WE ARE THE WIESENSCHWEIN TEAM


Oliver Hess

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Oli Hess is the inventor, founder, and CEO of Wiesenschwein AG. As a serial entrepreneur, he has already founded several successful companies and realized many projects and visions. His career shows great enthusiasm. He has a real feel for people and for using their skills in the right way in teams. Oli Hess is a trained offset printer, has been a sheep herder, federal herd protection officer, tree house builder and founder of a large outdoor specialist shop. In 2009 he started to dedicate himself entirely to pigs and their species-appropriate husbandry. In 2012, he bought a pig fattening, and breeding farm and ran it himself until 2018.


HANS-JÖRG BRUN

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Hans-Jörg Brun studied business administration at HWV Lucerne. He has a lot of experience in finance. At Wiesenschwein AG he is responsible for finance and administration.


Laura Marty

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Laura Marty studied agronomy at ETH Zurich. She worked at Bio Suisse/ICB in the field of international certification of farms and later at Swiss Re Ltd. with a focus on agricultural insurance and market development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Laura is now increasingly focusing on Swiss agriculture. After a summer on the alpine pasture, she started working at Wiesenschwein AG in 2018 and is involved in a variety of projects concerning research, market development, policy development, etc. Laura is working part-time for Wiesenschwein AG. With her husband she also runs a farm in the canton of Zug.


Adrian Iten

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Adrian Iten studied agronomy at ETH Zurich. After graduating, he worked at Mutterkuh Schweiz where he was responsible for brand programs. He moved to Coop as project manager for animal welfare and got to know the retailers’ perspective. Adrian has been working part-time at Wiesenschwein AG since September 2020 and is responsible for sales. He is also a committed farmer and father.


Markus Kurmann

Markus Kurmann studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne and has been running his own engineering office since 2016. Since summer 2019 Kurmann Engineering has been responsible for the development and maintenance of the Wiesenschwein automation (hardware and software).

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS


BRUNO AMBERG (CONTRACTOR)OLIVER HESS (FOUNDER AND CEO)MARK IMHOF (ENTREPRENEUR AND SPATIAL DEVELOPER)IVO ROOS (ENTREPRENEUR AND ASSET MANAGER)JOST WINDLIN (LAWYER)

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