Meet the Executive Board: Walter Hess, Pablo Ros, Daniel Wüest, David Masó, Kaspar Niklaus (from left to right)
Meet the Executive Board: Walter Hess, Pablo Ros, Daniel Wüest, David Masó, Kaspar Niklaus (from left to right)
Meet the Executive Board: Walter Hess, Pablo Ros, Daniel Wüest, David Masó, Kaspar Niklaus (from left to right)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
(Swiss, 1965)
CEO of DocMorris (formerly Zur Rose Group) since May 2022. Prior to his current role, Walter Hess was Head Germany between 2020 and 2022 and Head Switzerland from 2015 to 2020. Previously he was Managing Director of Zur Rose Pharma in Halle for two years. From 2008 until 2013 he acted as an external consultant, among other roles, for the former Zur Rose Group. He previously held a number of management positions within Swiss and international industrial companies. Following a business education, Walter Hess graduated with a degree in Business Administration from FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
(Spanish, 1982)
CTO of DocMorris since November 2024. Prior to this, he was CTO of the segment Europe since 2016, where he was responsible for Product Experience, Technology and Data Science, and led the Technical Service Layer for all DocMorris products from 2019. He previously held leadership positions in high-traffic e-commerce and marketplace companies with an international presence. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Ramon Llull University in Barcelona.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
(Swiss, 1970)
CFO of DocMorris since October 2024. He served as Group CFO of the listed building supplier Arbonia from 2019 to 2024. Previously, Daniel Wüest held various investment banking positions at UBS for more than twenty years, most recently as Head of Mid-Market Advisory Switzerland from 2014 to 2019. He graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Zurich.
Head Europe
(Spanish, 1971)
Head Europe at DocMorris (formerly Zur Rose Group) since 2020 and CEO of PromoFarma by DocMorris since 2012. David Masó has co-founded several start-ups in the e-commerce and digital sectors in Spain, including PromoFarma, Qporama and Futurlink. Before this, he worked as a management consultant for web-based projects on a European level. He earned a degree in Engineering, Telecommunications and Microelectronics from UPC Barcelona, a master’s degree in Business Administration from ESADE and completed the Executive Program at Stanford.
Chief Operations Officer (COO)
(Swiss, 1968)
COO of DocMorris (formerly Zur Rose Group) since November 2022. Kaspar Niklaus served as Chairman of the Executive Board of the Swiss pharmaceutical retailer Phoenix from 2015 to 2022 and was CEO of the De Sede Group from 2012 to 2014. Previously, he held management positions at Valora and Coop. He earned a degree in Agronomy from ETH Zurich and holds a master's degree in Business Administration and Informatics from the Rotterdam School of Management.
DocMorris has a lean and functional operational management structure, with clearly assigned tasks and responsibilities across all business areas. It takes account of the international orientation of the business and is organised in such a way that future challenges in a changing environment can also be met.