Built on our own experience as entrepreneurs
SolutionSync grew out of something we lived through ourselves, not a theory we studied: building, growing, and selling our own companies before we ever advised anyone else on theirs.
Andrea and Peter Zahnd bring first-hand entrepreneurial and transaction experience to every mandate. Having built and grown businesses themselves, they have successfully navigated numerous transactions with strategic buyers and private equity investors – experience that directly shapes how they advise their clients today.
Long before SolutionSync existed, both were already running international ventures, each independently building and successfully selling their own start-ups.
A business built with their own hands
Their work in the education and childcare sector left the deepest mark: they invested in bilingual daycare centres in Switzerland, grew individual sites into a genuine group, and built a scalable business out of it. They then led that group through its own sale process — eventually handing it over to one of the largest French chains in the industry.
We know the questions that keep an owner up at night before a sale — because we asked ourselves the same ones.
Both sides of the table
That experience shaped the way they think about transactions ever since. They know the questions that occupy an owner in the run-up to a sale:
What is my business actually worth?​
What happens to my team and my brand?
How do I find the right buyer?​
How much should I reveal — and when?
Peter Zahnd
Founding Partner & Managing Director
At the same time, they came to understand the buyer's side just as well: what strategic investors and private equity firms actually look for, the weight due diligence carries, the logic behind consolidation strategies, and what makes a business genuinely attractive to a professional acquirer.
Out of that experience grew a network that has kept expanding ever since — first through their own entrepreneurial activity, later through numerous transactions and close collaboration with players across the education sector.
In 2004, Andrea and Peter brought that experience together as SolutionSync: Swiss market knowledge, real entrepreneurial experience, and an international network — focused entirely on education and childcare.
That perspective still shapes every mandate we take on today. We don't advise from a distance — we understand, first-hand, what's actually at stake in a transaction.
Talk to someone who's seen both sides.
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