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.
Erik Wirz
André L. Belleville is a Senior Executive in Microsoft and Enterprise Services. In his over 23 years at Microsoft, he was responsible for orchestrating teams and divisions such as; Support Engineering, Field Engineering, Technical Account Management, Consulting Services and Services Sales, in various national and international leadership roles.
Most recently he was responsible as the Services Practice Leader/Director, Consulting Services and Field Engineering at Microsoft EMEA Services, based out of Zurich, focusing on the Security & Infrastructure project and technology portfolio.
His core competencies are Corporate Management, People & Organisational Leadership, Digitization and Change Management.
As a partner at Wirz & Partners AG, André L. Belleville concentrates on the areas of Digitization and Microsoft.
André L. Belleville
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.
Yvonne Thoma
Rudolf Schuler studied electrical engineering in Mannheim and Wiesbaden, Germany. He was a member of the Sage Software management team for Central Europe. He has 28 years of in-depth industry expertise, gained from a variety of strategic management and operational management roles in IT companies. Most recently, he was co-responsible for Oracle’s Cloud ERP and HR software business in Switzerland.
Rudolf Schuler
Pascal Hänggi will focus on board and C-level searches in the Biotechnology, Pharma, and MedTech sector. As Co-founder of a Biotechnology Startup, he has more than 10 years of experience in the Life Sciences industry, including a Chief Scientific Officer position of a fast-growing international company.
Pascal Hänggi
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.
Stephan Peyer
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.
Christian Nolterieke
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.
Andy Waar
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).
Beat Zimmermann
