Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is the highest authority in the management of the Translumina Group. It governs the organization by reviewing the performance of the Management board. For more information about the board`s members please click on the pictures below.
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Nicolas Gautier Born 1978, in Tokyo Japan, Swiss / French citizen |
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| 2001 – 2006 |  |
Founder and Director at Soirée Events GMBH, now FirstSoiree GMBH, premium Swiss events organisers |
| 2002 – 2004 | |
Consultant at Ecn Ltd, Football and Media Consultants |
| 2003 – 2006 | |
Producer at Goal Productions, Walt Disney Company distributed Hollywood motion picture trilogy |
| 2006 – 2009 | |
Founder and CEO at Goalrun Interactive Holdings Ltd, online football platform |
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Nicolas Gautier holds a BA (hons) Advertising from the University of the Arts, London. A skilled peoples person and communicator with strong analytical skills and entrepreneurial drive he has successfully founded and led a leading events company, produced a Hollywood motion picture trilogy and founded a popular online football platform. His core business focus lies in the entertainment, sport and Internet industries. Nicolas Gautier lives in London and is a mentor at the London Business School?s MBA program. |
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Andreas Danuser Born 1961, in Kolkata / India, Swiss citzien |
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| 1987 | |
MSc. In Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, ETH Zürich (dipl. El. Ing. ETH) |
| 1994 | |
Dr. Sc. Techn., ETH Zürich (Diss. ETH Nr. 10900) |
| 1987 – 1992 | |
ABB Corporate Research, Baden/Switzerland Computer Architectures for Process Control: Project Leader for project "SPY" |
| 1992 – 1998 | |
Ascom, Bern Switzerland Head of Strategic Technology Unit, Head of Business Unit "Broadband Access" |
| 1998 – today | |
Active as serial entrepreneur / incorporation of various high-tech startup companies Inicore AG, successfully sold Inalp Networks AG, also doing business as Patton-Inalp Networks NetModule AG CTModule AG AareNet AG SwissQual AG, successfully sold to Spirent in 2006 |
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Andreas Danuser is a high-tech entrepreneur, who has a strong background in technology, who has realized various high-tech products and was leader of many related projects. In addition, Andreas Danuser has a vast experience in developping the markets for these products and to setup company structures to successfully develop and market innovative high-tech products and services. Over the last decade, he has incorporated and successfully grown a number of start-up companies, who are today active world-wide and who employ a few hundred of persons. Moreover, he has assisted to incubate and finance additional startup companies. |
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Johann Widmer Born 1958, in Winterthur / Switzerland, Swiss citizen |
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| 1981 | |
BSc. In Mechanical Engineering (dipl. Ing. HTL) |
| 1983 – 1984 | |
Master Studies in Rotor Dynamics (2 semesters), Prof. Schweizer, ETH Zurich |
| 1983 – 1985 | |
Studies in programming and telecommunications (3 semesters), Prof. Wirth, Prof. Nievergelt, Prof. Mössenböck, ETH Zurich 8 international congresses in energy storage with own scientific contributions |
| 2000 | |
CISA, Certified Information System Auditor of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) |
| 1981 – 1983 | |
Engineer and turn around manager in large World-Bank facilities in India, France, Italy, and Pakistan. |
| 1984 – 1992 | |
Research at ETH Zurich, Flywheel Energy Storage Research Group, publisher of several scientific papers on high speed spinning rotors. |
| 1984 – today | |
Owner of privately held company in Telecommunications and project financing, several activities for the development of African rural projects, consultant for Swiss investors into the African, Indian and Chinese markets. Shareholder in different Swiss and international Start-up companies |
| 1985 – 2006 | |
Co-owner of Cosit AG, successfully sold |
| 1995 – today | |
Board member of various companies, foundations and associations |
| 2008 – today | |
Owner of ATAP GmbH, Zurich and Belgrade |
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Johann Widmer is an experienced consultant and has over 25 years of management experience with a strong background in technology and with expertise in sales and business-financing. He dedicated his entrepreneurial skills to many successful projects and companies, where he always had a leading position and entered personal entrepreneurial risks. The active and successful development of new markets for his clients but as well for his own companies is one of his main achievements. He is active worldwide and has strong ties into many regions of the world. Over the last decade he was involved in many growing businesses and has assisted to incubate and finance start-up companies in the field of telecommunications and new technologies. He is an author of several books and lecturer in the field of telecommunications, computer sciences and materials. |
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