Isabelle Richard

Isabelle Richard is a serial entrepreneur who launched her first business in France, Hong Kong & China in 1997. Her intuitive approach brought her to create an industrial design firm to provide innovation to Chinese manufacturers. Her company employed 20 staff in two continents and was specialized in Industrial Product Design & Development in the FMCG sector (around 300 products developed in cooperation with Asian manufacturers). The company also provided marketing research and imported goods from China to Europe. The business included the entire process from certification, logistics and custom taxes. As a passionate entrepreneur and with solid expertise in starting businesses from scratch in overseas countries; she has decided to provide her expertise and experience to support startups & corporation in building and growing their businesses through innovation. She speaks English and German fluently beside her mother tongue in French She is the CEO & Founder of Io2HUB an Incubator & Accelerator program dedicated to IoT/Smart Products/logistics & retail platform startups. Io2HUB is the only Incubator & Accelerator program in Europe which propose to startups a dedicated R&D and product development structure based in China and which support their internationalisation through a Hong Kong program.