Which co-founder developed Swatch as a response to the "quartz crisis"?
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Swatch Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Nicolas Hayek, and is subsidiary of The Swatch Group. The product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which Asian-made digital watches were competing against traditional European-made mechanical watches.
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Nicolas Hayek Nicolas George Hayek (19 February 1928, Beirut – 28 June 2010, Biel/Bienne), was a Swiss-Lebanese entrepreneur, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Swatch Group, with principal headquarters in Biel/Bienne.
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Charles Geschke Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (born September 11, 1939) is an American businessman. He is best known as the 1982 co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company.
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Vivek Bhaskaran Vivek Bhaskaran is a software developer and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of QuestionPro and SurveyAnalytics.
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Edward P. Stritter Edward P. ("Skip") Stritter, engineer and entrepreneur, was the chief architect of the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the original Apple Computer Macintosh), a co-founder of the first commercial RISC company MIPS Computer Systems, the founder of Clarity Wireless, (acquired by Cisco Systems for $157 million) and founder of NeTPower. He also served on the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He was nominated by the United States Justice Department to serve on a three-member technical board of overseers to ensure that Microsoft complied with the judgements of "United States v. Microsoft".
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Danny Hillis William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, engineer, mathematician, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, Applied Proteomics, and author of "". He is Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Southern California.
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Steven Schmidt Steven J. Schmidt is an American media entrepreneur and a political and environmental activist.
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James S. Tisch James S. Tisch (born January 2, 1953) has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999.
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Carl Reuterskiöld Carl Reuterskiöld (ca.1923 - March 20, 2006; known to his associates as Charlie) was the founding CEO of the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a position which he held for a decade from SWIFT's founding in 1973 until 1983.
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Richard Chaifetz Richard A. Chaifetz or Richard Chaifetz is an entrepreneur, investor, licensed neuropsychologist, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Chicago-based ComPsych Corporation, a major provider of employee assistance programs. He is also the founder of the Chaifetz Group, a private investment firm focusing on early stage and middle-market companies. He appears regularly in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Time. He has been listed in the Crain’s Chicago Business annual Who’s Who list annually since 2004.
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Martin Eberhard Martin Eberhard (born May 15, 1960) is an American engineer and business executive. He co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) in 2003, serving as CEO until 2007. Eberhard was ranked among the top 24 innovators of 2007 by Fortune Magazine. Also in 2007, Business 2.0 Magazine ranked Eberhard number 32 of the 50 people "who matter now".
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Eva Chen Eva Yi-Hwa Chen, usually referred to as Eva Chen, is a Taiwanese businessperson and the co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro, the world's largest security firm. In 2010, "CRN Magazine" named her as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Executives in the Industry". She was fifth on the 2012 "Forbes" list of "Asia's 50 Power Businesswomen".
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Don Tapscott Don Tapscott is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of The Tapscott Group, and is the co-founder, with his son Alex Tapscott, of the Blockchain Research Institute. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, an Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Chancellor of Trent University.
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Jess Beck Jess Beck (born December 24, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and COO of New York-based startup Hello Alfred.
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Jay S. Hennick Jay Stewart Hennick is the Co-founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and largest shareholder of Colliers International Group, Inc. He is also the Founder, Chairman and largest shareholder of FirstService Corporation and the co-founder of the Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation.
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Steve Perlman Stephen G. "Steve" Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor of Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services. He is best known for the development of QuickTime, WebTV, OnLive, pCell and Mova Contour facial capture technologies. In addition founding startup companies, Perlman was a Microsoft division president and a principal scientist at Apple Computer.
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Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2008, he was named to the "MIT Technology Review" TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. For 2012, "The Wall Street Journal" gave him the "Innovator of the Year Award" for technology.
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Robbie Vorhaus Robbie Vorhaus (born Robert Pool Vorhaus, March 15, 1954) is an American author, photojournalist and leadership and crisis consultant. He is the founder and CEO of Vorhaus Communications Inc., providing expertise in brand communications and non-fiction storytelling. Prior to starting Vorhaus Communications, he worked in various roles at CBS TV and CBS News.
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Cliff Kushler Cliff Kushler is an inventor and entrepreneur who co-founded Tegic, the company that created T9 predictive input software used on mobile devices, and Swype, a technology for using swiping motions to type words on touch-screen keyboards. He previously founded Exbiblio and worked on a product to help people who are unable to speak communicate. Kushler holds 14 U.S. patents.
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Fred Scarf Frederick Aaron Scarf (born April 5, 1990) is an American entrepreneur. He is best recognized for founding the No Worries Now Foundation.
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Daniel T. Barry Daniel Thomas Barry (born December 30, 1953) is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program "", as well as on "BattleBots" on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009–2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. He is also a co-founder of Fellow Robots, a telepresence robotics company, and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics.
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Mike Masnick Michael "Mike" Masnick (born December 8, 1974) is an American editor and entrepreneur . He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a weblog that focuses on technology news and tech-related issues. Masnick is also the founder and CEO of the company Floor64 and a contributor at "BusinessWeek"' s Business Exchange.