Muriel Widmer

Muriel Widmer

Urs Hügli

Urs Hügli

Today, Aequivalent announces the appointment of Muriel WIDMER and Urs HÜGLI to the shared presidency of its Advisory Board as of September 1st 2021. They follow in the footsteps of Dominique-Alain FREYMOND who announced his retirement last year and who has enabled the transition. Dominique-Alain FREYMOND has accepted to remain an honorary Member of the Advisory Board.

The announcement follows Aequivalent’s recent decision to Scale-up its activities and double its workforce in the coming two years. Although the company was slowed down by the first lock down in the COVID sanitary crisis in 2020, it has since successfully renewed with its rapid growth.

With Muriel WIDMER and Urs HÜGLI, who joined the Advisory Board respectively in 2020 and 2021, Aequivalent has found an ideal combination of experts to advise on the compliance and governance related issues as well as the organizational growth challenges that come with the scale-up.

Together they represent and provide professional networks in the different Swiss linguistic regions as well as Aequivalent’s support to gender-equality in corporate governance.

About the Aequivalent Advisory Board

The Aequivalent Advisory Board is completed by Pius BIENZ, Vincent HORT, Penny SCHIFFER and, as most recent joiner, Yvonne MURI. More detailed profiles on Aequivalent’s Advisory Board Members can be found here.

The members gathers at least 3 times per year and support the company’s Board of Directors with independent advice regarding the company strategy and provide additional knowledge on the markets for the solutions provided by Aequivalent.

The Advisory Board helps Aequivalent develop its network through additional visibility and credibility and through the proposal of potential operational or strategic partnerships. Last but not least, Advisory Board Members give “technical pointers” on relevant issues in the fields of HR, digitalization, IT development, compliance, governance, marketing and communications as well as specific markets and industries that are relevant to Aequivalent.

About Aequivalent

Founded as a start-up in 2015 and based at Y-Parc in Yverdon-les-Bains, Aequivalent is Switzerland’s leading digital platform for employment screening (background-checks). The company and platform verify and deliver information that help Swiss employers reduce the risks of inappropriate employment. Aequivalent also publishes yearly statistics on candidate and employee integrity.

A certified ISO 27001 organisation (information security), Aequivalent is 100% Swiss Made and partner to initiatives as Trust Valley and Swissmade Software. It also supports the SNV, the Swiss reference organization for standardization, as a technical partner on some of its committees. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Date of publication: 10.09.2021

Author: Aequivalent’s marketing and sales team