Nicolas Faivre

Credit Suisse Entrepreneur Capital AG (formerly SVC AG für KMU Risikokapital) provides venture capital services for Swiss small and medium enterprises. The company invests in existing businesses, start-up businesses and small-scale businesses. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Credit Suisse Group AG is a holding company, which engages in the provision of financial services. It operates through the following four divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Bank, Swiss Bank and Asset Management and four geographic regions: Switzerland, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific, and Americas. The Wealth Management division offers comprehensive wealth management and investment solutions, tailored financing, and advisory services to ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) and high net-worth (HNW) individuals and external asset managers. The Investment Bank division offers a broad range of financial products and services focused on client-driven businesses and also supports Credit Suisse’s Wealth Management division and its clients. The Swiss Bank division offers comprehensive advice and a wide range of financial solutions to private, corporate, and institutional clients in Switzerland. The Asset Management division offers investment solutions and services globally to a broad range of clients, including pension funds, governments, foundations and endowments, corporations, and individuals. The company was founded by Alfred Escher on July 5, 1856 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Part of Ernst & Young Global Ltd., Ernst & Young AG is a Swiss company that provides accounting services. The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Omnisens SA develops measurement and monitoring systems. It provides measurement for energy, oil and gas, pipeline, power, civil engineering and geotech. The company offers asset integrity and long range distributed temperature monitoring solutions for pipeline integrity monitoring, ground movement detection, and roads and railways infrastructure monitoring; structural health monitoring solutions for civil engineering projects, tunnels, bridges, dams, and nuclear plants and dynamic strain/temp monitoring solutions. Omnisens was founded by Andre Bals, Marc Nikles Bals and Ion Bals in 1999 and is headquartered in Morges, Switzerland.