The Board of Directors of Switzerland Innovation Park Ost AG (SIP Ost) appoints Dr. Jean-Philippe Doyen as Managing Director. With this appointment, we are further strengthening our team in order to provide the best possible support to both industry and start-ups in the region with their innovation projects in a dynamic environment. The next stage of development will now focus on further consolidating the business model and accelerating growth. The Board of Directors would like to thank the previous Managing Director, Dr. Hans Ebinger, for his successful work during the start-up and development phase.
International management experience in cutting-edge technology
Jean-Philippe Doyen (1977) completed his studies at Stanford University with a doctorate in Computer Science in the field of Artificial Intelligence. His professional career took him to Switzerland in 2009. He has a long track record in technology-driven companies, where he was responsible for large innovation projects and led global R&D organizations and strategic business units. In recent years, he has co-founded two high-tech companies.
With his broad technological and management experience, he fulfills the demanding requirements profile for the management of SIP East perfectly. The Board of Directors is convinced that Jean-Philippe Doyen, thanks to his strong leadership skills, his strategic and conceptual experience in the design and further development of business models and his ability to integrate research partners, has everything it takes to successfully develop SIP East to the next level.
Jean-Philippe Doyen will join SIP East on April 1, 2026 and will take over management responsibility from Hans Ebinger on June 1, 2026 after a familiarization phase.
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The Board of Directors would like to thank Dr. Hans Ebinger
The Board of Directors would like to thank Dr. Hans Ebinger for his great achievements. Over the past four years, he has successfully built up Switzerland Innovation Park Ost as a newly founded start-up company with his enormous commitment, his sound technical understanding and his many years of management experience in the high-tech industry.
Dr. Hans Ebinger will focus on the development of the Sensor Innovation Hub in Buchs over the next few years. The Sensor Innovation Hub is a joint project between OST, RhySearch and SIP Ost and is of great strategic importance for the entire region.
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The construction of the SIP Ost is a generational project
In spring 2021, the Federal Council decided to include SIP Ost as the sixth site operator in the overall Swiss Innovation Park network. As a result, Switzerland Innovation Park Ost AG was founded on September 2, 2021 by over 20 public and private shareholders as a public limited company under private law. The innovation park is located on the centrally located, well-developed building complex in Lerchenfeld on Fürstenlandstrasse in St. Gallen, in the immediate vicinity of Empa. SIP Ost is intended to be self-sustaining in the long term and to break even by 2031.
The main goal of the SIP Ost is to generate additional private research and development investments, in this way to strengthen the innovative power of Eastern Switzerland and to create new, attractive and sustainable jobs. The competitiveness of Eastern Switzerland and Liechtenstein is supported by the active networking of business, research and educational institutions in important fields of innovation.
The “Switzerland Innovation” network, which includes the locations Lausanne, Biel, Allschwil, Villigen and Zurich/Dübendorf in addition to St.Gallen, pursues the following main objectives:
- to make the research excellence of Switzerland internationally visible,
- to occupy important fields of innovation in an international comparison and
- Settling research teams from international companies in Switzerland.
