Business
Daniel Borel
Co-founder of Logitech
Born 1950
Photo: Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. · CC BY 2.0
Daniel Borel co-founded Logitech in a Swiss village in 1981, and it became the largest maker of computer mice in the world. The company was among the first European technology firms to build a global consumer brand.
Key achievements
- Co-founded Logitech in a Swiss village in 1981
- Built the world's largest maker of computer mice
Universities
Lausanne, on Lake Geneva
Took a degree in physics at EPFL before a master's in computer science at Stanford.
Stanford, California (next to Palo Alto)
Took a master's degree in computer science, where he met his future business partner.
Facts
- Logitech was founded in Apples, a village in the canton of Vaud, which the company enjoyed pointing out.
- The company's first product was word processing software, not hardware; the mouse came later.
- He has been a major donor to EPFL and chaired the foundation that funds its research programmes.