Entering the growth phase with new leaders

Effective this month, Alexander Sommer is the new CEO at DSwiss, one of the world’s leading providers of highly secure digital products. With offices in Zurich and Lisbon, the company develops eSafes for documents and passwords, digital mailboxes for document delivery and digital exchange platforms. DSwiss AG supports Europe’s leading financial service providers and insurance companies in implementing the market launch of new products in a timely manner, satisfying the regulatory requirements of new data protection legislation and strengthening customer relationships sustainably. In addition, the company is also responsible for SecureSafe, the highly secure password and file manager.

Alexander succeeds Tobias Christen, co-founder and former CEO, who will continue to serve on the company’s Board of Directors. Alexander is a technology expert with almost two decades of experience in the successful scaling of as-a-service companies. With his international experience, broad expertise and clear philosophy on how to set up successful software-as-a-service companies, Alexander will further strengthen Dswiss’ product offering and establish a highly scalable, market-leading customer experience, enabling the successful development of new markets.

Gjosa appoints new CEO
In collaboration with L'Oréal and under the leadership of Luc-E Amgwerd, Gjosa developed a first-of-its-kind water-saving system that can reduce water consumption by up to 65%. The system has three inserts for shampoo and other hair care products that go directly into the water stream. The technology by Gjosa allows to create micro-ionized droplets that collide in a high-pressure stream, allowing for significantly lower water consumption per wash. Following the global rollout with Loreal, Gjosa has also seen success with its end-user showerheads that can be installed in several settings, including households, hotels & resorts, clinics, hospitals, campuses, mobile homes, fitness centers, schools and homes. Having brought the company this far, Amgwerd has now handed over to Laurent Manca, whose vast experience in different business fields will help drive Gjosa through the next growth phase.

Excelsus welcomes COO
Excelsus Structural Solutions, a spin-off company of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)  and resident at the Switzerland Innovation PARK INNOVAARE, offers easy and affordable access to unique Synchrotron-based characterization tools to enhance the selection, development and manufacturing of high-quality (bio)pharmaceutical products. The company has created the role of Chief Operating Officer, with Thibaud Stoll to fill it. Thibaud is a seasoned executive, with over 25 years of experience in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry, having assumed various positions of growing management responsibilities in Technical Development and Technical Operations. Notably, he played a pioneering role in the technical development of biosimilars and has contributed to the successful commercial launch of the very first 3 products in Europe and USA. He previously served as the Senior VP Global Biologics Operations at Lonza AG, overseeing 8 sites across Asia, Europe and USA, in charge of technical development, clinical manufacturing and commercial manufacturing of biologics drug substances (DS) and drug products (DP) using diverse technologies such as mammalian, microbial, drug-conjugation, and mRNA. During the COVID pandemic, he spearheaded the industrial scale-up and worldwide supply of one of the first mRNA-based COVID vaccines. He also led the Lonza Group’s supply chain organization.

(Press release/RAN)
Photo L-R: Alexander Sommer, Laurent Manca & Thibaud Toll