The sophisticated atmosphere of Restaurant Bärengasse underlined the picture of the approximately 45 distinguished guests, that were invited to Paco Hauser's special event on the evening of 31 May. Paco Hauser has been our COO and Director Professional Services for 2 months now, which for Numcom is a reason alone to celebrate. But it was not the only one: Paco wanted to tell a story to this close round of invitees. His story - which is closely intertwined with the story of Appway. As a matter of fact, Paco Hauser was part of Numcom from the first moment on, as he is - together with our CEO Hanspeter Wolf and our CTO Oliver Brupbacher - a founding member of our company.

The invitees hung on his lips, as Paco told them anecdotally about his career steps starting at Atraxis, Swissair's former IT daughter, followed by KPMG Consulting (today BearingPoint), CSC and Arthur D. Little. Exciting was the part, when he explained how he met, befriended and coached Hanspeter and Oliver up to the point where they accepted the challenge and established Numcom. The forth man in the executive’s shamrock joined our company in September 2008: our Sales Manager René Hürlimann.

As the four of them stood there in the spotlight in front of their audience they certainly looked like a band, as moderator Hannes Hug from Radio DRS 3 stated. Hannes Hug interviewed the quartet during the next half an hour about Appway and Numcom's future plans including growth targets and global expansion. He compared the team with musicians: Hanspeter the lead singer, Oliver at the drums, Paco at the guitar and René at the bass, playing their instruments with verve but together, as a team, in perfection. A band - after years of playing in hip but small clubs - now ready to have big gigs in huge concert halls all over the world before a cheering and clapping bunch of fans, Hannes Hug predicted. With this allegory, he said goodbye to the amused attendees. After some short and summarizing words, Paco begged his guests out in the light court, to finish the evening with a chat by a relaxing glass of Argentinean Malbec and some bites of the always delicious Apéro Riche of Restaurant Bärengasse.

Nobody who left would have done this without thanking Paco for a wonderful and ingenious evening and the intention of keeping an eye on Appway's next steps on the international stages: we'll keep on rocking.