Alexander Osterwalder

About the author

Born in St. Gallen in 1974, Alexander Osterwalder is a Swiss business theorist, author, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur whose influence on modern management thinking rests largely on one powerful tool: the Business Model Canvas. By distilling the architecture of a business into a single visual framework, he gave strategists and founders a shared language for designing and stress-testing ventures.

His work on business modeling has made him a fixture on the global conference circuit and a widely read voice in entrepreneurship and innovation.