Dr. Ian Roberts

Dr. Ian Roberts graduated in Chemical Engineering and obtained a PhD in Process Engineering from the University of Wales (Great Britain).

From 1997 to 2009, he held various management positions at Nestlé, focusing on innovation and business development.

He has been Chief Technology Officer at Bühler since 2011. He has been particularly active in driving the cultural change program towards collaborative innovation, the sustainability mission, the digital transformation, and the entry into new business sectors.

He is Chairman of the Evaluation Board of the Wyss Institute Zürich, managing the CHF 120 million investment portfolio into regenerative medicine and robotics, President of MassChallenge Switzerland, running five start-up accelerator programs across Europe, member of the supervisory boards of PROTIX, an industrial-scale insect processing company and Squirro, an AI company serving multiple industry sectors. Dr. Ian Roberts was awarded European CTO of the Year 2016.

Dr. Ian Roberts was born in 1970 and is British.