Melanie Schwendimann
Chief of Staff at Oviva
Zurich, Zurich
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Director Strategy
2025 - Current
Extended Chief of Staff role - as right hand to the CEO, leading our global strategic initiatives, communications, and investor engagement.
Chief of Staff
2024 - 2025
Oviva is the leading virtual clinic for weight-related conditions in Europe. We rapidly scale across CH, DE & the UK, with >900.000 patients treated & backed by Europe's leading VCs.
Vice President
2023 - 2023
Senior Associate
2022 - 2023
Picus is a global, early-stage venture capital firm with >1bn USD AUM and a long-term investment philosophy. I personally focused on Healthcare & Biotech 🏥💊🚀
Associate
2022 - 2022
Fellow
2020 - 2022
Worked across classical strategy, customer experience, and startup-building (“Leap”) projects. Highlights include launching a US consumer healthtech startup, scaling a European reinsurance venture, and designing an innovation platform for a Middle Eastern city.
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Intern
2019 - 2020
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Intern
2019 - 2019
Project Consultant
2018 - 2019
Design Thinking Consultant for Human-Centred Design The project resulted in a FinTech entering the F10 accelerator
Intern Strategy & Management
2018 - 2018
D2C Eyewear startup (investors incl. Eight Roads, Swiss Startup Capital)
Intern
2017 - 2017
Assistant Head of Broker Underwriting (Ø 30%)
2015 - 2017
Administrative Assistant
2014 - 2014