Otto Schmid

DR OTTO SCHMID, aged 61, is the Chief Executive Officer of DICOM. He
has led DICOM’s development in countries outside Switzerland. He is
responsible for corporate planning and development. From 1978, he was
the director for corporate development with ACU Informatik AG (a Swiss
distribution company for computer peripherals). In 1969, he co-founded
Wirtschafts Mathematik AG, a Swiss service company for mathematical
statistics and applied mathematics. He completed his studies in
Mathematics and Economics at the University of Zurich in 1970 with his
doctoral thesis on business forecasting.