About · Team

The people behind the network

Two co-chairs represent SUGAR. Teaching teams at every member university coach the students through the nine months.

Teams at work on sofas and stools in a busy workshop space with post-it walls
Co-chairs

Co-chairs

The two co-chairs represent the network.

Falk Uebernickel
Co-Chair

Falk Uebernickel

Co-Chair

Co-Chair of the SUGAR Network.

Li Jiang
Co-Chair

Li Jiang

Co-Chair

Co-Chair of the SUGAR Network.

Teaching team · faces of the network

Teaching team

Professors, programme managers and coaches who teach the SUGAR course and support the network.

Prof. Dr. Falk Uebernickel
Teaching team

Prof. Dr. Falk Uebernickel

Professor for Information Management and Business Innovation

Full professor at HPI, adjunct professor at the University of St. Gallen and managing partner of ITMP AG.

Tomás Gamboa
Teaching team

Tomás Gamboa

Former SUGAR Network all-rounder & program manager at HSG

Former programme manager of the design thinking course at the University of St. Gallen, focused on teaching and coaching.

Sushi Suzuki
Teaching team

Sushi Suzuki

SUGAR photographer & program director at Kyoto Institute of Technology

Student, teaching team, corporate partner, founder of a member university, now programme director in Kyoto. Also the network's photographer.