Team & Life at dacadoo
Executive Team
Peter Ohnemus
Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of dacadoo ag, dacadoo americas, inc and dacadoo Japan G.K.
Peter has been involved in high-tech and bio-tech investments over the last 25 years. This had led to four IPO’s and multiple trade sells. He co-founded ASSET4, the world’s leading provider of extra-financial information in 2004. Later, this was sold to Thomson Reuters in 2009. Peter previously held senior executive positions with Sybase, Logic Works, The Fantastic Corporation and COS – all of which went public during his tenure.
Manuel Heuer
Chief Operating Officer
Manuel joined dacadoo in 2011 as COO. Before this, Manuel worked in various sales, business development & marketing roles with increasing management responsibilities in the medtech industry with Guidant in Belgium, France and Switzerland from 2003 to 2008, and with St. Jude Medical as Managing Director Switzerland from 2008 to 2011. From 1997 to 2001, he held sales and marketing positions in Nestlé in Brazil. Manuel holds an MBA from IMD International.
Yasmina Tregan
Chief Product Officer
Yasmina is leading the product management team at dacadoo and is responsible for the dacadoo platform product strategy and roadmap. She has a solid international experience in product management, product innovation and technology. This includes senior roles at eBay, Swisscom, Canal+ and Autoricardo. She worked in different countries including the US, France and Switzerland. Yasmina is very much customer focused. She leverages best in class product management processes and her technology background and experience to build great products. She has an MS degree in Computer Science.
André Naef
Chief Technology Officer
André studied at ETH Zurich, finishing top of his class as a master of computer science in 2000, with a minor degree in business administration. Working at Ergon Informatik for more than 15 years, he has covered a variety of roles in the software engineering field. His key focus has been on business development by mapping customer business requirements to state-of-the-art technology, seamlessly bridging the two worlds. In doing so, he has acquired broad industry knowledge. One of André’s leisure activities is gaming, where he used to play at an international level. This supports his interest in gamification & behavior change.
Paul Frey
Chief Information Officer
Paul is leading the engineering, operations and service delivery organisation at dacadoo. He has extensive experience in the buildup and operation of secure internet platforms having led projects for Financial Services firms, government agencies as well as built his own company. Paul holds a Master of Science from ETHZ in Engineering and Business Administration.
Martin Zellweger
Chief Professional Services Officer
Martin joined dacadoo AG in 2016, focusing on customer success and being responsible for professional services. Before this, Martin held leading positions in innovative ICT companies in central Europe. He has a track record of managing complex, business-critical projects and change processes in both growth and larger organizations. Martin is experienced in finance, insurance, retail/wholesale, telco industry as well as in the public sector. He holds a Master of Arts in Economics and Business Administration (MA UZH), University of Zürich.
Sales Team
Matt Park
VP Sales North America
Matt is leading the sales efforts for dacadoo in N. America. He has 30 years’ experience leading sales teams from early stage software companies through rapid growth & expansion. Matt has sat on the executive team in a number of successful company exits via acquisition. This includes Jobs2Web, where he led worldwide sales until it was acquired by SAP in 2012. From 2004, he also drove worldwide sales at Softscape through to substantial growth until it was acquired in 2010. Matt also has extensive international experience, having lived and worked in Germany, France and UK. As a result, he has launched & grown several international subsidiaries for US companies, including Primavera Systems and Inso Corp.
Thomas Dijohn
VP Sales Asia-Pacific
Thomas Dijohn has a long history of successfully developing new businesses in technology and digital media. He built The Fantastic Corporation in Asia-Pacific, restructured Nomad Technologies – later sold via MBO – and grew an APAC business division in Fuji Xerox by 250% over 5 years. In 2015 he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sanofi developing healthcare technology for the future. Thomas holds an MBA from Macquarie University in Australia and has lived and worked in Asia-Pacific for the past 20 years.
Lukas Ammann
VP Sales Europe, Middle East & Africa
Lukas joined dacadoo in 2015 as Sales Director Europe. In January 2019 he expanded his regional responsibility to EMEA. Following his Master Degree in Sport Technology and Administration at the EPFL in Lausanne, Lukas moved to Singapore where he joined World Sport Group Pte Ltd (now a part of the Lagardère Group) – Asia’s leading Sport Marketing and Media Agency. From 2008 – 2013 Lukas worked in various sales, marketing & business development roles at World Sport Group, operating mainly in South East Asia, Australia and Uzbekistan. After his return to Europe, Lukas joined a high precision wearable technology company as Head of Sales Switzerland, UK and Austria.
Blake Hill
VP Business Development Life Insurance & Reinsurance North America
Blake has developed and launched insurance, savings, investment, and group health products, including the Vitality program in Canada where he implemented partner integrations and the use of advanced analytics in marketing and customer engagement. He is now supporting insurance companies in North America as they transformation into customer centric and digitally enabled businesses using the dacadoo Health Risk Quantification and dacadoo Digital Health Engagement platform. Blake is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries and Canadian Institute of Actuaries and he is an avid volunteer on several industry committees, task forces, and conferences.
