During their master's studies at the UZH in 2005, four students realized that they were in a period of change when it came to the online purchasing behavior of consumers. This led to the development of ecommerce software and content management systems (CMS), which could be deeply integrated into the existing infrastructure (ERP, CRM, PIM) of enterprises.
Consumers were less and less willing to pay attention to intrusive advertising and offers not relevant to them. In addition they were using more and more different channels. These observations led to the founding of Aioma.
Customers do not want to be influenced by marketers or salespeople - they want to be helped. This assistance is an enormous amount of repetitive tasks for marketers. Aioma's guiding principle is to make customer centricity as simple and effective as possible. Together with our experienced Chief Product Officer (CPO) Valentin Binnendijk we started to lead the "Lead Management Software" Aioma.
Today, this approach helps ecommerce companies all over the world to focus on their customers and to help them in a largely automated way instead.
Marc studied Business & Informatics at the Uppsala University in Sweden and the University of Zurich. He has been working in ecommerce for over 15 years. Marc founded several web startups, is a member of the board of internet companies, and holds presentations and teaches on E-Commerce and Web Technology. His particular areas of interest include Entrepreneurship, Marketing Technology and the mountains of Switzerland. Marc was granted the Philias CSR Award, as well as the semester prize at the University of Zurich for his thesis publication “A Validation of Action Patterns for Project Managers”.
M. A. HSG of University of St. Gallen. Valentin is our product expert. He knows like no other how to successfully implement online products today. During his studies he co-founded the companies STARTUPS.CH and TrekkSoft and established them as CTO. Today both companies have more than 100 employees. Valentin has gained further experience in consulting and with well-known Swiss start-ups.
B.A. in Communication and Media Studies, MAS Digital Business. In her position as Content Experience Manager, Rita combines three exciting fields of expertise: Communication Studies, Digital Marketing and Graphic Design. Rita gained her practical experience in e-commerce positions at Migros and Blacksocks. In today's digital world she is a sought-after specialist for content marketing, data analysis and customer experience.
Urs, MSc in International Management, studied in Lucerne, Paris and Shanghai. He is an experienced Project Manager and an expert in the global e-commerce landscape.
Andraž is leading the team for eZ Platform development and is very experienced in E-Commerce development in PHP/MySql, technical project lead and planning.
Raffaele holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich with focus on Software Engineering. His master's thesis in the area of modern computer virtualization supported many publications in OS research. Raffaele is also one of the inventors of the Vala language.
Lenart is an experienced full-stack developer and is the architect of our customer data platform (CDP). After graduating as a multimedia engineer, he worked in various positions and in his own company as a Ruby developer.
Kurt is president of the board of Aioma. An Economist and passionate Entrepreneur with investments and Board participations in a number of early and late stage firms spanning the Investment, FinTech, Healthcare and Consumer Goods sectors. He is Chairman of the Board of RepRisk AG, a global leader in environmental, social and governance risk intelligence as well as Chairman of Aioma AG and a member of the Board of Quantex AG – all companies domiciled in Switzerland. In 1997, he founded Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, which was a pioneer in the Swiss hedge fund industry and managed in excess of USD 5 billion by the end of 2009. He also served during this time as a member of the Advisory Board of the FTSE Hedge Fund Index. Kurt is the Chairman of The Forlam Foundation and was previously Chairman and member of the Board of Trustees of the Africa Foundation UK Trust. In addition, he has served on the Advisory Board of several major initiatives, the most recent being to establish a regional financial institute in the Caribbean. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne, a MA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a BSc in Mathematics from Hofstra University.
Peter travels between many worlds: He is Chairman of BlueOrchard Impact, Chairman of Graubündner Kantonalbank GKB, and Vice-Chairman Deutsche Bank (Switzerland) Ltd. Prior to that, Peter studied law at the University of Zurich and was CEO of Vontobel Private Bank, CEO of Harcourt Investment and member of the Board of Directors of Liechtensteinische Landesbank (LLB). We're happy to have his experience on board of our company at the advisory board of Aioma.
An extract from our customers
Thanks to years of experience in the development of e-business and e-commerce applications and deep insights into B2B companies, we help to make future-oriented, digital decisions. We can pay the necessary attention to the details that are critical to success without losing sight of the big picture. Because our processes are lean and efficient.
