Executive Board Members and Administration

Marcus Fihlon

President since 2020
Member of the Board since 2017.

Marcus Fihlon is an Agile Coach and Software Engi­neer at CSS Insurance in Lucerne. He also lectures at TEKO Swiss Technical Col­lage in Olten and is a spea­ker at conferences and user groups. He has been deve­lo­ping software for more than three decades and has worked with Java since the late 90s. Marcus is the grounding member and organizer of the monthly Hackergarten in Lucerne and is involved in several open source projects.

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Philipp Oser

ELCA Informatik AG

Treasurer since 2014
Member of the Board since 2008.

Philipp H. Oser is a Senior Architect at ELCA where he architected and lead the development of two Java EE enhancement frameworks, the latest one is available here: http://el4j.sf.net.
He studied Computer Science at ETH Lausanne and at Carnegie Mellon University. His interest lay mainly in framework design, software architecture, and the Java EE.

Dominik Berger

Informatik Kanton Basel-Stadt

Member of the Board since 2014.

Dominik Berger is a Java enthusiast since the first days. He founded the software architecture group ArchiB@le in 2011 and is active in JUG Basel since its foundation in 2012. Java is a part of his daily work as a Senior Software Consultant for Bluesky IT-Solutions AG. Dominik is involved in software projects since over 16 years focusing mainly on Business Solutions, Software Architecture, Content Management Systems and Project Lead.

Patrick Baumgartner

42talents GmbH

 
Member of the Board since 2019.

Patrick Baumgartner is a passionate software crafter, coach and trainer at 42talents. He loves to cre­ate beautiful and simple solutions and enjoys buil­ding software for the cloud with Java, the Spring eco­sys­tem and other open source technologies. Patrick is a co-organizer of Voxxed­Days Zurich and the Soft­ware Crafters Zurich Meet­up. He holds a degree in com­puter science and teaches at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW.

Thomas Wenger

Business & Decision AG

 
Member of the Board since 2019.

Thomas Wenger is responsible for the Java software engineering team at Business & Decision Switzerland. In customer projects he is engaged as a software architect and software engineer. Thomas holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Bern. He has been working with Java since the very beginning in 1996 and still prefers this lively platform. Thomas lives in Rubigen BE, is married and a happy father of a cheerful boy.

Christian Stettler

INNOQ

 
Member of the Board since 2020.

Christian works as Senior Consultant and Architect at INNOQ in Switzerland. He is passionate about developing business-critical systems using modularized, scalable architectures. As a Domain-Driven Design enthusiast he is leveraging the principles of DDD for gaining a deep business understanding and putting it into readable code. From time to time, he shares his experience in workshops and trainings.

Michael Inden

Adcubum AG

 
Member of the Board since 2024.

Michael Inden is a Java and Python enthusiast with over 25 years of professional experience. He has developed software even longer since his childhood. Michael has worked in various roles in his career, such as software developer, team leader, CTO, and trainer. He is currently Head of Development at Adcubum AG in Zurich. Michael likes to share his knowledge and regularly speaks at conferences and for JUGS. Besides, he authored some specialist books, like «Der Weg zum Java-Profi» and «Java lernen kurz und gut.»

Ursula Burri

Burri Webdesign

 
Secretary since 1999.

Ursula Burri works with much enthusiasm for jug.ch since 1999. She sup­ports the Board in the or­ga­ni­zation of events, takes care of the members and administrates the web page. Besides her engage­ment for JUG.CH, she runs a one-man company in the area of web programming. She is a certified web publisher with many years of successful experience in custom web programming where open standards and open software are important to her.

Sibylle Walther

 
Accountant since 2005.

Sibylle Walther has been doing the bookkeeping for jug.ch since 2005.
She holds a Professional Bachelor in Accounting and Controlling, which she obtained in 2002. She is Head of Finance and Administration and part of the management in a technical sales company. Beside that she works for a variety of smaller companies as accountant.