Dhanesh Kothari
Founder and CEO of pi2Life
ICT, Retail & Consumer Services, Social & Environmental Impact
Dhanesh is a serial technopreneur, startup mentor-advisor and former corporate senior manager with over 27 years of experience in IT globally in several industries.
His current venture is a suite of digital platform solutions to increase the market share of impact investments, sustainable vegan, plant-based, cruelty-free consumer products and alternatives to animal testing solutions.
Prior to which Dhanesh was the founding member of an online education platform, co-founder of a first-ever professional networking + investments + live conference hosting platform for vegan, plant-based, cruelty-free industry, and mentor to first Swiss crypto unicorn, in addition to several other successful startups.
He has spent first 20 years of his career at corporates in senior positions where he was the global IT head of wealth management platforms at Swiss banks and at technology consulting companies for the development of enterprise business software platforms for asset management, insurance and telecom industries.
Dhanesh lives in Lausanne, Switzerland with his family.