Roland Brack

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Roland Brack (born October 5, 1972 ) is a Swiss entrepreneur . He is the founder of the online retailer BRACK.CH AG (until 2014 Brack Electronics AG, previously until 2003 Brack Consulting) as well as the founder and owner of the Competec group of companies , which includes BRACK.CH and other online and wholesale companies. Roland Brack was CEO of the Competec Group until March 2018 and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since then. He is also active in the real estate business and in startup promotion, holds other board memberships in addition to Competec and is a speaker at industry events. In spring 2019, Brack was seen as an investor in the Swiss edition of the TV show Die Höhle der Löwen, broadcast by private broadcaster TV24 .

Career

Even during his time in district school, Roland Brack programmed an application for training French vocabulary under the name Brack Soft and worked in a computer shop in Frick ( Canton Aargau ). During his apprenticeship as an electrical mechanic at ABB , Roland Brack began assembling computers for friends and relatives and trading in computer components. After completing his apprenticeship, he decided to study electrical engineering at the HTL Brugg-Windisch (today's name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, FHNW ). In 1994, while studying, he founded the sole proprietorship Brack Consulting with the aim of supplying students with books. The former hobby of assembling computers soon became the main branch of Brack Consulting. In 1997, Brack launched the first version of its online shop under the URL brack.ch , which in the following years developed into one of the top-selling e-commerce platforms in Switzerland today . From 2000 to 2001 Brack Consulting modernized its logistics and optimized the cooperation with the Swiss Post . This step led to Brack Consulting entering into business with business customers and resellers in addition to private customers. By establishing its own purchasing branch in Taiwan , Brack succeeded in 2002 in importing computer components and exclusive innovations more cheaply and quickly than before. In 2006 Brack took over the distributor COS Distribution AG, which doubled the number of employees and also the annual turnover in one fell swoop. Roland Brack gave the company its old name Alltron AG and concentrated the wholesale business in the acquired company. In 2007 Roland Brack founded the Competec Group in order to give existing subsidiaries and future acquisitions a roof. Between 2007 and 2018, Brack was CEO of the Competec Group and is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2010, Roland Brack was confronted with an increasing lack of space in the existing storage rooms. In 2011, Roland Brack and his group of companies bought a former production site of the toy manufacturer Lego in Willisau , Lucerne , which was subsequently modernized and opened as a new logistics center of the Competec group with a concert and open house in 2012 in the presence of the local population. Today Brack is heavily involved in strategic corporate development and the further expansion of Competec logistics in Willisau. Two neighbors resisted a planned extension. After several years of legal dispute, the federal court confirmed that Competec had complied with all regulations and that the construction project could be implemented. Roland Brack donated the compensation from the legal proceedings to a local aid organization.

Private life

Roland Brack grew up in the Fricktal village of Bözen . His grandparents ran a farm in the village. His father worked as a lathe operator in the production of an industrial company until he retired . Roland Brack has a sister who is six years his junior, who also became an entrepreneur and who now runs a dental technology laboratory. Roland Brack has two children and is divorced. During his apprenticeship, Brack completed pre-flight training to become a military pilot , but then decided to study at the HTL. He bought his first computer in 1985. During his apprenticeship as an electrical mechanic, Roland Brack designed a PC- controlled controller as a hobby for the automatic regulation of humidity and temperature for a mushroom cultivation in the region. For the cowshed of a farmer friend he developed, also PC-controlled, feeding and milk quantity measuring systems.

Sports

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his apprenticeship company ABB , he and colleagues developed a solar motorcycle with electric drive for participation in the Tour de Sol solar car race in 1991 from Suhr to Beatenberg . For the race the following year he developed together with a team of ETH -Students the world's first electric vehicle of nickel - metal hydride - battery was energized. Roland Brack has been a passionate off-road rally driver since 2002 . Together with his long-time co-driver Carmen Hrup and his team called outofcontrol, he achieved various podium places at events in Europe and North Africa. In 2013, Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) accompanied various Swiss driver teams, including that of Roland Brack, on an off-road rally in the Romanian Carpathians in a three-part TV documentary .

Mandates, investments and business development

Current mandates:

  • Since 2015: Member of the Board of Directors of Pfister Arco Holding AG, Foundation in the Furniture Trade ( Möbel Pfister )

Roland Brack worked as an investor, consultant and board member in various start-up companies:

  • 2003 Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of JKB Immobilien AG, specializing in the development, planning and construction of condominiums
  • 2010 investor / business angel and board member of the open innovation / crowdsourcing platform Atizo
  • 2014 co-founder of Anio Service GmbH, logistics service provider
  • 2015 co-founder of the online grocer Ziano.ch (taken over by BRACK.CH in 2018)
  • 2017 Participation and board member at Amorana.ch , Blue Box AG, online retailer for erotic toys
  • 2018 participation in machIQ, collaboration platform for Industry 4.0

Roland Bracks Competec Group also cooperates with the following startups:

