ABOUT
Who is Marco van der Weijden?
I'm a venture builder, board director and strategic advisor, based in Zurich. I'm building a human-led, agent-supported venture studio for frontier-tech moonshot companies in Switzerland, working alongside their founders as an operating partner. I take on independent non-executive and Swiss resident director appointments, and work with founders, executives and boards on AI, strategy, governance and program delivery.
My mission is to help build the Swiss technology companies that enable humanity to flourish, on Earth and beyond, by standing beside those who build them, as a steward, a director and an advisor.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Works in English, German and Dutch
CAREER
More than twenty-five years, from delivery to the boardroom.
I began in telecommunications, delivering large programs, then established and ran the Swiss business of an IT consultancy. Since 2015 I have worked independently, as an advisor, a fractional executive and a company director. I have founded or co-founded three ventures, and I established the Swiss subsidiary of a Dutch technology consultancy group. Today I'm building a venture studio for frontier-tech companies in Switzerland.
Since 2026
Venture studio, Zurich (in formation)
Founder.
Building a human-led, agent-supported venture studio for frontier-tech moonshot companies in Switzerland, to work alongside founders as an operating partner.
Since 2020
IDONEUS, Swiss digital asset platform
Co-founder, VP Compliance and Technology.
The platform was built and released across Ethereum, Polygon, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, with a KYC and anti-money-laundering framework built and operated to Swiss standards. It facilitated the equivalent of USD 700 million in transactions across 40 countries.
2018 to 2020
C6 Advisors AG, Zug
Co-founder and board member.
A boutique advisory firm working with international ventures on business models, tokenization, regulatory compliance and partnerships, with clients such as GeeGee, Gaimin and Mogu. Operations ceased in December 2020.
Since 2015
Independent advisory practice, Zurich
Owner and managing officer, Vervitas GmbH.
Advising founders and executives on strategy, governance, program delivery and market entry, including as a fractional executive. Working in blockchain and digital assets since 2017. More than fifteen startup ventures advised across Europe, the United States and Asia.
2007 to 2014
TMNS Switzerland, Zurich
Managing Director and Swiss country lead.
Established the Swiss business of an enterprise IT consultancy specializing in system integration and business process management, and ran it for seven years: delivery, the local profit and loss account, hiring, account management and reporting into the group headquarters in the Netherlands.
2002 to 2007
Swisscom, Bern
Senior Project Manager.
Led a multi-year rating and billing consolidation program that moved customer accounts out of fragmented legacy environments onto a single target platform, across several vendor stacks.
1998 to 2002
Telecommunications, the Netherlands
Project Manager, Dutchtone (1998 to 2000) and ACN Europe (2001 to 2002).
Billing, CRM, Y2K, and credit and fraud management systems during the launch of the mobile operator Dutchtone, then enterprise system implementations for ACN's European markets.
CURRENT ROLES
What I do today.
I work in three roles: building a venture studio, board and director appointments on personal title, and strategic advisory and program leadership.
Venture builder and operating partner
Building a human-led, agent-supported venture studio for frontier-tech moonshot companies in Switzerland, working alongside founders as an operating partner, from first concept to a company that runs.
LEARN MOREBoard director and Swiss resident director
I take on independent non-executive director and Swiss resident director appointments, on personal title. I accept the personal liability the office carries, on conditions I state in writing before a mandate begins.
LEARN MOREStrategic advisory and program delivery
I work with founders, executives and boards on AI, strategy and governance, and lead programs that turn a decision into delivered change, as an advisor, a fractional executive or a program manager.
LEARN MOREHOW I WORK
Accountable for the outcome, not just the advice.
Companies grow when someone builds the structure that lets them grow: the entity, the programs that actually deliver, the processes that survive the next hire, and the governance that holds up when it's examined. I've spent more than twenty-five years doing that work, the last eighteen of them also as a registered officer of Swiss companies. What a board, a founder or a Swiss office gets from me is someone who has been personally accountable for the outcome, not just for the advice.
My work sits between two disciplines that are usually held by different people: Swiss corporate governance, and the delivery of technology programs. A board I join gets a director who can read a system architecture, a regulatory analysis and a set of statutory accounts. I use AI tools and agentic workflows daily in my own advisory, governance and delivery work. It is the combination I bring to the ventures I help build.
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Growth
I established the Swiss subsidiary of a Dutch technology consultancy group and grew it eightfold in revenue and sevenfold in headcount, from five people to thirty-five, in three years, with the client base going from one to six.
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Projects and processes
Multi-million-franc transformation and billing programs in telecommunications, delivered across vendor and country lines, and dozens of complex projects on time and on budget across my career.
03
Governance and compliance
I built and operated a KYC and anti-money-laundering framework to Swiss standards, and I have prepared and presented compliance, risk and audit matters to a board.
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The office itself
Registered officer of five Swiss companies since 2008, three as a board member and two as managing director. I served two from incorporation through liquidation to deletion, one as designated Swiss resident director from day one.
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualifications and background.
Certifications
• Project Management Professional with the Project Management Institute in 2009.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner in 2007.
• Certified Scrum Master in 2011.
Training
• Ongoing professional education in applied artificial intelligence.
• Advanced and basic anti-money-laundering training from a Swiss self-regulatory organization.
• Blockchain and digital-currency coursework from the University of Nicosia.
Location
• Swiss and Dutch national.
• Living in Switzerland since 2002.
• Located in Zurich.
• Remote-first set up.
• Travel to global locations on demand.
Languages
• English, German and Dutch.