BOARD ADVISORS - Key Persons
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- Partner ( DE ) Sales Management Expert With over 25 Years of Experience
Bernd Hau has managed and established sales and consulting teams in the EMEA region selling software and services across the globe in the position of a sales leader.
His practical skill set includes sales management, international and domestic partner development, major accountant acquisition and retention, business development regarding new products, industries and territories.
Bernd Hau joined Board Advisors in 2017. While working for companies operating globally Bernd Hau acquired a deep understanding of international sales organizations within different industries. Bernd Hau has managed and established sales and consulting teams in the...
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- Founder
- Founding Partner ( DE )
- Member of the Supervisory Boards of Freicon Holding AG
Christoph is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Cambridge
Christoph Löslein is the founder of Board Advisors and an entrepreneur. At the age of 19, he joined an IT startup company where he quickly took on management roles. He was instrumental in market development and product strategy, which led to a number of awards. In the years up to 1993 he held the position of Marketing and Sales Director and was responsible for an annual turnover of 40 million.
In 1993, he co-founded DICOM in Germany and DICOM Group plc (Kofax plc since 2008), a leading business process automation software provider, which was sold to Lexmark for US$1 billion. As Executive Director and member of the Board of Directors of DICOM Group plc, he was initially responsible for building the European organization and later for Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Communications globally. Christoph was instrumental in DICOM's IPO in London in 1996 and a number of acquisitions, including the acquisition and financing of a NASDAQ-listed software company ( 100 million).
In 2005, he founded Board Advisors AG, a Swiss management consulting firm with the objective of providing software entrepreneurs, their owners and management boards with customized consulting services in the areas of strategy and M&A.
The clients served by Christoph come from the following sectors: IT Software/SaaS and Services, IT Hardware, E-Commerce, Clean Technology and Private Equity.
Christoph is a member of the supervisory boards of Freicon Holding AG (chair), Pyramid AG and Continum AG.
He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Cambridge, USA.
25+ years of experience in the areas of finance, accounting and financial reporting under different international frameworks
Client advisor in the areas of governance, organization, operational and financial risk management and compliance
Focus on the service industry providing business consulting work, performance of financial due diligence projects and structuring of venture capital funds
Long-standing project management experience in an international environment; of which 10 years as an equity Partner in one of the big 4 firms
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- Managing Partner ( DE / UK )
Martin holds a PhD in Industrial Ecology and a Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur (Double Master in International Business & Mechanical Engineering)
Simon holds a master and a PhD in structural biology from the Biozentrum, University of Basel as well as an MBA with distinction from the London Business School
Thomas holds a PhD In Biology and is lecturer in neurosciences at the Biozentrum, University of Basel
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- Partner ( FR / IT ) Former CEO and Technology Executive
Federico holds a degree in electronic engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Martin holds an EMBA degree (HSG, St. Gallen), is an electrical engineer and private pilot
Following her parental leave in 2011 Swetlana Hartung was employed as project manager by the Educational Institute of Baden-Württemberg's Businesses (Bildungswerk der Baden-Württembergischen Wirtschaft e.V.) until 2014. Swetlana holds a degree in business administration.
Swetlana Hartung (Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration) joined our German team in September 2014 as a project manager. From 2002 to 2010 she was working for Südwestmetall, an employers' association. Following her parental leave in 2011 Swetlana Hartung was...
Thomas holds a degree in Business Administration from the "Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts-Akademie" (VWA), Freiburg
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- Partner ( CH ) CFO and COO of Kofax Plc until 2008
Responsible for finance, controlling and risk management IPO of Kofax in London
Responsible for more than 20 M&A transaction for Kofax Consultant at Visura (BDO Switzerland)
Urs studied economics and is a certified "Dipl. Treuhandexperte"
Urs Niederberger joined Board Advisors in 2009, focusing on providing advisory services on general management, M&A and succession planning.
From 2002 to 2008, Urs served as group chief operating officer of DICOM Group plc (later renamed into Kofax plc) - a leader in the business process automation industry with annual sales of US$ 340 million (2008).
Between 1997 and 2005 he served as group finance director. Before joining DICOM he worked as management consultant with BDO AG (formerly Visura Consulting).
Urs was instrumental to DICOM's initial public offering on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London. During his tenure as finance director, he managed the move from AIM to the main board at the London Stock Exchange, lead the initiative to secure a secondary listing on the Frankfurt stock exchange and managed to raise equity money for the company and the selling shareholders in excess of CHF 200 million (including IPO). Additionally, he managed the acquisition of more than twenty companies, of which two were public listed, and a number of disposals of companies or activities no longer core to the group.
Urs Niederberger holds a degree in economics and business administration at the University of Applied Science, Luzern as well as a diploma as an expert fiduciary (Eidg. Dipl. Treuhandexperte).