Christian Hüttenhein, venture clienting lead and director of strategic partnerships & co-innovation at Robert Bosch Venture Capital, is a hard man to pin down. “If people ask me what my job is or what my profession is, I tell them ‘I don't know yet. I will tell you in the future what my profession was,’” he jokes.
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