Jean-Baptiste Felten (*1958), lic. oec. HSG, is the owner of the agency Felten & Compagnie AG, which specializes in "content-driven communication". He is a co-founder and board member of the Association for Sponsoring and Special Forms of Advertising. He started his career as a client consultant at Zintzmeyer & Lux in Zurich, then worked in Hamburg at Scholz & Friends and at Team/BBDO, then as VP Marketing Communications at ABB in Zurich and as a member of the management board at CWL Holding in Kreuzlingen. He founded his own agency in 1999. In 2010, he published the MA Sponsoring market research study in cooperation with WEMF AG.

Andrea Salce (*1969) decided to found a software start-up after successfully completing his basic training. As a young entrepreneur, he was involved in marketing and sales at an early stage. He then founded his own event agency in 1998. In 2005, Andrea Salce founded colada in response to the growing demand from customers for a platform that would allow them to view all event and participant-related data at a glance. Today, colada has more than 2,500 users throughout Europe. The third generation is set to achieve a global breakthrough.

Hansi Voigt (*1963) is co-founder of watson, the Swiss news portal of AZ Medien. The online media pioneer took over as editor-in-chief of 20 Minuten Online in 2007, where he had already been working as editorial director and deputy editor-in-chief since 2006. Under his leadership, 20 Minuten Online developed into the largest news portal in Switzerland. Previously, Voigt was head of copywriting at the "Beobachter" and deputy editor-in-chief at the business newspaper "Cash". Voigt studied history at the University of Zurich and completed a postgraduate degree in business communication and leadership.

Reto Stöckli (*1970) is Associate Partner Managed Marketing Services at Advanis. The company's goal is to build a strategic business area Managed Marketing Services and Marketing Automation. Until the end of 2014, he was founder, owner and managing director of 3-p-x GmbH, which was newly merged with Advanis AG. This helped companies to marketing with high ROI by consulting and selling lead management and marketing automation solutions.

Sven Ruoss (*1982) is Head of Corporate Development at the news portal Watson. He is also head of the Master's degree program in Digital Business for the CAS Social Media Management. He was previously a project manager in the Corporate Development department at Tamedia AG. Ruoss studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen, where he completed a master's degree in "Marketing, Services and Communication Management" with a master's thesis on "Success Factors of Viral Marketing". He continued his education at the HWZ in Digital Business Management, Mobile Business and Social Media Management.

Karin Hirschi (*1968) completed her Master of Advanced Studies in Online Marketing Management at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in 2014 after training as a biology laboratory technician. She successfully passed the Higher Business Diploma in 1997. For this she attended various courses on sales training, programming and webmaster. Today she runs her own company in the fields of online marketing and ad interim management, where she consults companies among others. She is also a member of Swiss Marketing Basel and a board member and delegate of Wirtschaftsfrauen Schweiz.

Nils Schilling (*1970) has been Managing Director of WerbeWeischer Schweiz GmbH since April 2012. Since WerbeWeischer entered the Swiss market at the beginning of 2013, the cinema marketer has successfully established itself on the Swiss market with innovative offerings. In 2015, WerbeWeischer also intends to become active on the cinema market in western Switzerland. In 2010, it received the "Kress Award" for establishing the new market standard "Cinema Reloaded". He had previously worked in Germany since 2000 as Director Business Development and later as Managing Director at WerbeWeischer.

Frank Bodin, born in 1962, is CEO of the Havas Worldwide agency in Zurich/Geneva. Before entering the advertising scene in 1992, he was a pianist and composer. Today, he is one of the most important advertisers in Switzerland. In 2009, he was named Advertiser of the Year. He is also president of ADC Switzerland, board member of SW Schweizer Werbung, bsw leading swiss agencies and teaches as a guest lecturer at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich (HWZ). One of his most successfully implemented advertising campaigns is "Stop Aids. Love life" for the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (BAG).Bodin's philosophy of work and life cannot be expressed better than in his own words: The motto "Thinking. Creating. Transforming." is so perfectly reduced to the essentials that it describes his professional ambitions as well as his personality. Music, law and advertising are among his interests, but so are literature and design. Already during his time at the Zurich Conservatory, the talented young musician had the opportunity to play with the famous violinist and conductor Yehudi Menhuin. After graduating in piano and composition, he performed with internationally renowned orchestras. But in his constant search for brilliance, the restless spirit discovered advertising while studying law in the mid-1980s. The new playing field as a copywriter/conceptualizer and assistant director allowed him to combine his creative-artistic streak with his pragmatic-rational one. When Bodin finally traded the concert stage for the advertising stage in 1992, the steep career path on which he collected hundreds of awards was already mapped out. The creative multi-talent has never lost his flair for loud and soft sounds.

Esther Luterbacher Graf (*1959), has been the owner of GL/concept AG in Solothurn since 2015. From 1988 to 2014, she was a founding member and managing director of the Solothurn advertising agency ibl und partner ag, which has established itself on the Swiss market as a full-service agency, including event, trade fair and multimedia departments. Esther Luterbacher Graf is also an examiner for integrated communication at the federal examinations for heads of communication.

Adrian Bührer (*1977) is the founder of Panaman GmbH and has his hands in almost every exciting Swiss start-up project. His company Panaman is an independent consultancy specializing in helping clients with the digital shift in their organization. Hardly anyone is as well connected in the Swiss start-up and digital scene as Adrian Bührer. Adrian Bührer also launched the online portal students.ch, one of the largest online communities in Switzerland.

Sarah Wilhelm (*1986) heads the advertising and web agency of W4, a full-service company in the areas of marketing, sales and communication. The federally certified biology lab technician started at W4 in 2009 in the call center, graduated as a federally certified marketing planner and managed the call center before taking over the management of the W4 agency in 2012. She appears as a speaker, for example on the topic of emotional branding with marketing natives or at SOM 2015 on the topic of marketing automation, an area that she is also responsible for at the agency. She is also a blogger (Sarah's Marketing Diary).

Stephan Obwegeser (*1974), who will take over as CEO of Schober Information Group (Schweiz) AG this summer, is currently Head of Digital Advertising & Services at Tamedia. He is responsible for AdOperations (technical order processing), the Premium Publishers Network PPN advertising network and the technology and infrastructure team, which ensures the technical infrastructure. Before joining Tamedia, Stephan Obwegeser was responsible for the introduction of ad management technology in Switzerland and Austria at Real Media.