Growth Squad
A team of operational experts in digital
Steve Savioz
Founder & CEO
Before founding Akiden, Steve was Partner, President and CEO of Virtua SA. Under his leadership, Virtua has become the leading digital agency in the French area of Switzerland, with more than 80 employees and 17 million consolidated revenue at the time of his departure at the end of 2014. Alongside his activities with Virtua, Steve invested in several startups, leading and supporting their growth (Swissfriends, Attractive World, theohcompany, Mystore…). Most have already enjoyed a very successful exit.
Julien Masson
Head of SEM
Since 2007 he has created, managed and optimised marketing campaigns on Google, Bing, Facebook and all digital channels in order to generate quality traffic. After experiences freelancing and with advertisers, he worked in the largest digital agency in Australia and was named employee of the year for the results obtained from the Microsoft, Hyundai and ING Direct acquisition campaigns.
Antoine Chapuis
Head of Engineering
With more than 10 years of experience in Web project management, Antoine quickly took over the Technical Direction of incubated projects within Akiden, notably by creating Euranka’s engineering department. As an expert in designing, planning and monitoring of all types of Web projects, Antoine combines managerial and technical skills, putting his front-end development skills (HTML, CSS, Javascript) at Akiden’s disposal, as well as his UI, UX and Design expertise.
Julie Rauser
Head of Content & Communication
Julie has this unique creative flair that allows her to imagine and invent concepts that are as differentiating as they are relevant, whether they are editorial or multimedia content. After several years of experience as a project manager for communication, content creation and SEO optimization projects, she now puts her creative talent at the disposal of the Squad’s ambitions.
Jonathan Flammier
Lead Developer
Always at the forefront of R&D, Jonathan is a confirmed expert in site, interface and software creation. Without limiting himself, he is now refining his expertise on new technologies (VueJs, Angular, Ansible, Kubernetes), adding skills to his expertise in PHP, Java, Javascript, MySQL, etc. His expertise as an analyst-developer allows him to build complex projects while having a results-oriented approach.
SEO Guru
Open Position
Akiden Ventures is recruiting an SEO specialist. Its objective will be to advance the projects in which Akiden invests with a Growth Hacker approach: to test, research and pilot solutions to improve performance and results over the long term. Thanks to the R&D carried out to growth each project, the skills of this position are dedicated to evolve. Akiden is looking for an ambitious, talented profile, able to develop and execute natural referencing strategies on all projects supported by the Squad.
