Philipp Hediger

Chief Financial Officer Datacolor

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Philipp Hediger is Chief Financial Officer of Datacolor, the color management company whose spectrophotometers, software and services are used by textile, paint, plastics, printing and imaging businesses to measure, communicate and match color. A Swiss finance executive with a business administration degree from the University of Fribourg, he joined Datacolor in 2018 after eight years running finance at Sequel, where he was CFO and later COO/CFO and a member of the executive management team. He has been Datacolor’s finance chief through the period in which majority shareholder Werner Dubach took the company private, ending its listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange in April 2024.

Career Highlights

• Chief Financial Officer of Datacolor, named on the company’s executive leadership team alongside President and CEO Albert Busch and CTO Yazid Tohme.
• Joined Datacolor in 2018.
• In finance leadership at Datacolor when Datacolor AG’s remaining public shares were cancelled and the company was delisted from the SIX Swiss Exchange on 19 April 2024.
• CFO of Sequel from 2010 to 2016, then COO/CFO and a member of its executive management team from 2016 to 2017.
• Director Financial Reporting at the Kofax Group from 2007 to 2009.

Professional Journey

Hediger studied business administration at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, graduating with an MS. His career in corporate finance began in reporting: from 2007 to 2009 he was Director Financial Reporting at the Kofax Group.

In 2010 he became CFO of Sequel, and in 2016 his remit widened to COO/CFO, with a seat on the executive management team, a role he held until 2017. Datacolor describes him as coming from a background in the fashion industry, and he draws the connection to his current business himself: “Like a suit, you want to make sure when you put the pieces together it’s a perfect color match – not ‘close enough’ – but exactly the same color.”

He joined Datacolor in 2018. The company sells color measurement instruments, software and services to manufacturers and brands in textiles, paint and coatings, plastics, printing and photography. Datacolor describes his role as advising its leadership through detailed analysis of the company’s financial strength and evaluating potential acquisitions and business opportunities.

The largest change in his time there has been one of ownership. Datacolor AG was listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, with Werner Dubach as majority shareholder. In November 2023 Dubach initiated cancellation proceedings for the remaining publicly held shares; SIX Exchange Regulation approved the delisting in January 2024, and the shares were cancelled and delisted as of 19 April 2024. Datacolor has since operated as a privately owned company, and Hediger continues to serve as its Chief Financial Officer.

Education

University of Fribourg

MS, Business Administration