Marc Vollenweider

Marc Vollenweider is the CEO and co-founder of Evalueserve, a global provider of research, analytics, and data management solutions. As a former partner at McKinsey & Company in Zurich and India, Marc developed a deep interest in the world of data analytics, particularly how human minds and smart machines can successfully complement each other. He saw the potential for companies to enhance productivity, shorten their time-to-market, improve quality, and gain new capabilities by leveraging mind+machine.

He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and went on to earn an MBA from INSEAD in France in 1991. He made partner at McKinsey in 1998 and became a geographic entrepreneur by moving to the fascinating growth market of India. It was there that he met his Evalueserve co-founder and decided to start the company as a greenfield venture. In the 16 years since its founding, Evalueserve has seen rapid expansion, driven by the growing strategic importance of data, information, insights, and knowledge, and it now has over 3,500 employees, globally serving financial and professional services firms, corporations, and small and medium businesses.

Marc’s fascination with innovation has led to the establishment of a series of internal ventures at Evalueserve. He is the co-inventor of the digital model of InsightBee, Evalueserve’s new pay-as-you-go research and analytics solution.

Referring to himself as a ‘self-aware nerd’, Marc is well aware of the communication challenges between the technologist nerds and the anti-nerd end users and decision makers in the global economy. With mind+machine, he is trying to bridge this communication gap by demystifying and simplifying the world of data analytics.

Marc and his wife Gabi have three grown children and one teenager—and a very balanced family in terms of the number of nerds and anti-nerds. His family is his true inspiration in life. Gabi runs a psychotherapy practice and has inspired this book’s section on the psychology of analytics, a topic nobody has written about before. Having lived in Switzerland, Austria, India, Singapore, the United States, and the United Kingdom, the whole family has developed a deep appreciation for other cultures. They also share a love of the mountains and the occasional game of golf.

For more information about Evalueserve and the Mind+Machine approach, visit the Evalueserve blog, where Marc is a frequent contributor: evalueserve.com/blog

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marcvollenweider

Twitter: @vollenweide

Email: marc@evalueserve.com