Pascale Vonmont is Managing Director of Gebert Rüf Stiftung, a Swiss science and innovation foundation. She manages the operational side of the foundation's funding programs and networks important strategic initiatives, communities, clusters and partners involved in the programs and topics.
She has headed the Venture Kick Strategy Council since the funding program was established and has chaired the Startupticker Foundation Board since 2015. She took over the operational management of the Kick Foundation in 2021 and coordinates its Kick programs. Pascale Vonmont has been a member of the jury for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award since 2021. In these roles, she supports the strengthening of knowledge entrepreneurship at Swiss universities.
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Philanthropy Studies, the research and further education institute for the Swiss foundation sector, and will represent the foundation consortium on the Board of Trustees of StiftungSchweiz from 2022. She has been Vice President of the Peter Bopp Foundation for Research and Technology since 2024.