Thomas Raffeiner takes extreme skiing to new heights, combining skiing and paragliding. Ski-paragliding, or speed flying, entails trekking up a mountain on skis, then taking off for flight and landing on skis. Mr. Raffeiner, 51, is the founder and CEO of the Mobility House, a charging and energy storage company that supports car manufacturers in over 10 countries from its offices in Munich, Zurich and Cupertino, Calif.
Growing up in St. Anton, Austria, nicknamed the cradle of Alpine skiing, he mastered the slopes at a young...