DATA-SERVICE-ALLIANCE.CH - Key Persons


David Schaffner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
David has extensive knowledge working in the administration. He is responsible for the office of the alliance in Thun.

Dr. Gundula Heinatz Bürki - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Dr. Gundula Heinatz Bürki led an analytics group at a Swiss insurance company and has been Manager of an analytics research group at ETH Zurich. She knows what transforming to digitization for a larger company means.

Dr. Matthias Brändle

Dr. Matthias Brändle heads the nearshore Analytics Service Center at la Mobilière insurance company. He manages data-driven use-cases from idea to productive integration into business.

Dr. Reik Leiterer

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Co - Founder of ExoLabs
  • Innovation Manager
Dr. Reik Leiterer is CEO and co-founder of ExoLabs, a company setting new standards in satellite-based environmental monitoring. For him, exchange and collaboration are at the core of innovation.

Hans Peter Gränicher - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
  • CEO and Co - Founder of D
Hans Peter Gränicher is CEO and co-founder of D|ONE, a company established in 2006 based on the belief that making sense of data is the key to success in the information age. His focus are entrepreneurship and data-driven value creation.

Leon Heitz

Job Titles:
  • Support
Leon is currently a health science student at ETH Zürich. He helps us with administrative tasks and is part of the annual SDS conference.

Marco Leder - CIO

Job Titles:
  • Head of IT

Matthias Werner

Matthias Werner heads the Program Management Digital Transformation at TRUMPF Schweiz AG. He is responsible for program management of digital transformation in the dimensions leading user and leading provider.

Milena Perraudin

Job Titles:
  • Communication & Project Management
Milena Perraudin has a background in communication and project management within the University of Zurich's science faculty. She is excited to work in innovation and to facilitate collaboration between academia and the industry.

Prof. Dr. Anne Herrmann

Anne leads the Institute of Market Offerings and Consumer Decisions at the School of Applied Psychology at FHNW. She has broad experience in industry-academia collaboration and innovation. As a business psychologist, she brings in the human and social perspective in data-based services.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Heitz - President

Job Titles:
  • President
Prof. Dr. Heitz has founded the Swiss Institute of Service Science (SISS) in 2008, and led it since. He is well-connected in the Swiss Service Science community and has vast experience in setting up and leading interdisciplinary research-focused organizations.

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Head of ZHAW Datalab
Prof. Dr. Stadelmann is co-founder and head of ZHAW Datalab, one of the first dedicated interdisciplinary research centers for Data Science with >60 researchers in all stages of the data value creation process.