Chris Thoen

Science Advisory Committee Member at SD Guthrie International

📍 New Albany, Ohio, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Non Executive Board Member
Sep 2025
We are a consumer-facing health and biosciences firm working with some of the worlds largest consumer health products and specialty nutrition companies to bring science-backed solutions to the market to address consumer health and wellness.
Non Executive Board Member
May 2020
New Forge is a leading manufacturing and logistics technology company that helps companies solve plant floor inefficiencies from using out dated technology. We have the experience it takes to guide your team step-by-step to make new technology less intimidating. We educate your team through the process of adoption into your unique use cases. With over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, we understand what frustrations keep you up at night and the technology wishlist you secretly have. Let us help you turn your new technology wish list into a reality and end those night sweats. Ask us how Augmented Reality and remote maintenance support can improve plant floor efficiency, reduce errors, increase revenue, and decrease machine shutdown time!
Non Executive Board Member
Jul 2019
Sleepiz AG (Ltd.) is a Zürich based startup with a mission to provide patient-centric disease management through seamless integration of contactless monitoring into people’s homes. Sleepiz leverages the power of sleep insights with a device that is simply placed next to the bed. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions and breathing patterns, as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy. While currently focusing on respiratory illnesses, Sleepiz aims to improve people’s lives by creating the future of healthcare. By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence, in the future Sleepiz will not only be able to diagnose sleep disorders but also perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases will be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment. The company collaborates closely with leading clinics in Switzerland and Europe. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, Sleepiz AG also has its own subsidiary in Pune, India. Within 6 years, the ETH spin-off has grown to a team of PhDs in engineering, data modelling and signal processing, as well as business and healthcare professionals. Sleepiz is touching lives without touching.
early stageMedical Device
Board Member MC CH Association
Jan 2017
Since 2016, MassChallenge Switzerland has been a leader in helping startups grow their businesses by accelerating 610 startups across the world in multiple industries. They have raised more than $985M in funding. Our flagship program is the early-stage startup accelerator, which accepts startups from any industry and country. All startups in the accelerator are advised about how to make their business climate responsible and must intend to off-set their emissions or actively reduce GHG. In addition to the accelerator, MassChallenge Switzerland runs a challenge program, the Sustainable Food Solutions Challenge, matching later-stage startups with corporate partners in the food industry.
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2025
Non Executive Board Member
Sep 2025
We are a consumer-facing health and biosciences firm working with some of the worlds largest consumer health products and specialty nutrition companies to bring science-backed solutions to the market to address consumer health and wellness.
2020
Non Executive Board Member
May 2020
New Forge is a leading manufacturing and logistics technology company that helps companies solve plant floor inefficiencies from using out dated technology. We have the experience it takes to guide your team step-by-step to make new technology less intimidating. We educate your team through the process of adoption into your unique use cases. With over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, we understand what frustrations keep you up at night and the technology wishlist you secretly have. Let us help you turn your new technology wish list into a reality and end those night sweats. Ask us how Augmented Reality and remote maintenance support can improve plant floor efficiency, reduce errors, increase revenue, and decrease machine shutdown time!
2019
Non Executive Board Member
Jul 2019
Sleepiz AG (Ltd.) is a Zürich based startup with a mission to provide patient-centric disease management through seamless integration of contactless monitoring into people’s homes. Sleepiz leverages the power of sleep insights with a device that is simply placed next to the bed. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions and breathing patterns, as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy. While currently focusing on respiratory illnesses, Sleepiz aims to improve people’s lives by creating the future of healthcare. By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence, in the future Sleepiz will not only be able to diagnose sleep disorders but also perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases will be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment. The company collaborates closely with leading clinics in Switzerland and Europe. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, Sleepiz AG also has its own subsidiary in Pune, India. Within 6 years, the ETH spin-off has grown to a team of PhDs in engineering, data modelling and signal processing, as well as business and healthcare professionals. Sleepiz is touching lives without touching.
early stageMedical Device
2018
Senior Partner Innovation / R&D
Sep 2018
CORNER-OFFICE EXPERTISE, STREET-LEVEL EXPERIENCE C-Suite Consulting-Partners Group helps you see clearly and lead boldly so you can unlock potential and grow. We’re a battle-tested team of Fortune 50 executives who have delivered industry-leading results and industry-shaping insights from big wins and tough challenges. We show up with real-world expertise and experience, not a one-size-fits-all consulting playbook. We give you insights you can act on, solutions customized for your business, and a road map to a sustainable winning future. Our expertise and experience are substantial. We have "P&G-Plus"​ DNA: We learned business fundamentals and rose to senior leadership at Procter & Gamble. Many of us later played senior roles at more than a dozen other industry-leading firms and have worked with a range of Fortune 500 companies as board directors and executive advisors. We help you anticipate and lead change, build brands with deep insights, improve and transform systems, reduce costs, and strengthen the reputation of your company, your team and your personal leadership.
CurioCT LLC
Founder & President
Sep 2018
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