founder developing, shaping and introducing new product opportunities and agile methods and mindsets for organizations and companies
- Graduated in Free Art as well as in Business Administration
- Certified Design Thinking coach and facilitator at HPI Potsdam,
- Teacher at the Design Faculty at University of Arts Berlin
- Founder of compositive.bio.

Georg Meuser
- Expert in finance, financial modelling, business structuring, strategic management, pitching
Georg has 7+ years of experience in restructuring of SMBs and strategic business structuring of Startups, which combines a financial analysis and financial modelling together with strategic decision-making.
- Consulted over 300 Startups, mentored over 100 Founders & built his own consultancy
- Focus: Establishing a thorough understanding of a company’s financials + helping Startup founders understand, how to get funding for their ideas & developing financial plans

Daniel Flynn
- Expert in customer discovery, product iteration cycles, go-to-market strategy, fundraising strategy
Daniel spent ~9 years working with early stage technology startups. Most happy in the trenches of validating ideas, testing hypotheses and talking to customers.
- Experienced in the whole early stage business lifecycle of acquiring customers, planning go-to-market, managing stakeholders and preparing for fundraising.
- CEO & Co-Founder at Bearcover

Mark Caffrey
- Expert in healthcare, biomedical engineering, med tech, physics & neurotechnology
Mark is an applied physicist and biomedical engineer with significant experience building startups in MedTech and DeepTech. Mark has led the development of several innovative hardware technologies including medical imaging systems, brain-computer-interfaces, and oncology devices.
- CEO at Syntropic Medical, a VC backed startup developing a novel new treatment for major depressive disorder

Fernando G. T. Chorne
- Expert in technical strategy, product development, prototyping & robotics
Fernando started his professional career working on a concept using deep learning for driving assistance, successfully showcased to customers at Bosch. At the same time, he was publishing technical white papers on SLAM, AI and RL topics.
- CTO at Bearcover
- Looking forward to helping others grow to be technical leaders of the upcoming future

Selma Hadzic
- Expert in data science, stakeholder & project management, leadership, diversity & inclusion
Selma is a freelancer data tech lead with 10 years of experience and 5+ years of experience leading and scaling international teams.
- Professional coach and diversity & inclusion consultant, guiding tech companies to close the gender gap.
- Freelance Data expert
- Founder and professional coach for females in Tech

Dana Alpar
- Expert in Expert in venture capital, M&A and any corporate law matters
Dana advises national and international investors, funds, technology-driven companies, and startups from early-stage to exit on venture capital and M&A transactions as well as other corporate matters.
- Focus = providing legal guidance to venture capital funds, startups & large corporations in technology-driven industries
- Associate at the international law firm Osborne Clarke

Will Fischer
- Expert in hardware prototyping, product-market fit, product development & team relations
Will is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He has founded companies in the hardware space, including smart furniture and robotics and is no stranger to more technical R&D, spending years in nanotechnology R&D and material science research.
- Master’s research at NASA & MBA from Chicago Booth
- Investor, advisor, startup coach & serial entrepreneur
HARDTECH EXPERTS
INNOVATION NETWORK & COMMUNITY
HARDTECH EXPERTS
INNOVATION NETWORK & COMMUNITY

Leonard Gabriel
Successfull product development with professional CAD
- Expert in design with Fusion 360 CAD-software
- Wide experience in industrial engineering, management, product development & CAD coaching
Get professional support for your individual project in order to realize a parametric and well-structured CAD design.

Veronica Louis
How to lead a team with creative leadership techniques
- Expert in creative leadership training
- Wide experience in energizing team-building, communications & storytelling
Veronica offers you a whole new, creative perspective on leading teams and creating an energizing team-building experience.

Sebastian Brehm
Successful process management & certification
- Expert for process management & certification
- Keen on supporting founders from underrepresented communities, female founders & queer founders

Anna Beatrice Dantas
Outstanding prototyping & product strategies trough Design Thinking
- Expert in Design Thinking & prototyping
- Wide experience and background in industrial design & product strategies

David Riding
High quality development of electronics & PCB design
- Expert in electronics & PCB design
- Wide experience and backround in product development, engineering, power, wireless, IOT & DFM

Pooja Channaveerappa
Product development with Design Thinking and engineering
- Expert in Design Thinking & mechanical engineering
- Wide experience and backround in engineering, product development, low fidelity & feasibility prototyping

Vieran Hodko
Effective growth strategies and brand building
- Expert for growth hacking, partnerships & branding
- Wide experience in international growth, pitching, brand building & positioning

Jonathan Eade
How to: Investment readiness & business development
- Expert for investment readiness & business development
- Wide experience and background in business strategies, ESG, impact & sustainability

Tayla Sheldrake
Strategic startup business management, analysis & validation
- Expert for startup strategies & business coaching
- Wide experience in Customer analysis, market validation, pitching, financial strategies & revenue models

Ishan Bhat
How to build user engagement strategies & business processes
- Expert for business process design & user engagement strategy
- Wide experience in hardtech design thinking, business processes & integrative sustainability

Duncan Cornes
Development trough successful prototyping & product design
- Expert for prototyping, mechanical calculations & product design
- Wide experience in design for production & manufacturing & mechanical calculations (thermal, fluid, or stress)

Aswin Ramachandran
How to: Full hardstack development of hardtech solutions
- Expert for full hardstack development, IoT & robotics
- Wide experience in hardstack development, robotic sensors, perception, planning & autonomy & IoT user experience