Melanie Gabriel is Co-Director & COO of the ETH AI Center. Previously, she was Co-Founder and CMO of Yokoy, a FinTech and AI company that was successfully acquired in early 2025. In her weekly podcast and newsletter Follow the Gradient, Melanie and her guests discuss how to scale a business from Europe while staying sane. Melanie lectures on entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen, serves on the boards of SICTIC and Moodtalk, and is active as an angel investor and advisor. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Management from the University of St. Gallen. Melanie was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Switzerland’s 100 Digital Shapers and received the HSG Founder of the Year Award in 2023.