Management & Board

Arktis was founded more than 15 years ago by a team of skilled and highly motivated engineers and entrepreneurs.

Arktis has its own in-house design & production facility and works closely with contract manufacturers. Our development team includes electrical and systems engineers, physicists, computer scientists and product developers with a strong market focus.

Arktis CTO
Dr. Ulisse Gendotti
CEO

Ulisse manages the research and development activities of Arktis, being responsible for the hardware and software engineering teams. He has also led many of the activities which Arktis has carried out for Government Agencies. Ulisse joined Arktis in 2010. His background includes particle physics, having taken over senior responsibilities for an experiment in particle physics at CERN during his Ph.D.

Ulisse manages operations and sales from Arktis’ Zurich office. In his prior role as CTO, Ulisse oversaw the development of many of our key technologies, including our work for the DARPA Sigma Program. As COO, Ulisse oversaw key field deliveries. Ulisse has a physics Masters from ETH Zurich and designed an antimatter beam during his PhD at CERN. Ulisse has been with Arktis since 2010.

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Giovanna Davatz
Dr. Giovanna Davatz
Co-Founder

Giovanna has a broad experience in program and project management of interdisciplinary teams, product life-cycle support, experimental physics, cyber security and software algorithms, including Monte-Carlo simulation programs.

She holds a degree in product management and got a Ph.D. in particle physics from ETH Zurich following her work at CERN, Geneva, on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Her past work experience includes senior research assistantship at ETH Zurich.

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Fredi Müller
Chairman of the Board

Senior Businessman and Visionary

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Arktis BoD Rick Rowe
Rick Rowe
Member of the Board

Richard (Rick) has a wealth of experience in the security domain. After retiring from Honeywell where he held the position of General Manager of three of the company’s largest sales divisions he was appointed President of MCMS, a $800M contract manufacturer sold to Plexus in 2001.

Rick later started SafeView, a company that designs and builds millimeter wave security portals in use at airports across the globe. The company was sold to L3 in 2006. He is currently co-owner of SeaPoint, a start up based in Hong Kong and China that specialises in LED lighting, digital display, and management software technology for commercial buildings, malls, and hospitality. Rowe received a BS in Engineering from the US Military Academy, a Masters in Engineering from George Washington University, and graduated from Business Executive Programs at both Harvard and Carnegie Mellon.

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Christian Schütz
Member of the Board

Christian studied international business administration, holds a master’s degree and earned a PhD in Banking and Entrepreneurial Finance from the European Business School (ebs), Oestrich-Winkel.

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