Ideas are commodity. Execution is key. Philipp is co-founder and CEO of BRYCK (www.bryck.com). Prior to BRYCK, he was founder and CEO of etventure (www.etventure.com) as well as Partner at EY (www.ey.com). He is also Admissions Interviewer for the Stanford Graduate School of Business (www.gsb.stanford.edu) and sits on the Advisory Board of Badencampus (www.badencampus.de) Between 2010 and 2012, he lived and worked in Silicon Valley, graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA) and became d.leader at the Design Thinking School at Stanford University. Philipp started his career at Bertelsmann, where he became Director of Corporate Development, focusing on new technologies and digital media. Subsequently, he built as Head of Product Strategy the online startup scoyo, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, which was eventually sold to a joint venture of Disney and RTL Group. He then continued his venture building activities as Partner for eBusiness at ClimatePartner, where he launched a completely new digital B2B business model from scratch. Based on his insights at Bertelsmann, scoyo, and ClimatePartner, he co-founded etventure in 2010. In 2012, the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche selected Philipp as one of 100 most important people of the Internet industry in Germany. In 2013, the German Minister of Economy and Technology selected Philipp as member of the official German business delegation of to Silicon Valley. In 2017, etventure was acquired by EY (Ernst & Young) and Philipp became Partner at EY. In 2022, Philipp co-founded BRYCK, which in 2025 co-founded one of Germany's Startup Factories - the BRYCK Startup Alliance. Philipp is active mentor and advisor for several startup entrepreneurs as well as for CEOs of industrial companies that are facing digital transformation challenges.