Executive Board

Executive Partner / Co-Founder
IT Project Management

Marc Gasser studied IT and economics at Uppsala University and the University of Zurich. He was granted the Philias CSR Award 2006/2007, as well as the semester prize at the University of Zurich for his thesis publication “A Validation of Action Patterns for Project Managers”. Marc Gasser also holds presentations on Semantic Web Technology in the Tourism and Media Industry and teaches in the IT department of Enge Highschool. His particular areas of interest include IT project management and corporate social responsibility.
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Executive Partner / Co-Founder
Strategy and Finance

Whilst completing his studies in IT and economics at the University of Zurich, Matthias Alder gained valuable practical experience as a software developer for Comartis AG. During this time, he also developed independent IT consulting skills through private project work.
Through an internship at the Technical Architecture division of UBS Wealth Management and Business Banking, Matthias developed specialised knowledge in the inter-relationship of software components in the complex environment of a large organisation. He wrote his master thesis on the “Visualisation of Software Inventory Data”.
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Executive Partner / Co-Founder
Technical Leader

Philipp Kräutli studied IT and economics at the University of Zurich and worked as a software developer for various IT firms before founding Astina. His particular interest areas lie in requirements engineering, software architecture and database design.
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Executive Partner / Co-Founder
Development Manager for “New Technology” and Project Manager

Simon Morger completed his studies in Information Technology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil. His thesis dealt with the subject “iPhone Interface for a semantic recommender system'. Before founding Astina, Simon worked as an independent software developer.
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President of the Board

After completing an economics degree at the University of Texas, Kurt Lambert was awarded his PhD at the university of Lausanne. Kurt Labert is the president of the executive board of Zegora Investments, member of the advisory board of FTSE Hedge Fund Index and member of the board of trustees of the Africa Foundation. In 1997 he founded Harcourt Investment Consulting, one of the first companies to enter the Swiss hedge-fund market and which, at the end of 2006, was managing more than 4.5 billion dollars.