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Switzerland
Expertise in IT, engineering & life sciences
AKKA Switzerland, the Swiss branch of AKKA Group based in Geneva and Zurich covers Switzerland’s main business fields: banks and insurance providers, watchmaking and luxury industry, industrial machines, electrical engineering and metals industry, chemical and pharmaceutical industry, aeronautics and transportation.
We are a globally operating engineering and technology consulting group at the forefront of the digital and connected world.
AKKA’s unique positioning enables us to boost our clients’ performance through innovation, digitization, and cross-sector expertise. Our know-how spans the entire product life cycle from design to manufacturing and in-service support, building on a specialist digital skillset.
Bérenger Martin
AKKA Switzerland CEO
Berenger Martin started his career in strategic and management consulting. He then joined AKKA in 2010 where he conducted due diligences and integration of companies newly acquired. In 2015, he entered the field of operations and participated to the turn-around of the subsidiary Matis as a deputy MD. He was later assigned to the creation and launch of the AKKAdemy in Geneva in 2017. Mid 2019, he took over the responsibility of Swiss Operations as CEO in order to use his experience and knowledge of the Group to integrate the different subsidiaries and align the country business unit on the CLEAR 2022 targets.
Charles Franier
Branch Manager Geneva / Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Officer
After completing his Master’s degree in International Management, Charles Franier started his career in PageGroup as a Recruitment Consultant, where he remained 14 years and evolved as Regional Director for Romandie. During his time at PageGroup, Charles developed and managed large teams of recruiters, focusing on clients and candidates’ satisfaction and brand reputation. In 2019 Charles joined AKKA Switzerland as Head of Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Officer, bringing both his market knowledge as well as his expertise in recruitment, and get AKKA as an employer of choice.
Marco Schärli
Senior Manager Zürich
After completing his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marco Schärli started his career as an Account Manager for a globally operating recruitment company. With almost 10 years of experience as a Sales Professional and Manager, he evolved as a Division Manager by building up an IT Consulting & Temp desk from scratch for a global human resources consulting firm. In 2019, Marco joined AKKA as a Senior Business Manager for the office in Zurich, responsible for developing the business in the Swiss-German market.
Key figures
Including functional people
150
Staff
And placed for key clients
> 1,000
Professionals recruited
‘’ For us the Swiss market is a tremendous opportunity. As tailoring to customer needs is part of our DNA, this represents a challenging yet great fit. It is also a great opportunity: indeed we can count on our positioning as a Global Digital Engineering player with 21.000 engineers worldwide and 18 Global Centers of Expertise to support its high-level industry and its challenges in digital transformation and time to market acceleration. ‘’
Bérenger Martin
AKKA Switzerland CEO
Recruitment strategy
Our experienced team of recruiters focus on finding the best talents of the market in the fields of technology, Engineering and Life Sciences. Our sourcing strategy enable us to attract active, passive and non-active candidates, using the most performing tools on the market as well as accessing our pan-European database. In order to support fully our preferred customers, our range of core services (Time and Material & Turnkey projects) also include Try & Hire, Permanent recruitments, and payrolling services.
