The folks behind Squirro

A great Team

Dr. Dorian Selz

Dr. Dorian Selz is a co-founder of Squirro. Before that he co-founded the Swiss search platform local.ch and was its CEO until December 2008. He was a partner & COO at Namics, Switzerland's largest E-Business consultancy and has a PHD in Information Systems from the University of St. Gallen.

Toni Birrer

Toni Birrer is a co-founder of Squirro. Before Squirro he was running the infrastructure behind local.ch and before that he was working at Obtree Technologies Inc, one of the leading WCMS providers back in the old days.

Felix Hürlimann

Felix Hürlimann is a co-founder of Squirro. He came to Squirro from local.ch where he was engineering director. He has a degree in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and is specialized in information retrieval.

Patrice Neff

Patrice Neff is a co-founder of Squirro. Before Squirro he led the frontend team of local.ch. He did an apprenticeship at Namics and founded Arroba. 

Alexander Sennhauser

Alexander Sennhauser is a software engineer at Squirro. He passionately built systems that solve real world problems at Open Systems in Switzerland and Aster Data Systems in Silicon Valley. He has a Master degree from EPFL in Lausanne.

Patrick Stählin

Patrick Stählin is a software engineer at Squirro and takes care of back-end technologies. He spent the last three and a half years working at futureLAB AG and has an engineering degree from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Cesare Allavena

Cesare Allavena is marketing director at Squirro.  He has over 10 years of experience in media and communications having worked for Mediacom, OMD and the Economist.  He holds a communications degree from UCLA. 

Paola Crevatini Rebsamen

Paola Crevatini Rebsamen is responsible for marketing activities at Squirro. Before Squirro she was working at Microsoft as Marketing Communications Manager. She is currently enrolled at ZHAW for a MBA - Major in Marketing.

Rahel Vils

Rahel Vils supports Squirro with her design skills. She has many years of experience and worked at Namics, Switzerland's largest E-Business consultancy. She runs her own web design agency over at Virtually Handmade.

Konstantin Weiss

Konstantin Weiss supports Squirro as an information architect and user experiance designer. He works for Information Architects, a renowned design agency specialized in designing and building digital product, just like Squirro ;-).

Pierre Spring

Pierre Spring supports Squirro as a Web Developer. He runs his own Web Development Agency over at nelm.io They specialize in building modern web applications, just like Squirro. ;-)