Our Management team
Dr. Gundula Heinatz Bürki
data innovation alliance
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.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heitz
Institut für Datenanalyse und Prozessdesign (IDP), ZHAW School of Engineering
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.
Hans Peter Gränicher
D ONE
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.
Dr. Matthias Brändle
Die Mobiliar
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.
Prof. Dr. Anne Herrmann
FHNW
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. Thilo Stadelmann
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.
Matthias Werner
TRUMPF Schweiz AG
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.
Our Office
Dr. Melanie Geiger
data innovation alliance
Dr. Melanie Geiger has worked in many innovation projects and received her PhD from the University of Neuchâtel. She shaped the SDS conference series since its beginning.
Dr. Reik Leiterer
data innovation alliance
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.
David Schaffner
data innovation alliance
David has extensive knowledge working in the administration. Currently he is responsible for the office of the alliance in Thun.
