Zech spent several years on the Microsoft Business Central team, building the tooling that partners used to migrate customers from on-premises NAV and BC to the cloud - and later running the programs that helped ISVs make the move from BC PaaS to BC SaaS. It was during that work that he first got to know the SwissSalary team.

When the opportunity came to join them, he packed up and moved to Switzerland. For four years he worked inside the SwissSalary product as a BC developer - building cloud-only companion apps, tightening engineering processes, and helping the company close the gap on becoming a fully cloud-native business. Since then, he moved back to the US, where he has put his full focus on building OnePayroll.

He will tell you Fargo is a great place to raise a family. He will not claim it competes with Switzerland on any other metric.