Management

During that time in a variety of senior management and executive roles for leading companies including DEC, Compaq and HP, Erik lived and worked in the USA, UK Scandinavia, Spain, Germany and Switzerland. Handling the industry vertical for entertainment & media in EMEA at HP, later he was instrumental in a successful restructuring of a publicly traded mid-sized software company in Switzerland and Germany. As vice-president for CA, the focus was on the Tier II business and ramping-up the consumer on-line business in EMEA. Swiss-based SAP consulting and integration expert, Cirrus Consulting, hired Erik as MD and member of the board, responsible for the German market. Cirrus was sold successfully in 2011 to Swisscom IT Services.

Yves Grosjean is an IT / Microsoft senior executive. During his more than 20 years with Microsoft Switzerland he held various positions in national and international management roles. At the Microsoft Partner adesso, he was member of the management board and ran the entire Microsoft division. Yves Grosjean has in-depth know-how of the market from both the vendor and the professional service business side.
He is a specialist of the Microsoft partner ecosystem in Switzerland, as well as for the topics digitalisation, & disruptive technologies. In 2014, Yves Grosjean was elected as a member of the board of IAMCP Switzerland, the international association of Microsoft partners.
As a partner of Wirz & Partners AG Yves Grosjean focuses on digitalisation and Microsoft.

During her career in the IT industry in Switzerland Yvonne Thoma was member of the board and management member of international IT technology vendors, service providers and national partner companies. She gathered profound experience in business management,business development, sales, global account management, alliance partner management, presales consulting, portfolio management, datacenter and service center management. She has a sound knowledge of the Swiss IT industry ecosystem and she knows the Swiss headquartered customer base very well. As partner of Wirz & Partners AG Yvonne Thoma is focused on executive search in sales, account management, presales, engagement management and senior management.

Andreas Bleiker is a recognized expert within Switzerland’s multifaceted healthcare system. During his more than 20-year tenure of experience in responsible management positions for leading companies in the pharmaceutical, medical technology and health insurance industry. He started his career in Product Management at Pfizer, where he successfully managed the operational business of various industry-leading products and product launches for the Swiss pharmaceutical marketplace over many years. He assumed operational and strategic senior management positions as Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of GE Healthcare AG. Andreas has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Topwell Pharmacies. As a Headhunter, Andreas Bleiker can rely on a great wealth of experience, specifically in Executive Recruitment (CxO-level) from his time at Amrop Executive Search. As a partner and advisory board member at Wirz & Partners, he leads the pharmaceutical, medical technology and biotechnology markets.

Head of melectronics at Migros Fachmarkt AG, former Member of the executive board from the MCH group AG, President of the Pro Aqua Pro Vita Foundation, Board Member and co- founder of Ventbridge AG, and formerly member of the management team of Compaq Switzerland.

Co-founder and Managing Director of MyPrivateBanking Research (in 2019 successfully sold to Cutter Associates). Christian was a strategy consultant for Monitor Company and co-founded the technology research company FORIT in 1999. After the acquisition of FORIT by Forrester Research Inc., Christian became Managing Director of Forrester Germany and Research Director for Central Europe.

Lucas Landolt studied computer science, law and business administration at the Universities of Bern and St. Gallen. He has more than 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive and has specialised in the design, management and implementation of projects in finance and banking as well as the implementation and optimisation of processes on an international level since 2016.

He is a recognised Fintech expert, speaker at international conferences and guides Fintech startups in successfully building their business.

Lucas Landolt is also Chief Operating Officer at Lloyd’s & Partner AG and Managing Director at Fintechnics AG.

Studies of General History, University of Zurich
Law studies, University of Zurich
District Court of Zurich, Auditorate (1998)
Acquisition of the Zurich license to practice law (2001)
Head of Legal & Compliance (2003) of an investment, trust & asset management firm in Zurich
Since 2011 co-owner of an investment, trust & asset management firm (Zurich)
Independent practicing attorney since 2012

Andy Waar, Co-Founder and CMO/Chief Marketing Officer of Yapeal, Founder fintechrockers.com, founder of thescent.ch, founder of Tiger Zurich,
former partner of the agencies Tigermedia and MagMagMedia, as well as guest lecturer at the HWZ (CAS Digital Finance). Andy Waar is a lawyer, digital marketing specialist, fintech enthusiast and passionate musician.

Beat is the founder and owner of the Air Navigation Institute and Air Navigation Services GmbH. Beat is the Chairman of the ICAO Instrument Flight Procedures Panel (IFPP, formerly OCP) in his function as the ABIS (group of States) member of the IFPP. Furthermore, Beat is a guest lecturer at the ZHAW (Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften).