SwissLens is a young and dynamic team of contact lenses experts. The SwissLens staff come majority-bright from the contact lenses industry and has a big experience in this area.
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Philippe Käppeli
Chief executive of SwissLens mainly manages administrative and financial questions. After having received a commercial and physics diploma at University of Lausanne, he began his career in the company Dupont de Nemours. He accumulated more than 15 years experience as a company consultant, in particular in small to medium companies in the technology department.
More so Philippe Kappeli advises financial institutions for the selection and the follow-up of financial investments. |
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Hervé de Malm
EPFL engineer in technical informatics (automation), he began building at the end of his studies a nano-metrical lathe that would manufacture contact lenses. At the same time he developed the software needed to design the lenses and manage the administration of the SwissLens Company (ordering lenses, labeling, and billing). |
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Pierre-André Cuénoud
Production manager and customer consultant.
Originally a high precision technician he has been working for more than 20 years in the contact lens field. He has in perticular worked as an exploitation chief in a lens workshop. He also attended many training courses for the adaptation of contact lenses. |
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Customer care |
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Julia Herklotz
Sales manager Germany, customer care Germany
Tel: +49 171 474 82 76 |
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Michel Pavillon
Sales manager France
Tel: +33 6 13 15 55 14 |
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Chris Brinklow
UK sales manager
Tél: +44 (0)7814 006167 |
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Stefanie Karatas
Customer care Germany
Tel: +49 170 816 98 02 |
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Pascal Blaser
Sales and product manager, fitting and distribution leader.
Technical consultant German and English
Tel: +41 21 620 06 68 |
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Sabine Wetzlich-Armbruster
Customers care Switzerland and Austria, technical consultant German, French and English
Tel: +41 21 620 06 68 |
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Markus Worm
Product Manager, technical consultant and customer care German and English
Tel: +41 21 620 06 68 |
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François Pidoux
Interfaces manager
Tel +41 21 620 06 76 |
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Lens adaptation, research and development
Gérard Muller takes care of testing new geometries and new fabrics. He also manages the manufacture of the SwissLens machines for the machining of the lenses. Master optician he quickly specialized in contact lenses. After having attended several training courses at European specialists in lenses, he became an independent. To palliate the absence of certain model of lenses on the market, he launched his very own manufacture. Gérard Muller has thus had an experience of more than 40 years in the adaptation and manufacture of lenses.
Production, customer consultants, marketing, b2b
The production staff comes from the contact lens industry and masters this field perfectly. SwissLens also differs by offering the best possible advice to its customers. Specialists are always ready to assist adapters in the most complex cases of adaptation.
The sales staff present on the European market is composed of optical professionals.
Finally the company has resources both in marketing and in internet communication, which facilitates the access to SwissLens products.
Board of directors
The executive office is composed of:
- Philippe Käppeli, President
- Pierre-André Cuénoud
- Hervé de Malm
- Philippe Thévo
