About us

Sébastien works at Idiap as Senior researcher in the field of image processing and pattern recognition applied to biometric authentication and multimodal interaction. Since November 2010, he is the project coordinator of TABULA RASA, a FP7 european project on Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks. Sebastien managed successfully from January 2008 to December 2010 the MOBIO project, a FP7 European Project on Mobile Biometry .

Jean-Luc worked over eighteen years at Hewlett Packard where he was VP and General Manager (direct sales). He has deep knowledge of consumer and enterprise IT markets, and unique experience in startups management as well as in mature business.

Hervé is involved in speech and speaker recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal interfaces. He is also a Professor at EPFL and founding director of a National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR). Having worked for academia as well as large and small industries, Hervé  has broad and deep experience in both industrial and academic worlds.

Marc has nineteen years of diverse experience in general management, sales, business development, marketing, R&D and manufacturing working with multinational high technology firms and successful track-record of growing businesses profitable.

Frank is co-manager of the Clean Tech Fund, a thematic equity fund investing in companies which develop clean technologies in the sectors of renewable energy, energy efficiency, water treatment and management, waste treatment, clean transportation and carbon reduction technologies.