Alain Chuard

Alain Chuard is a Swiss entrepreneur and former professional snowboarder living in Palo Alto, California. He is best known as the founder and Chief product officer of Wildfire Interactive, the social media marketing technology company acquired by Google in July 2012.

Chuard left Switzerland at the age of 20 after completing his high school matura. Chuard studied mathematics and economics at Macalester College. He has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. In the summer of 2007, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Highland Capital Partners in Boston.

In 2008, Chuard developed the software Promotion Builder as an online marketing tool used for promoting Access Trips through social media. In 2010, Chuard sold Access Trips in order to focus on Wildfire. Following Wildfire's incorporation, Chuard became Head of Product of Google My Business until his and Ransom's departure in 2015.

In 2016, Chuard, together with Christian Hirsig as host, set up the non-profit organization Swisspreneur, Switzerland’s biggest business podcast publisher, which encourages entrepreneurship in Switzerland through interviews with Swiss start-up founders.

In August 2020, it was reported that the self−funded edtech startup Prisma, created by Chuard and his wife Victoria Ransom, would launch on 8 September 2020, for 40 U.S. students. In July 2021, Chuard was named as the Founder and CEO of Prisma.

Personal life Chuard married Victoria Ransom in March 2013 and is the father of three children.