The Future of Leadership is Fractional.
Switzerland's most ambitious businesses face moments that demand senior expertise; a CFO to lead a fundraise, a CMO to unlock growth, a COO to build for scale. The full-time hire can wait. The challenge can't.
At the same time, Switzerland has an untapped reserve of female fractional leaders, who chose flexibility, available on exactly the terms a scaling business needs.
Blaze connects the two.
Fractional, in plain terms
a senior leader working part time, embedded in your business, not a full-time hire, not a consultant who hands you a deck and leaves. Someone who owns an outcome, for as long as you need them.
“For almost 20 years across SEB, British Telecom, and Virgin Money working with the C-suite, I realised something: I never wanted to become them.
I wanted to make an impact, but I wanted to lead on my own terms. Fractional is that way.”
Emelie Metscher, fractional Chief of Staff and Founder of Blaze
The Problem We Solve
For founders and CEOs
You need senior expertise: but a full-time C-suite hire isn't the right move yet, or you just need the expertise for a specific growth phase. Every month without the right senior leader costs you: missed opportunities, slower decisions, time spent on problems you cannot solve. Blaze gives you access to vetted, experienced female executives, scoped to exactly what you need, when you need it.
For senior female leaders
You've spent 20+ years building expertise that most businesses would love to access. Yet the way senior talent has always been hired in Switzerland, full-time or not at all, leaves too many exceptional female leaders on the sidelines. Blaze connects you with ambitious Swiss businesses that need exactly what you bring. On your terms.
Stop growing headcount. Start unlocking expertise.
How We Work
Some founders know exactly what they need and are ready to find their person. Others want to think through the right structure first. Either way, Blaze has a starting point for you. We're not a consultancy. Not a database. Nor a platform. We’re the connector.
We've been in the room, we know what it takes, and we stay close.
Blaze Advisory
Not sure where to start? We assess your leadership gaps and build a clear picture of what your business actually needs before any search begins. The output is your Fractional Roadmap, which role to prioritise and why.
Want to go further? We can also develop job descriptions, KPIs and an embedding guide for your priority senior roles.
Blaze Connect
You know what you need. We find your person. Every introduction is personal, we only put someone forward we'd stake our reputation on. If the right fit isn't in our Blaze network, we go looking.
Our fee is simple: an engagement fee, plus a small percentage of the B2B value between you and the fractional leader.
Blaze Anchor
We don't introduce and disappear. Blaze stays involved throughout the first year, with regular check-ins with both you and your fractional leader to make sure the fit is working and the impact is real.
We're invested in this because your success is our success. That responsibility is built in by design, not added on top.
Elite talent. Zero overhead.
Behind Blaze
We've each built, scaled, and fixed things from the inside. We started Blaze because Swiss founders deserve access to that kind of experience, without the full-time hire.
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Emelie Metscher
FOUNDER · FRACTIONAL CHIEF OF STAFF
I spent years in corporate at SEB, British Telecom and Virgin Money, before going fractional. Working with UK scaleups to find the right senior talent at the right moment, I saw what the fractional model could do: faster decisions, leaner teams, real expertise without the full-time overhead.
Switzerland deserved the same. So I built Blaze.
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Yana Goretaya
FOUNDING PARTNER · FRACTIONAL CHIEF OF STAFF
After 15 years working alongside senior leadership at Google, Ahold Delhaize, and the Global Battery Alliance, the pattern was always the same: decisions piling up, teams needing to form, no one in place yet to take it on. Things get delayed or carried by the same few people. Fractional solves that.
Blaze makes it work.
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Carina Hütte
FOUNDING PARTNER · FRACTIONAL CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER
20 years working the same question across corporates, start-ups and scale-ups - from Credit Suisse to employee #2 at radicant: people systems are a business strategy lever, not an HR cost centre. Most companies treat people topics as HR only. Smart leaders treat it as company strategy. I run that from the founder's seat, not the HR function.
Blaze is how Swiss founders get that on demand.
Why Blaze
Founder friendly fees
Traditional agencies charge a hefty percentage of the annual salary. We charge a simple engagement fee plus a small % of the B2B mandate value between you and the fractional leader.
Execution-focused
Our executives don't just advise. They embed in your team, own KPIs, and lead from the front. These are operators, not consultants.
A powerhouse network
We are not a database of CVs. Blaze is a closed network of senior female leaders who have already chosen the fractional path, vetted, and ready.
Proven model, Swiss market
We've built fractional leadership teams for high-growth businesses in the UK. Blaze brings that hands-on experience to Switzerland.
Inside the Blaze Network
Our Growth Partners
We don't grow alone. These are the partners who are building the fractional movement alongside us.
At Blaze, we believe that the best outcomes for any growing business come from an ecosystem. Our growth partners are organisations who share our belief that Swiss companies deserve access to senior, strategic leadership, and who bring complementary expertise that helps us, and the companies we work with, go further, faster.
CRO2Go
CRO2Go brings fractional Chief Revenue Officer leadership to B2B companies with a focus on Fintech, SaaS, and Technology Services. Operating at the intersection of Go-to-Market as an execution system and Fractional CRO leadership built on Silicon Valley methodology - deployed across DACH, the Nordics, GCC, and Singapore.
CRO2Go steps in at three critical moments: when investors demand aggressive growth post-Series A or B, when a business needs to rethink its revenue architecture, and in M&A situations.
Senior commercial firepower. On-demand.
Holycode
Holycode is a Swiss AI software company that helps businesses build and ship software without hiring a large in-house engineering team. Dedicated teams in Serbia and Romania work as an extension of the client's own organisation, and an AI-supported delivery approach rebuilds ageing software in weeks rather than months, with clients keeping full ownership of the code with the flexibility to bring in fractional expertise as needed.
Holycode steps in at three critical moments: when the company needs more engineering capacity than it can hire for, when it's stuck on a system nobody wants to maintain, or wants its own team to actually work with AI rather than only talk about it.
AI-first tech solutions.
