I'm Richard Frederic Bertossa — entrepreneur, author and founder of the Geneva Institute for ASI Resilience.

I was born on 12 September 1974 in Vienna, is a dual Austrian-Swiss citizen and a citizen of the city of Geneva.

I am an international entrepreneur, author and founder of the Geneva Institute for ASI Resilience. My work combines international business practice, experience of system breaks, family responsibility and the question of how people stay able to act during the transition to superintelligence.

“The greatest freedom isn't money. The greatest freedom is options.”

Trained at the Federal Higher Technical Institute for the Chemical Industry in Vienna, then the Vienna University of Economics and Business — studying business administration, dropped shortly before the diploma because a Wall Street sales role for AIM Software had become more important.

On Wall Street, Richard led US sales for AIM Software, a Viennese financial middleware firm with Standard & Poor's and Bloomberg as central data partners. AIM Software was already working on neural networks back then — that was his first contact with artificial intelligence, more than two decades ago.

Highlights:

Vienna and New YorkEarly institutional roles in Vienna — among them district councillor, representative at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, and advisory or deputy involvement in the Data Protection Council at the Federal Chancellery; then the deliberate move to New York and into an international entrepreneurial career.

China and productionBuilding a manufacturing operation in China — a chemical factory with its own machine building, trade fairs, supply chains and operational reality.

International entrepreneurshipAn office in Istanbul, a call center in the Philippines, operational sites on Isla Margarita and in Florida, staff in Colombia and Vienna.

Freedom systemsAdvising on asset structure, company architecture, banking, international setup, multi-location strategy, residency, bureaucracy navigation and independence from the system.

Family across continentsFather of five children. Raising them across countries and cultures; freedom not as theory, but as a way of life and a responsibility.

Institute and bookFounding the Geneva Institute for ASI Resilience and work on Freedom After Superintelligence as a response to a practical blind spot in the AI debate.

Richard Bertossa

Richard Bertossa

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