On October 28, EY Switzerland recognized innovative and committed Swiss entrepreneurial personalities for the 25th time, further details of which can be found in a press release issued by the consulting firm. Andreas Wälti from Evatec AG, Carsten Koerl from Sportradar AG, Franziska Tschudi Sauber and Daniel Tschudi from Weidmann Holding AG and Yann Cotte from Nanolive SA claimed the prizes on offer across four separate categories of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award 2022. “This year, four of these personalities come from the canton of St.Gallen, sending a strong signal for Eastern Switzerland as a business location”, comments Sascha Stahl, Program Partner of EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Switzerland, in the press release.
Andreas Wälti of Evatec based in Trübbach in the canton of St.Gallen emerged victorious in the category of Industry, High-Tech & Life Sciences. Together with Marco Padrun, Wälti developed the company into a “global innovation leader for process solutions and mechanical engineering for thin films”, EY writes in the press release. Carsten Koerl from Sportradar AG, a company which specializes in the area of sports data based in St.Gallen, won in the Services & Commerce category. The Family Business category provided two further award winners from the St.GallenBodenseeArea in the form of Franziska Tschudi Sauber and Daniel Tschudi from the high-quality plastic components specialist Weidmann Holding AG, based in Rapperswil-Jona.
Yann Cotte from the cell research technology specialist Nanolive SA in the canton of Vaud claimed victory in the Emerging Entrepreneur category. “Western Switzerland is represented among the winners by a particularly innovative company, highlighting the positive impact the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has on the entire Lake Geneva region”, explains Frédéric Tisssot, Director of Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise Suisse Romande at EY, in the press release.
