ACEND - Key Persons


Andreas Gehrig

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Arch.Cloud
He is always on the road with his notebook, writing software and designing cloud architectures.

Anna Pfeifhofer

Job Titles:
  • Sales
Brings structure to chaos - loves to optimize processes and can't sit still for a minute when music is playing.

Beat Schärz

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Puzzle ITC
Not only does Beat have an iron discipline when it comes to sports, but he also steels his brain by constantly building up new knowledge.

Benjamin Affolter

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
He only ever freezes when the temperature drops below 30 Celsius, but certainly not in the face of new technologies or the demands of the participants in his trainings.

Christian Haller

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Puzzle ITC
To balance out his hectic day-to-day container life, he makes his sourdough pizza by hand. And then eats it himself right away.

Christian Schlatter

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
Not only does he enjoy traveling through the real world, but he also discovers new places in the Cloud Native Landscape

Christof Lüthi

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Tim & Koko AG
Christof is back from his trip around the world, has dived a lot and got to know different cultures. With a fresh spirit and curiosity, he is now on a journey of discovery in the Cloud Native world.

Christoph Aymon

Job Titles:
  • Experience
Experience When he's not concentrated on a computer screen, you're most likely to find him in a fast car - he only does extra laps on the Nürburgring.

Christoph Raaflaub

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Puzzle ITC
He has visited many places with his RV, and when it comes to the Cloud Native Landscape, he is also an experienced and knowledgeable guide.

Daniel Strohecker

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
He's been picking up speed on his bike as of late. He can slow down, though, and make sure our clients proceed through our trainings on sure feet.

David Kilchenmann

Job Titles:
  • Sales
He is the dream of all mothers-in-law and also us and especially our customers he always brings a smile to the face.

David Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Puzzle ITC
Our gopher is an explorer. Especially of new hip technologies, as well as of fine hoppy variations under the arbors of Bern's old town.

Gabriel Graf

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
He is our globetrotter and has been at home all over the world from an early age. And of course, he is really at home in the Cloud Native world. Expertise Since graduating with a degree in Business Informatics FH in 2007, Gabriel has worked for several years in IT at various companies as a developer, firewall, systems and cloud engineer. Continuing education is always important to him, so in addition to CISSP, RHCE and CKA, he also completed a CAS in Advanced Data Science. Since 2016, he has been working for Swiss Mobiliar, where he is involved in the development and operation of large container platforms.

Johann Gyger

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
Still waters run deep, and he's one to deep dive into Cloud Native technologies. As a supporter of sustainability and a climate-friendly world, he prefers Lake Thun to the ocean. Johann studied Computer Science at the ETH and already has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked for numerous well-known customers and employers as an IT architect, coach, consultant and software engineer and is a Cloud Native Ambassador.

Lena Fuhrimann

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Bespinian / Head Always in the Clouds, Just Look at Her Hair. Lena Loves Modernizing Software and Working With New Technologies. She Uses Arch Btw
Head always in the clouds, just look at her hair. Lena loves modernizing software and working with new technologies. She uses Arch btw.

Lorenz Bischof

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Peak Scale
In the calm lies the power. Lorenz shines with his calm and level-headed manner when it comes to the most complex topics in the IT world.

Lukas Grimm

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Puzzle ITC
Lukas brews his own beer, is a systems engineer and an educator. This makes him the perfect archetype of an acend trainer.

Marcel Groner

Job Titles:
  • Finance & Experience
Our number's whizz counts altitudinal differences in his free time - and has climbed many mountain tops in the process.

Mathis Kretz

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Bespinian
When he is not deploying microservices or showing others how to do it, he is cooking, preferably with fire.

Philipp Grossenbacher

Job Titles:
  • Sales & Experience
He's responsible for our special effects. Some say it was the championship run of his favorite football club that made him fall in love with pursuing the unexpected.

Philippe Schmid

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Puzzle ITC
Philippe has already completed numerous runs and marathons. He doesn't like this kind of effort in IT, so he automates everything that is possible.

Raffael Hertle

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
Likes to dress up for carnival, but likes to look behind the masks when it comes to cloud native technologies

Sebastian Plattner

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
He always has his fingers on the pulse of technological developments and stays one step ahead - the more complex the problem, the bigger his motivation. And because nothing explains itself, he'll also take care of that.

Simon Stettler - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
Enjoys seeing the bigger picture and strives to bring out the best in himself and organizations. Sometimes also with beer.

Stefan Johner

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
Stefan is not only a team player in sport. Away from the sports fields, he likes to be active in the Microsoft and cloud native community so that he can get to know new trends and people.

Thomas Philipona

Job Titles:
  • Trainer
He's been in the IT world for years - and he discovers everything else on his bicycle.

Tobias Tröhler

Job Titles:
  • Sales & Experience
Colorful socks and wild ideas: he's just the man to design our visual presence whenever he's not riding a wave.