About us

Hartmut Reuter started his career as a business management trainee at the Bosch Group in Stuttgart (DE) in 1981 after graduating as an industrial engineer from the Technical University of Darmstadt (DE). Most recently, he was a director in the Planning/Controlling division at Bosch headquarters. From 1997 to 2009, Hartmut Reuter was a member of the Executive Committee of the Rieter Group in Winterthur (CH). In the first five years, he initially headed the Controlling division, then the Corporate Center with all financial and strategic functions. From 2002 onwards Hartmut Reuter was CEO of the Rieter Group. Since 2009 he has been a freelance management consultant and holds mandates in various supervisory bodies.

Excerpt mandates:

Geberit AG, Board member (bis 2021)

Vaillant GmbH, Member of the Shareholders' Committee and the Supervisory Board

Thomas studied at the University of Zurich and holds a PhD. He has extensive experience in business development and strategy. His career started in 2006 in banking and changed in 2013 from a family office structure to the developing industry (hardware and software). He is co-founder of LTS AG, where he serves as CEO and board of directors. Previously, he was already a successful co-founder of start-ups that have since been sold.

Emanuell Tomes holds a degree in business informatics and has extensive training in software development. His professional career began with software developments for the City of Zurich and other public offices. Later, he independently developed geographic information systems for major clients. He has been on board since the birth of LTS AG and was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2019.

Daniel Britt holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering and has extensive experience in the field of hardware and software development. For example, parking guidance systems and their connection as well as various signal transmitters originate from his pen. At LTS AG he is one of the main architects in the hardware area of TAPS sensors.

Beda Kuster has a BSc in Computer Science and has many years of experience in software development. Over the years, he has specialized mainly in web technologies and databases and now mainly develops the cloud platform of TAPS. He is also responsible for the system architecture of the TAPS system.

Originally trained as an electronics technician, he continued his education to become a technical businessman with a federal certificate of proficiency. Thanks to his many years of extensive experience, he now easily manages the purchase of technical components.

Vincenc Lazraj hat einen BSc in Betriebsökonomie und langjährige Erfahrung in den Bereichen Product- und Projektmanagement. Er treibt bei uns das Requirement Engineering & Product Management der TAPS Produkte voran und ist dafür verantwortlich, dass Value für Kunden geschaffen und Product Market Fit sichergestellt wird. Weitere Bereiche seiner Arbeit sind das Business Development sowie die Kundenberatung in Projektphasen.

Mathias-Ulrich Koch has more than 30 years of experience in international business development. Mathias Koch has a close-knit network in key industries, enabling him to offer the entire communications chain in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Mathias Koch is an alumni of the internationally renowned Siemens program, with a degree in Business Administration and Economics.

Marko Jazo ist Absolvent der ZHAW in der Fachrichtung Accounting, Controlling und Auditing. Seine Fachgebiete liegen in den Bereichen Finanzen, Prozessoptimierung und Business Development. Bei der LTS AG kümmert ist er als Business Developer tätig und unterstützt die Geschäftsleitung umfassend im Finanzbereich.

Christian Brunner holds a BSC in Electrical Engineering and brings extensive programming experience. At LTS AG, he takes care of hardware and firmware issues.

Thomas Riedel holds his engineering degrees from ETH Zurich. He is an extremely experienced and profound connoisseur of the transport industry and brings with him over 25 years of lecturing, development and field experience.  

He teaches sporadically at ETH, TU Munich and Tongji University Shanghai on the topics of " Traffic Control Systems Design and Methods for Observation and Quality Control" and has developed established products and services in the field of traffic observation, control and traffic engineering quality determination of road networks for decades.  

He also has proven, long experience in the international traffic control sector (including China and the US), with data and traffic quality always being the focus.

At LTS AG, we are now consistently developing topics such as data acquisition, data processing, interfaces and data models together for the "TAPS" system solution.

Lisa has been on board since the birth of LTS AG. Together with her life partner Dr. Thomas Langer and her nephew Emanuell Tomes, she has helped to build up the company from the very beginning. Today, as Sales Manager at LTS AG, she is responsible for Investor Relations and Sales.

Dr. RA Georges Bindschedler is an entrepreneur, investor, board member of and for entrepreneurs, attorney at law in Bern and since 2016 owner of Bindschedler.Swiss GmbH. Mr. Bindschedler has an extensive track record as managing director and board member in various companies in the electrical industry, specialty chemicals, banking, energy, real estate, pension funds and publishing as well as pro bono.

Excerpt mandates:

merz+benteli ag, Delegate Board member

Helvetic Estates AG, Vice Chairman of the Board members

Lüthi Holding AG, Chairman of the Board

Peter J. Schmid's main areas of practice are capital markets law finance, corporate law, M&A, pharmaceutical law, health care law and sports law Peter J. Schmid has advised in several mandates on major restructurings of listed as well as private companies. He is a recognized representative in the sense of Art 43 of the Listing Rules and therefore entitled to submit applications to the SIX Exchange Regulation on behalf of listed companies. Finally, he acts as an executive body (namely as a member of the Board of Directors) in various areas.

Ueli Dietiker, a certified public accountant, worked for Cablecom Holding AG from 1995 to 2001, most recently as CEO. In 2001, he moved to the Swiss telecommunications company Swisscom AG, where he held several positions of responsibility. From 2002 to 2006, he was CFO and Deputy CEO of the Swisscom Group. In 2006 and the first half of 2007, he was CEO of Swisscom Fixnet AG and subsequently again CFO and Deputy CEO of the Swisscom Group until the end of 2012.

Excerpt mandates:

Swiss Life, Member of the Board member

Sanitas, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Board of Directors

Energy Solutions AG (Exit), Chairman of the Board of Directors

KR Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Swarovski looks back on an entrepreneurial activity and experience that can hardly be surpassed in abundance.  

He is now shaping LTS AG through the steady perspective of an engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for consistently networking and developing innovative solutions.    

LTS AG is proud to have him with the company.