Sandboxer Marc Bernegger, CCO of Amiando and founder of usgang.ch has won the Swiss ICT Newcomer of the Year 2010 Award, a prize given every year to a key player in the Swiss information and communication technology industry. Congratulations, Marc! Check out his personal webpage here.

Taking the idea of the Time 100 list locally, the Swiss magazine L’Hebdo publishes every year a list of the 100 people who – through their actions and their visions – contributed most to the dynamism of Switzerland’s French-speaking part.

Sandbox CEO Antoine Verdon has been named yesterday in the 2010 list under the category “Eminence Grise“. He is featured next to public figures such as WTO Director Pascal Lamy, auctioneer Simon de Pury, and tennis star Stanislas Wawrinka.

The full article can be read here (in french). Congratulations!

Congratulations to our fellow Sandboxers from Poken for winning Best European / Real World Gadget.

Furthermore congrats to Amiando for being “highly commended” in the category Best Web Application Or Service and to the founders of Amiando Felix Haas, Armin Bauer, Markus Eichinger, Dennis von Ferenczy, Sebastian Baerhold and Sandboxer Marc Bernegger for being listed as finalists in the category Best Startup Founder(s).

Our good friends from Amazee and Doodle got listed as “highly commended” in the categories Best Social Innovation (which benefits society) – (Amazee) and Best Bootstrapped Startup (less than 3 years old) – (Doodle).

A complete list of winners and finalists can be found here.