At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Switzerland based CEO’ operating in the Web Development space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Roger Dudler
Founder, CEO and CTO of Frontify
Roger Dudler is the CEO, Founder, and CTO of Frontify. Roger is leading the vision of Frontify with his experience as a Developer & Designer. Before founding Frontify, he worked for several software companies, including the leading swiss web agency Namics. While he’s always into new technologies, he launched successful projects like the git simple guide or Eclipse Color Themes, which became very popular resources in their area, because of their simple approach. He also talks about Bridging the Gap between Design & Development. You can find him tweeting about UX, Front-End or Entrepreneurship sometimes.
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About Frontify: Frontify is a cloud-based brand management platform for creators and collaborators of brands.
Roelou Barry
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Zenotta
Roelou Barry is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zenotta. Switzerland-based Roelou Barry is a cloud and data storage technology pioneer. Instrumental in developing data offerings used by millions of customers globally, he leveraged global alliances and partnerships such as PwC since 1998. In 2012, Roelou took an interest in blockchain technologies with a particular focus on how data-handling, storage and -value could be enhanced. He was the driving force behind a number of international blockchain and crypto projects, which culminated in the birth of the Zenotta Digital System.
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About Zenotta: The first peer-to-peer electronic trade system powered by smart data

Pascal Mangold
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Magnolia
Pascal Mangold is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder of Magnolia and has had over 15 years of software development and sales experience. At Magnolia, he oversees sales, business development, budgeting, and financial controlling. Pascal leads all graphical user interface design efforts of Magnolia software products. His passion for usability started back in 1990 when he programmed input masks for the FileMaker Pro database. Entering self-employment as a Macintosh support engineer in 1992, Pascal started a Web agency in 1995 and helped customers with server administration and Web programming until 2000. Since 2000, he focused on business administration after co-founding what later became Magnolia. Pascal is a Jazz enthusiast, plays guitar and once per year the piccolo flute in a Swiss carnival music ensemble that he has participated in since the age of six. He lives in Switzerland with his wife and two children.
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About Magnolia: Magnolia is an open Java CMS that delivers smartphone simplicity on an enterprise-scale.

Andreas Lorenz
Founder and CEO of dctrl — studio for creative technology
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About dctrl — studio for creative technology, digitalMedLab, eskiis: dctrl is a digital development and consulting agency, etablished 2000 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Harshal Shah
Chief Executive Officer of Elsner Technologies
Imaginative, unorthodox, and creative: these are the three things that you can always associate with me. Yes, I am Harshal Shah, the CEO of Elsner Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Braincube, EcomVA, Myappguru, Elsner Visa Consultancy, and a group of other companies.
Speaking about my work portfolio: I have an overall experience of more than 16 years working for reputed brands like Reliance Infocom and TCS. Today, the business that I run caters across various countries like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
We all know that IT is a booming industry and so my main business is centred around eCommerce services and digital transformation. I love innovation which can be judged from the ventures that I have started so far.
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About Elsner Technologies: Elsner is a full-service web development as well as mobile development company.

Michael Walder
CEO / Partner of allink GmbH
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About allink GmbH: Allink is a web advertising agency that assists companies with branding and marketing messages.

David Giorgi
CEO of Liquid Sky Pty Ltd
Liquid Sky Pty Ltd | chiefDreamer Europe Développeur, créateur web depuis plus de douze ans. David est bilingue anglais/français. Design and development of fine business websites for more than 12 years David is bilingual English, French After over 25 years of programming and print/logo design and over 15 years of web design and development, David returned to Europe with his family. His web development design services will continue as “expat web design” now that he has relocated in Annecy, France from May 2007. Quick history Born in Italy in ’67, grew up in the UK and Switzerland, landed in Australia in ’80. Got his hands on an Apple IIe then a Macintosh in ’84. Studied architecture, wore a skinny tie, was courted by the advertising industry, discovered typography & Macromedia Director. Gravitated towards hypertext and finally settled on web design and development – the perfect job for a born again hippie. Met Penny in ’93. Lily (born 2003) and Jasper (born 2006) back to France in 2007…hair receding, the saga continues 🙂
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About Hostcloudz, Liquid Sky Pty Ltd: Trusted professional services for complex Web, App, Blockchain, Biotech, Fintech and B2B eCommerce projects. Digital transformation experts.
Milan Vora
CEO of mydesq
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About : mydesq focuses on the development of tools and applications for wealth managers and banks.