The person
Technical depth, operating accountability and scalable company building in one documented record.
Dr. Andree Welker is COO & Partner at Ambit IQ in Winterthur. His documented record includes 2× COO and 2× CTO. He takes on board, CEO and COO mandates when technology, operations and scaling need to be brought together in one accountable role. That also applies to commerce when the business model depends on an integrated technical and operating system. At Minotrade he led the operating company as COO: the global ecommerce business, logistics center, warehouse and logistics, and POS. He fully digitalised the four marketplaces PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland and Gadget Store and consolidated their operating and commercial data in board and C-level dashboards for pricing, sales and operating decisions. He separately led the Mi Flagship at Glattzentrum, building a new store team with a dedicated store manager.
The path into that role is documented. In 2002, Delphi gave him the manufacturing and engineering foundation: metalworking, milling and turning, house wiring, Siemens S7, and PCB development for automotive R&D, including work for Mercedes, Jaguar and Audi. His 2013 Mainz diploma centred on a 1 m, 12-layer CALICE board with four FPGAs. From December 2013 at CERN, he designed the PI-ICR electronics at ISOLTRAP, wrote the software and commissioned the method on the precision trap. The instrument captures cyclotron motion at a resolving power above 10⁷ in about one second. He also held operating responsibility for the precision trap, including cryogenic fluids, superconducting magnets around 5 T and quench. During the CERN years he led up to around 20 international projects.
That scientific and engineering foundation led into industrial robotics at PREEN, where he built real-time 3D vision and path planning for two robots with 14 degrees of freedom. The 40-camera reconstruction produced a vehicle 3D object at 5 mm accuracy, followed by real-time path planning; at the time, this was the fastest system of its kind in the world. He then led the Codos stack as CTO across crypto, blockchain, iOS, Android, backend and CI/CD.
At Ambit IQ, formerly Avictis, he now owns the business plan and the sale of the technology platform to client executive teams. AI strategy is a C-level and board conversation at Ambit and at each client company, supported by agents that operate autonomously. The five-year business plan he wrote in his first month is in use. Because he built complex systems and then ran companies operationally, he can judge whether a new system will carry, price architecture, people, cost, time, capital and risk, and present a plan a board can hold him accountable for. CERN, PREEN, Codos, Minotrade and Ambit IQ document that path.
Current role: COO & Partner at Ambit IQ: business plan and platform sales to executive teams; AI strategy with C-level and the board, at Ambit and at client companies since May 2026
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