Experience

Follower Products SAS

• France
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Information Officer

  • Dec 2016 - Present

  Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France Startup providing IoT geographic information & telemetry services to corporate and institutional customers addressing theft tracking, grey market discovery and remote supervision. Responsible for architecture, implementation and operation of service in cloud supporting scalable fleet of IoT devices with particular focus on data security, GIS capabilities, tailored customer facing services and IoT device management.



Quantum Integrity S.A.

• Switzerland
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• CTO

  • Oct 2017 - Nov 2022

  Lausanne Area, Switzerland Startup providing DeepFake and digital image forgery detection services to the KYC and insurance industries. Responsible for architecture, implementation and operation of service in cloud. Designed and implemented data security policies, data management, cyber security, processing and customer facing services. Developed a range of ML and signals processing based forgery detection algorithms.



EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Project Manager

  • Nov 2014 - Nov 2017

  Lausanne (Switzerland) Project manager for a range of H2020 and industry sponsored research projects. Member of the Swiss delegation to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG standardization committee). Co-researcher on a privacy preserving image sharing platform.



CM-Photonics Ltd.

• Managing Director

  • Jan 2012 - Oct 2014

  Geneva (Switzerland) and Xiamen (China) Co-founded company with Chinese investor to license Russian IP related to semiconductor photodetectors for process implementation in China. Responsible for governance, contract negotiations and process transfer.



SensL Technologies Ltd.

• United Arab Emirates
• Computer and Network Security

• Director of Sales - Europe & Asia

  • May 2010 - Dec 2011

  Cork - Ireland Developed and extended SensL's marketing and sales operations in Europe and Asia; grew company revenues by 75%.



Photonique SA

• Belgium
• Business Consulting and Services

• General Manager

  • 2005 - Nov 2010

  Geneva - Switzerland Co-founded and financed first commercial vendor and applications integrator of a novel photo detector technology developed and manufactured in Russia. Responsible for governance, operations, marketing and sales. Supported technology strategy and road map design. Restructured operation under CM-Photonics Ltd.



Genista Corporation

• VP of Marketing & Sales

  • 2002 - 2005

  Geneva, Switzerland and Tokyo Startup aiming to optimize cellular network resource use through the integration of perceptual quality analytics (video, audio) into handsets and mobile network. Following liquidation of Genimedia SA, developed and executed product strategy and was responsible for marketing and sales of perceptual digital video quality measurement algorithms with sales to mobile operators, test & measurement and software companies in Europe and US.



Genimedia SA

• Accounting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • 1999 - 2002

  Lausanne, Switzerland Member of the Genista Corp. group of companies with mandate to research and develop perceptual video quality analytics and measurement tools for cellular network resource optimization. Managed company incorporation, operations, team building and leadership.



EPFL

• Switzerland

• Research Associate

  • 1997 - 1999

  Lausanne, Switzerland Team leader in industry sponsored research project developing methodologies and tools to analyze price-performance tradeoffs in PC workstations under various usage scenarios.



CERN

• Switzerland
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • 1989 - 1997

  Geneva, Switzerland 8 years working at CERN as graduate student with ETHZ, Post-doctoral researcher for UC San Diego and finally as CERN Fellow in the EPP division. Academic research in experimental high energy physics with focus on data/physics analysis, detector as well as physics simulations and data visualization.