DEEP TECH ADVISORY
Deep tech and the subatomic world
Preon Consulting SA advises companies, investors and stakeholders on the technical, commercial and financial dimensions of deep technology — with a focus on clean tech, nuclear (fission & fusion) energy, nuclear fuel, nuclear medicine, radioisotopes and quantum computing.
WHAT WE DO
Deep technology ventures — spanning fission and fusion energy, nuclear fuel cycles, medical and industrial isotopes, and quantum computing — sit at the intersection of fundamental science, heavy engineering and long regulatory pathways. Preon Consulting SA was established to bring disciplined, quantitative advisory to this category: to the founders building these ventures, and to the investors and asset managers evaluating them.
Our engagements combine management and strategic consulting, engineering advisory, investment due diligence, and executive education — applied together rather than in isolation, and extended where required by a network of academic and industrial experts. In this category, a business plan is only as credible as the physics, the engineering and the regulatory pathway underneath it.
SERVICES
Each engagement draws on whichever combination of these disciplines the venture, the investor or the asset manager requires.
Corporate strategy, business planning and management consulting for deep technology ventures, grounded in realistic technical and regulatory assumptions.
Engineering advisory and design review for clean tech and nuclear energy systems, particle accelerator applications, industrial and medical isotopes, informed by direct experience at CERN and in deep tech startup deployment.
Independent due diligence and valuation support for asset managers, VCs, family offices and corporates evaluating deep technology investments.
High-level executive education designed for investors, management teams, boards, and diverse stakeholder groups. These courses provide non-technical managers and investors with the analytical, critical, and quantitative tools needed to rigorously evaluate both the opportunities and challenges within the sectors they enter or oversee.
NETWORK
Beyond our core team, Preon Consulting SA draws on a network of academic and industrial experts to support specific mandates — in engineering execution, growth and business development, and financial valuation. This network extends through our ties to the scientific and academic ecosystem, including CERN and EPFL, and through investor and industrial relationships.
ABOUT
Alberto De Min, PhD, MBA, Founder
Alberto De Min holds a PhD in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics from the University of Milan and an MBA in Finance and Corporate Management from HEC Lausanne. He spent twenty years at CERN in Geneva, working at the forefront of experimental particle physics, while teaching physics at the University of Padua, the Polytechnic University of Milan, and EPFL.
In the financial sector, he has advised on and managed equity investments for Lombard Odier Investment Managers, Strategic Investment Advisors, and Index Ventures. He also co-founded Preon Capital Partners SA, where he served as CEO for almost a decade (2014–2023), overseeing notable early-stage investments and successful exits, including Supercell, Advanced Accelerator Applications, Next Games, and NEWCLEO. He has covered management roles at GenomSys, Newcleo and Blykalla
Alberto De Min has co-founded several VC-funded startups spanning hardware (Spin-X Technologies), software (APM Technologies), and energy (Newcleo). During his career he has served on the board of APM Technologies, GenomSys, GenomSoft, Kizy Tracking, Newcleo Operations Ltd, Newcleo SA (CH), Rutschi Fluid, Augustus Capital AM, Preon Capital Partners, Preon SICAV RAIF and Audentia Capital.
His approach combines the analytical rigour of physics and statistics with a pragmatic understanding of corporate management and technology investing.
Xavier Faucher, Dipl-Ing
Xavier Faucher holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from École Centrale de Lyon and completed postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge on supersonic flow control under the EUROSHOCK programme. He has 25 years of experience in business development, sales and project management across nuclear energy, EPC, engineering consultancy and defence systems, with assignments in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
Xavier Faucher sat on the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Department at Tractebel Engineering (GDF Suez) and subsequently served as Marketing and Sales Director at Ansaldo Nucleare, managing sales and claims teams across Italy and the UK for a 500-engineer, €100 million turnover nuclear EPC business. He went on to direct the Nuclear New Build business unit at Empresarios Agrupados and to serve as Executive Sales Director at Newcleo, where he led EPC and engineering services sales across a 1,000-person group and drove international promotion of the LFR200 lead-cooled reactor in the United States and Middle East, exceeding 2025 sales targets by 50%.
After leaving Newcleo Xavier held the role of Principal Business Development Engineer at Transmutex, focused on medical radioisotope production and AI-related business development in the US and Europe.
Preon Consulting SA and Preon Capital Partners SA share an origin in Geneva's scientific ecosystem and were both founded by Alberto De Min. Preon Capital Partners evaluates investment opportunities and deploys capital; Preon Consulting advises startup management and investors and evaluates technical feasibility, technology maturity and execution risk. Together, they cover a venture's case from "the equations to the equity round".
This firm
Deep tech and the subatomic world
Strategic, engineering and financial advisory for deep technology ventures and their investors — clean tech, nuclear energy, nuclear fuel, nuclear medicine, radioisotopes and quantum computing — extended by a network of academic and industrial experts.
Sister firm
Capturing disrupting opportunities
A Geneva-based family office and investment boutique with 20+ years of experience in seed-stage equity in innovative technology startups. Preon Capital Partners holds an equity minority stake in Augustus Capital AM, Spain. Alberto De Min left Preon Capital Partners in 2023
Visit Preon Capital Partners SA → Visit Augustus Capital AM →Preon Consulting SA
Chemin du Clos-Alpestre 6
1222 Vésenaz, Switzerland
CHE-382.561.542 TVA