  • 2016 BRACK.CH performs same-day delivery in cooperation with notime AG a
  • 2017 BRACK.CH introduces customer service via live chat with Guuru
  • 2017 sales partnership with Ava , inventor of a fertility tracker
  • 2018 BRACK.CH becomes shopping partner of the shopping list app Bring!
  • 2018 Sales partnership with petTracer AG, inventor of a GPS cat collar
  • 2018 Startup Pickwings takes over pallet shipping for Competec

Awards

economy

  • 2009 Aargau Entrepreneur Award
  • 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, finalist
  • 2010 Swiss Economic Award , finalist in the service category
  • 2016 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, finalist in the service / retail category
  • 2020 induction into the Swiss Supply Chain Hall of Fame

Motorsport

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Daniel Rei et al .: Roland Brack: from screed company to large company. A rally through 20 years of company history. Ed .: BRACK.CH AG. Self-published, Mägenwil 2014 (unpublished commemorative publication issued to employees, business and media partners for the company's 20th anniversary.).
  3. ↑ Miriam Dibsdale: Roland Brack from Brack.ch: You should dare to take this step as early as possible . In: Focus on SMEs. Smart Media Agency AG, February 26, 2015, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Lang: The top-selling Swiss online shops in 2018. In: Carpathia Blog. Carpathia AG, July 12, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b 20 years of Brack - a dishwasher story. In: soaktuell.ch. August 15, 2014, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Markus Häfliger: Will Brack buy COS? In: Swiss IT Reseller. Swiss IT Media, August 18, 2006, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Dr. Ronald Wiltscheck: COS Switzerland is now called Alltron. In: ChannelPartner. IDG, August 22, 2006, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Joël Orizet: New bosses for Competec and Brack.ch. In: IT market. Netzmedien AG, March 19, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  9. ^ Vinzenz Greiner: boss over 200 robots. In: Blick.ch. Ringier, September 9, 2017, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  10. ^ Daniel Rei: Videos from the Willisau events. In: BRACK.CH blog. BRACK.CH AG, July 9, 2012, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Editor: Brack needs space and is investing 15 million in Willisau. In: Zentralplus.ch. MMV online AG, November 26, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  12. ↑ SRF 1, editorial staff of the regional journal Zentralschweiz: Federal court ruling: Competec can build a new building in Willisau. In: Swiss radio and television. SRG, April 4, 2019, accessed on August 30, 2019 .
  13. ^ Daniel Rei: Competec donates compensation to Willisauer Winterhilfe. In: competec.ch. Competec Group, May 10, 2019, accessed August 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b c d Carmen Hrup, Roland Brack: Team Out of Control. In: Out of Control. Self-published, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Thomas Gantenbein et al .: The endurance test (2). In: Offroad Challenge 2013. SRG SSR idée suisse, January 2, 2014, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Marcel Speiser: Pfister sells on Galaxus - and wants to go abroad. In: Handelszeitung. Ringier Axel Springer Schweiz AG, November 7, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  17. ↑ office AIHK: President, board members. In: website AIHK. AIHK, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  18. ↑ JKB: About us. In: JKB. JKB AG, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Maurizio Minetti: Brack (and others) participate in Atizo. In: Inside-IT. Huron AG, February 5, 2010, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Thomas Lang: New logistics startup "powered by Brack". In: Carpathia Blog. Carpathia AG, April 24, 2014, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  21. ^ Thomas Lang: Food promotion: Brack.ch takes over specialty online retailer Ziano.ch. In: Carpathia Blog. Carpathia AG, March 6, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Stefan Kyora: Amorana secures support from ecommerce heavyweights. In: startupticker.ch. startupticker.ch, July 3, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  23. ↑ About us. In: MachIQ.com. MachIQ, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Notime enables Brack to deliver on the same day. In: startupticker.ch. startupticker.ch, September 7, 2016, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Raphael Knecht: Now the customers are taking over customer service. In: 20 minutes. Tamedia, May 28, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Ragulan Vivekananthan: Family planning has never been so easy. In: BRACK.CH blog. BRACK.CH AG, September 21, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Stefan Kyora: Partnership with BRACK.CH: Bring! becomes a comprehensive shopping assistant. In: startupticker.ch. startupticker.ch, May 23, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Sophie Küsterling: Lucerne start-up wins Brack as a sales partner for its cat tracker. In: startupticker.ch. startupticker.ch, April 10, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Luca Cannellotto: Pickwings digitizes transports from Competec. In: Swiss IT Reseller. Swiss IT Media, December 1, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  30. ^ Ruedi Mäder: The winner: Brack Electronics. In: Aargauer Zeitung. CH Media, May 1, 2009, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Anita Müller: EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016: Finalists have been chosen. In: EY.com. Ernst & Young, September 26, 2016, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  32. ↑ Christoph Kalt: Roland Brack, Swiss e-commerce and logistics pioneer. In: shof.ch. Swiss Supply Chain Hall of Fame, May 28, 2020, accessed June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brack, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur, investor and rally driver
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1972