Scientist by training, entrepreneur by vocation, I am currently a Strategic Adviser in Innovation, Technology and Lean Entrepreneurship.

I am professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Swiss Applied Science University of Canton Vaud (HEIG-VD) and Expert at InnoSuisse (Swiss Commission for Innovation).

I currently serve as an Expert at the Swiss federal agency for innovation InnoSuisse.

Active in Information and Communication Technology since 1985. Started as an Analyst and Enterprise Software developer at IBM and Apple systems agents, after six years I came back to study and earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science.

I started a research career in Computer Science where I have explored both theoretical and applied fields such as Innovation Management, Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Computational Logic, Human-Computer Interaction, Web, Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing. I these areas I have published 100+ articles and several chapters in textbooks and edited collections. I am also the author of 4 books.

In education, I started very early in 1987 in technical instructor. At university level, I have been teaching courses in Computing, Information Systems and Project Management. I have been also invited as guest lecturer for tutorials in international conferences.

As an entrepreneur, I succeeded in leveraging my research results into an innovative product in the area of Customer Interaction Analytics.

I am active in the civil society contributing with local initiative to the development of policies for the information society. Namely, I am the co-founder of ThinkServices.ch think tank and I was a co-founder and former Chairman of the Switzerland chapter of the Internet Society (www.isoc.ch) and board member of Just Innovate association.