Valora Group
Johannes F. currently serves as a Product Manager and Product Owner for Core Services at Valora Group, focusing on end-to-end product development for autonomous retail solutions. Prior experience includes a role as Senior Business Consultant at LeFil Consulting, where Johannes F. managed stakeholder reporting, collaborated on program strategies, and led workshops on data-driven decision-making. Johannes F. also worked as a Rotor Blades Systems Engineer at Kopter Group AG, enhancing flight-data analysis and designing measurement systems. Earlier positions included roles as a Scientific Assistant, an intern at Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, and a project assistant at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences. Johannes F. holds a Master's degree in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and dual Bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and EPFL.
Valora Group
Valora Holding AG is a Switzerland-based trading company that is active in two segments: Valora Retail and Ditsch/Brezelkoenig. Valora Retail operates marketing and distribution systems for press, tobacco and consumer products for daily use and the impulse buyer's market through small retail outlets in Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, including the k kiosk, k presse + buch, avec., P&B, tabacon, ServiceStore DB, CIGO and Caffe Spettacolo. Ditsch/Brezelkoenig produces lye-bread and other bakery products in Germany and Switzerland, which are distributed both to its own agency outlets and to the wholesale sector. The Company operates through approximately 30 fully consolidated subsidiaries, such as Ditsch, Pretzel Baron, Cevanova AG, BackWerk, among others.