At CFO (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 CFO’ operating in the Manufacturing space. If you think a CFO’ 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.

Oliver Guggenheim
Group CFO of UMS Skeldar
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About Muume, UMS Skeldar: Europe’s only provider of both Rotary and Fixed Wing UAV platforms.
Laurent Rosset
Chief Financial Officer of aveni
Laurent Rosset joined aveni in 2016 with over 20 years of experience leading global finance organizations. He is responsible for all finance-related activities: accounting, controlling, taxes, et al. Before joining aveni, Laurent held various positions in finance management with increasing responsibility. Most recently he served as the Senior Finance Controller EMEA at Eaton Corporation, where he was responsible for all regional finance matters, for driving organizational efficiency, and ensuring compliance with regional GAAP and regulations. Prior to that, Laurent served as Senior Manager of Internal Audit EMEA at Eaton. Laurent has also worked as Director, Internal Audit Europe for Salesforce.com, and has held several finance and treasury positions with Xerox Corp. Throughout his career, Laurent has gained extensive knowledge in areas of finance controlling, US GAAP and IFRS accounting, M&A, and transfer pricing.
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About aveni: Aveni offers novel metallization technology that enables the future of semiconductor manufacturing.

Elias Kleimann
Co-Founder & CFO of Wingtra
Elias Kleimann is a co-founder and a CFO of Wingtra – startup that develops, manufactures and sells prof. drones that capture aerial data for mapping and surveying. With Wingtra Elias pursues his life goal: “Do cool stuff with cool people”. After 5 years at IBM, Elias started his first social entrepreneurship project establishing an open-air coffee bar in the city centre of Zurich. Elias holds B.A. degrees in both Business Administration as well as Economics.
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About Wingtra: Wingtra provides professional VTOL drone for mapping and surveying.

Stephen Carr
Interim Chief Financial and Operations Officer of Terabee
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About Terabee: Terabee brings new ideas and solutions to complex robotics, automation, monitoring, and IoT challenges.
Roland Waibel
Chief Financial Officer of Archroma
Roland Waibel is CFO of Archroma since its beginning in October 2013. He has more than 25 years of global and diverse chemical and process industry experience, having held key financial and executive leadership roles at both publicly listed and privately owned companies. Mr Waibel possesses significant experience in business process/change management and has led global business services organizations including IT, corporate development and shared services. Before joining Archroma, Mr Waibel was Chief Financial Officer and a Member of the Executive Board at Omya Management AG, a privately owned, global producer of specialty materials. Previously, he held the position of Group CFO at Lonza Group AG, a publicly traded global producer of organic and fine chemicals.
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About Archroma: Archroma is a global color and specialty chemicals company.
Angelo Quabba
Chief Financial Officer of RUAG
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About RUAG: RUAG develops and markets internationally sought-after technology applications in the fields of aerospace.
Marco Pizzichini
CFO of Novaton
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About Novaton: Novaton develops and sells clean tech systems for the aquaculture industry.
Reto Suter
CFO of Siegfried Holding
Reto Suter serves as the Chief Financial Officer of the Siegfried Group.
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About Siegfried Holding: Siegfried Holding is a pharmaceutical company that offers and manufactures primary and secondary drug substances and products.
Marcel Reber
CFO and Member GL of BRC
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About BRC: BRC is a construction machinery professionals.
Andrea Moretta
Group Chief Financial Officer of Riri SA
Andrea Moretta is the group chief financial officer at Riri SA.
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About Riri SA: Riri SA manufactures zippers and buttons to the luxury fashion and accessories industry.

ANDREAS BORNER
CFO of Dectris
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About Dectris: Dectris is one of the technical leading companies in X-ray detection.

ANDREAS BORNER
CFO of Dectris
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About Dectris: Dectris is one of the technical leading companies in X-ray detection.