2014

Avaloq CEO Francisco Fernandez is bursting with ambition. Despite quadrupling his company’s turnover and staff since the beginning of the financial crisis, he refuses to rest on his laurels. His mission: a total rethink of banking, and developing the best solutions for the industry.

Following his degree at ETH Zurich, Patrick Anquetil set off for Cambridge, Massachusetts to do a PhD. Having settled on the US East Coast, he is currently launching his second start-up business. And he has big plans for it.

In the 1980s, Hans Herren performed an agricultural and ecological miracle in Africa that saved the lives of approximately 20 million people. Today he’s no longer waging war on mealybugs, but on the influence of the agricultural industry and on short-term thinking.