Team members
The Company has assembled seasoned professionals, each with decades of experience in their respective fields.
Board of Directors
Yves Claude Aubert
Independent non-executive board member and strategic advisor, with 25+ years managerial experience in Switzerland & abroad
Recognized entrepreneur, initially within the BCV Group until 2006, by leading and managing several strategic developments in Switzerland and abroad
MBA from IMD and the degrees of Certified Financial Analyst & Portfolio Manager of CFPI
Charles Champion
Former President, Airbus Operations SAS & Executive VP Engineering, member of the Airbus Executive Committee
Responsible for research & technology, product architecture, concept development and continued product airworthiness
Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace in Toulouse (1978) and M.Sc. Stanford University (1979)
Clarence Peter
Kellerhals Carrard SNC, Geneva, Partner
Advisor of multiple national and international firms and investment funds with a focus on new technologies and med-tech. Advisor of important families, dealing with their wealth and estate planning on complex issues
Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Senior Management Team
Philippe Le Corre
Created Finch Conseils & Realisations in 2008.
Management of Thales contribution to the French new Ministry of Defense project (Balard)
Former Executive at Dassault Aviation and IBM among the others
Graduated from ISAE-Supaero (1979)
Zoltan Czigler
Former CFO in several VC-funded early-stage technology-based ventures
In his successive CFO roles, Mr. Czigler raised multiple financing rounds from venture capital funds
M.Sc. In Engineering Mathematics from the Technical University of Budapest
MBA from INSEAD (2000)
Hans von Känel
Ph.D. in natural sciences at ETH Zürich in 1978; post-doctoral Associate at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1979 - 1981; senior researcher at ETH Zürich 1981-2002; ordinary professor of physics at the Politecnico di Milano 2002-2007; CTO of the start-ups Epispeed 2003-2010 and PileGrowth Tech 2012-2015; 400+ scientific publications in surface & interface physics, semiconductor physics, nanotechnology and epitaxial growth; 20 patent applications.
François E. Clerc
Former CEO of a radiology group and a “Cloud application” start-up.
Senior Partner and European Technology Practice leader for a major consulting firm (Spencer Stuart)
15 years in the technology with Blue Chips companies (HP, DEC & Compaq)
M.A. Geneva University (1981)
Scientific Advisory Board
Daniel A. Rüfenacht
MD, co-founder of G-ray, Swiss Neuro Institute, Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich, CH
Hans von Känel
Inventor, co-founder of G-ray, former full professor of physics at the Politecnico di Milano and Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zürich, CH
Adolfo Fucci
Co-founder of G-ray, CERN Honorary Member, CH
Prof. Osman Ratib
MD, Head of Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Hospital of Geneva, CH
Ulrich Sigwart
MD, Chair of Cardiology Emeritus, University of Geneva, CH
Antoine Herteman
Former Director of Renault Battery International and leader of Renault-Nissan engineering center in India
Daniel Dubreuil
Chief Digital Officer Product and Services since 2016 and former Group Chief Information Officer since 2011 at Safran
Prof. André Rubbia
PHD, MIT, full Professor at ETH Zurich, Department of Physics, Group leader, Expert in High Energy Physics, led or participated in many major large international projects.
Jean Botti
CEO of VoltAero SA, Former Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at Koninklijke Philips N.V (2016 – 2017) and Chief Technical Officer of Airbus Group SE (2006-2016)