Alexandre Coelho

Engineer by instinct, entrepreneur by choice.

Founder and operator, 15+ years building and running companies, from regulated retail to software.

What I'm building

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Journey

An engineer by training turned executive and entrepreneur, I built my career by steadily widening my scope of decision: from technology to operations, then to business, strategy and leadership.

  1. Oct 2013 – present Yverdon-les-Bains & Avry-sur-Matran

    VapeShop Sàrl

    Founder & Managing Director

    Started alongside SwissTV and grown into a profitable multi-site business combining two physical stores and an e-commerce operation.

    • –General management: strategy, P&L, finance, HR, sales operations, legal, regulatory compliance and marketing.
    • –Information systems: designed and run an integrated platform covering e-commerce, POS, orders, inventory, suppliers, scheduling, HR and finance.
    • –Transformation & AI: automation and AI-based solutions across admin processes, product data and customer operations.
    • –Steering: deciding which initiatives to build, deploy, consolidate or stop, based on adoption and value created.
  2. Jun 2025 – present Switzerland

    FlowCorp

    Founder

    Advisory and technology development for SMEs, at the intersection of strategy, digital transformation and applied AI.

    • –Strategic and operational diagnostics, decision support and executive coaching.
    • –Design and delivery of AI-augmented software, automation and custom integrations.
  3. Oct 2014 – Apr 2016 Geneva

    SwissTV SA

    Chief Information Officer

    Promoted to CIO during a structural reorganisation and joined the management team, responsible for IT operations and technology partnerships.

    • –Represented technology in management decisions and in discussions with telecom operators, studios and infrastructure partners.
    • –Co-led the Smart TV / HbbTV roadmap to bring video on demand to connected TVs.
    • –Infrastructure partnerships, vendor negotiations, CDN and streaming relationships; oversight of multi-DRM platforms.
  4. Oct 2010 – Oct 2014 Geneva

    SwissTV SA

    Head of IT Infrastructure

    Led the infrastructure team and the technical foundations behind SwissTV’s VOD platforms and B2B services.

    • –High-availability, multi-site IT infrastructure; on-the-fly fragmentation and encryption pipelines.
    • –Adaptive and multi-DRM streaming: PlayReady, Widevine, Nagra and HLS.
    • –B2B VOD platforms for several Swiss cable operators; coordination of internal teams, contractors and partners.
  5. Sep 2009 – Oct 2010 Geneva

    Deutsche Bank

    Systems & Release Management, Private Wealth Management

    • –First role after graduating in software engineering: planning and coordinating production releases on the core banking system and its satellite systems.
    • –Cross-functional work with IT, front office, finance, compliance and operations during a major migration programme.

Education

  • EMBA in Integrated Management
    HEG Fribourg
    2025–2026
  • BSc in Software Engineering
    HEIG-VD, Yverdon-les-Bains
    2006–2009
  • Technical Vocational Baccalaureate
    Neuchâtel
    2005–2006
  • Federal VET Diploma, IT Specialist
    Neuchâtel
    2002–2005

Languages

  • FrenchNative
  • EnglishC2
  • GermanB2
  • DutchB1

Expertise

  • IT Strategy
  • Software Architecture
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Operations

Let's talk

SME leader, fellow operator, or just a hard problem to solve? Let's talk.