Dr. Isabell Claus

Isabell is a female serial tech entrepreneur, Managing Director of thinkers.ai, winner of the Europe State Award 2022, Innovator of the Year 2022 in Austria and Austrian Entrepreneur of the Year 2020.

From 2012 until the founders team`s exit in 2018 she was member of the leadership team of RadarCyberSecurity, the European market leader for continuous cybersecurity monitoring. During this time the start-up transformed from zero into one of the Top 100 fastest growing companies in the EMEA region, for which it was awarded for five consecutive years by Financial Times and Deloitte. After the team sold the venture to a large German corporation, Isabell co-founded her second tech company thinkers.ai, which automizes manual web research and visualises important results which each individual user should not miss.

Before her tech venture, Isabell started her career at a stock exchange and at Wellington Partners Venture Capital. She studied business and legal studies and did her Doctorate in strategic finance (studied at: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, London School of Economics, Harvard University, Dubai University and Singapore University).

Isabell is also a university lecturer, author of many books and publications on cybersecurity and AI and is an active and leading figure in the entrepreneurs community in Europe and beyond.