Daniel Borel (born 14 February 1950) is a

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businessman and co-founder of technology firm

Logitech Logitech International S.A. ( ; often shortened to Logi) is a Swiss multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software, with headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Newark, California. The company has offices throughout Europe ...

Education

In 1973, Daniel Borel earned an engineering degree in

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from the

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in Switzerland, and in 1977 received a Master of Science degree in

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from Stanford University.

Business

Borel co-founded Logitech at his father-in-law's farm in 1981 with

Pierluigi Zappacosta Pierluigi Zappacosta (born Chieti, Italy, on July 2, 1950) is an Italian businessman and chairman of Faro Ventures. He has co-founded, directed, and served on the boards of several prestigious companies, including Logitech and Sierra Sciences. ...

and Giacomo Marini. He served as Logitech's Chairman 1982 to 2008, and served as the company's

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from 1982 to 1988, and again from 1992 to 1998. In 1988, he took the Logitech Group public on the Swiss stock market, and on the Nasdaq in 1997. He is currently serving on Logitech's board of directors.

Other endeavours

Borel currently serves on the board of directors of Logitech and

Nestlé Nestlé S.A. (; ; ) is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, sin ...

. He also serves on the board of Defitech, a foundation that brings IT technology to disabled people and is chairman of swissUP, a foundation dedicated to the promoting education in Switzerland. In 2019, Borel participated in a fundraising campaign for

Unibuddy Unibuddy is an EdTech company that provides a student engagement platform for higher education institutions. The platform allows prospective and current students to connect with student ambassadors and alumni from the same or similar courses, p ...

, a London-based peer-to-peer EdTech platform founded in 2016 by Kimeshan Naidoo and

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. Unibuddy raised a total of $5 million in its Series A investment round. Since then, Borel has continued to invest in further Unibuddy funding rounds and the company has raised $32 million to date including a $20 million Series B round in 2021.

References

1950 births Living people People from Neuchâtel Swiss businesspeople Stanford University alumni École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni {{Switzerland-business-bio-stub