Patrick Naef is Managing Partner at Boyden executive search and is also founder and CEO of ITvisor GmbH. He is also non-executive director on the board of Franke Group and president of the board of directors at UpGreat AG. He advises and supports and sits on the board of several technology start-ups. From 2006 to June 2018, Patrick was CIO at Emirates Airline & Group in Dubai.
In the late 1990s he was founding member and CTO of the start-up Beyoo, the first European on-line travel agency, while he was CIO at Swissair.  In 2011 the German "CIO Magazin" and IDG honoured him with the prestigious "CIO of the decade" award.
Patrick Naef holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, and an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.